r/movies • u/Upstairs-Account-269 • 2d ago
Discussion Questions about Silence of the lambs
Why did Hannibal Lecter even bother to hide the corpse inside his rented garage ? What benefit would he gain from doing this
I know in the book , that corpse was murdered by him but in the movie , he was killed by Buffalo Bill ; why would Lecter even help Bill like that ? Does he intend to use it as a leverage in case Bill become a popular serial killer and he can offer the police some help ?
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u/Mixer-3007 2d ago edited 2d ago
He's intended to eat them later.
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u/TexAggie90 2d ago
Dry aged meat is the best…
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u/Upstairs-Account-269 2d ago
I thought he kept all the meat inside his refrigerator ? At least based on Hannibal
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u/scrubbedx123 2d ago
lecter's all about the mind games man keeping a corpse is just another piece of the puzzle for him it gives him control and leverage he loves being in the know and having power over situations plus he thrives on chaos and confusion so it makes sense he'd keep stuff like that around for when it suits him it's all part of his twisted little game
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u/Upstairs-Account-269 2d ago
I get that Lecter love playing mind games but he is gonna play it with ? When Bill is on rampage , Lecter is probably not the first person you ask
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u/TopHighway7425 3h ago edited 3h ago
I'm reading the book now and the movie blends some details.
Klaus Bjetland is the head in the car. Klaus was A Norwegian sailor that the flutist Benjamin Raspail picked up in San Diego or San francisco. Gumb killed Klaus at Raspails apartment and beheaded him and dressed the head up. The body got buried in the woods. Raspail brought the head back east with him in a bowling ball bag. Raspail met Gumb because his interests were, shall we say, exotic.
Lecter lied a bunch about this in the book. He claimed Raspail killed Klaus but he had recorded Raspail blaming Gumb. The book revisits these details in the epilogue because it is all misleading otherwise and confusing.
Now, Lecter killed Raspail for being boring, left his body in a church in Virginia, and fed his gizzards to the conductor and president of the Philharmonic orchestra... Raspail actually showed the head of Klaus to Lecter so that is how he learned about Gumb making an apron from Klaus's skin and he introduced Gumb to Lecter at some point which is how he discerned Gumb was buffalo bill.
so, it's all blended into the movie. The storage unit was not Lecter's. He didn't put Klaus's head in the Packard. He didn't kill Klaus. He did kill Benjamin Raspail but that had nothing to do with the storage unit.
So, Lecter released Gumb into the world, by not killing him Dexter like , because he found it interesting and amusing. In the movie he hides the head in the Packard as a keepsake.
The movie calls the head Benjamin Raspail who was killed by Bill but Benjamin Raspail is the name of one of Lecter's victims who kept his head but lost his thymus, and the head was Klaus's head killed by Bill in San Francisco . It's a bit confusing to spell out.
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u/pop-1988 2d ago
Lecter wasn't motivated by leverage. He has his manipulative personality and teeth
Bill was his patient
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u/Klutzy-Delivery-5792 2d ago
You ever have a dry aged ribeye?
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u/Okichah 2d ago
Lecters insane, but he’s fascinated with interesting people. And abhors boring ones.
Dr Chiltin is boring, Lecter hates him.
Clarice Starling is interesting, Lecter likes her.
A serial killer like Bill is a question, maybe he is interesting. Maybe his psychosis would entertain Hannibal in some way.
Lecter “tucked away” the murder victim because he felt like it. Because he doesnt exist within normal social or legal conventions. He felt no fear of the killer nor of any police finding the body.
He did it to amuse himself.