On Tom Ford sunglasses

Yet I have to admit I believe Thomas Harris's choice to make Hannibal Lecter unique among serial killers is valid. He obviously had own vision of Lecter and didn't feel the need to conform to standard reality. So, we find out in the next book, Lecter became a killer and cannibal because of childhood experiences in Europe during World War 2. However, it's not really clear what Lecter gets out of it. There doesn't seem to be sexual component. In the movie of Hannibal (don't remember this in the book but it may be there), another FBI agent says of Starling's relationship with Lecter, "Does he want to eat her, fuck her or kill her?" "Probably all three, though I hate to think in what order." I thought that was funny dialogue. Yet even after Lecter brings her to him, and they seem to be a couple, there's no mention of sexual activity. He just wears Tom Ford Sunglasses to hide his face from people looking for him. Does he sublimate it all into his appetite and intellect?

On steak seasoning

Another way Thomas Harris manipulated the facts concerns serial killers themselves, their psychology. The original FBI criminal profiler, Robert Ressler, on whom the guy in The Red Dragon is based, has found serial killers fall into two categories, disorganized and organized. Organized serial killers are generally pretty intelligent and harder to catch, but none are as brilliant as Lecter. In his own book, Ressler mentions Harris visiting him to do research and not liking Ressler's scheme, so Ressler to some extent disparaged the credibility of Dr. Lecter. As I recall, Ressler said these killers tend to engage in a lot of criminal and sexual, and criminal sexual activity, starting in their youth, long before they become killers. Yet Lecter is simply one who is brilliant, would disdain eating his victims with steak seasoning, and doesn't seem to have any sexual obsessions related to it.