Temple-of-bullets - God Is Dead!

Donn P. Crane (1878 - 1944) - Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy

Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Part 2

The brilliant Danish actress Asta Nielsen starring as a female Hamlet in 1921.

he’s near at hand yet here I stand my heart and mind at war… the times must change the world must change

Basically Sherif Ali and Lawrence

les miserables 1964: Grantaire and Enjolras after Le Cabuc’s execution

Learn to love reading and research I promise you’ll never be bored again

Dirck Jacobsz, Detail of Portrait of Pompeius Occo, 1534

“The Duet” (1883) (detail) by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929).

Hunger is obviously a major theme in Hannibal—it’s literally the cannibal show—but the difference in how that’s portrayed with Hannigram is intriguing.

Hannibal was starving for connection before he had Will, and then everything changed for him. As Bedelia tells Will, “Did he daily feel a stab of hunger, and find nourishment at the very sight of you? Yes.” Hannibal’s hunger is sated by so much as the sight of Will. A mere look at him is enough to satisfy him.

But Will is different. Rather than being sated by his connection with Hannibal, it is the very thing that makes him hungry. There’s a frame in the Italy chapter that makes it look like he’s trapped in a starvation cage. In the script for his sailing scene, he’s literally described to look hungry:

Both Hannibal and Will have a possessive, obsessive, all-consuming love for one another, but it affects them quite differently. Hannibal is nourished by the very sight of Will, but for Will, no amount of the profound attention he experiences from Hannibal can fully sate his hunger—it’s a high he can’t help but chase. It fuels his pathological need to return to Hannibal again and again, no matter how self-destructive it is. I think this is why Will is more outwardly possessive of Hannibal than Hannibal is of Will. Hannibal wants Will to be his; Will wants Hannibal to be no one else’s. Both forms of possession, but Will’s is more jealous because of the way he experiences Hannibal’s attention. It’s a high, it’s a hunger—it’s a need, not a want.

‘The Golden Daric’ collection by Shiva Safai x Noush Jewellery — inspired by the monetary standard of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

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