It doesn't help that it's an otherwise beautiful film.
Yep. I totally wanted the ending to be the two main ladies making out.
You know, I had wondered why fandom expected Hannibal to be feminist. Not to offend anyone but someone made a post saying "Hannibal was about a white dude serially killing people, it was never going to be feminist because it normalises and romanticises white male violence" and while I really sympathise with the Hannibal fandom because no one deserves to have a beloved woc character killed off, I really wondered why they hadn't expected to be disappointed.
However, now that I've read about the show's source material, I am really outraged. Like, why can't someone who actually understands feminism and patriarchy and intersectionality, take these old stories and give the modern adaptations or sequels they deserve. Even Frozen's source material was more feminist and intersectional than the movie, and that novel was written in Victorian times.
Also, Bryan Fuller previously said some really great things about how he choose to race and gender bend because otherwise the world started to look like it was made up of only white men, and was really gracious about Hannibal/Will shipping, and said the he loved that the show had been embraced by a lot of smart, articulate women.... and them BOOM, Beverly dies, and he's spewing all this grossness about how she was always slated to die and her death is all about Will and Hannibal.
And the white dude serially killing people thing; originally, Hannibal ate "the rude" but had a lot of respect for smart, clever people (Clarice in particular). It's highly unlikely Hannibal of the films would have killed Beverly or the FBI trainee or ESPECIALLY Abigail (who was in his charge) when these were all smart, respectful women whose only crime was being clever.
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Yep. I totally wanted the ending to be the two main ladies making out.
You know, I had wondered why fandom expected Hannibal to be feminist. Not to offend anyone but someone made a post saying "Hannibal was about a white dude serially killing people, it was never going to be feminist because it normalises and romanticises white male violence" and while I really sympathise with the Hannibal fandom because no one deserves to have a beloved woc character killed off, I really wondered why they hadn't expected to be disappointed.
However, now that I've read about the show's source material, I am really outraged. Like, why can't someone who actually understands feminism and patriarchy and intersectionality, take these old stories and give the modern adaptations or sequels they deserve. Even Frozen's source material was more feminist and intersectional than the movie, and that novel was written in Victorian times.
Also, Bryan Fuller previously said some really great things about how he choose to race and gender bend because otherwise the world started to look like it was made up of only white men, and was really gracious about Hannibal/Will shipping, and said the he loved that the show had been embraced by a lot of smart, articulate women.... and them BOOM, Beverly dies, and he's spewing all this grossness about how she was always slated to die and her death is all about Will and Hannibal.
And the white dude serially killing people thing; originally, Hannibal ate "the rude" but had a lot of respect for smart, clever people (Clarice in particular). It's highly unlikely Hannibal of the films would have killed Beverly or the FBI trainee or ESPECIALLY Abigail (who was in his charge) when these were all smart, respectful women whose only crime was being clever.