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...Everyone knows the monster this boy evolved into: Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the brilliant psychiatrist who murdered people and ate them. In 2003, the American Film Institute chose his screen incarnation, by Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, as the No. 1 villain in Hollywood history. (Clarice Starling, the FBI agent played by Jodie Foster in Silence, was named the top female movie hero. But that was due to either affirmative action or gilt by association.) The AFI also chose Hannibal's description of how his disposed of one of his victims - "I ate his liver with some fava...
...some respects, the 13-year-old Hannibal reminds me of the young Humbert Humbert - hero, villain and narrator of Nabokov's Lolita. Each is a well-born lad cruising through an idyllic youth that is capsized when he is separated from the girl he loves. But whereas Humbert gets locked in a time warp, incapable of loving any female older than his childhood sweetheart Annabel Leigh, Hannibal transfers his love to Lady Murasaki. This knowing, generous woman has awakened the man in a boy, and the book's real suspense is not over whether Hannibal will find the killers...
...GOOD SHEPHERD Villain Oleg Stefan is nicknamed for James Joyce's Ulysses...
...DEPARTED Villain Jack Nicholson quotes Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young...
...sitting quietly in her lab, Victoria D’Souza, the Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) Department’s new and only HIV virologist, is doing the actual fighting with the villain behind it all—the Human Immunodeficiency Virus...