Gary Oldman before and after his make-up for the 2001 movie Hannibal

Okay so something I thought about for a while now is we know how Mason Verger is a pedophile right? Well, the thing is I think that Dr. Lecter killing him would’ve been way too easy a punishment so leaving him alive with a completely disfigured face is the greatest punishment of all because he has to live with it and it also keeps children away from him bc his appearance would frighten them.

Mason should also highkey be happy that Hannibal didn’t kill him either and was instead merciful about it by letting Cordell push him into the pen bc we damn well know Hannibal wouldn’t have been as lenient if he were the one who chose to kill Mason 😂😂😂

New Hollywood rule: If an iconic character in the IP that's being adapted has an obscured face (like in a helmet or mask) and their face is never ever shown, they're played by a stunt performer if an A-List star wants face-time. Period. No face-time contract. Period. You're ruining the character. Everybody knows it's you, you're in the credits, drown your ego in a bird bath already. Show them Karl Urban as Judge Dredd. You really gonna say you're less of a King Shit Motherfucker than Karl Urban?? The Horse Girl from that fantasy Barbie movie The Two Towers???

If a character has a really fucked up face because they're from a class or race from the IP source material that has iconically really fucked up faces, show the prospective actor Gary Oldman as Mason Verger and call them a bottomed-out bitch if they don't go as fucking hard.

HANNIBAL- 2001 ⭐️⭐️

Hannibal Lector is still on the loose now living in Italy. Clarice is put back on his case and tries to track him down at the same time as Mason Verger, one of his old victims....

Pretty lame sequel. Love Julianne Moore so didnt mind her as new Clarice. Found Hannibal no longer scary at all, didnt feel like a real guy that could actually be doing any of this. Gary Oldman absolutely ridiculous as the wheelchair monster.

Directed by Ridley Scott.

If i became an actress these are my dream roles

Tamora in a film adaptation of titus andronicus

st olga of kiev in one of those historical fiction type movies that becomes a source of common misinfo for the rest of time

margot verger as a faithful adaptation of her book self. Like huge muscles.

i want to be a guest star on a popular childrens tv show but only after having an extensive career in super fucked up gorey movies. So the parents can have a little treat.

i want my jim carrey the grinch gary oldman mason verger moment. So many prosthetics and makeup its like im being tortured. Completely unrecognizable.

i would like to be a scary redneck with no teeth chasing someone with a shovel or gun or ax. Like greasy slick backed hair. Dirty overalls. I wanna make someone squeal like a pig

over worked public defender that chainsmokes

Behind The Scenes: Hannibal Gary Oldman Mason Verger Makeup. 2001.

michael pitt was so good as mason verger imo his performance reminded me of gary oldmans character in leon like they had that same unhinged weirdo vibe

Gary Oldman as Mason Verger in Hannibal, 2001, by Adam Skutt

Hannibal - un film qui coupe la faim

Petite remontée dans le temps cinématographique avec le film culte Hannibal.

Hannibal est un véritable thriller sorti en 2001 réalisé par Ridley Scott qui est une adaptation du roman éponyme de Thomas Harris paru seulement 2 ans auparavant.

L’histoire se déroule une dizaine d’année avant Le Silence des agneaux où la jeune enquêtrice étudiante Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) a été confronté à ce serial killer cannibale au sang froid.

Dans cette seconde partie, le docteur Lecter, qui avait réussi à s’échapper se refait une vie dans la ville de Florence et il est même devenu conservateur du la bibliothèque du Palazzo Capponi. Place qu’il a obtenu suite à la disparition bien mystérieuse de son prédécesseur (une petite envie de manger Docteur)

Il est confronté aujourd’hui à une chasse à son encontre. Son ancienne victime, le milliardaire Maison Verger n’a qu’une envie : la vengeance. C’est là qu’intervient le retour de Clarisse Starling. Car pour mener à bien sa vengeance, il va l’utiliser comme appât pour faire sortir Hannibal Lecter de sa tanière.

Tout se petit monde va se retrouver pour un bon repas d’explication… Une véritable chasse à l'homme avec un univers toujours aussi angoissant avec une interprétation particulièrement réussie des principaux protagonistes. - Bien entendu, cela n'engage que celui qui écrit ces lignes. Mais attention, le précédent opus Le silence des agneaux est à mes yeux bien meilleur - sûrement l'absence d'idée préconçue au moment de sa sortie.

Au niveau de la distribution de ce film angoissant, on retrouve en haut de l’affiche, Anthony Hopkins sous les traits d’Hannibal Lecter et la promue enquêtrice du FBI est interprétée par Julianne Moore.

Autres seconds rôles du film : Gary Oldman (Mason Verger) et Ray Liotta (Paul Krendler)

Trailer officiel :

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Lecter's fled to Italy & has possibly killed his way into a library job. Lecter's rich, scarred & only living victim, Mason Verger, is breeding animals to eat Lecter alive. Now, Verger is using Agent Starling to lure Lecter back into public life

Starring Anthony Hopkins. Julianne Moore. Gary Oldman. Rated 18. Dir Ridley Scott. Released in the UK 2001. Runtime 2hrs 11mins

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I loathe Mason Verger with a fiery passion. Every time he says 'Papa', my eye twitches.

Despite Gary Oldman being my favorite actor, I undoubtedly prefer the series' interpretation of him. In the movie Hannibal (my least favorite of the films, though I've never seen Hannibal Rising), Mason is portrayed to be queer-coded, passionately obsessed with Hannibal.

I remember when I watched it with my friends as a teenager, we unanimously agreed his character was definitely gay.

Yet, according to the books, he's explicitly noted as a pedophile. Still, in the film, his sexuality feels indescribably perverse, but not quite nefarious, as it's meant to be. It's not faithful to that true villainy, and knowing all that now, it bugs me.

Though the show doesn't outright call him a pedophile, it prioritizes specific language and innuendo to assert the core of his character: Mason Verger is a predator.

I appreciate how they trust the audience to infer from context clues without it feeling like a cop-out or omission.

it goes without saying that hannibal (2001) has the same very fundamental problem of the silence of the lambs (1995), which i unfortunately have not seen yet, in that their key object of disgust is a deranged queer person who preys on the innocent; all violence in the film, indeed, is deeply intertwined with queerness and camp even as lecter’s overbearing lust or obsession toward clarice starling drives the plot. credit must be given where credit is due, of course, to gary oldman’s performance as mason verger and of course to anthony hopkins’s iconic performance as hannibal lecter. both manage to pair the stunning and deranged flamboyance that tonally defines the film with an almost flat affect, their performances complementing each other in a way i would have loved to see drawn out more. the element of the film that is more fascinating to me, however, is its use of objects. the story tends to pair an object with each of lecter’s victims, totemistically or fetishistically: the painting with pazzi, the motorized wheelchair with verger, the gun with starling, the mask with lecter himself. the camera treats these objects the same way it treats the characters, and lecter treats the characters the same way he treats the objects. they are prized possessions, to be sure, delicate and to be handled and manipulated with care, but in the end they are just objects. lecter goes against that philosophy in the end of the film, in a move i feel would have been more compelling if they had done more to set it up than True Love Saves The Day, and frankly i was less than satisfied by the terms on which lecter and starling ultimately part. nonetheless, for the most part hannibal (2001) is a fascinating and deeply stylish film

Gary Oldman’s stages of makeup when playing Mason Verger in 2001’s Hannibal.

Hannibal (2001)

this hulu extension i added on also has hannibal, as in like, the sequel to silence of the lambs.  i don’t remember the movie adaptation of that being very good but maybe i’ll rewatch it before this free trial runs out anyway

Hannibal (2001)

Directed by Ridley Scott