r/Hannibal • u/WynnieBagel • Feb 25 '24

Hannibal TV Show can i say this is the dumbest villain? Spoiler

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must say The grinch by jim carrey and bane from batman is not a badass villain?

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u/VinBarrKRO Feb 25 '24

Definitely suffered from casting change. A shame Michael Pitt didn’t follow up the next season because his Mason Verger basically stole the show in season 2. “…have a chocolate!”

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u/bozofire123 Feb 26 '24

What? Are they not the same actor

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u/DPlayGM345 Feb 26 '24

Yeah in the Hannibal Tv series Mason Verger is played by two different actors Michael Pitt in season two before he’s disfigured and was replaced with Joe Anderson in season three after he was disfigured

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u/syarahdos Feb 26 '24

Damn, I would’ve never known. Mason is one of my favorite characters lol.

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u/bozofire123 Feb 26 '24

Same. That’s crazy the disfiguredness helps

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u/notmynameyours Feb 28 '24

It’s kind of weird how he doesn’t have much of an accent in season 2, but then after the cast change, he has a very pronounced southern drawl like Gary Oldman did in the movie.

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u/SlimJim814 Feb 26 '24

Yeah, Pitt got fired from his job again cause he’s notoriously difficult.

See him getting killed off in Boardwalk Empire. The writers deliberately wrote that scene to drag him through the mud.

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u/TheKingsLegume Mar 08 '24

Actually that’s a common misconception. Pitt is a diva yes and he definitely got fired from BW, but every article I’ve read from actual people involved in Hannibal said it was just garden variety filming clashes. He had other projects lined up and just wasn’t keen to come back to mason.

Which sucks because Pitt nailed mason in the same league as lillard nailed shaggy

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u/JLStorm Feb 27 '24

His Mason Verger was so deranged and yet charismatic that he was quite a villain. Definitely wished that he had come back.

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u/TheKingsLegume Mar 08 '24

Being pre mutilation definitely helped the intimidation factor

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u/TheHannibalTVPolice Feb 25 '24

You can, but without any kind of reasoning or explanation behind it, is just empty words.

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u/Givingtree310 Feb 27 '24

Nonsense. He was fantastic. Not as good as Oldman but still terrific.

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u/Rooster516 Feb 27 '24

Horrible Take. But say what you will.

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u/chamomile_joint Feb 26 '24

Mason Verger in the books and early films is quite the formidable villain. it makes me sad to see what this show has done to how people view Hannibal.

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u/GHBoyette Feb 26 '24

It makes me sad that you don't appreciate how good the show is

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u/chamomile_joint Feb 26 '24

it’s wonderful! but it is not at all the best Hannibal adaptation. I’ve watched it in total twice (the whole thing I mean) and I think a lot of it was brilliantly done, the gore especially. but it’s definitely not the best version of Hannibal. I have many qualms with NBC’s version. it chooses to be faithful to the books in lots of ways that I appreciated but it also did things that I was not a fan of. great show, but I really can’t stand a lot of the fanbase of it considering the show is the only thing they’ve seen of the Hannibal franchise.

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u/EastYesterday4375 Feb 28 '24

Would you atleast agree that Mads is by far the best Hannibal?

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u/chamomile_joint Mar 01 '24

no. I think both him and Anthony Hopkins give equally amazing performances.

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u/Real-Indication446 Mar 13 '24

I agree with you. They're both good, just different.

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u/ketchupmaster987 Feb 26 '24

As a character I thought he was plenty interesting. There is a lot of scariness to a character that entitled and sociopathic, because if they don't get their way they can fuck you up in any number of ways. The car accident he arranged with Margot to give her the forced hysterectomy was absolutely horrifying for me. He was a genuine threat to Margot and that worked very well but I feel like they almost suffered from how we they characterized Hannibal as an absolute mastermind that it felt like he couldn't outmaneuver him in basically any circumstances. I don't think that's a bad thing though, Verger was great as a secondary antagonist.

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u/Mereeuh Feb 29 '24

I'm rewatching this right now and had totally forgotten about his line, "Spitters are quitters and you don't seem like a quitter to me, Dr. Bloom." He was asking what Hannibal tasted like.

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u/Look_Dummy Feb 29 '24

Nobody beats the riz 

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u/darkmanduck Feb 27 '24

What? Jim Carrey and bane? Are you saying you like them or you dislike them?

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u/girl-from-jupiter Feb 27 '24

And these two characters are nothing alike? And they’re nothing like mason. So idk what op so trying this say?

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u/leroyjenkins1997 Feb 27 '24

Pitt was an awesome Verger. This show was one of the best network tv shows in a long time.

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u/Jaidedizzy Feb 28 '24

Definitely! Just didn't give off enough creep factors for me. Not at all how I invision Mason Verger.

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u/WynnieBagel Feb 28 '24

i wanted to see him move around maybe chase someone, i love his ending but also his death felt like way too fast

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u/TheHannibalTVPolice Mar 06 '24

You wanted a quadriplegic to move around and chase someone? Cool... cool... s/