farewelltolight:
//in a constant state of inner conflict between “wow i love the vampire chronicles with my whole heart” and “anne what the FUCK are you THINKING”
the-walking-fannibal:
Bryan Fuller:
Mads and Hugh, there were a lot of takes where they got very intimate, and lips were hovering over lips. I definitely had the footage to go there, because Mads and Hugh were so game. They called me and warned me: “We really went for it!” And then I saw the dailies, I thought there was a fine line from that #Hannigraham fan fiction motive to give the hardcore audience exactly what they want in terms of this actually being a homosexual relationship between these two men, and what is authentic for the characters in that final moment. I mean, it’s not “Brokeback Mountain.“ […] We felt we had to keep it genuine to the tone of the relationship as we’ve been telling it in the series.
Me: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
http://the-walking-fannibal.deviantart.com/
uraniabce:
A whole bunch of backstage photos from “Hannibal” featuring Tom Wisdom as Anthony Dimmond, as well as Gillian Anderson and Mads Mikkelsen. From the look of things, a lot of scenes, particularly between Tom Wisdon and Gillian Anderson got cut. Unless, they’re going to show up in flashbacks. Given that this is “Hannibal” they just might.
crave-that-mineral:
For a moment, I had the audacity to assume I was over
Mizumono and decided to rewatch it. Boy oh boy, was I wrong! I noticed a few
details that slipped from me the first time, most likely because I was bawling
my eyes out. And I realized that in the very moment giffed above Will
motherloving Graham was about to kiss Hannibal The Cannibal Lecter.
A bit of context for anyone who managed to erase this scene
from their memory (I salute you): Will arrives at Hannibal’s place, sees that
Abigail is alive and Hannibal hasn’t left yet. “You were supposed to leave,” he
says, to which Hannibal replies, “We couldn’t leave without you.” (Read “I
couldn’t live without you.”) Will does a dramatic little turn like the actual
Disney prince that he is to face Hannibal who had successfully managed to creep
up behind him.
Things to notice:
- In the first gif, Will’s eyes travel down to Hannibal’s
lips.
- In the second gif, he gets one step closer to Hannibal and
his throat trembles softly.
- In the third gif, when Hannibal reaches out to touch him, his facial features have already softened, he leans in slightly, and
there’s even the faint twitch of a smile at the corners of his lips.
The way I see it, this is the moment when Will realizes
Hannibal actually cared about him and Abigail. It’s the moment when he realizes
Hannibal risked sparing Abigail’s life (killing her would have been way less
dangerous than keeping her hidden) because he wanted them to leave everything
behind, run away together and live as a family. And in this very second it all
dawns on him; a moment of full understanding as he looks at Hannibal’s dark,
teary eyes and his bloody lips, and suddenly time stops and the world fades
away and it’s just the two of them and the intimate knowledge of a shared consuming passion.
Sadly, time doesn’t stop for Hannibal, as he still remembers Will’s lies and his betrayal. But let’s not get into that.
Now, this may not seem like a lot, but please keep in mind
that this is Will Eyes-Are-Distracting Graham we are talking about and in this
scene he looks like he can’t get enough of Hannibal’s eyes.
Remember how visibly pissed off he was when Jack touched his glasses in season 1, episode 1 and compare it to this scene where he doesn’t protest to suddenly being touched AT ALL.
He doesn’t break eye contact, he doesn’t shy away, he doesn’t pull himself from Hannibal’s touch. For someone who just saw his friend bleeding out in front of the door, came in with a gun (brief note here: I believe the gun was meant for Jack, as he lowered it when he saw Abigail and didn’t put it back on Hannibal, even though he could have), and found out his surrogate daughter was miraculously alive, you’d expect him to flinch, at least, when a bloody cannibal serial killer grabs his face. But no, he doesn’t. Because he has anticipated that sort of touch, and he wants it. He wants to kiss Hannibal Lecter. It’s such an
intense and intimate moment that I get secondhand-embarrassment from Abigail sitting there
and having to watch them.
Am I wrong and reading too much into this? Maybe, but you
never know with a show that keeps getting gayer and gayer. Either way, A++
acting and micro-expressions from Hugh Dancy. Give this man the awards he
deserves already.
"In the end, Will was Hannibal’s man, not Jack’s. He tipped Hannibal off with precisely the same solidarity phone call Hannibal placed to Garrett Jacob Hobbs back in the pilot: “They know.” And in what might actually be the episode’s most surprising moment, Will turns to Hannibal and tearfully tells him, “You were supposed to leave.”"
