Who mogs?Hopkins>is at points really warm and classy, and other points seems like a deranged lunatic weirdoMads>always classy and even in his craziest moments never looks crazy but also very cold even when he’s being gentlemanly, always seems incredibly evilBrian Cox from manhunter>much less screentime, but seems like a genuine mindraping psycho
Cox>looks actually scary and insane in a brightly lit white cellHopkins>needs a Dracula cave to do the heavy lifting for him>decided to make Lecter impossibly zesty for some reasonMads>keeps the zestiness and even amps it up to full blown homoeroticism
>>215537316Cox is believable as a serial killerMads is believable as a psychiatristHopkins is believable as neither.
>>215537316Hopkins=4chanMads=tumblrCox=reddit
>>215537316It's Hopkins. Only contrarians argue otherwise even if there's nothing wrong with the other portrayals.
>>215537316Cox, for his little screentime, is memorable as a Hannibal who has discarded his "human disguise" in prison and while remaining highly intelligent and insightful, doesn't bother to act civil or polite anymore and comes off as cruder and more openly malicious. Would have liked to see more of him. Mads has a few dimensions to him but he's also borderline soulless in how little he regards other people, even people he sort of likes. It's fun to watch him move around people like pieces on a gameboard, often just to see what happens. But he's also probably the most "distressing" to watch because he's free 95% of the series and thus very unpredictable in how dangerous he is, he's not behind bars improvising to extend his reach, he's got free rein.Hopkins is cool as a villain but a little bit cartoonish, compelling in the moment but I think the more you see of him the weaker it is, best as just small doses in Silence. I think seeing him through Clarice's eyes softens him a little, compared to if you first saw him through Will's eyes where it's pure enmity.
>>215538213not fair if you count Hopkins in Hannibal since Cox didn't have to do multiple movies. Based on just Silence of the Lambs, Hopkins is the best
>>215537975>>215538019I like Hopkins the best because he’s the coolest, but I enjoy all three
>>215537316Cox plays a hyper-intelligent serial killer.Hopkins plays a lesser demon wearing the body of an old man.Mikkelsen plays a European homosexual predator.All scary.
Hopkins always came off as pretty cartoonish to me, he really hams it up like he's a supervillain. I think Ted Levine in Lambs actually kind of mogs him
>>215537316Acting wise, Hopkins outclasses them allBut Mads has the obvious advantage because he's a free man
>>215538706Ted Levine hams it up huge as Bill, you just see even less of him than Hannibal
>>215537316Mikkelsen =(/>) Hopkins > Cox
>>215537316All three were valid portrayals in their own way.
>>215537316Gaspard Ulliel from Hannibal Rising, bite me
Hopkins hands down>>Cox's HL has nearly all of his backstory is cut and he's explicitly stated as being a generic serial killer who targets women in Manhunter and his cannibalism cut too >>For all of Bryan Fuller claiming that his/Madds's HL is Lucifer himself, Fuller falls into the Lector fanboy trap. While Madds does some really nasty, beyond the pale shit in the TV show, he also has moments of pathetic fanboyish heroism where Lector does good purely because the plot requires someone to beat/kill the villain. Hopkins is evil incarnate and doesn't hide it. He is a monster and even Clarice treats him as such; any respect is clearly transactional and Clarice holds zero illusions as such, especially when Lector sends her the equivalent of a shitpost letter at the start of Hannibal, telling Clarice how much she sucks and how little he thinks of her after all these years and that he's only writing her to kick her while she's down. Even the ending of Hannibal. He lets the assistant kill Mason purely because it's the quickest option and him counting on the guy not wanting to be killed by Lector/wanting to get the fuck out of dodge before the cops inevitably arrive and arrest him. And even the ending of Hannibal plays into this. He only cuts off his hand as opposed to cutting off Clarice's, because she proves herself to be a worthy foe and one who saw Lector as a monster and who didn't for one moment harbor romantic illusions about him and the two of them having any sort of romantic relationship. No one else but Clarice was going to stop Lector and she sure as shit wasn't going to let Mason kill Lector and even if she was suspended, she wasn't going to let that stop her. Unlike Will, Clarice was as cold and ruthless as Lector, so he cut off his hand just to remind her that he was more hardcore than her and that he'd maim himself to stay free and to mindfuck Clarice in terms of not telling her why he spared her.
