I know that Mason Verger carved up his face with a piece of a mirror and at the request of Hannibal, but my question is this. Would he disfiguring his face cause him to be basically crippled and so helpless? He is in a hospital bed and requires a wheel chair and needs constant medical attention. Please enlighten me as to what I missed.....
shareHe's crippled because he was demonstrating autoerotic asphyxiation to Hannibal Lecter.
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Mason broke his neck in the noose and was left a quadriplegic. That and not the face carving was what crippled him (in the book he was even worse off, he couldn't even breathe without a mechanical respirator).
shareI like how they referenced that in Manhunter, even before Mason was officially created.
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I'm guessing that they didn't go with the respirator for the film because portraying it realistically would have made it next to impossible for Oldman to project much emotion/character into what was for all intents and purposes a voice acting role (since Mason is immobile and what was left of his face can't show much emotion either). Since a respirator controls both the timing and volume of your breath, you're really restricted to speaking in short intervals, and can't raise your voice above the volume allowed by the amount of air that's pumped.
shareYeah, it also sounds like Mason is even more scarred in the novel than he is in the film and TV series. If that's even possible? It's kinda like you would need CGI or a puppet to accurately portray Mason from the novel.
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Probably CGI because, if I remember the book correctly, his face was so damaged and destroyed by the procedure, they couldn't save any of it. It was all exposed muscle and veins that required him to be kept in a sterilized room for life.
shareYeah, it's been a long time but I remember in the book they even mention Mason had some apparatus that moistened his eyeballs because he had sliced his eyelid or lids off so he needed the machine to keep his eyeball from drying up and dying. There's no way they could have shown how bad Verger is described in the book.
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