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Cast Anthony Hopkins – Julianne Moore – Clarice Starling Gary Oldman – Mason Verger Ray Liotta – Paul Krendler Frankie Faison – Barney Giancarlo Giannini – Pazzi Francesca Neri – Allegra Pazzi Zeljko Ivanek – Dr. Cordell Doemling Hazelle Goodman – Evelda Drumgo David Andrews – FBI Agent Pearsall Francis Guinan – FBI Director Noonan James Opher – DEA Agent Eldridge Enrico Lo Verso – Gnocco Ivano Marescotti – Carlo Fabrizio Gifuni – Matteo Alex Corrado – Piero Marco Greco – Tommaso Robert Rietty – Sogliato Terry Serpico – Officer Bolton Boyd Kestner – Special Agent Burke Peter Shaw – Special Agent Brigham Kent Linville – FBI Mail Boy Don McManus – Asst. Mayor Benny Holcombe Harold Ginn – Larkin Ted Koch – BATF Agent Sneed William Powell-Blair – FBI Agent Aaron Craig – 'Il Mostro' Detective Andrea Piedimonte – Agent Benetti Ennio Coltorti – Ricci Ian Iwataki – Young Boy in Plane Mark Margolis – Perfume Expert Ajay Naidu – Perfume Expert Kelly Piper – Perfume Expert Bruce MacVittie – FBI Tech/Lecter's Letter Giannina Facio – Verger's Fingerprint Technician Andrew C. Boothby – Police Officer Kenneth W. Smith – Police Sergeant Judie Aronson – News Reporter Tom Trigo – News Reporter Sam Wells – News Reporter Ricardo Miguel Young – News Reporter Joseph M. West Jr. – News Reporter Roberta Armani – Theatergoer Johannes Kiebranz – Mr. Konie Bruno Lazzaretti – Dante Danielle de Niese – Beatrice Heidi Burger – Shopper Robert Randolph Caton – Upscale Business Man Douglas Crosby – Undercover DEA Agent Jacob Davis – Janitor/Il Mostro Renne Gjoni – FBI Agent Michaels Gano Grills – Red Scarf Gang Banger Jamie Harrold – Chuck Jeffreys – Gang Banger with Machine Gun Cal Johnson – Swat Team Leader Rick Kain – FBI Agent Jalil Jay Lynch – Gang Banger in basket ball T-Shirt Phil Neilson – Undercover DEA Agent Frank Principe – Shopper Franco Maria Salamon – Italian Detective Derrick Simmons – Evelda's bodyguard Gus Williams – Gang Banger with Shotgun Plot FBI Agent Clarice Starling is disgraced after killing five people in a botched drug raid.
One of the people killed by Starling was a female drug dealer, Evelda Drumgo, who is HIV positive and was holding a child
at the time she was shot. (Drumgo shoots Starling with a submachine gun; Starling is saved by her bulletproof vest.) Following
a hearing on her conduct she is sent to interview Mason Verger, having learned that he has information regarding Hannibal
Lecter. Mason Verger--a faceless millionaire mostly confined to a bed-- tells his story – he
was under a court order to have therapy sessions with Lecter after being convicted of child sex abuse charges. During a social
call, Dr. Lecter suggested that Mr. Verger inhale amyl nitrite fumes ("poppers"); once Verger was high, Lecter also suggested
that Verger rip his own face off with a glass shard and then hang himself. Verger later recounts that "it seemed like a good
idea at the time". Lecter fed the remains of Verger's face to Verger's dogs. Meanwhile in Starling learns that Justice Department employee Paul Krendler is also working with Verger,
using Starling as bait to lure Dr. Lecter out of hiding. Lecter is captured by Verger's henchmen and is taken to a barn, where
he is anxiously awaited by several large, man-eating boars. Starling tries to rescue Lecter and is shot by Verger's bodyguards;
Lecter, however, has already freed himself of his confines and has been awaiting the last moment to escape. After saving Starling
by killing Verger's bodyguards, Lecter convinces Verger's doctor that Verger doesn't deserve to live. Verger's doctor feeds
him to the boars, with the assurance that Lecter will take the blame for the crime. In the climax of the film, Lecter takes the wounded Starling to a lake-front house and performs
surgery on her to remove the bullet. When she awakens, she finds that Lecter has dressed her in a cocktail gown. She comes
downstairs, calling the police on the way, and discovers that she's in Paul Krendler's house. Lecter, incensed that Krendler
tried to get Starling fired, has kidnapped and lobotomized him. As Starling watches in horror, Lecter removes the top of Krendler's
skull and feeds him a small portion of his own brain after it has been sauteéd in butter and herbs. Starling tries to apprehend Lecter, but is only successful in handcuffing him to herself.
Lecter offers Starling the chance to run away with him, asking if there is any possibility that she would ever love him. Starling
says no, which is the answer that Lecter had expected. Informing her "this is really going to hurt," he chops off his own
hand with a meat cleaver and escapes. In the final scene of the film, we see Lecter on a plane full of Asian people, with a small
boy asking if he can have a taste of the meal Lecter brought along with him – Krendler's brains. Impressed with the
boy's refusal to eat airline food, Lecter happily obliges. Trivia Frankie Faison is the only person to appear in all four Hannibal Lecter films, having played
Lt. Fisk in Manhunter and Barney, the orderly from Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs. The character Barney has a more
significant role in the book than he does in the films. Due to the length of the novel, a significant portion was left out of the film – In
the book, Verger runs an orphanage, from which he culls children to verbally abuse as a substitute for his no longer being
able to abuse them sexually. He also has a lesbian sister, Margot, whom he raped when they were children. When she discovered
her sexual orientation, their father disowned her. As she herself is sterile due to steroid abuse, Verger exerts some control
over her by promising her a sperm sample with which to impregnate her lover, who could then inherit the Verger fortune. At
the end of the book, Margot and Starling both help Lecter escape during a shootout between Starling and Verger's guards. Margot,
at Lecter's advice, stimulates Mason to ejaculate with a cattle prod, and then kills him by ramming a Moray eel down his throat.
Following up on the fate of Krendler in the book, the crooked FBI official experiences a grisly fate when Lecter shoots him
with an arrow. The book's now infamous ending has Lecter presenting Starling with the exhumed bones of her father, which he
"brings to life" by hypnotising Starling, allowing her to say goodbye. This forges an odd alliance between Starling and Lecter,
culminating in their becoming lovers and escaping to The scenes set in Starling's apartment were filmed in a house on In the brain eating scene near the end of the film, the piece of brain Ray Liotta eats is
actually a piece of cooked chicken. The infamous brain eating scene was shot twice, once using Ray Liotta, and once using an animatronic
of Ray Liotta. The best looking segments of both scenes were then edited together. Liotta maintains that, upon seeing the
film, he could not tell when he was actually onscreen and when it was the animatronic. Animatronics were also used for the
baby that Starling washes after the fish market shootout scene. When Jodie Foster declined to reprise the role
of Clarice Starling, Julianne Moore beat Gillian Anderson, Cate Blanchett and Helen Hunt for the role. After Thomas Harris finished writing the novel, he sent copies to The Silence of the Lambs
principals Jonathan Demme, Jodie Foster, Ted Tally, and Anthony Hopkins for approval. The screenplay was rewritten no less
than 15 times because of dissatisfaction by Demme and Foster over new character elements. In the end, neither Demme nor Foster
remained with the production. Mason's mansion is actually the Biltmore Estate in Krendler's lake house with the boat dock is the same house used in the What About Bob? Ray Liotta actually ate dark chicken meat during the "brain-eating scene". During the brain-eating sequence there is a small boar's-head trophy mounted on the wall just
above and behind Ray Liotta; another reference to the pig massacre scene. A special animatronic puppet of Ray Liotta was used for some parts of the brain-eating scene.
Liotta himself has said that he's not sure exactly which shots are actually him or the puppet. The outdoor opera, Dante's "La vita nuova", which Dr. Lecter and Mr. Pazzi see in Some of the places where the movie was filmed include places where filming hardly ever is
allowed. Author Thomas Harris, while doing research for his book, got in contact with the heir of the Palazzo Capponi. For
the movie this same heir allowed Ridley Scott to film the Capponi Library. The first shot of Dr. Lecter's Florentine alias, Dr. Fell, is taken from a rhyming epigram by 17th century
English satirist Thomas Brown: "I do not love thee, Dr. Fell; The reason why I cannot tell. But this alone I know full well:
I do not love thee, Dr. Fell." The alias is also a reference to the "Silence of the Lambs" book where J.Gump, a.k.a. Buffalo
Bill, lived in The music during the opening credits is "Aria da Capo" from Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg
Variations, a tape of which was playing while Lecter killed the two guards in Giancarlo Giannini (Inspector Pazzi) was in the film Cervellini fritti impanati (1996), which
translates as "Fried Crumbed Brains". A poster can be seen near a newsstand for Gladiator, also directed by Ridley Scott. There is a vegetarian cookbook on top of the fridge in the "dinner scene" toward the end
of the movie. It's visible when In In the opening credits of the film you can make out the face of Anthony Hopkins being formed
by pigeons until the end of the credits when you can clearly see his face. This film was publicized as having the highest body count in a movie Keep watching after the credits. The film was first rated "Not under 16" in In the scene in the Italian police station, the soccer match on TV is from According to the film's cinematographer John Mathieson, three separate endings were filmed.
The filmmakers, unsure as to whether the ending of Thomas Harris' novel would work for the movie, filmed three versions: one
for Harris, one for producer Dino De Laurentiis, and one for director Ridley Scott. Hannibal Lecter faces can be seen after the shooting in the fish market, on the close-up of
the blood and glass-shards. The baby that Clarice Starling washes blood off – just after the shootout sequence –
is animatronic. After Jodie Foster and Jonathan Demme dropped out, Anthony Hopkins was very reluctant in returning
to play Lecter, and producers considered Tim Roth as a replacement. Mason Verger's mansion is also seen in Ri˘hie Ri˘h as the The Verger role was originally offered to Christopher Reeve, who declined the part. The dollar serial numbers are the same for at least three bills: G16134024A. Several of the extras in the movie and some minor roles in the Gary Oldman (Mason Verger) originally wanted to share star billing alongside' Anthony Hopkins'
and Julianne Moore. When the producers denied him this, he declined to have any billing at all and, in the original theatrical
release, remained uncredited at the film's opening and closing credits. In the VHS and DVD releases, however, his name has
been added to the closing credits. David Mamet's adaptation of the novel was changed entirely by Steven Zaillian. But Mamet still
retained a co-writer credit, in accordance with WGA regulations. The 500lb man-eating hogs featured in Originally, a teaser poster released in the Continuity Error: Continuity Error: When Lecter writes his first letter to Clarice, he licks the envelope to
seal it. However, when we see it on her desk before she opens it, the only thing keeping it shut is the seal wax in the centre. Continuity Error: When Lecter fights with Pazzi they are standing between the projector and
the screen, but you can still see the whole slide. It looks as if the projector has been moved out of the way and the shadow
we see is cast by another light source. Error: The voiceover "reading" Continuity Error: The sky changes from dusk to dark and back again several times while the
cars drive to the house. Error: Clarice relinquishes her badge and gun in front of Continuity Error: Dr. Lecter signs M.D. very small on the letter, but when Clarice is reading
it, M.D. is written very large. Continuity Error: The right side of the van following Clarice from her house is damaged with
a headlight that does not match the undamaged, left side. Later, as the van is seen before crashing into items, the damage
is missing and the headlight matches the other side. Continuity Error: The clock on the wall when Error: The typeface on Lecter's copy of the Washington Post is different from what the Post
uses for their headlines and text. Continuity Error: When Lecter closes the fridge door on Agent Starling's hair, a reflection
of Agent Krendler is seen briefly where he not only has no tea towel on his head, but also has a complete head. Error: On many of the close-up shots of Mason Verger, the actor's top lip is separated from
the top lip of his makeup. This is especially obvious on the low shots looking up at his face. Error: When Error: On the surround audio track, as heard in cinemas, the drug bust features sounds of
gunfire that don't correspond with where the shooters are standing. Also, at least once the camera angle changes and the sound
effects remain in the same place. Continuity Error: The web site Pazzi accesses about Lecter begins with "In 1992..." Later
shots show the same text beginning with "In 1990..." Continuity Error: When Mason Verger's Italian pig breeders have the swine devour a mannequin,
in one shot a pig deforms the mannequin's face with its giant fangs; in the next shot, the mannequin's head is intact and
reinflated with no evidence of the prior abuse that should have left it permanently concave. Error: Inspector Pazzi's cellphone is switched off in the library, when Lecter takes it and
talks to Clarice. Although it is on vibrate mode, the LCD display is blank. Continuity Error: When Clarice is handing in her gun and badge, her earrings change from studs
to hoops and back again. Error: Continuity Error: There are several instances while Starling is listening to the recorded
conversations from The Silence of the Lambs where the recordings differ from what was said in the movie. In addition some
of the recorded conversations never occurred. Also the conversations were supposedly recorded by the doctor in charge of the
institution but the conversation that occurred outside the institution while Hannibal was in the cage is still on tape even
though the doctor could not have possibly recorded it since he didn't know it was going to happen and stopped it as soon as
he found out. Error: When Clarice is getting interviewed by the board, and Krendler is first introduced,
they pan to a shot of the floor and you can clearly see the actor's mark, which a man later steps into. Continuity Error: When Clarice awakes in Error: When Pazzi approaches the library to visit Error: When Clarice is talking to Mason at his home, when the camera cuts back to Clarice
her mouth is shut, but the voice keeps on talking for about 3 seconds. Continuity Error: When Francesco is on the pay phone, the same woman walks by twice. It is
the woman in the green sweater. Error: When Continuity Error: The blood and shattered windshield at the beginning of the film disappear
and reappear between shots. Error: When Krendler picks up the faked postcard from Lecter, we can see the handwritten text.
The last line reads "Sounds like him to me." This last is clearly a part of the dialogue and was not intended for the text
of the postcard. Error: Immediately after Lecter begins to subdue Pazzi, their shadows are shown against the
screen upon which Lecter was displaying his slides for his presentation. Since the projector at the back of the room was the
source of the image on the screen, their shadows should have hidden the underlying portions of the image but those portions
are clearly still visible, probably from a rear-screen projector. Continuity Error: Mason Verger is referred to by Clarice as Hannibal Lecter's only surviving
victim. However, FBI Agent Will Graham was also attacked by Lecter. Error: The phone number of the Error: The recorded phone number in Continuity Error: When Lecter picks up the piece of glass from the broken mirror to give to
Verger, he does so with a handkerchief, presumably to avoid leaving fingerprints, but when he hands it to Verger, he does
so with a bare hand. Error: When Mason Verger falls into the pit, the pigs do not come to him immediately. In an
attempt to draw their attention, the trainers use a clearly visible broom handle, tapping it against the floor in the lower
right hand corner of the screen. Continuity Error: When Clarice meets up with Barney the fan in the window when is on during
their conversation. Later during that same conversation Barney walks over to it and it is off. He flips it on. Continuity Error: At dinner, Clarice grabs the butter knife, but in a later shot when the
camera is focused on Hannibal/Paul, she grabs it again before attempting to attack Continuity Error: During the scene where Pazzi and Benetti are watching the debate, Benetti
offers Pazzi a cigarette, Pazzi declines and Benetti starts smoking. In the next shot Pazzi is the one smoking while Benetti
has no cigarette. After the credits, we hear Lecter say "Ta ta, H.", the closing line of the post-script in
his letter to Clarice. As the opening credits end, After fading to black, the alternate ending features a new voiceover-- Clarice: Not in a thousand years. Trailers feature a scene not in the finished film: Starling exploring the now-abandoned asylum
where she first met Dr. Lecter in Silence of the Lambs. In the scene where Starling and Lecter are talking near the merry-go-round, Lecter's face
is split by a mirror. In the trailer, he says "You naughty girl" but this isn't in the final film. In the trailer, Lecter says to Clarice "I need some action, Clarice" in his letter. This is
not in the final film. There are also some shots of lector in the trailer that are not in the movie, most notably, when he
mails the letter to clarice. In the trailer, we see him walking away from the mailbox. A longer 3+ hour cut of the film was purchased by CBS for a network TV run beginning in 2003.
Ridley Scott is quoted as having initially cut a 3 hour version of the film that test screened, and that this cut will be
made into a two night miniseries for CBS when they screen the film in 2003. Among scenes removed from the final cut that may show up in the television version is a time
filler in which Lecter picks up Krendler's dog and talks to it while going over flower arrangements for his party. German video distributor BMG Video released two seperate DVD-editions of the film: one is
the uncut FSK18 version in a double DVD set with massive extras, the other edition is a single DVD and includes only the film
in a shortened (ca. 1,5 min.) FSK16 version. This edition carries the note "Cut version". In the DVD Behind The Scenes featurette we see Over half an hour of footage was deleted from the film, including totally new scenes and alternate
versions of scenes already in the movie. These scenes include: A different version of Clarice watching Brigham's funeral on TV. Here, she doesn't cry, but
rather just sits staring at the screen. Another FBI agent comes to visit Clarice with all of Brigham's personal belongings,
saying that his parents don't want them, and Clarice asks if she can have them. A new scene where Starling visits the abandoned asylum where Hannibal Lecter was held. At
the door she meets the janitor, a shy young boy who flirts with Starling but refuses to go into the basement because of asthma.
Starling goes down into the basement, where she searches old patient files, and finds a vagrant old man huddled in Lecter's
old cell screaming for Jesus. Later, we see Starling on Ebay searching for Hannibal Lecter items, among which are X-rays and
Lecter's Mercedes. A new scene where Starling gets a follow up on the X-rays she got from Barney and Mason. An
FBI specialist tells her that Mason's X-ray is several years old, and that Barney's X-Ray of Lecter's broken arm is the most
recent. An alternate version of the scene where Lecter writes a letter to Starling. We see Lecter
going to pick up the scent for the envelope, where Pazzi spies on him and, in turn, Lecter spies on Pazzi. The letter itself
is worded differently, but still contains the lines about Starling's parents. Here, we learn that Jack Crawford, Starling's
old boss from the FBI, died of a disease. A scene where Pazzi gets FBI passwords from a secret agent holed up in a building in An ignored subplot about Pazzi and a brother-sister gypsy pickpocket team. The sister was
a girl named Romula, who Pazzi saw steal a man's wallet. This was the only sequence filmed, which was scrapped in favor of
just leaving in the brother as the thug Pazzi sends after Lecter. An entire subplot about Pazzi working on Il Mostro, a real unsolved Italian serial killer
case in which an unknown man stalked and killed young couples kissing in their cars. It features an alternate version of the
scene where Lecter first meets Pazzi--now there is a leering janitor waxing the floor in the next room. Pazzi talks at great
lengths with Lecter about Il Mostro, and Lecter gives him information regarding the case, most notably that the killer is
posing his victim's corpses like classic paintings. Pazzi follows this lead, which gets him put back on Il Mostro after being
removed to investigate Dr. Fell. Later, when he goes to retrieve luggage from Lecter, we have an alternate version of Pazzi
in Lecter's living room, with more talk about Il Mostro. All of these sequences feature the janitor from the museum. Finally,
we are given an alternate version of Lecter attacking Pazzi. The dialogue is slightly different, and there are several shots
of the janitor watching. Here, Pazzi's intestines and bowels don't fall onto the spotlights, and the tourists videotaping
the tower laugh instead of scream. Lecter turns around and waves at the tourists, and then walks away. Meanwhile, we see several
shots of security looking at Pazzi's body on security cameras as Lecter passes by the Janitor, who had been watching the whole
thing from behind it a curtain: He is Il Mostro. A deleted scene in which Barney drives through Mason's plantation. Originally, the movie was
supposed to open with the fish market shootout, and the meeting with Mason was to come later. When the meeting was moved to
the opening, the scene was Barney in his car was cut: It features him going past security and men reaping vegatables. The
box containing Lecter's restraint mask is visible in several shots on the seat beside Barney. Lastly, Barney comes across
the man-eating boars in a pen and drives away from them. A brief shot of Lecter sleeping on an airplane with his head shaved. He has a nightmare and
wakes up almost screaming. This came from the book, in which Lecter had flashbacks to WWII, when his two-year-old sister was
killed in a snowbound concentration camp in Scenes of Lecter shopping for his party. He goes to a kitchen store, and catches a tabloid
show talking about Starling. A humorous bit is included in which Lecter gets angry because the TV commentator addresses him
as "madman Hannibal Lecter," and he corrects her by whispering at the TV "Doctor Lecter!" A clerk then comes in and directs
Lecter to where he can buy steakknives. Lecter then finishes watching the program, where he sees an interview with Krendler. An extended version of Clarice in the woods. She runs for a longer period, and shots of her
feet on the ground are intercut with Lecter's feet. After the part where the scene would've ended in the final cut, we see
Lecter standing by Starling's car on a hilltop. He breaks the lock and gets in, smelling her steering wheel and then running
his tongue across it. He gets out, but leaves his sun glasses on the horn. An alternate ending: Here, Starling doesn't handcuff Lecter, and he runs his tongue over
her lips after they kiss. Starling gets her hair free from the refrigerator, gets her gun, and runs out to the woods after
Lecter. She finds the boat drifting and draws her gun on it, but it's empty and she smirks for a moment before she's surrounded
by police who have her drop her weapon. A spotlight hits Starling and she yells "Clarice Starling! FBI!" The scene then cuts
to Starling watching the fireworks over the lake, as in the original. Here, though, instead of cutting to the plane, we see
Lecter walking up to a gas station and getting into a van. He waves at some kids and their mothers waving sparklers, and drives
off. This goes to a wideshot of the plane cabin, showing most of the passengers and waitresses to be Oriental (implying Lecter
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Never Before Seen Alternate Ending Deleted Scenes Alternate Scenes Feature Length Commentary By Director Ridley Scott Breaking The Silence 5 Unique Making Of Featurettes Special Effects Footage Featurette On The Art Of Storyboarding With Ridley Scott Exclusive Interview Anatomy Of A Shoot Out A Breakdown Of The Fish Market Action Scene Exploration Of The Films Opening Title Design Trailers TV Spots Rare Production Stills Unused Poster Concepts +++++my Hannibal Lecter fansite+++++ |
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