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Hannibal (2001 film)

April 24, 2023

Hannibal is a 2001 psychological horror crime thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and based on the 1999 novel by Thomas Harris. A sequel to the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs, the plot follows disgraced FBI special agent Clarice Starling as she attempts to apprehend cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter before his surviving victim, Mason Verger, captures him. Anthony Hopkins reprises his role as Lecter, while Julianne Moore replaces Jodie Foster as Starling and Gary Oldman plays Verger. Ray Liotta, Frankie R. Faison, Giancarlo Giannini, and Francesca Neri also star.

Hannibal
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRidley Scott
Screenplay by
Based onHannibal
by Thomas Harris
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJohn Mathieson
Edited byPietro Scalia
Music byHans Zimmer
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release date
  • 9 February 2001 (2001-02-09)
Running time
132 minutes[2]
Countries
  • United States[1]
  • United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$87 million[3]
Box office$351.6 million[3]

Following the release of The Silence of the Lambs, Harris spent several years writing a sequel novel. Foster and Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme initially planned to return for the sequel, but they and screenwriter Ted Tally declined because they found it too lurid. Scott became attached while directing Gladiator (2000), and signed on after reading the script pitched by Dino De Laurentiis, who had produced Manhunter (1986), the first Lecter film. David Mamet and Steven Zaillian wrote the screenplay, and principal photography commenced in May 2000, lasting sixteen weeks.

Hannibal was released on 9 February 2001, ten years after The Silence of the Lambs. It was highly anticipated and broke box office records in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom,[4] and grossed $351.6 million during its theatrical run. It received mixed reviews;[5] critics praised the performances and visuals, but deemed it inferior to The Silence of the Lambs and criticized its violence. It was followed by a prequel, Red Dragon, in 2002, with Hopkins reprising his role as Lecter.

Plot

A decade after tracking down serial killer Jame Gumb,[a] FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling is blamed for a botched drug raid which resulted in the deaths of five people. Starling is contacted by Mason Verger, the only surviving victim of the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter, who has been missing since escaping custody during the Gumb investigation. A wealthy child molester, Verger was paralyzed and disfigured by Lecter during a therapy session. He has been pursuing an elaborate scheme to capture, torture, and kill Lecter ever since. Using his wealth and political influence, Verger has Starling reassigned to Lecter's case, hoping her involvement will draw Lecter out.

After learning of Starling's disgrace, Lecter sends her a letter. A perfume expert identifies a fragrance on the letter: skin cream with ingredients only available to a few shops in the world. She contacts the police departments of the cities where the shops are located, requesting surveillance tapes. In Florence, Chief Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi is investigating the disappearance of a library curator. Pazzi questions Lecter, who is masquerading as Dr. Fell, the assistant curator and caretaker.

Recognizing Lecter in the surveillance tape, Pazzi accesses the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program database of wanted fugitives. He learns of Verger's $3 million personal bounty on Lecter. Seeking the bounty, Pazzi ignores Starling's warnings and attempts to capture Lecter alone. He recruits a pickpocket to obtain Lecter's fingerprint to show Verger as proof. The pickpocket manages to get the print and gives it to Pazzi, but is fatally wounded in the process when Lecter severs his femoral artery. Lecter baits Pazzi into an isolated room of the Palazzo Vecchio, ties him up, disembowels him, and hangs him from the balcony. He also kills a Verger henchman and flees.

Verger bribes Justice Department official Paul Krendler to accuse Starling of not disclosing a note from Lecter, leading to her suspension. Lecter then gets Starling to come to Union Station while speaking with her through mobile phones. Verger's men, having trailed Starling, capture and bring Lecter to Verger. Verger intends to feed Lecter alive to a herd of wild boars bred for this purpose. After her superiors refuse to act, Starling infiltrates Verger's estate. After neutralizing two guards and freeing Lecter, she is shot by a third guard. Lecter picks up an unconscious Starling just before the boars break through the doors, devouring the two guards but ignoring Lecter. Verger orders his physician Cordell Doemling to shoot Lecter. At Lecter's suggestion, Cordell shoves his hated boss into the pen with Lecter offering to take the blame. Lecter carries Starling away while Verger is eaten alive by his own boars.

Lecter takes Starling to Krendler's secluded lake house and treats her wound. When Krendler arrives, Lecter subdues and drugs him. Starling, disoriented by morphine and dressed in a cocktail dress, awakens to find Krendler seated at the table set for an elegant dinner. Weakened by the drugs, she watches in horror as Lecter opens Krendler's skull, removes part of his brain, sautés it, and feeds it to him. Starling tries to attack Lecter, but he overpowers her and traps her hair in a refrigerator door. He kisses her; while he is distracted, she handcuffs his wrist to hers. Hearing the police closing in, Lecter raises a cleaver over her hand. Afterwards, Starling surrenders to the FBI with her hands intact.

On a flight, Lecter prepares to eat a meal he has brought himself while wearing his bandaged arm in a sling. Lecter shares Krendler's cooked brain with a curious boy who was watching him eat, saying it is important "always to try new things".

Cast

Development

The Silence of the Lambs, based on the 1988 novel by Thomas Harris, was released in 1991 to critical and commercial success, winning five Academy Awards.[6] Harris spent several years writing a sequel novel; Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme expressed interest in developing a film adaptation when the novel was complete.[7]

The film rights to the Lecter character were owned by producer couple Dino De Laurentiis and Martha De Laurentiis. After producing the first Lecter film, Manhunter, in 1986, they allowed Orion Pictures to produce The Silence of Lambs free without their involvement. When The Silence of the Lambs became a success, the couple became eager for a new Lecter novel they could adapt. After a lengthy wait, De Laurentiis received a call from Harris telling him he had finished the novel and De Laurentiis purchased the rights for a record $10 million.[8]

In April 1999, the Los Angeles Times reported that the budget for an adaptation of Hannibal could cost as much as $100 million. It speculated that both Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins would receive $15 million each to reprise their roles and that Demme would receive $5 million to $19 million. Mort Janklow, Harris's agent at the time, told the Los Angeles Times that Foster, Hopkins, and Demme would soon receive manuscripts of the novel, claiming it would make an unbelievable film.[9] The novel sold out of its initial 1.6 million print run in the 1999,[10] and went on to sell millions of copies.[11]

Demme declined the invitation to direct,[7] as he reportedly found the material lurid[12] and too gory.[13] In the 2010 Biography Channel documentary Inside Story: The Silence of the Lambs, Demme said: "Tom Harris, as unpredictable as ever, took Clarice and Dr. Lecter's relationship in a direction that just didn't compute for me. And Clarice is drugged up, and she's eating brains with him, and I just thought, 'I can't do this.'"[14] De Laurentiis said of Demme's decision to decline: "When the pope dies, we create a new pope. Good luck to Jonathan Demme. Good-bye."[8] He later said that Demme felt he could not make a sequel as good as The Silence of the Lambs.[15]

Ridley Scott

De Laurentiis visited Ridley Scott on the set of Gladiator and suggested he direct Hannibal.[15] Scott, who was conducting principal photography on Gladiator, thought De Laurentiis was speaking about the Carthaginian general and replied: "Dino, I'm doing a Roman epic right now. I don't wanna do elephants coming over the Alps next, old boy."[7]

Scott read the manuscript in four sittings within a week, seeing it as a "symphony", and expressed his desire to direct.[7] He said: "I haven't read anything so fast since The Godfather. It was so rich in all kinds of ways."[10] Scott had reservations with the ending of the novel, in which Lecter and Starling become lovers: "I couldn't take that quantum leap emotionally on behalf of Starling. Certainly, on behalf of Hannibal—I'm sure that's been in the back of his mind for a number of years. But for Starling, no. I think one of the attractions about Starling to Hannibal is what a straight arrow she is."[10] He also did not find the book believable after the opera scene, "which became like a vampire movie". Harris gave Scott permission to change the ending.[10]

Writing

Ted Tally, screenwriter for The Silence of the Lambs, was another key member of the Silence of the Lambs team to decline involvement. Tally, like Demme, had problems with the novel's "excesses".[12] David Mamet was the first screenwriter to produce a draft, which, according to Scott and the producers, needed major revisions.[8] Stacey Snider, co-chairman of Universal Pictures, said: "There's no way David was going to read 15 pages of our notes and then be available to work on the script day-to-day."[16] A script review at ScreenwritersUtopia.com describes the Mamet draft as "stunningly bad" but found Zaillian's rewrite "gripping entertainment".[17] Scott praised Mamet as fast and efficient, but said he passed on his draft because it needed work and he feared Mamet, who was soon directing his own film,[8] would be too busy to redraft it.[10]

Steven Zaillian, writer of Schindler's List, initially declined to write Hannibal, saying he was busy and that "you can almost never win when you do a sequel".[8] He changed his mind, as "it's hard to say no to Dino once and it's almost impossible to say no to him twice".[8] Scott said there were "very few rewrites once I brought in Steve Zaillian ... If you were to ask who were the best three screenwriters in the business, Steve Zaillian would be one of them. We discussed Hannibal endlessly."[10] One of Zaillian's key objectives was to revise Mamet's script until it pleased all parties, meaning that the "love story" would be told by suggestion instead of by "assault".[18] Scott worked through the script with Zaillian for 28 days, making him "sweat through it with him and discuss every inch of the way with him". After 25 days, Scott realized that Zaillian was "exorcising the 600 pages of the book. He was distilling through discussion what he was gonna finally do ... Frankly I could have just made it."[7]

Casting

It was unclear if Jodie Foster (Clarice Starling) and Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal Lecter) would reprise their respective roles for which they won Academy Awards in The Silence of the Lambs (Best Actress/Best Actor). Both Hopkins and Foster had expressed interest.[9] It became apparent that the producers and the studio could do without one of the original "stars" and would go on to find a replacement. The withdrawal of both Foster and Hopkins could possibly have been terminal for the project, however. De Laurentiis confirmed this after the film's release: "First and foremost, I knew we had no movie without Anthony Hopkins."[15]

Involvement of Jodie Foster

Foster told Larry King in 1997 that she "would definitely be part of" a sequel to The Silence of the Lambs.[10] In the same year, she told Entertainment Weekly: "Anthony Hopkins always talks about it. I mean, everybody wants to do it. Every time I see him, it's like: 'When is it going to happen? When is it going to happen?'"[19] De Laurentiis thought Foster would decline once she read the book, and believed the final film was better for it.[7] Hopkins also had doubts Foster would be involved, saying he had a "hunch" she would not be.[7]

Foster confirmed that she had turned down the film in December 1999.[20] This caused problems for Universal and production partner Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.[8][19] "The studio is just back from the holiday and is regrouping based on the news, and has no cohesive game plan at the moment," said Kevin Misher, Universal's President of Production.[8] Misher added that, "It was one of those moments when you sit down and think, 'Can Clarice be looked upon as James Bond for instance? A character who is replaceable?' Or was Jodie Foster Clarice Starling, and the audience will not accept anyone else?"[8] Foster said in December 1999 that the characterization of Starling in Hannibal had "negative attributes" and "betrayed" the original character.[20]

Foster's spokeswoman said she declined because Claire Danes had become available for Foster's film Flora Plum.[21] Entertainment Weekly described the Hannibal project as having become "a bloody mess, hemorrhaging talent and money" despite Hopkins being on board.[19] In 2005, after the film had been released, Foster told Total Film: "The official reason I didn't do Hannibal is I was doing another movie, Flora Plum. So I get to say, in a nice dignified way, that I wasn't available when that movie was being shot ... Clarice meant so much to Jonathan and I, she really did, and I know it sounds kind of strange to say but there was no way that either of us could really trample on her."[22]

Julianne Moore as Clarice Starling

When it became clear that Foster would skip Hannibal, the production team considered several different actresses,[7] including Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie, Gillian Anderson, Hilary Swank, Ashley Judd, Helen Hunt and Julianne Moore.[8] Hopkins asked his agent if he had any "power" over casting. He informed De Laurentiis that he knew Moore, with whom he had worked on Surviving Picasso, and thought her a "terrific actress".[7] Although Hopkins' agent told him he had no contractual influence on casting, Scott thought it correct to discuss who would be Hopkins' "leading lady".[7] Scott said he was "really surprised to find that [he] had five of the top actresses in Hollywood wanting it."[10]

Scott said his decision was swayed in favor of Moore: "She is a true chameleon. She can be a lunatic in Magnolia, a vamp in An Ideal Husband, a porn star in Boogie Nights and a romantic in The End of the Affair."[10] "Julianne Moore, once Jodie decided to pass, was always top of my list," said Scott on his female lead.[23] Moore talked about stepping into a role made famous by another actress: "The new Clarice would be very different. Of course people are going to compare my interpretation with that of Jodie Foster's ... but this film is going to be very different."[24]

Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter

 
Hannibal Lecter t-shirt worn by Hopkins in Hannibal on display at the London Film Museum

Hopkins was generally expected to reprise his Academy Award-winning role. Hopkins said in June 1999 that he would only be interested if the script was "really good".[citation needed][25][better source needed] Hopkins said he could not make up his mind to commit: "I was kind of surprised by this book, Hannibal. I thought it was really overreaching and so bizarre. So I couldn't make up my mind about it all. Some of it I found intriguing, some I was a little doubtful about."[7] When the producers confirmed that they were going to film Harris' novel, Hopkins told them yes, but added: "It needs some condensing."[7] The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Hopkins had agreed to reprise his role in late December 1999, saying he had approved the latest draft of the script.[26]

Hopkins said he had no difficulty moving back into "Lecter's mind". "I just learned the lines and showed up and walked around as Hannibal Lecter. I thought, 'Do I repeat that same performance, or do I vary it?' Ten years had passed so I changed a bit."[8] In the book, Lecter uses bandages to disguise himself as a plastic surgery patient. This was left out of the film because Scott and Hopkins agreed to leave the face alone.[27] Hopkins said: "It's as if he's making a statement—'catch me if you can'. With his big hat, he's so obvious that nobody thinks he's Hannibal Lecter. I've always thought he's a very elegant man, a Renaissance man."[27] In the film, Lecter is first seen in Florence "as the classical Lecter, lecturing and being smooth", according to Hopkins.[28] When the film moves to the US, Hopkins changed his appearance by building up muscle and cropping his hair short "to make him like a mercenary, that he would be so fit and so strong that he could just snap somebody in two if they got ... in his way".[28]

Gary Oldman as Mason Verger

The part of Mason Verger, one of Lecter's two surviving victims, was originally offered to Christopher Reeve based on his work as a police officer who uses a wheelchair in Above Suspicion (1995). Not having read the novel, Reeve showed initial interest in the role, but ultimately declined upon realizing that Verger was a quadriplegic, facially-disfigured child rapist.[29][30] The part was later accepted by secondary choice Gary Oldman. Co-producer Martha De Laurentiis claimed they had a "funny situation" with Oldman wanting a prominent "credit". She said: "Now how can you have a prominent credit with Hannibal? The characters are Hannibal and Clarice Starling. So we really couldn't work something out (at first)." Oldman was apparently "out" of the film for a while, but then came back in, asking to go "unbilled". Oldman would become transformed and "unrecognizable as himself" to play the part of Verger. He would have no lips, cheeks or eyelids. Make-up artist Greg Cannom said: "It's really disgusting ... I've been showing people pictures [of Oldman as Verger], and they all just say 'Oh my God,' and walk away, which makes me very happy."[8] Oldman said that having his name completely removed from the billing and credits allowed him to "do it anonymously" under the heavy make-up.[31]

Further casting

Other stars subsequently cast included Ray Liotta as U.S. Justice Department official Paul Krendler (the character had appeared in The Silence of the Lambs, but original actor Ron Vawter had died in the interim) and Italian actor Giancarlo Giannini as Detective Rinaldo Pazzi. Francesca Neri played Pazzi's wife, Allegra. Frankie Faison reprised his role as orderly Barney Matthews, remaining the only actor to play a role in all Lecter feature films (until Hannibal Rising in 2007), including Manhunter.

Key production crew

Scott recruited key production crew whom he had worked with previously. Production designer Norris Spencer had worked on Thelma & Louise, Black Rain and 1492: Conquest of Paradise. Cinematographer John Mathieson, editor Pietro Scalia and composer Hans Zimmer had all worked on Scott's previous film Gladiator.[32]

Production

Background

Hannibal was filmed in 83 working days over 16 weeks.[33] The film began production on 8 May 2000 in Florence, Italy.[33] The film visited key locations in Florence and various locations around the United States.[32] Martha De Laurentiis said the film has almost a hundred locations and that it was a "constant pain of moving and dressing sets. But the locations were beautiful. Who could complain about being allowed to shoot in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence? Or President James Madison's farm in Montpelier or the amazing Biltmore Estate in Asheville?"[32] Eighty million dollars and a year and a half in production were spent before Scott got his first look at Hannibal in the editing room.[34]

Filming locations

  • The whole second act of Hannibal takes place in Florence. Ridley Scott had never filmed there before, but described it as "quite an experience ... It was kind of organized chaos ... We were there at the height of tourist season."[32] Within Florence, the production would visit various locations such as the Palazzo Capponi (as Dr. Fell's workplace), the Ponte Vecchio, the Palazzo Vecchio, the Pharmacy of Santa Maria Novella and the Cathedral.[32]
  • After leaving Italy on 5 June 2000, the production moved to Washington, D.C. Filming took place over six days at Union Station.[32] The unusual sight of a carousel would appear in the transportation hub and shopping plaza at Ridley Scott's request.[32]
  • Filming would last for seven weeks in Richmond, Virginia[32] for the shootout in a crowded fish market (shot at Richmond Farmer's Market) early in the film. Julianne Moore underwent FBI training at the Bureau's headquarters before filming.[32]
  • A barn in Orange, Virginia, situated on the estate of President James Madison, was used to house 15 "performing hogs".[32] The 15 Russian boars used in the shoot were from a selection of around 6,000 that the animal wranglers observed.[32]
  • Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, the biggest privately owned estate in the US, was chosen to signify the huge personal wealth of Mason Verger.[7]

Special make-up effects

Make-up artist Greg Cannom was pleased to be involved in Hannibal as it offered him the chance to produce "incredible and original make-ups".[7] For Mason Verger, the make-up team would initially produce 20 different heads which looked like zombies and did not reflect the vision Scott had of the character. Scott wanted Verger to look real with hideous scarring, and not something from the "House of Wax".[7] Scott himself would actually call up the help of expert doctors in an effort to get the look of the character as realistic as possible.[7] Scott showed the make-up team pictures of foetal things, which he thought touching; he wanted to make Mason Verger more touching than monstrous, as he thought of Verger as being someone who hadn't lost his sense of humour, almost sympathetic.[7] Oldman would spend six hours a day in make-up to prepare for the role.[7]

For one of the film's final and infamous scenes, an exact duplicate was created of the character Paul Krendler, played by Ray Liotta, a scene which blended make-up, puppet work and CGI in a way which Scott called "seamless".[7]

Title sequence

The main titles were designed by Nick Livesey, a graduate of the Royal College of Art who worked for one of Scott's production companies in London. The sequence, shot in Florence by Livesey himself was intended as the film's second promotional trailer.[7] The studio thought it not "quite right", but it remained on Scott's mind and would eventually end up as the main title sequence.[7] Livesey would gather footage of pigeons in an empty square in Florence early one morning which, in the final cut, would morph into the face of Hannibal Lecter.[7] Scott believed it a good idea, as it fundamentally asked the question: 'Where is Hannibal Lecter?' Scott explains: "And of course this story tells it, with pigeons in the cobblestones of somewhere, where you wonder where that is ... and there he is... his face appears."[7] The titles are said to have been influenced by the film Seven.[35]

Music

Ridley Scott worked very closely with composer Hans Zimmer, during post-production on Hannibal.[7] Scott believes the music to a film is as important as dialogue—"It is the final adjustment to the screenplay, being able to also adjust the performance of the actors in fact."[7] Zimmer and Scott sat in during the editing process with editor Pietro Scalia to discuss scenes in the film and "not music".[7] Zimmer used a symphony orchestra for the opera sequence, but would mostly use what he described as a "very odd orchestra ... only cellos and basses all playing at the extreme ends of their range." This was done to emphasise the character of Lecter. He explains: "Anthony's character is for me somebody at the extreme range of whatever is humanly imaginable somehow." Zimmer also did not want the score to sound like a "modern day orchestra".[7]

The character Mason Verger had his own theme, which become more "perverted" as the film progressed, according to Zimmer.[7] Dante's sonnet was put to music by Zimmer and Patrick Cassidy titled Vide cor Meum for the opera scene in Florence.[36] Tracksounds.com wrote positively of Zimmer's score. "Zimmer truly crafts a score worthy of most fans' full attention ... the classical elements, and yes, even the monologue combine to make this an intense listening experience."[37] In a poll by British Classic FM listeners to find the greatest film soundtrack of all time, Hannibal ranked at No. 59.[38] Strauss's The Blue Danube is also played at several points in the film.

Themes

Romance

Scott has said he believes the underlying emotion of Hannibal is "affection". "In some instances, you might even wonder or certainly from one direction—is it more than affection? It is dark, because the story is of course essentially dark, but it's kind of romantic at the same time."[7] Scott openly admits to a "romantic thematic" running through the film.[7] He told CNN that: "Hannibal was quite a different target, essentially a study between two individuals. Funny enough, it's rather romantic and also quite humorous, but also there's some quite bad behaviour as well."[11] During the opera scene in Florence, Lecter attends an operatic adaptation of one of Dante's sonnets, and meets with Detective Pazzi and his wife, Allegra. She asks Lecter, "Do you believe a man could become so obsessed by a woman after a single encounter?" Lecter replies: "Yes, I believe he could ... but would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him?" This scene, in the film, is one which Scott claims most people "missed" the meaning of. It was in reference to Starling—to their encounter in The Silence of the Lambs.[23] The New York Times, in its review of the film, said Hannibal, "toys" with the idea of "love that dare not speak its name".[35]

Composer Hans Zimmer believed there were messages and subtext in each scene.[7] He said, "I can score this movie truly as a Freudian archetypal beauty and the beast fairy tale, as a horror movie, as the most elegant piece, on corruption in the American police force, as the loneliest woman on earth, the beauty in renaissance ..."[7] Zimmer ultimately believes it to be a dark love story, centering on two people who should never be together—a modern-day Romeo and Juliet.[7] During post-production, Scott, Zimmer and the editor passionately argued about the meaning of Starling's tear during a confrontation with Lecter. They could not agree if it was a tear of "anguish", "loneliness" or "disgust".[7] Scott told the New York Post that, the affair of the heart between Lecter and Starling is metaphorical.[39] Rolling Stone magazine said in their review, "Scott offers a sly parody of relationships—think 'When Hannibal met Sally'."[18]

Retribution and punishment

Scott has said he believed Lecter, in his own way, was "pure", whose motivation is the search for "retribution and punishment".[23] "There is something very moral about Lecter in this film," said Scott in his audio commentary. "The behaviour of Hannibal is never insane—[I] didn't want to use that excuse. Is he insane? No, I think he's as sane as you or I. He just likes it."[23] Scott did say, however, "In our normal terms, he's truly evil."[23] Scott also brings up the notion of absolution in reference to Lecter towards the film's end.[23] Verger has one overriding objective in life: to capture Lecter and subject him to a slow, painful death.[40]

Corruption

Part of the story involves the character Rinaldo Pazzi (Giancarlo Giannini), a Florentine policeman who learns "Dr. Fell's" true identity and realizes that this knowledge could make him rich. His escalating abandonment of morality allows him to countenance and facilitate the death of a Romani pickpocket, egged on by the desire to have the best for his much younger wife.[23] There is a moment in the film when Pazzi becomes corrupted, despite being what Scott describes as "very thoughtful".[23]

Release

Marketing

The first trailer appeared in theaters and was made available via the official website in early May 2000, over nine months before the film's release. As the film had only just begun production, footage was used from The Silence of the Lambs. A second trailer, which featured footage from the new film, was released in late November 2000. In marketing the film, Hopkins' portrayal of Hannibal Lecter was chosen as the unique selling point of Hannibal. "Mr Hopkins is the draw here", said Elvis Mitchell in a 2001 The New York Times article.[35] A poster released in the UK to promote Hannibal, featuring Lecter with a "skin mask" covering the right side of his face, was quickly removed from circulation as it was deemed "too shocking and disturbing for the public."[41][better source needed]

Upon its release, Hannibal was met with significant media attention,[36][42] with the film's stars and director making several appearances on television, in newspapers and in magazines.[43] In an article for CBS News, Jill Serjeant stated that "the long-awaited sequel to the grisly 1991 thriller Silence of the Lambs is cooking up the hottest Internet and media buzz since the 1999 Star Wars 'prequel'."[43] Stars Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore made the covers of a number of magazines, including Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, Premiere[42] and Empire.

Home media

Hannibal was released on VHS and DVD on August 21, 2001,[44] on Blu-ray on September 15, 2009, and on Ultra HD Blu-ray on May 7, 2019.[45]

Reception

Box office

Hannibal grossed $58 million (U.S.) in its opening weekend from 3,230 screens. At the time, this was the third-biggest debut ever behind 1997's The Lost World: Jurassic Park and 1999's Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.[46] It went on to surpass Scream 3 to have the highest debut in February.[46] That record was surpassed by The Passion of the Christ in 2004.[47] The film also had the largest opening weekend for an R-rated film, beating Scary Movie.[48] Hannibal would hold this record until it was taken by The Matrix Reloaded in 2003.[49] In October 2012, it was ranked 90th all time.[46] Final domestic box office gross (U.S.) reached $165,092,268, with a worldwide gross of $351,692,268.[3] The film spent three weeks at number one in the U.S. box office chart, and four weeks at number one in the UK, and was the year's third highest-grossing film in that country behind Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.[50] In Italy, it grossed $4.6 million in its opening weekend, setting a record for a US release, beating The Blair Witch Project.[51] It also set a record opening week in the Netherlands with $1.3 million in six days, beating Independence Day. It also had the second biggest opening in Spain with $4.1 million in 6 days.[52] Hannibal was the tenth highest-grossing film of the year worldwide,[53]. Hannibal also made over $87,000,000 in U.S. video rentals following release in August 2001.[54]

Critical response

The reviews for Hannibal were mixed.[24][46][55] On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 39% based on 171 reviews, with an average rating of 5.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "While superbly acted and stylishly filmed, Hannibal lacks the character interaction between the two leads which made the first movie so engrossing."[56] On Metacritic, the film has a rating of 57 out of 100 from 36 reviews.[5] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "C+" on scale of A to F.[57]

Time magazine wrote: "A banquet of creepy, gory or grotesque incidents is on display in Hannibal. But this superior sequel has romance in its dark heart."[citation needed] Empire magazine gave it two out of five stars, calling it "laughable to just plain boring, Hannibal is toothless to the end."[58] David Thomson, writing in the British Film Institute magazine Sight & Sound, praised the film. "It works. It's smart, good-looking, sexy, fun ... dirty, naughty and knowing."[55] Thomson does make clear he is a great fan of director Ridley Scott's work.[55] He adds: "It is, literally, that Hannibal Lecter has become such a household joke that he can't be dreadful again. It seems clear that Anthony Hopkins and Scott saw that, and planned accordingly. That's how the movie was saved."[55] Variety magazine in its review said "Hannibal is not as good as Lambs ... ultimately more shallow and crass at its heart than its predecessor, Hannibal is nevertheless tantalizing, engrossing and occasionally startling."[59]

A negative review in The Guardian claimed that what was wrong with the film was carried over from the book: "The result is an inflated, good-looking bore of a movie. The Silence of the Lambs was a marvelous thing. This, by contrast, is barely okey-dokey."[60] Roger Ebert gave the film 2.5 stars out of 4, and described Hannibal as "a carnival geek show elevated in the direction of art. It never quite gets there, but it tries with every fiber of its craft to redeem its pulp origins, and we must give it credit for the courage of its depravity", and although he was "left with admiration for Scott's craft in pulling [it] off at all, and making it watchable", and praised the Mason Verger character as "a superb joining of skill and diabolical imagination," as well as Hopkins' performance as Lecter, which he described as "fascinating every second he is on the screen", he concluded, "I cannot approve of the movie, not because of its violence, which belongs to the Grand Guignol tradition, but because the underlying story lacks the fascination of Silence of the Lambs."[61]

Differences from the novel

According to Variety magazine, the script for Hannibal was: "quite faithful to the Harris blueprint; fans of the tome may regret the perhaps necessary excision of some characters, most notably Mason Verger's muscle-bound macho sister Margot, as well as the considerable fascinating academic detail, but will basically feel the book has been respected (yes, even the climactic dinner party is served up almost intact, with the only surprise twists saved for its wake)."[59] Time Out noted: "The weight-watchers script sensibly dispenses with several characters to serve a brew that's enjoyably spicy but low on substance. So much story is squeezed into 131 minutes that little time's left for analysis or characterization."[62] Producer Dino De Laurentiis was asked why some characters, notably Jack Crawford, were left out of the film: "I think if you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters. We set ourselves a limit, and cut characters which weren't so vital."[63]

In the book, Mason Verger runs an orphanage, from which he calls children to verbally abuse as a substitute for his no longer being able to molest them. He also has a sister, Margot, whom he had raped when they were children and who is a lesbian. When she disclosed her sexual orientation to her family, their father disowned her. As she is sterile due to steroid abuse, Verger exerts some control over her by promising her a semen sample with which to impregnate her lover, who could then inherit the Verger fortune. At the book's end, Margot and Starling both help Lecter escape during a shootout between Starling and Verger's guards. Margot, at Lecter's advice, stimulates her brother to ejaculate with a rectally inserted cattle prod, and then kills him by ramming his pet moray eel down his throat.

The book's controversial ending has Lecter presenting Starling with the exhumed bones of her father, which he "brings to life" by hypnotizing Starling, allowing her to say goodbye. This forges an odd alliance between Starling and Lecter, culminating in their becoming lovers and escaping to Argentina. At the novel's end, Barney sees them at the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires.

Also gone from the film are the flashbacks to Lecter's childhood, in which he sees his younger sister, Mischa, eaten by German deserters in 1944. These flashbacks formed the basis for the 2007 film Hannibal Rising (written concurrently with the 2006 novel of the same name) which portrays Lecter as a young man.

Hopkins was asked in an interview on the subject of whether or not he believed the idea of Starling and Lecter heading off into the sunset as lovers (as happens in the book). "Yes, I did. Other people found that preposterous. I suppose there's a moral issue there. I think it would have been a very interesting thing though. I think it would have been very interesting had she gone off, because I suspected that there was that romance, attachment there, that obsession with her. I guessed that a long time ago, at the last phone call to Clarice, at the end of SotL, she said, 'Dr. Lecter, Dr. Lecter ... '."[64]

Other media

Prequels

The film was followed by two films which are prequels based on novels by Thomas Harris (although the novel of Red Dragon isn't itself a prequel as it was written before Hannibal):

In popular culture

In 2013, there was a news story from Italy where a gangster fed his rival alive to pigs. Many media stories compared this to a similar scene in Hannibal.[65][citation needed]

See also

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Notes

  1. ^ As depicted in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
  2. ^ Oldman was uncredited in the original theatrical version of the film. His name was added to the closing credits in all subsequent releases.

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hannibal, 2001, film, hannibal, 2001, psychological, horror, crime, thriller, film, directed, ridley, scott, based, 1999, novel, thomas, harris, sequel, 1991, film, silence, lambs, plot, follows, disgraced, special, agent, clarice, starling, attempts, apprehen. Hannibal is a 2001 psychological horror crime thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and based on the 1999 novel by Thomas Harris A sequel to the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs the plot follows disgraced FBI special agent Clarice Starling as she attempts to apprehend cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter before his surviving victim Mason Verger captures him Anthony Hopkins reprises his role as Lecter while Julianne Moore replaces Jodie Foster as Starling and Gary Oldman plays Verger Ray Liotta Frankie R Faison Giancarlo Giannini and Francesca Neri also star HannibalTheatrical release posterDirected byRidley ScottScreenplay byDavid Mamet Steven ZaillianBased onHannibalby Thomas HarrisProduced byDino De Laurentiis Martha De Laurentiis Ridley ScottStarringAnthony Hopkins Julianne Moore Ray Liotta Frankie R Faison Giancarlo Giannini Francesca Neri Gary OldmanCinematographyJohn MathiesonEdited byPietro ScaliaMusic byHans ZimmerProductioncompaniesUniversal Pictures Dino De Laurentiis Company Scott Free ProductionsDistributed byMetro Goldwyn Mayer United States through MGM Distribution Co 1 United International Pictures International Release date9 February 2001 2001 02 09 Running time132 minutes 2 CountriesUnited States 1 United KingdomLanguageEnglishBudget 87 million 3 Box office 351 6 million 3 Following the release of The Silence of the Lambs Harris spent several years writing a sequel novel Foster and Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme initially planned to return for the sequel but they and screenwriter Ted Tally declined because they found it too lurid Scott became attached while directing Gladiator 2000 and signed on after reading the script pitched by Dino De Laurentiis who had produced Manhunter 1986 the first Lecter film David Mamet and Steven Zaillian wrote the screenplay and principal photography commenced in May 2000 lasting sixteen weeks Hannibal was released on 9 February 2001 ten years after The Silence of the Lambs It was highly anticipated and broke box office records in the United States Australia Canada and the United Kingdom 4 and grossed 351 6 million during its theatrical run It received mixed reviews 5 critics praised the performances and visuals but deemed it inferior to The Silence of the Lambs and criticized its violence It was followed by a prequel Red Dragon in 2002 with Hopkins reprising his role as Lecter Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Development 3 1 Ridley Scott 3 2 Writing 3 3 Casting 3 3 1 Involvement of Jodie Foster 3 3 2 Julianne Moore as Clarice Starling 3 3 3 Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter 3 3 4 Gary Oldman as Mason Verger 3 3 5 Further casting 3 4 Key production crew 4 Production 4 1 Background 4 2 Filming locations 4 3 Special make up effects 4 4 Title sequence 5 Music 6 Themes 6 1 Romance 6 2 Retribution and punishment 6 3 Corruption 7 Release 7 1 Marketing 7 2 Home media 8 Reception 8 1 Box office 8 2 Critical response 9 Differences from the novel 10 Other media 10 1 Prequels 10 2 In popular culture 11 See also 12 References 13 Notes 14 External linksPlot EditA decade after tracking down serial killer Jame Gumb a FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling is blamed for a botched drug raid which resulted in the deaths of five people Starling is contacted by Mason Verger the only surviving victim of the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter who has been missing since escaping custody during the Gumb investigation A wealthy child molester Verger was paralyzed and disfigured by Lecter during a therapy session He has been pursuing an elaborate scheme to capture torture and kill Lecter ever since Using his wealth and political influence Verger has Starling reassigned to Lecter s case hoping her involvement will draw Lecter out After learning of Starling s disgrace Lecter sends her a letter A perfume expert identifies a fragrance on the letter skin cream with ingredients only available to a few shops in the world She contacts the police departments of the cities where the shops are located requesting surveillance tapes In Florence Chief Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi is investigating the disappearance of a library curator Pazzi questions Lecter who is masquerading as Dr Fell the assistant curator and caretaker Recognizing Lecter in the surveillance tape Pazzi accesses the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program database of wanted fugitives He learns of Verger s 3 million personal bounty on Lecter Seeking the bounty Pazzi ignores Starling s warnings and attempts to capture Lecter alone He recruits a pickpocket to obtain Lecter s fingerprint to show Verger as proof The pickpocket manages to get the print and gives it to Pazzi but is fatally wounded in the process when Lecter severs his femoral artery Lecter baits Pazzi into an isolated room of the Palazzo Vecchio ties him up disembowels him and hangs him from the balcony He also kills a Verger henchman and flees Verger bribes Justice Department official Paul Krendler to accuse Starling of not disclosing a note from Lecter leading to her suspension Lecter then gets Starling to come to Union Station while speaking with her through mobile phones Verger s men having trailed Starling capture and bring Lecter to Verger Verger intends to feed Lecter alive to a herd of wild boars bred for this purpose After her superiors refuse to act Starling infiltrates Verger s estate After neutralizing two guards and freeing Lecter she is shot by a third guard Lecter picks up an unconscious Starling just before the boars break through the doors devouring the two guards but ignoring Lecter Verger orders his physician Cordell Doemling to shoot Lecter At Lecter s suggestion Cordell shoves his hated boss into the pen with Lecter offering to take the blame Lecter carries Starling away while Verger is eaten alive by his own boars Lecter takes Starling to Krendler s secluded lake house and treats her wound When Krendler arrives Lecter subdues and drugs him Starling disoriented by morphine and dressed in a cocktail dress awakens to find Krendler seated at the table set for an elegant dinner Weakened by the drugs she watches in horror as Lecter opens Krendler s skull removes part of his brain sautes it and feeds it to him Starling tries to attack Lecter but he overpowers her and traps her hair in a refrigerator door He kisses her while he is distracted she handcuffs his wrist to hers Hearing the police closing in Lecter raises a cleaver over her hand Afterwards Starling surrenders to the FBI with her hands intact On a flight Lecter prepares to eat a meal he has brought himself while wearing his bandaged arm in a sling Lecter shares Krendler s cooked brain with a curious boy who was watching him eat saying it is important always to try new things Cast EditAnthony Hopkins as Dr Hannibal Lecter Dr Fell Julianne Moore as FBI Agent Clarice Starling Gary Oldman as Mason Verger b Ray Liotta as Paul Krendler Frankie R Faison as Barney Matthews Giancarlo Giannini as Chief Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi Francesca Neri as Allegra Pazzi Zeljko Ivanek as Dr Cordell Doemling David Andrews as FBI Agent Clint Pearsall Francis Guinan as FBI Assistant Director Noonan Robert Rietti as Sogliato Enrico Lo Verso as Gnocco Ivano Marescotti as Carlo Deogracias Fabrizio Gifuni as Fabrizio Marco Greco as Tommaso Hazelle Goodman as Evelda Drumgo Terry Serpico as Officer Bolton Boyd Kestner as FBI Agent Burke Peter Shaw as FBI Agent John Brigham James Opher as DEA Agent Eldridge Don McManus as Benny Holcombe Danielle de Niese as Beatrice in Vide Cor Meum Mark Margolis and Ajay Naidu as Perfume Experts Bruce MacVittie as FBI Tech with Lecter s LetterDevelopment EditThe Silence of the Lambs based on the 1988 novel by Thomas Harris was released in 1991 to critical and commercial success winning five Academy Awards 6 Harris spent several years writing a sequel novel Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme expressed interest in developing a film adaptation when the novel was complete 7 The film rights to the Lecter character were owned by producer couple Dino De Laurentiis and Martha De Laurentiis After producing the first Lecter film Manhunter in 1986 they allowed Orion Pictures to produce The Silence of Lambs free without their involvement When The Silence of the Lambs became a success the couple became eager for a new Lecter novel they could adapt After a lengthy wait De Laurentiis received a call from Harris telling him he had finished the novel and De Laurentiis purchased the rights for a record 10 million 8 In April 1999 the Los Angeles Times reported that the budget for an adaptation of Hannibal could cost as much as 100 million It speculated that both Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins would receive 15 million each to reprise their roles and that Demme would receive 5 million to 19 million Mort Janklow Harris s agent at the time told the Los Angeles Times that Foster Hopkins and Demme would soon receive manuscripts of the novel claiming it would make an unbelievable film 9 The novel sold out of its initial 1 6 million print run in the 1999 10 and went on to sell millions of copies 11 Demme declined the invitation to direct 7 as he reportedly found the material lurid 12 and too gory 13 In the 2010 Biography Channel documentary Inside Story The Silence of the Lambs Demme said Tom Harris as unpredictable as ever took Clarice and Dr Lecter s relationship in a direction that just didn t compute for me And Clarice is drugged up and she s eating brains with him and I just thought I can t do this 14 De Laurentiis said of Demme s decision to decline When the pope dies we create a new pope Good luck to Jonathan Demme Good bye 8 He later said that Demme felt he could not make a sequel as good as The Silence of the Lambs 15 Ridley Scott Edit De Laurentiis visited Ridley Scott on the set of Gladiator and suggested he direct Hannibal 15 Scott who was conducting principal photography on Gladiator thought De Laurentiis was speaking about the Carthaginian general and replied Dino I m doing a Roman epic right now I don t wanna do elephants coming over the Alps next old boy 7 Scott read the manuscript in four sittings within a week seeing it as a symphony and expressed his desire to direct 7 He said I haven t read anything so fast since The Godfather It was so rich in all kinds of ways 10 Scott had reservations with the ending of the novel in which Lecter and Starling become lovers I couldn t take that quantum leap emotionally on behalf of Starling Certainly on behalf of Hannibal I m sure that s been in the back of his mind for a number of years But for Starling no I think one of the attractions about Starling to Hannibal is what a straight arrow she is 10 He also did not find the book believable after the opera scene which became like a vampire movie Harris gave Scott permission to change the ending 10 Writing Edit Ted Tally screenwriter for The Silence of the Lambs was another key member of the Silence of the Lambs team to decline involvement Tally like Demme had problems with the novel s excesses 12 David Mamet was the first screenwriter to produce a draft which according to Scott and the producers needed major revisions 8 Stacey Snider co chairman of Universal Pictures said There s no way David was going to read 15 pages of our notes and then be available to work on the script day to day 16 A script review at ScreenwritersUtopia com describes the Mamet draft as stunningly bad but found Zaillian s rewrite gripping entertainment 17 Scott praised Mamet as fast and efficient but said he passed on his draft because it needed work and he feared Mamet who was soon directing his own film 8 would be too busy to redraft it 10 Steven Zaillian writer of Schindler s List initially declined to write Hannibal saying he was busy and that you can almost never win when you do a sequel 8 He changed his mind as it s hard to say no to Dino once and it s almost impossible to say no to him twice 8 Scott said there were very few rewrites once I brought in Steve Zaillian If you were to ask who were the best three screenwriters in the business Steve Zaillian would be one of them We discussed Hannibal endlessly 10 One of Zaillian s key objectives was to revise Mamet s script until it pleased all parties meaning that the love story would be told by suggestion instead of by assault 18 Scott worked through the script with Zaillian for 28 days making him sweat through it with him and discuss every inch of the way with him After 25 days Scott realized that Zaillian was exorcising the 600 pages of the book He was distilling through discussion what he was gonna finally do Frankly I could have just made it 7 Casting Edit It was unclear if Jodie Foster Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins Hannibal Lecter would reprise their respective roles for which they won Academy Awards in The Silence of the Lambs Best Actress Best Actor Both Hopkins and Foster had expressed interest 9 It became apparent that the producers and the studio could do without one of the original stars and would go on to find a replacement The withdrawal of both Foster and Hopkins could possibly have been terminal for the project however De Laurentiis confirmed this after the film s release First and foremost I knew we had no movie without Anthony Hopkins 15 Involvement of Jodie Foster Edit Foster told Larry King in 1997 that she would definitely be part of a sequel to The Silence of the Lambs 10 In the same year she told Entertainment Weekly Anthony Hopkins always talks about it I mean everybody wants to do it Every time I see him it s like When is it going to happen When is it going to happen 19 De Laurentiis thought Foster would decline once she read the book and believed the final film was better for it 7 Hopkins also had doubts Foster would be involved saying he had a hunch she would not be 7 Foster confirmed that she had turned down the film in December 1999 20 This caused problems for Universal and production partner Metro Goldwyn Mayer 8 19 The studio is just back from the holiday and is regrouping based on the news and has no cohesive game plan at the moment said Kevin Misher Universal s President of Production 8 Misher added that It was one of those moments when you sit down and think Can Clarice be looked upon as James Bond for instance A character who is replaceable Or was Jodie Foster Clarice Starling and the audience will not accept anyone else 8 Foster said in December 1999 that the characterization of Starling in Hannibal had negative attributes and betrayed the original character 20 Foster s spokeswoman said she declined because Claire Danes had become available for Foster s film Flora Plum 21 Entertainment Weekly described the Hannibal project as having become a bloody mess hemorrhaging talent and money despite Hopkins being on board 19 In 2005 after the film had been released Foster told Total Film The official reason I didn t do Hannibal is I was doing another movie Flora Plum So I get to say in a nice dignified way that I wasn t available when that movie was being shot Clarice meant so much to Jonathan and I she really did and I know it sounds kind of strange to say but there was no way that either of us could really trample on her 22 Julianne Moore as Clarice Starling Edit When it became clear that Foster would skip Hannibal the production team considered several different actresses 7 including Cate Blanchett Angelina Jolie Gillian Anderson Hilary Swank Ashley Judd Helen Hunt and Julianne Moore 8 Hopkins asked his agent if he had any power over casting He informed De Laurentiis that he knew Moore with whom he had worked on Surviving Picasso and thought her a terrific actress 7 Although Hopkins agent told him he had no contractual influence on casting Scott thought it correct to discuss who would be Hopkins leading lady 7 Scott said he was really surprised to find that he had five of the top actresses in Hollywood wanting it 10 Scott said his decision was swayed in favor of Moore She is a true chameleon She can be a lunatic in Magnolia a vamp in An Ideal Husband a porn star in Boogie Nights and a romantic in The End of the Affair 10 Julianne Moore once Jodie decided to pass was always top of my list said Scott on his female lead 23 Moore talked about stepping into a role made famous by another actress The new Clarice would be very different Of course people are going to compare my interpretation with that of Jodie Foster s but this film is going to be very different 24 Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter Edit Hannibal Lecter t shirt worn by Hopkins in Hannibal on display at the London Film Museum Hopkins was generally expected to reprise his Academy Award winning role Hopkins said in June 1999 that he would only be interested if the script was really good citation needed 25 better source needed Hopkins said he could not make up his mind to commit I was kind of surprised by this book Hannibal I thought it was really overreaching and so bizarre So I couldn t make up my mind about it all Some of it I found intriguing some I was a little doubtful about 7 When the producers confirmed that they were going to film Harris novel Hopkins told them yes but added It needs some condensing 7 The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Hopkins had agreed to reprise his role in late December 1999 saying he had approved the latest draft of the script 26 Hopkins said he had no difficulty moving back into Lecter s mind I just learned the lines and showed up and walked around as Hannibal Lecter I thought Do I repeat that same performance or do I vary it Ten years had passed so I changed a bit 8 In the book Lecter uses bandages to disguise himself as a plastic surgery patient This was left out of the film because Scott and Hopkins agreed to leave the face alone 27 Hopkins said It s as if he s making a statement catch me if you can With his big hat he s so obvious that nobody thinks he s Hannibal Lecter I ve always thought he s a very elegant man a Renaissance man 27 In the film Lecter is first seen in Florence as the classical Lecter lecturing and being smooth according to Hopkins 28 When the film moves to the US Hopkins changed his appearance by building up muscle and cropping his hair short to make him like a mercenary that he would be so fit and so strong that he could just snap somebody in two if they got in his way 28 Gary Oldman as Mason Verger Edit The part of Mason Verger one of Lecter s two surviving victims was originally offered to Christopher Reeve based on his work as a police officer who uses a wheelchair in Above Suspicion 1995 Not having read the novel Reeve showed initial interest in the role but ultimately declined upon realizing that Verger was a quadriplegic facially disfigured child rapist 29 30 The part was later accepted by secondary choice Gary Oldman Co producer Martha De Laurentiis claimed they had a funny situation with Oldman wanting a prominent credit She said Now how can you have a prominent credit with Hannibal The characters are Hannibal and Clarice Starling So we really couldn t work something out at first Oldman was apparently out of the film for a while but then came back in asking to go unbilled Oldman would become transformed and unrecognizable as himself to play the part of Verger He would have no lips cheeks or eyelids Make up artist Greg Cannom said It s really disgusting I ve been showing people pictures of Oldman as Verger and they all just say Oh my God and walk away which makes me very happy 8 Oldman said that having his name completely removed from the billing and credits allowed him to do it anonymously under the heavy make up 31 Further casting Edit Other stars subsequently cast included Ray Liotta as U S Justice Department official Paul Krendler the character had appeared in The Silence of the Lambs but original actor Ron Vawter had died in the interim and Italian actor Giancarlo Giannini as Detective Rinaldo Pazzi Francesca Neri played Pazzi s wife Allegra Frankie Faison reprised his role as orderly Barney Matthews remaining the only actor to play a role in all Lecter feature films until Hannibal Rising in 2007 including Manhunter Key production crew Edit Scott recruited key production crew whom he had worked with previously Production designer Norris Spencer had worked on Thelma amp Louise Black Rain and 1492 Conquest of Paradise Cinematographer John Mathieson editor Pietro Scalia and composer Hans Zimmer had all worked on Scott s previous film Gladiator 32 Production EditBackground Edit Hannibal was filmed in 83 working days over 16 weeks 33 The film began production on 8 May 2000 in Florence Italy 33 The film visited key locations in Florence and various locations around the United States 32 Martha De Laurentiis said the film has almost a hundred locations and that it was a constant pain of moving and dressing sets But the locations were beautiful Who could complain about being allowed to shoot in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence Or President James Madison s farm in Montpelier or the amazing Biltmore Estate in Asheville 32 Eighty million dollars and a year and a half in production were spent before Scott got his first look at Hannibal in the editing room 34 Filming locations Edit The whole second act of Hannibal takes place in Florence Ridley Scott had never filmed there before but described it as quite an experience It was kind of organized chaos We were there at the height of tourist season 32 Within Florence the production would visit various locations such as the Palazzo Capponi as Dr Fell s workplace the Ponte Vecchio the Palazzo Vecchio the Pharmacy of Santa Maria Novella and the Cathedral 32 After leaving Italy on 5 June 2000 the production moved to Washington D C Filming took place over six days at Union Station 32 The unusual sight of a carousel would appear in the transportation hub and shopping plaza at Ridley Scott s request 32 Filming would last for seven weeks in Richmond Virginia 32 for the shootout in a crowded fish market shot at Richmond Farmer s Market early in the film Julianne Moore underwent FBI training at the Bureau s headquarters before filming 32 A barn in Orange Virginia situated on the estate of President James Madison was used to house 15 performing hogs 32 The 15 Russian boars used in the shoot were from a selection of around 6 000 that the animal wranglers observed 32 Biltmore Estate in Asheville North Carolina the biggest privately owned estate in the US was chosen to signify the huge personal wealth of Mason Verger 7 Special make up effects Edit Make up artist Greg Cannom was pleased to be involved in Hannibal as it offered him the chance to produce incredible and original make ups 7 For Mason Verger the make up team would initially produce 20 different heads which looked like zombies and did not reflect the vision Scott had of the character Scott wanted Verger to look real with hideous scarring and not something from the House of Wax 7 Scott himself would actually call up the help of expert doctors in an effort to get the look of the character as realistic as possible 7 Scott showed the make up team pictures of foetal things which he thought touching he wanted to make Mason Verger more touching than monstrous as he thought of Verger as being someone who hadn t lost his sense of humour almost sympathetic 7 Oldman would spend six hours a day in make up to prepare for the role 7 For one of the film s final and infamous scenes an exact duplicate was created of the character Paul Krendler played by Ray Liotta a scene which blended make up puppet work and CGI in a way which Scott called seamless 7 Title sequence Edit The main titles were designed by Nick Livesey a graduate of the Royal College of Art who worked for one of Scott s production companies in London The sequence shot in Florence by Livesey himself was intended as the film s second promotional trailer 7 The studio thought it not quite right but it remained on Scott s mind and would eventually end up as the main title sequence 7 Livesey would gather footage of pigeons in an empty square in Florence early one morning which in the final cut would morph into the face of Hannibal Lecter 7 Scott believed it a good idea as it fundamentally asked the question Where is Hannibal Lecter Scott explains And of course this story tells it with pigeons in the cobblestones of somewhere where you wonder where that is and there he is his face appears 7 The titles are said to have been influenced by the film Seven 35 Music EditRidley Scott worked very closely with composer Hans Zimmer during post production on Hannibal 7 Scott believes the music to a film is as important as dialogue It is the final adjustment to the screenplay being able to also adjust the performance of the actors in fact 7 Zimmer and Scott sat in during the editing process with editor Pietro Scalia to discuss scenes in the film and not music 7 Zimmer used a symphony orchestra for the opera sequence but would mostly use what he described as a very odd orchestra only cellos and basses all playing at the extreme ends of their range This was done to emphasise the character of Lecter He explains Anthony s character is for me somebody at the extreme range of whatever is humanly imaginable somehow Zimmer also did not want the score to sound like a modern day orchestra 7 The character Mason Verger had his own theme which become more perverted as the film progressed according to Zimmer 7 Dante s sonnet was put to music by Zimmer and Patrick Cassidy titled Vide cor Meum for the opera scene in Florence 36 Tracksounds com wrote positively of Zimmer s score Zimmer truly crafts a score worthy of most fans full attention the classical elements and yes even the monologue combine to make this an intense listening experience 37 In a poll by British Classic FM listeners to find the greatest film soundtrack of all time Hannibal ranked at No 59 38 Strauss s The Blue Danube is also played at several points in the film Themes EditRomance Edit Scott has said he believes the underlying emotion of Hannibal is affection In some instances you might even wonder or certainly from one direction is it more than affection It is dark because the story is of course essentially dark but it s kind of romantic at the same time 7 Scott openly admits to a romantic thematic running through the film 7 He told CNN that Hannibal was quite a different target essentially a study between two individuals Funny enough it s rather romantic and also quite humorous but also there s some quite bad behaviour as well 11 During the opera scene in Florence Lecter attends an operatic adaptation of one of Dante s sonnets and meets with Detective Pazzi and his wife Allegra She asks Lecter Do you believe a man could become so obsessed by a woman after a single encounter Lecter replies Yes I believe he could but would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him This scene in the film is one which Scott claims most people missed the meaning of It was in reference to Starling to their encounter in The Silence of the Lambs 23 The New York Times in its review of the film said Hannibal toys with the idea of love that dare not speak its name 35 Composer Hans Zimmer believed there were messages and subtext in each scene 7 He said I can score this movie truly as a Freudian archetypal beauty and the beast fairy tale as a horror movie as the most elegant piece on corruption in the American police force as the loneliest woman on earth the beauty in renaissance 7 Zimmer ultimately believes it to be a dark love story centering on two people who should never be together a modern day Romeo and Juliet 7 During post production Scott Zimmer and the editor passionately argued about the meaning of Starling s tear during a confrontation with Lecter They could not agree if it was a tear of anguish loneliness or disgust 7 Scott told the New York Post that the affair of the heart between Lecter and Starling is metaphorical 39 Rolling Stone magazine said in their review Scott offers a sly parody of relationships think When Hannibal met Sally 18 Retribution and punishment Edit Scott has said he believed Lecter in his own way was pure whose motivation is the search for retribution and punishment 23 There is something very moral about Lecter in this film said Scott in his audio commentary The behaviour of Hannibal is never insane I didn t want to use that excuse Is he insane No I think he s as sane as you or I He just likes it 23 Scott did say however In our normal terms he s truly evil 23 Scott also brings up the notion of absolution in reference to Lecter towards the film s end 23 Verger has one overriding objective in life to capture Lecter and subject him to a slow painful death 40 Corruption Edit Part of the story involves the character Rinaldo Pazzi Giancarlo Giannini a Florentine policeman who learns Dr Fell s true identity and realizes that this knowledge could make him rich His escalating abandonment of morality allows him to countenance and facilitate the death of a Romani pickpocket egged on by the desire to have the best for his much younger wife 23 There is a moment in the film when Pazzi becomes corrupted despite being what Scott describes as very thoughtful 23 Release EditMarketing Edit The first trailer appeared in theaters and was made available via the official website in early May 2000 over nine months before the film s release As the film had only just begun production footage was used from The Silence of the Lambs A second trailer which featured footage from the new film was released in late November 2000 In marketing the film Hopkins portrayal of Hannibal Lecter was chosen as the unique selling point of Hannibal Mr Hopkins is the draw here said Elvis Mitchell in a 2001 The New York Times article 35 A poster released in the UK to promote Hannibal featuring Lecter with a skin mask covering the right side of his face was quickly removed from circulation as it was deemed too shocking and disturbing for the public 41 better source needed Upon its release Hannibal was met with significant media attention 36 42 with the film s stars and director making several appearances on television in newspapers and in magazines 43 In an article for CBS News Jill Serjeant stated that the long awaited sequel to the grisly 1991 thriller Silence of the Lambs is cooking up the hottest Internet and media buzz since the 1999 Star Wars prequel 43 Stars Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore made the covers of a number of magazines including Vanity Fair Entertainment Weekly Premiere 42 and Empire Home media Edit This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed February 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message Hannibal was released on VHS and DVD on August 21 2001 44 on Blu ray on September 15 2009 and on Ultra HD Blu ray on May 7 2019 45 Reception EditBox office Edit Hannibal grossed 58 million U S in its opening weekend from 3 230 screens At the time this was the third biggest debut ever behind 1997 s The Lost World Jurassic Park and 1999 s Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace 46 It went on to surpass Scream 3 to have the highest debut in February 46 That record was surpassed by The Passion of the Christ in 2004 47 The film also had the largest opening weekend for an R rated film beating Scary Movie 48 Hannibal would hold this record until it was taken by The Matrix Reloaded in 2003 49 In October 2012 it was ranked 90th all time 46 Final domestic box office gross U S reached 165 092 268 with a worldwide gross of 351 692 268 3 The film spent three weeks at number one in the U S box office chart and four weeks at number one in the UK and was the year s third highest grossing film in that country behind Lara Croft Tomb Raider and Harry Potter and the Philosopher s Stone 50 In Italy it grossed 4 6 million in its opening weekend setting a record for a US release beating The Blair Witch Project 51 It also set a record opening week in the Netherlands with 1 3 million in six days beating Independence Day It also had the second biggest opening in Spain with 4 1 million in 6 days 52 Hannibal was the tenth highest grossing film of the year worldwide 53 Hannibal also made over 87 000 000 in U S video rentals following release in August 2001 54 Critical response Edit The reviews for Hannibal were mixed 24 46 55 On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 39 based on 171 reviews with an average rating of 5 1 10 The website s critical consensus reads While superbly acted and stylishly filmed Hannibal lacks the character interaction between the two leads which made the first movie so engrossing 56 On Metacritic the film has a rating of 57 out of 100 from 36 reviews 5 Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade C on scale of A to F 57 Time magazine wrote A banquet of creepy gory or grotesque incidents is on display in Hannibal But this superior sequel has romance in its dark heart citation needed Empire magazine gave it two out of five stars calling it laughable to just plain boring Hannibal is toothless to the end 58 David Thomson writing in the British Film Institute magazine Sight amp Sound praised the film It works It s smart good looking sexy fun dirty naughty and knowing 55 Thomson does make clear he is a great fan of director Ridley Scott s work 55 He adds It is literally that Hannibal Lecter has become such a household joke that he can t be dreadful again It seems clear that Anthony Hopkins and Scott saw that and planned accordingly That s how the movie was saved 55 Variety magazine in its review said Hannibal is not as good as Lambs ultimately more shallow and crass at its heart than its predecessor Hannibal is nevertheless tantalizing engrossing and occasionally startling 59 A negative review in The Guardian claimed that what was wrong with the film was carried over from the book The result is an inflated good looking bore of a movie The Silence of the Lambs was a marvelous thing This by contrast is barely okey dokey 60 Roger Ebert gave the film 2 5 stars out of 4 and described Hannibal as a carnival geek show elevated in the direction of art It never quite gets there but it tries with every fiber of its craft to redeem its pulp origins and we must give it credit for the courage of its depravity and although he was left with admiration for Scott s craft in pulling it off at all and making it watchable and praised the Mason Verger character as a superb joining of skill and diabolical imagination as well as Hopkins performance as Lecter which he described as fascinating every second he is on the screen he concluded I cannot approve of the movie not because of its violence which belongs to the Grand Guignol tradition but because the underlying story lacks the fascination of Silence of the Lambs 61 Differences from the novel EditAccording to Variety magazine the script for Hannibal was quite faithful to the Harris blueprint fans of the tome may regret the perhaps necessary excision of some characters most notably Mason Verger s muscle bound macho sister Margot as well as the considerable fascinating academic detail but will basically feel the book has been respected yes even the climactic dinner party is served up almost intact with the only surprise twists saved for its wake 59 Time Out noted The weight watchers script sensibly dispenses with several characters to serve a brew that s enjoyably spicy but low on substance So much story is squeezed into 131 minutes that little time s left for analysis or characterization 62 Producer Dino De Laurentiis was asked why some characters notably Jack Crawford were left out of the film I think if you get a book which is 600 pages you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages In two hours of film you cannot possibly include all the characters We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren t so vital 63 In the book Mason Verger runs an orphanage from which he calls children to verbally abuse as a substitute for his no longer being able to molest them He also has a sister Margot whom he had raped when they were children and who is a lesbian When she disclosed her sexual orientation to her family their father disowned her As she is sterile due to steroid abuse Verger exerts some control over her by promising her a semen sample with which to impregnate her lover who could then inherit the Verger fortune At the book s end Margot and Starling both help Lecter escape during a shootout between Starling and Verger s guards Margot at Lecter s advice stimulates her brother to ejaculate with a rectally inserted cattle prod and then kills him by ramming his pet moray eel down his throat The book s controversial ending has Lecter presenting Starling with the exhumed bones of her father which he brings to life by hypnotizing Starling allowing her to say goodbye This forges an odd alliance between Starling and Lecter culminating in their becoming lovers and escaping to Argentina At the novel s end Barney sees them at the Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires Also gone from the film are the flashbacks to Lecter s childhood in which he sees his younger sister Mischa eaten by German deserters in 1944 These flashbacks formed the basis for the 2007 film Hannibal Rising written concurrently with the 2006 novel of the same name which portrays Lecter as a young man Hopkins was asked in an interview on the subject of whether or not he believed the idea of Starling and Lecter heading off into the sunset as lovers as happens in the book Yes I did Other people found that preposterous I suppose there s a moral issue there I think it would have been a very interesting thing though I think it would have been very interesting had she gone off because I suspected that there was that romance attachment there that obsession with her I guessed that a long time ago at the last phone call to Clarice at the end of SotL she said Dr Lecter Dr Lecter 64 Other media EditPrequels Edit The film was followed by two films which are prequels based on novels by Thomas Harris although the novel of Red Dragon isn t itself a prequel as it was written before Hannibal Red Dragon 2002 Hannibal Rising 2007 In popular culture Edit In 2013 there was a news story from Italy where a gangster fed his rival alive to pigs Many media stories compared this to a similar scene in Hannibal 65 citation needed See also Edit Film portal Vide Cor Meum the song from the opera in FlorenceReferences Edit a b Hannibal AFI Catalog Hannibal 18 British Board of Film Classification 1 February 2001 Retrieved 5 October 2016 a b c Hannibal 2001 Box Office Mojo Retrieved 6 March 2009 Taste of success The Independent London 20 February 2001 Archived from the original on 30 September 2007 Retrieved 9 March 2007 a b Hannibal Reviews Metacritic CBS Interactive Retrieved 6 March 2018 Collins Jim 1992 Film Theory Goes to the Movies 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