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Hannibal Rising
Hannibalrisingcover.jpg
First edition cover

Author
Thomas Harris
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Hannibal Lecter
Genre
Thriller, Gothic, Psychological Thriller
Publisher
Delacorte Press

Publication date
 5 December 2006
Media type
Print (Hardback)
Pages
323
ISBN
0-385-33941-0
OCLC
82287375
Preceded by
Hannibal
Hannibal Rising is a novel written by Thomas Harris, published in 2006. It is a prequel to his three previous books featuring his most famous character, the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. It is Harris' fifth and most recent novel. The novel was released with an initial printing of at least 1.5 million copies[1] and met with a mixed critical response. Audiobook versions have also been released, with Harris reading the text. The novel was adapted (by Harris himself) into a film of the same name in 2007, directed by Peter Webber.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis
2 Development
3 References
4 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Opening in Lithuania during 1941, Hannibal Lecter is eight years old and living in Lecter Castle with his parents and sister, Mischa. With the castle located near the eastern front of World War II, the Lecter family escapes to their hunting lodge to elude the advancing German troops. With the castle abandoned, it is soon raided by Nazis and civilians aiding them, their hidden art collection among the stolen loot. Three years later, a retreating Soviet tank stops at the Lecter family's lodge looking for water, only to be bombed by German Stuka, the explosion killing all but the children. Surviving in the lodge, Hannibal and Mischa are captured when five deserters appear: Grutas, Milko, Grentz, Dortlich, and Kolnas. Storming and looting the lodge, they lock the Lecters in the barn. Running low on supplies, the soldiers soon take Mischa; realizing they intend to cannibalize her, Hannibal tries to stop them, only to have his arm broken before he blacks out.
Hannibal is later spotted by a Soviet tank crew, wearing shackles and rendered mute. Returned to Lecter Castle, now a Soviet orphanage, Hannibal is found to be irreparably traumatized by the ordeal. Removed from the orphanage by his uncle Robert Lecter, Hannibal goes to live with him in France with his aunt, Lady Murasaki. Visiting a marketplace with his aunt, Lecter assaults butcher Paul Momund when he insults Murasaki. Count Lecter, learning of the slight against his wife, violently confronts the butcher and collapses and subsequently dies from a heart attack. Losing most of the Count's estate to death duties, Lecter and Murasaki move across France, and Lecter flourishes as a medical student, assisting by preparing cadavers for lessons.
Locating Momund the butcher, Lecter murders him for his actions, eviscerating and beheading him before eating his cheeks. Suspected by Inspector Popil, Lecter escapes suspicion when Murasaki falsifies evidence, suggesting Momund's death was political. Using sodium thiopental to recall the lodge, Lecter remembers Mischa's murder and her killer's faces, and that the lodge was shelled; the building burning and soldiers fleeing, Lecter was freed by Kolnas, who was then crushed by falling debris. Working with Popil to recover his family's stolen art, Lecter attends a recovered art exhibition with Murasaki, and speaks with one of Grutas' men selling the art. Afraid he will uncover their identities, Grutas sends Dortlich to murder him.
Returning to the dilapidated lodge, Lecter searches the ruins and finds a bag of buried loot, which also contains the hidden dogtags of his captors. Attacked by Dortlich, Lecter strikes him with his shovel, and ties him to a tree stump. Noosed to a horse, Dortlich confirms Grentz relocated to Canada, and that Kolnas owns a restaurant in Fontainebleau; despite his pleas, Lecter uses the horse to tear off Dortlich's head. Returning to France, Lecter is kissed by Murasaki, who insists he promises to stop killing and co-operate with Popil; Lecter responds that he already promised revenge for Mischa, and leaves. Lecter continues his studies only to be stalked during his night-shift by Milko. Outwitting Milko and drugging him, Lecter interrogates him for information on Grutas, before drowning him in an embalming tank and incinerating his remains.
Eating at Kolnas' restaurant, Lecter notices his daughter is wearing Mischa's stolen bracelet. Entering Grutas' property, Hannibal sets an improvised bomb and confronts him as he bathes, only to be interrupted by Grutas' guards. About to be killed, Lecter's bomb detonates and cuts the power, allowing him to wound the guards and escape in the chaos. Returning to Murasaki's home, Lecter receives a call from Grutas, who threatens to kill her unless he surrenders; overhearing ortolans singing in the call, Lecter breaks into Kolnas' home, and then heads to his restaurant. Lecter shows he took Mischa's bracelet from his daughter and, in exchange for information, offers to spare Kolnas and free his family. Giving up the location of Grutas' houseboat, Kolnas then realizes Lecter was lying about holding his family. Attacked by Kolnas, Lecter fatally stabs him through the head with a tantō.
Finding and reaching the boat, Lecter sneaks aboard but is wounded by the captain. Killing the guards and captain, Lecter rushes to save Murasaki, only to be shot in the back by Grutas, who boasts whilst molesting a bound Murasaki. Lecter removes his tantō, dimpled by Grutas' bullet, and uses it to cut Grutas' hamstring. With Grutas disarmed, Murasaki begs Lecter spare him for Popil, only for Grutas to mock him. Taunting that Lecter drank broth made from Mischa, he suggests Lecter kills only to continue lying to himself; enraged, Lecter carves several "M"s into Grutas, fatally wounding him. Horrified by Lecter, Murasaki declares there's nothing human left inside him to love, and dives overboard. Detonating the houseboat with an improvised explosive, Lecter flees the scene.
Arrested by Popil, Lecter is soon freed when popular support for his dispatch of war criminals combines with a lack of hard evidence. Lecter meets with Murasaki, and they say their goodbyes and part. Offered a residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, Lecter heads overseas to North America, stopping briefly to visit bar-owner Grentz in Quebec, Canada.
Development[edit]
The February 22, 2007 issue of Entertainment Weekly features a quote that suggests that the only reason Thomas Harris wrote the story was out of the fear that a Lecter prequel/origin story would inevitably be written without his involvement. Hannibal Rising film producer Dino De Laurentiis said "I say to Thomas, 'If you don't do [the prequel], I will do it with someone else... I don't want to lose this franchise. And the audience wants it...' He said, 'No. I'm sorry.' And I said, 'I will do it with somebody else.' And then he said, 'Let me think about it. I will come up with an idea.'"[2]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ AP (2006-09-19). "New Hannibal Lecter novel due in December". CNN. Archived from the original on 2006-09-20. Retrieved 2006-09-19.
2.Jump up ^ Fierman, Daniel (2007-02-16). "Lecter Loses His Bite". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has quotations related to: Hannibal Rising
Hannibal Rising at IMDb
Official Dino De Laurentiis Company website
Official Thomas Harris website
Official Hannibal Rising website
Hannibal Rising Reviews at Metacritic
Official Hannibal Rising MySpace site
The Hannibal Lecter Studiolo


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Novels
Red Dragon (1981) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1988) ·
 Hannibal (1999) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2006)
 

Films
Manhunter (1986) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) ·
 Hannibal (2001) ·
 Red Dragon (2002) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2007)
 

Television
Hannibal (2013–present) ·
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Hannibal Rising
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This article is about the novel. For the film, see Hannibal Rising (film).
Hannibal Rising
Hannibalrisingcover.jpg
First edition cover

Author
Thomas Harris
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Hannibal Lecter
Genre
Thriller, Gothic, Psychological Thriller
Publisher
Delacorte Press

Publication date
 5 December 2006
Media type
Print (Hardback)
Pages
323
ISBN
0-385-33941-0
OCLC
82287375
Preceded by
Hannibal
Hannibal Rising is a novel written by Thomas Harris, published in 2006. It is a prequel to his three previous books featuring his most famous character, the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. It is Harris' fifth and most recent novel. The novel was released with an initial printing of at least 1.5 million copies[1] and met with a mixed critical response. Audiobook versions have also been released, with Harris reading the text. The novel was adapted (by Harris himself) into a film of the same name in 2007, directed by Peter Webber.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis
2 Development
3 References
4 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Opening in Lithuania during 1941, Hannibal Lecter is eight years old and living in Lecter Castle with his parents and sister, Mischa. With the castle located near the eastern front of World War II, the Lecter family escapes to their hunting lodge to elude the advancing German troops. With the castle abandoned, it is soon raided by Nazis and civilians aiding them, their hidden art collection among the stolen loot. Three years later, a retreating Soviet tank stops at the Lecter family's lodge looking for water, only to be bombed by German Stuka, the explosion killing all but the children. Surviving in the lodge, Hannibal and Mischa are captured when five deserters appear: Grutas, Milko, Grentz, Dortlich, and Kolnas. Storming and looting the lodge, they lock the Lecters in the barn. Running low on supplies, the soldiers soon take Mischa; realizing they intend to cannibalize her, Hannibal tries to stop them, only to have his arm broken before he blacks out.
Hannibal is later spotted by a Soviet tank crew, wearing shackles and rendered mute. Returned to Lecter Castle, now a Soviet orphanage, Hannibal is found to be irreparably traumatized by the ordeal. Removed from the orphanage by his uncle Robert Lecter, Hannibal goes to live with him in France with his aunt, Lady Murasaki. Visiting a marketplace with his aunt, Lecter assaults butcher Paul Momund when he insults Murasaki. Count Lecter, learning of the slight against his wife, violently confronts the butcher and collapses and subsequently dies from a heart attack. Losing most of the Count's estate to death duties, Lecter and Murasaki move across France, and Lecter flourishes as a medical student, assisting by preparing cadavers for lessons.
Locating Momund the butcher, Lecter murders him for his actions, eviscerating and beheading him before eating his cheeks. Suspected by Inspector Popil, Lecter escapes suspicion when Murasaki falsifies evidence, suggesting Momund's death was political. Using sodium thiopental to recall the lodge, Lecter remembers Mischa's murder and her killer's faces, and that the lodge was shelled; the building burning and soldiers fleeing, Lecter was freed by Kolnas, who was then crushed by falling debris. Working with Popil to recover his family's stolen art, Lecter attends a recovered art exhibition with Murasaki, and speaks with one of Grutas' men selling the art. Afraid he will uncover their identities, Grutas sends Dortlich to murder him.
Returning to the dilapidated lodge, Lecter searches the ruins and finds a bag of buried loot, which also contains the hidden dogtags of his captors. Attacked by Dortlich, Lecter strikes him with his shovel, and ties him to a tree stump. Noosed to a horse, Dortlich confirms Grentz relocated to Canada, and that Kolnas owns a restaurant in Fontainebleau; despite his pleas, Lecter uses the horse to tear off Dortlich's head. Returning to France, Lecter is kissed by Murasaki, who insists he promises to stop killing and co-operate with Popil; Lecter responds that he already promised revenge for Mischa, and leaves. Lecter continues his studies only to be stalked during his night-shift by Milko. Outwitting Milko and drugging him, Lecter interrogates him for information on Grutas, before drowning him in an embalming tank and incinerating his remains.
Eating at Kolnas' restaurant, Lecter notices his daughter is wearing Mischa's stolen bracelet. Entering Grutas' property, Hannibal sets an improvised bomb and confronts him as he bathes, only to be interrupted by Grutas' guards. About to be killed, Lecter's bomb detonates and cuts the power, allowing him to wound the guards and escape in the chaos. Returning to Murasaki's home, Lecter receives a call from Grutas, who threatens to kill her unless he surrenders; overhearing ortolans singing in the call, Lecter breaks into Kolnas' home, and then heads to his restaurant. Lecter shows he took Mischa's bracelet from his daughter and, in exchange for information, offers to spare Kolnas and free his family. Giving up the location of Grutas' houseboat, Kolnas then realizes Lecter was lying about holding his family. Attacked by Kolnas, Lecter fatally stabs him through the head with a tantō.
Finding and reaching the boat, Lecter sneaks aboard but is wounded by the captain. Killing the guards and captain, Lecter rushes to save Murasaki, only to be shot in the back by Grutas, who boasts whilst molesting a bound Murasaki. Lecter removes his tantō, dimpled by Grutas' bullet, and uses it to cut Grutas' hamstring. With Grutas disarmed, Murasaki begs Lecter spare him for Popil, only for Grutas to mock him. Taunting that Lecter drank broth made from Mischa, he suggests Lecter kills only to continue lying to himself; enraged, Lecter carves several "M"s into Grutas, fatally wounding him. Horrified by Lecter, Murasaki declares there's nothing human left inside him to love, and dives overboard. Detonating the houseboat with an improvised explosive, Lecter flees the scene.
Arrested by Popil, Lecter is soon freed when popular support for his dispatch of war criminals combines with a lack of hard evidence. Lecter meets with Murasaki, and they say their goodbyes and part. Offered a residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, Lecter heads overseas to North America, stopping briefly to visit bar-owner Grentz in Quebec, Canada.
Development[edit]
The February 22, 2007 issue of Entertainment Weekly features a quote that suggests that the only reason Thomas Harris wrote the story was out of the fear that a Lecter prequel/origin story would inevitably be written without his involvement. Hannibal Rising film producer Dino De Laurentiis said "I say to Thomas, 'If you don't do [the prequel], I will do it with someone else... I don't want to lose this franchise. And the audience wants it...' He said, 'No. I'm sorry.' And I said, 'I will do it with somebody else.' And then he said, 'Let me think about it. I will come up with an idea.'"[2]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ AP (2006-09-19). "New Hannibal Lecter novel due in December". CNN. Archived from the original on 2006-09-20. Retrieved 2006-09-19.
2.Jump up ^ Fierman, Daniel (2007-02-16). "Lecter Loses His Bite". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has quotations related to: Hannibal Rising
Hannibal Rising at IMDb
Official Dino De Laurentiis Company website
Official Thomas Harris website
Official Hannibal Rising website
Hannibal Rising Reviews at Metacritic
Official Hannibal Rising MySpace site
The Hannibal Lecter Studiolo


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Thomas Harris' Hannibal Lecter


Characters
Hannibal Lecter ·
 Will Graham ·
 Clarice Starling ·
 Francis Dolarhyde ·
 Buffalo Bill ·
 Frederick Chilton ·
 Jack Crawford ·
 Freddy Lounds ·
 Mason Verger
 

Novels
Red Dragon (1981) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1988) ·
 Hannibal (1999) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2006)
 

Films
Manhunter (1986) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) ·
 Hannibal (2001) ·
 Red Dragon (2002) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2007)
 

Television
Hannibal (2013–present) ·
 (List of episodes)
 

  


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Hannibal (novel)
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Hannibal
Artwork of a vertical, rectangular box. The text and illustration look like they were chiseled out of silver. The background consist of red tiles shaded with different levels of black. On top, there is the author's name, Thomas Harris. Below, in the middle, there is the illustration of a dragon eating a man, styled as an ancient bas-relief. On the bottom, there is the title, Hannibal. Below the title there is a sentence that says, "A Novel by the Author of The Silence of the Lambs"
First edition cover

Author
Thomas Harris
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Hannibal Lecter
Genre
thriller, horror, gothic
Publisher
Delacorte Press

Publication date
 8 June 1999
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages
484 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-385-33487-7 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
41315462
Preceded by
The Silence of the Lambs
Followed by
Hannibal Rising
Hannibal is a novel written by Thomas Harris, published in 1999. It is the third in his series featuring Dr. Hannibal Lecter and the second to feature FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. The novel takes place seven years after the events of The Silence of the Lambs and deals with the intended revenge of one of Lecter's victims. It was adapted as a film of the same name in 2001, directed by Ridley Scott.


Contents  [hide]
1 Synopsis
2 Reception
3 Characters
4 References

Synopsis[edit]
Seven years after the Buffalo Bill case, FBI agent Clarice Starling witnesses her career crumble around her. During a botched drug raid, Starling kills a meth dealer, who was carrying a baby. Fugitive serial killer Hannibal Lecter, who has been living in Florence, Italy under an assumed name, sends her a letter of condolence and requests more information about her personal life. Desperate to catch Lecter, the FBI tasks Starling with apprehending Lecter. She meets with Barney Matthews, former orderly of Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, who tells her that Lecter stated he would never go after her if he escaped.
Meanwhile, Mason Verger, a wealthy, sadistic pedophile who was left disfigured after a "therapy session" with Lecter, plans to get revenge by feeding Lecter to wild boars, using Starling as bait. He is aided by corrupt Justice Department agent Paul Krendler, Starling's nemesis. Rinaldo Pazzi, a disgraced Italian detective, pursues Lecter in the interests of collecting Verger's bounty on him. However, Lecter disembowels and hangs Pazzi in reference to the lynchings of the Pazzi conspirators. After killing one of Verger's men, Lecter escapes to the United States, where he begins pursuing Starling.
The novel briefly touches upon Lecter's childhood, specifically the death of his younger sister, Mischa. The two were orphaned during World War II, and a group of German deserters found them on their family estate and imprisoned them. The Germans, after checking the limbs of both siblings, had taken Mischa away. Lecter later found some of Mischa's milk teeth in a stool pit used by the deserters, indicating to young Hannibal that they had killed and eaten his sister.
Barney briefly works for Verger, meeting Verger's sister and bodyguard Margot, a lesbian bodybuilder whom Verger molested and raped as a child. Her parents disinherited her after learning of her homosexuality. Margot tells him that she works for her brother because she needs Mason's sperm to have a child with her partner, Judy, in order to inherit their family fortune.
Verger's men capture Lecter, and Starling pursues them. When Starling catches up to Lecter, she is shot with tranquilizers. Verger unleashes his wild boars, but they lose interest in Lecter when they smell no fear on him. They attack Verger's men. In the confusion, Lecter carries the unconscious Starling to safety and escapes with her. At the same time, Margot obtains Mason's sperm by sodomizing him with a cattle prod and kills him by shoving his pet moray eel down his throat. Lecter, who had briefly treated Margot after her abuse, had urged her to blame the murder on him, so she leaves a strand of Lecter's hair at the scene.
Using a regimen of psychotropic drugs and behavioral therapy, Lecter attempts to brainwash Starling, hoping to make her believe she is Mischa, returned to life. She ultimately resists, however, and tells him that Mischa will have to live on within him. Lecter captures Krendler and lobotomizes him, and then he and Starling dine on Krendler's prefrontal cortex, sauteed with shallots, before Lecter kills him. The two then become lovers and disappear together.
Three years later, Barney and his girlfriend go to Buenos Aires to see a Vermeer painting. At the opera, Barney spots Lecter and Starling; fearing for his life, he flees with his girlfriend.
Reception[edit]
Although the ending was controversial, reaction to the novel was generally very positive. Robert McCrum, writing in The Guardian, called it "the exquisite satisfaction of a truly great melodrama." Author Stephen King, a fan of the series, has said that he considers Hannibal to be one of the two most frightening popular novels of our time, the other being The Exorcist.[1]
Charles de Lint criticized Hannibal as a huge disappointment, citing "its disturbing subtexts, which... set [Lecter] up as a sympathetic character," and Harris' "twisting [Starling] so out of character simply to provide a 'shock' ending."[2]
The first printing of Hannibal was 1.3 million copies. It was the second highest bestselling novel in 1999.
Characters[edit]
##Hannibal Lecter
##Clarice Starling
##Mason Verger
##Margot Verger
##Jack Crawford
##Rinaldo Pazzi
##Paul Krendler
##Barney Matthews
##Cordell Doemling
##Oreste Pini
##Carlo Deogracias
##Romula Cjesku
##Gnocco
##Ardelia Mapp
##Evelda Drumgo
##John Brigham
##Marquez Burke
##John Hare
##Officer Bolton
References[edit]
Notes
1.Jump up ^ King, Stephen (13 June 1999). "Hannibal the cannibal". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-12-10.
2.Jump up ^ de Lint, Charles (June 2000). "Books to look for". Fantasy & Science Fiction. Retrieved 2014-12-03.
Bibliography
##James, Tiffany. "Hannibal / 20th-Century American Bestseller". Retrieved 26 December 2010.


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 Will Graham ·
 Clarice Starling ·
 Francis Dolarhyde ·
 Buffalo Bill ·
 Frederick Chilton ·
 Jack Crawford ·
 Freddy Lounds ·
 Mason Verger
 

Novels
Red Dragon (1981) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1988) ·
 Hannibal (1999) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2006)
 

Films
Manhunter (1986) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) ·
 Hannibal (2001) ·
 Red Dragon (2002) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2007)
 

Television
Hannibal (2013–present) ·
 (List of episodes)
 

  


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Hannibal (novel)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the novel. For other uses, see Hannibal (disambiguation).
Hannibal
Artwork of a vertical, rectangular box. The text and illustration look like they were chiseled out of silver. The background consist of red tiles shaded with different levels of black. On top, there is the author's name, Thomas Harris. Below, in the middle, there is the illustration of a dragon eating a man, styled as an ancient bas-relief. On the bottom, there is the title, Hannibal. Below the title there is a sentence that says, "A Novel by the Author of The Silence of the Lambs"
First edition cover

Author
Thomas Harris
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Hannibal Lecter
Genre
thriller, horror, gothic
Publisher
Delacorte Press

Publication date
 8 June 1999
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages
484 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-385-33487-7 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
41315462
Preceded by
The Silence of the Lambs
Followed by
Hannibal Rising
Hannibal is a novel written by Thomas Harris, published in 1999. It is the third in his series featuring Dr. Hannibal Lecter and the second to feature FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. The novel takes place seven years after the events of The Silence of the Lambs and deals with the intended revenge of one of Lecter's victims. It was adapted as a film of the same name in 2001, directed by Ridley Scott.


Contents  [hide]
1 Synopsis
2 Reception
3 Characters
4 References

Synopsis[edit]
Seven years after the Buffalo Bill case, FBI agent Clarice Starling witnesses her career crumble around her. During a botched drug raid, Starling kills a meth dealer, who was carrying a baby. Fugitive serial killer Hannibal Lecter, who has been living in Florence, Italy under an assumed name, sends her a letter of condolence and requests more information about her personal life. Desperate to catch Lecter, the FBI tasks Starling with apprehending Lecter. She meets with Barney Matthews, former orderly of Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, who tells her that Lecter stated he would never go after her if he escaped.
Meanwhile, Mason Verger, a wealthy, sadistic pedophile who was left disfigured after a "therapy session" with Lecter, plans to get revenge by feeding Lecter to wild boars, using Starling as bait. He is aided by corrupt Justice Department agent Paul Krendler, Starling's nemesis. Rinaldo Pazzi, a disgraced Italian detective, pursues Lecter in the interests of collecting Verger's bounty on him. However, Lecter disembowels and hangs Pazzi in reference to the lynchings of the Pazzi conspirators. After killing one of Verger's men, Lecter escapes to the United States, where he begins pursuing Starling.
The novel briefly touches upon Lecter's childhood, specifically the death of his younger sister, Mischa. The two were orphaned during World War II, and a group of German deserters found them on their family estate and imprisoned them. The Germans, after checking the limbs of both siblings, had taken Mischa away. Lecter later found some of Mischa's milk teeth in a stool pit used by the deserters, indicating to young Hannibal that they had killed and eaten his sister.
Barney briefly works for Verger, meeting Verger's sister and bodyguard Margot, a lesbian bodybuilder whom Verger molested and raped as a child. Her parents disinherited her after learning of her homosexuality. Margot tells him that she works for her brother because she needs Mason's sperm to have a child with her partner, Judy, in order to inherit their family fortune.
Verger's men capture Lecter, and Starling pursues them. When Starling catches up to Lecter, she is shot with tranquilizers. Verger unleashes his wild boars, but they lose interest in Lecter when they smell no fear on him. They attack Verger's men. In the confusion, Lecter carries the unconscious Starling to safety and escapes with her. At the same time, Margot obtains Mason's sperm by sodomizing him with a cattle prod and kills him by shoving his pet moray eel down his throat. Lecter, who had briefly treated Margot after her abuse, had urged her to blame the murder on him, so she leaves a strand of Lecter's hair at the scene.
Using a regimen of psychotropic drugs and behavioral therapy, Lecter attempts to brainwash Starling, hoping to make her believe she is Mischa, returned to life. She ultimately resists, however, and tells him that Mischa will have to live on within him. Lecter captures Krendler and lobotomizes him, and then he and Starling dine on Krendler's prefrontal cortex, sauteed with shallots, before Lecter kills him. The two then become lovers and disappear together.
Three years later, Barney and his girlfriend go to Buenos Aires to see a Vermeer painting. At the opera, Barney spots Lecter and Starling; fearing for his life, he flees with his girlfriend.
Reception[edit]
Although the ending was controversial, reaction to the novel was generally very positive. Robert McCrum, writing in The Guardian, called it "the exquisite satisfaction of a truly great melodrama." Author Stephen King, a fan of the series, has said that he considers Hannibal to be one of the two most frightening popular novels of our time, the other being The Exorcist.[1]
Charles de Lint criticized Hannibal as a huge disappointment, citing "its disturbing subtexts, which... set [Lecter] up as a sympathetic character," and Harris' "twisting [Starling] so out of character simply to provide a 'shock' ending."[2]
The first printing of Hannibal was 1.3 million copies. It was the second highest bestselling novel in 1999.
Characters[edit]
##Hannibal Lecter
##Clarice Starling
##Mason Verger
##Margot Verger
##Jack Crawford
##Rinaldo Pazzi
##Paul Krendler
##Barney Matthews
##Cordell Doemling
##Oreste Pini
##Carlo Deogracias
##Romula Cjesku
##Gnocco
##Ardelia Mapp
##Evelda Drumgo
##John Brigham
##Marquez Burke
##John Hare
##Officer Bolton
References[edit]
Notes
1.Jump up ^ King, Stephen (13 June 1999). "Hannibal the cannibal". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-12-10.
2.Jump up ^ de Lint, Charles (June 2000). "Books to look for". Fantasy & Science Fiction. Retrieved 2014-12-03.
Bibliography
##James, Tiffany. "Hannibal / 20th-Century American Bestseller". Retrieved 26 December 2010.


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Red Dragon (novel)
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Red Dragon
Drag01big.jpg
First US hardback edition cover

Author
Thomas Harris
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Hannibal Lecter
Genre
Crime, Horror, Thriller, Psychological Horror
Publisher
G. P. Putnams, Dell Publishing (USA)

Publication date
 October 1981
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages
480 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-399-12442-X (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
7572747

Dewey Decimal
 813/.54 19
LC Class
PS3558.A6558 R4 1981
Followed by
The Silence of the Lambs
Red Dragon is a novel by Thomas Harris, first published in 1981. It introduced the character Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. The novel was adapted as a film, Manhunter, in 1986 which featured Brian Cox as Lecter. Directed by Michael Mann, the film was critically well received but fared poorly at the box office. It has since developed a cult following.
After Harris wrote a sequel to the novel, The Silence of the Lambs, in 1988 (itself turned into a highly successful film in 1991), Red Dragon found a new readership. A second sequel, Hannibal, was published in 1999 and adapted into a film in 2001. Both film sequels featured Anthony Hopkins in the role of Hannibal Lecter, for which he won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1991. Due to the success of the second and third films, Red Dragon was remade as a film directed by Brett Ratner in 2002, this time bearing the title of the original novel and with Hopkins playing Lecter.
The title refers to the figure from The Great Red Dragon Paintings by William Blake. Though Harris refers to one of these, The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun,[1] he actually describes another, The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Characters
3 Origin
4 Reception
5 References

Plot[edit]
In 1978, a serial killer nicknamed "The Tooth Fairy" stalks and murders seemingly random families during sequential full moons. He first kills the Jacobi family in Birmingham, Alabama, then the Leeds family in Atlanta, Georgia. Two days after the Leeds murders, FBI agent Jack Crawford seeks out his protégé, Will Graham, a brilliant profiler who captured the serial killer Hannibal Lecter three years earlier, but retired after Lecter almost killed him. Crawford goes to Graham's Sugarloaf Key residence and pleads for his assistance; Graham reluctantly agrees. After looking over the crime scenes with only minimal insight, he realizes that he must visit Lecter and seek his help in capturing the Red Dragon.
"The Tooth Fairy" is revealed to be the production chief of a St. Louis film processing firm named Francis Dolarhyde. He is a disturbed individual who is obsessed with the William Blake painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun (which the book misidentifies as The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun). Dolarhyde is unable to control his violent, sexual urges, and believes that murdering people—or "changing" them, as he calls it—allows him to more fully "become" an alternate personality he calls the "Great Red Dragon", after the dominant character in Blake's painting. Flashbacks reveal that his pathology is born from the systematic abuse he suffered as a child at the hands of both his sadistic grandmother and his stepfamily.
As Graham investigates the case, he is hounded by Freddy Lounds, a sleazy tabloid reporter. Meanwhile, Lecter's de facto jailer, Frederick Chilton, discovers a secret correspondence between Lecter and Dolarhyde, in which Lecter provides the killer with Graham's home address. Graham's wife and stepson are evacuated to a remote farm belonging to Crawford's brother. Graham tries to intercept the secret communication without Lecter's knowledge, but instead attracts the attention of Freddy Lounds.
Lounds becomes aware of the correspondence and tries to trick Graham into revealing details of the investigation by posing as the Red Dragon, but is found out. Hoping to lure the Red Dragon into a trap, Graham gives Lounds an interview in which he blatantly, deliberately, mischaracterizes the killer as an impotent homosexual. This infuriates Dolarhyde, who kidnaps Lounds, forces him to recant the allegations, bites off his lips and sets him on fire, leaving his maimed body outside his newspaper's offices; Lounds eventually dies.
At about the same time, Dolarhyde falls in love with a blind co-worker named Reba McClane, which conflicts with his homicidal urges. In beginning a relationship with Reba, Dolarhyde resists the Dragon's "possession" of him; he goes to the Brooklyn Museum, beats a museum secretary unconscious, and eats the original Blake watercolor of The Red Dragon.
Graham eventually realizes that the killer knew the layout of his victims' houses from their home movies, which were developed at the same film processing lab. Dolarhyde's job gives him access to all home movies that pass through the company. When he sees Graham interviewing his boss, Dolarhyde realizes that they are on to him and goes to see Reba one last time. He finds her talking to a co-worker, Ralph Mandy, whom she dislikes. Believing that Reba is being unfaithful, Dolarhyde kills Mandy. He kidnaps Reba and, having taken her to his house, sets the place on fire. He intends to kill her and then himself, but finds himself unable to shoot her. After Dolarhyde shoots himself, Reba escapes. Graham later comforts her, telling her that there is nothing wrong with her, and that the kindness and affection she showed Dolarhyde probably saved lives.
It turns out Dolarhyde did not shoot himself but left behind the body of a gas station attendant, with whom he had an altercation, to stage his own death. Dolarhyde attacks Graham at his Florida home, stabbing him in the face and permanently disfiguring him. Graham's wife, Molly, then fatally shoots Dolarhyde.
While recovering, Graham is sent a letter from Lecter, which bids him well and hopes that he isn't too disfigured. However, Crawford gets hold of the letter first and destroys it. Graham has a flashback to a visit he made to Shiloh, the site of a major battle in the U.S. Civil War, shortly after apprehending (and in the process killing) Garrett Hobbs, a serial killer he investigated and on whose profile he consulted with Hannibal Lecter.
Characters[edit]
Will Graham
Francis Dolarhyde
Jack Crawford
Hannibal Lecter
Freddy Lounds
Reba McClane
Ralph Mandy
Molly Graham
Willy Graham
Origin[edit]
Red Dragon is Thomas Harris's second novel, after Black Sunday. As part of his research for the book he attended classes and talked to agents at the FBI Behavioral Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia during the late 1970s. He learned about serial killers, offender profiling and the role of the FBI in serial killer investigations.[2] After his father became terminally ill, Harris stayed for eighteen months at an isolated shotgun-style house where he worked on the book. The rural setting helped him visualize both the character of Hannibal Lecter and the Leeds murder house depicted in the story. The book is dedicated to his father.[2]:12
Reception[edit]
Thomas Fleming in The New York Times gave the book a generally favorable review. He compared the development of the story to the gradual acceleration of a powerful car, but complained that the explanation for Dolarhyde's behavior, trauma in his youth, was too mechanistic.[3]
[4]== Adaptations ==
The first film, released in 1986 under the title Manhunter, was written and directed by Michael Mann and focused on FBI Special Agent Will Graham, played by William Petersen. Lecter (renamed Lecktor) was played by Brian Cox.
In 1996, Chicago's Defiant Theatre produced a full stage version of the novel at the Firehouse theatre, adapted and directed by the company's artistic director, Christopher Johnson. The production included projected home movies as were described in the novel, including reenacting the violent murders. Dolarhyde's inner dragon was personified by an actor in an elaborate, grotesque costume and seduces the killer to continue on his violent path.
The second film, which used the title Red Dragon, appeared in 2002. Directed by Brett Ratner and written by Ted Tally (who also wrote the screenplay for The Silence of the Lambs), it starred Edward Norton as Graham and Anthony Hopkins as Lecter.
The NBC TV adaptation Hannibal was first aired in 2013. Will Graham is played by Hugh Dancy and Hannibal Lecter is played by Mads Mikkelsen. Though set in the 2010s, the series is a prequel to the events of Red Dragon, re-imagining Graham and Hannibal's early encounters during the former's tenure with the FBI, and the events following Graham's fatal shooting of Garret Jacob Hobbs. It has been announced that Richard Armitage will play Francis Dolarhyde in season 3.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Tony Magistrale; Michael A. Morrison (1 January 1996). A Dark Night's Dreaming: Contemporary American Horror Fiction. Univ of South Carolina Press. pp. 27–. ISBN 978-1-57003-070-3.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Philip L. Simpson (30 December 2009). Making Murder: The Fiction of Thomas Harris: The Fiction of Thomas Harris. ABC-CLIO. pp. 13–. ISBN 978-0-313-35625-4.
3.Jump up ^ "HUNTING MONSTERS". Retrieved 13 June 2014.
4.Jump up ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11345281/richard-armitage-hannibal.html


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Novels
Red Dragon (1981) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1988) ·
 Hannibal (1999) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2006)
 

Films
Manhunter (1986) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) ·
 Hannibal (2001) ·
 Red Dragon (2002) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2007)
 

Television
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Red Dragon (novel)
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Red Dragon
Drag01big.jpg
First US hardback edition cover

Author
Thomas Harris
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Hannibal Lecter
Genre
Crime, Horror, Thriller, Psychological Horror
Publisher
G. P. Putnams, Dell Publishing (USA)

Publication date
 October 1981
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages
480 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN
ISBN 0-399-12442-X (first edition, hardback)
OCLC
7572747

Dewey Decimal
 813/.54 19
LC Class
PS3558.A6558 R4 1981
Followed by
The Silence of the Lambs
Red Dragon is a novel by Thomas Harris, first published in 1981. It introduced the character Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. The novel was adapted as a film, Manhunter, in 1986 which featured Brian Cox as Lecter. Directed by Michael Mann, the film was critically well received but fared poorly at the box office. It has since developed a cult following.
After Harris wrote a sequel to the novel, The Silence of the Lambs, in 1988 (itself turned into a highly successful film in 1991), Red Dragon found a new readership. A second sequel, Hannibal, was published in 1999 and adapted into a film in 2001. Both film sequels featured Anthony Hopkins in the role of Hannibal Lecter, for which he won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1991. Due to the success of the second and third films, Red Dragon was remade as a film directed by Brett Ratner in 2002, this time bearing the title of the original novel and with Hopkins playing Lecter.
The title refers to the figure from The Great Red Dragon Paintings by William Blake. Though Harris refers to one of these, The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun,[1] he actually describes another, The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Characters
3 Origin
4 Reception
5 References

Plot[edit]
In 1978, a serial killer nicknamed "The Tooth Fairy" stalks and murders seemingly random families during sequential full moons. He first kills the Jacobi family in Birmingham, Alabama, then the Leeds family in Atlanta, Georgia. Two days after the Leeds murders, FBI agent Jack Crawford seeks out his protégé, Will Graham, a brilliant profiler who captured the serial killer Hannibal Lecter three years earlier, but retired after Lecter almost killed him. Crawford goes to Graham's Sugarloaf Key residence and pleads for his assistance; Graham reluctantly agrees. After looking over the crime scenes with only minimal insight, he realizes that he must visit Lecter and seek his help in capturing the Red Dragon.
"The Tooth Fairy" is revealed to be the production chief of a St. Louis film processing firm named Francis Dolarhyde. He is a disturbed individual who is obsessed with the William Blake painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun (which the book misidentifies as The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun). Dolarhyde is unable to control his violent, sexual urges, and believes that murdering people—or "changing" them, as he calls it—allows him to more fully "become" an alternate personality he calls the "Great Red Dragon", after the dominant character in Blake's painting. Flashbacks reveal that his pathology is born from the systematic abuse he suffered as a child at the hands of both his sadistic grandmother and his stepfamily.
As Graham investigates the case, he is hounded by Freddy Lounds, a sleazy tabloid reporter. Meanwhile, Lecter's de facto jailer, Frederick Chilton, discovers a secret correspondence between Lecter and Dolarhyde, in which Lecter provides the killer with Graham's home address. Graham's wife and stepson are evacuated to a remote farm belonging to Crawford's brother. Graham tries to intercept the secret communication without Lecter's knowledge, but instead attracts the attention of Freddy Lounds.
Lounds becomes aware of the correspondence and tries to trick Graham into revealing details of the investigation by posing as the Red Dragon, but is found out. Hoping to lure the Red Dragon into a trap, Graham gives Lounds an interview in which he blatantly, deliberately, mischaracterizes the killer as an impotent homosexual. This infuriates Dolarhyde, who kidnaps Lounds, forces him to recant the allegations, bites off his lips and sets him on fire, leaving his maimed body outside his newspaper's offices; Lounds eventually dies.
At about the same time, Dolarhyde falls in love with a blind co-worker named Reba McClane, which conflicts with his homicidal urges. In beginning a relationship with Reba, Dolarhyde resists the Dragon's "possession" of him; he goes to the Brooklyn Museum, beats a museum secretary unconscious, and eats the original Blake watercolor of The Red Dragon.
Graham eventually realizes that the killer knew the layout of his victims' houses from their home movies, which were developed at the same film processing lab. Dolarhyde's job gives him access to all home movies that pass through the company. When he sees Graham interviewing his boss, Dolarhyde realizes that they are on to him and goes to see Reba one last time. He finds her talking to a co-worker, Ralph Mandy, whom she dislikes. Believing that Reba is being unfaithful, Dolarhyde kills Mandy. He kidnaps Reba and, having taken her to his house, sets the place on fire. He intends to kill her and then himself, but finds himself unable to shoot her. After Dolarhyde shoots himself, Reba escapes. Graham later comforts her, telling her that there is nothing wrong with her, and that the kindness and affection she showed Dolarhyde probably saved lives.
It turns out Dolarhyde did not shoot himself but left behind the body of a gas station attendant, with whom he had an altercation, to stage his own death. Dolarhyde attacks Graham at his Florida home, stabbing him in the face and permanently disfiguring him. Graham's wife, Molly, then fatally shoots Dolarhyde.
While recovering, Graham is sent a letter from Lecter, which bids him well and hopes that he isn't too disfigured. However, Crawford gets hold of the letter first and destroys it. Graham has a flashback to a visit he made to Shiloh, the site of a major battle in the U.S. Civil War, shortly after apprehending (and in the process killing) Garrett Hobbs, a serial killer he investigated and on whose profile he consulted with Hannibal Lecter.
Characters[edit]
Will Graham
Francis Dolarhyde
Jack Crawford
Hannibal Lecter
Freddy Lounds
Reba McClane
Ralph Mandy
Molly Graham
Willy Graham
Origin[edit]
Red Dragon is Thomas Harris's second novel, after Black Sunday. As part of his research for the book he attended classes and talked to agents at the FBI Behavioral Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia during the late 1970s. He learned about serial killers, offender profiling and the role of the FBI in serial killer investigations.[2] After his father became terminally ill, Harris stayed for eighteen months at an isolated shotgun-style house where he worked on the book. The rural setting helped him visualize both the character of Hannibal Lecter and the Leeds murder house depicted in the story. The book is dedicated to his father.[2]:12
Reception[edit]
Thomas Fleming in The New York Times gave the book a generally favorable review. He compared the development of the story to the gradual acceleration of a powerful car, but complained that the explanation for Dolarhyde's behavior, trauma in his youth, was too mechanistic.[3]
[4]== Adaptations ==
The first film, released in 1986 under the title Manhunter, was written and directed by Michael Mann and focused on FBI Special Agent Will Graham, played by William Petersen. Lecter (renamed Lecktor) was played by Brian Cox.
In 1996, Chicago's Defiant Theatre produced a full stage version of the novel at the Firehouse theatre, adapted and directed by the company's artistic director, Christopher Johnson. The production included projected home movies as were described in the novel, including reenacting the violent murders. Dolarhyde's inner dragon was personified by an actor in an elaborate, grotesque costume and seduces the killer to continue on his violent path.
The second film, which used the title Red Dragon, appeared in 2002. Directed by Brett Ratner and written by Ted Tally (who also wrote the screenplay for The Silence of the Lambs), it starred Edward Norton as Graham and Anthony Hopkins as Lecter.
The NBC TV adaptation Hannibal was first aired in 2013. Will Graham is played by Hugh Dancy and Hannibal Lecter is played by Mads Mikkelsen. Though set in the 2010s, the series is a prequel to the events of Red Dragon, re-imagining Graham and Hannibal's early encounters during the former's tenure with the FBI, and the events following Graham's fatal shooting of Garret Jacob Hobbs. It has been announced that Richard Armitage will play Francis Dolarhyde in season 3.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Tony Magistrale; Michael A. Morrison (1 January 1996). A Dark Night's Dreaming: Contemporary American Horror Fiction. Univ of South Carolina Press. pp. 27–. ISBN 978-1-57003-070-3.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Philip L. Simpson (30 December 2009). Making Murder: The Fiction of Thomas Harris: The Fiction of Thomas Harris. ABC-CLIO. pp. 13–. ISBN 978-0-313-35625-4.
3.Jump up ^ "HUNTING MONSTERS". Retrieved 13 June 2014.
4.Jump up ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11345281/richard-armitage-hannibal.html


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 Clarice Starling ·
 Francis Dolarhyde ·
 Buffalo Bill ·
 Frederick Chilton ·
 Jack Crawford ·
 Freddy Lounds ·
 Mason Verger
 

Novels
Red Dragon (1981) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1988) ·
 Hannibal (1999) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2006)
 

Films
Manhunter (1986) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) ·
 Hannibal (2001) ·
 Red Dragon (2002) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2007)
 

Television
Hannibal (2013–present) ·
 (List of episodes)
 

  


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The Silence of the Lambs (novel)
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The Silence of the Lambs
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First edition US cover

Author
Thomas Harris
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Hannibal Lecter
Genre
Horror, Thriller Psychological Horror
Publisher
St. Martin's Press

Publication date
 1988
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages
338 pp (hardcover)
ISBN
0-312-02282-4
OCLC
18049053

Dewey Decimal
 813/.54 19
LC Class
PS3558.A6558 S5 1988
Preceded by
Red Dragon
Followed by
Hannibal
The Silence of the Lambs is a novel by Thomas Harris. First published in 1988, it is the sequel to Harris' 1981 novel Red Dragon. Both novels feature the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter, this time pitted against FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Characters
3 Film adaptation
4 Literary significance
5 Accolades
6 References
7 External links

Plot summary[edit]
Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee, is asked to carry out an errand by Jack Crawford, the head of the FBI division that draws up psychological profiles of serial killers. Starling is to present a questionnaire to the brilliant forensic psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer, Hannibal Lecter. Lecter is serving nine consecutive life sentences in a Maryland mental institution for a series of murders.
Crawford's real intention, however, is to try to solicit Lecter's assistance in the hunt for a serial killer dubbed "Buffalo Bill", whose modus operandi involves kidnapping overweight women, starving them for about three or four days, and then killing and skinning them, before dumping the remains in nearby rivers. The nickname was started by Kansas City Homicide, as a joke that "he likes to skin his humps." Throughout the investigation, Starling periodically returns to Lecter in search of information, and the two form a strange relationship in which he offers her cryptic clues in return for information about her troubled and bleak childhood as an orphan.
When Bill's sixth victim is found in West Virginia, Starling helps Crawford perform the autopsy. Starling finds a moth pupa in the throat of the victim, and just as Lecter predicted, she has been scalped. Triangular patches of skin have also been taken from her shoulders. Furthermore, autopsy reports indicate that Bill had killed her within four days of her capture, much faster than his earlier victims. On the basis of Lecter's prediction, Starling believes that he knows who Buffalo Bill really is. She also asks why she was sent to fish for information on Buffalo Bill without being told she was doing so; Crawford explains that if she had had an agenda, Lecter would have sensed it and never spoken up.
Starling takes the pupa to the Smithsonian, where it is eventually identified as the Black Witch, which would not naturally occur where the victim was found.
In Tennessee, Catherine Baker Martin, daughter of Senator Ruth Martin, is kidnapped. Within six hours, her blouse is found on the roadside, slit up the back: Buffalo Bill's calling card. Crawford is advised that no less than the President of the United States has expressed "intense interest" in the case, and that a successful rescue is preferable. Crawford estimates they have three days before Catherine is killed. Starling is sent to Lecter with the offer of a deal: if he assists in Catherine's rescue and Buffalo Bill's capture, he will be transferred out of the asylum, something he has continually longed for. However, Lecter expresses skepticism at the genuineness of the offer.
After Starling leaves, Lecter reminisces on the past, recalling a conversation with Benjamin Raspail, a former patient who was later murdered by Jame Gumb. Raspail, during that therapy session, explained the death of a sailor named Klaus at the hands of Raspail's jealous former lover, Jame Gumb, who then used Klaus' skin to make an apron. Raspail also revealed that Gumb had an epiphany upon watching a moth hatch. Lecter's ruminations are interrupted when Dr. Frederick Chilton - the asylum's administrator and Lecter's nemesis - steps in. A listening device allowed him to record Starling's offer, and Chilton has found out that Crawford's deal is a lie. He offers one of his own: If Lecter reveals Buffalo Bill's identity, he will indeed get a transfer to another asylum, but only if Chilton gets credit for getting the information from him. Lecter insists that he'll only give the information to Senator Martin in person, in Tennessee. Chilton agrees. Unknown to Chilton, Lecter has previously hidden under his tongue a paperclip and some parts of a pen, both of which were mistakenly given to him by untrained orderlies over his many years at the asylum. He fashions the pen pieces and paperclip into an improvised lockpick, which he later uses to pick his handcuff locks.
In Tennessee, Lecter toys with Senator Martin briefly, enjoying the woman's anguish, but eventually gives her some information about Buffalo Bill: his name is William "Billy" Rubin, and he has suffered from "elephant ivory anthrax", a knifemaker's disease. He also provides an accurate physical description. The name, however, is a red herring: bilirubin is a pigment in human bile and a chief coloring agent in human feces, which the forensic lab compares to the color of Chilton's hair.
Starling tries one last time to get information from Lecter as he is about to be transferred. He offers a final clue - "we covet what we see every day" - and demands to hear her worst memory. Starling reveals that, after her father's death, she was sent to live with a cousin on a sheep and horse ranch. One night, she discovered the farmer slaughtering the spring lambs, and fled in terror with one of the slaughter horses whom she named Hannah. The farmer caught her and sent her to an orphanage, where she spent the rest of her childhood, along with Hannah. Lecter thanks her, and the two share a brief moment of connection before Chilton forces her to leave. Later on, she deduces from Lecter's clue that Buffalo Bill knew his first victim.
Shortly after this, Lecter escapes by killing and eviscerating his guards, using one of their faces as a mask to fool paramedics. Starling continues her search for Buffalo Bill, eventually tracking him down and killing him, rescuing Catherine. She is made a full-fledged FBI agent, and receives a congratulatory telegram from Lecter, who hopes that "the lambs have stopped screaming". While writing the letter, Lecter notes to himself that he will track down Chilton, but Clarice assumes he will not come after her, correctly. He predicts, also correctly, that while saving Catherine Martin may have granted Clarice some relief, the silence will never become eternal, heralding her motives for a continued career at the FBI. Clarice eventually finds rest even after Lecter's letter, sleeping peacefully "in the silence of the lambs".
Characters[edit]
Clarice Starling
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Jack Crawford
Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb
Barney Matthews
Ardelia Mapp
Dr. Frederick Chilton
Catherine Baker Martin
Senator Ruth Martin
Paul Krendler
Noble Pilcher
Albert Roden
I. J. Miggs
Film adaptation[edit]
Main article: The Silence of the Lambs (film)
Following the 1986 adaptation of Red Dragon (filmed as Manhunter), The Silence of the Lambs was adapted by Jonathan Demme in 1991. The Silence of the Lambs became the third film in Oscar history to win the five most prestigious Academy Awards – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. It stars Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter. To this day, it continues to be listed by critics as one of the best films ever made.
Literary significance[edit]
The novel was a great success. Craig Brown of The Mail on Sunday wrote, "No thriller writer is better attuned than Thomas Harris to the rhythms of suspense. No horror writer is more adept at making the stomach churn". The Independent wrote, "Utterly gripping", and Amazon.com wrote, "...driving suspense, compelling characters,...a well-executed thriller..."[1] Children's novelist Roald Dahl also greatly enjoyed the novel, describing it as "subtle, horrific and splendid, the best book I have read in a long time". Author David Foster Wallace used the book as part of his curriculum while teaching at Pomona College and later included the book as well as Harris's Red Dragon on his list of ten favorite novels.[2] John Dunning says of Silence of the Lambs: [it is] "simply the best thriller I've read in five years".[3]
Accolades[edit]
The novel won the 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.[4]
The novel also won the 1989 Anthony Award for Best Novel.[5]
It was nominated for the 1989 World Fantasy Award.[6]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Editorial Reviews". Retrieved 2008-01-08.
2.Jump up ^ "David Foster Wallace's favorite books (archived)". Retrieved 2014-12-03.
3.Jump up ^ Dunning, John. Booked to Die. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. p. 159.
4.Jump up ^ "Past Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Horror Writers Association. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
5.Jump up ^ "Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Anthony Awards Nominees". BoucherCon.info. 2003-10-02. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
6.Jump up ^ "1989 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees". SSF.net. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
External links[edit]


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 Will Graham ·
 Clarice Starling ·
 Francis Dolarhyde ·
 Buffalo Bill ·
 Frederick Chilton ·
 Jack Crawford ·
 Freddy Lounds ·
 Mason Verger
 

Novels
Red Dragon (1981) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1988) ·
 Hannibal (1999) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2006)
 

Films
Manhunter (1986) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) ·
 Hannibal (2001) ·
 Red Dragon (2002) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2007)
 

Television
Hannibal (2013–present) ·
 (List of episodes)
 

  


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The Silence of the Lambs (novel)
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The Silence of the Lambs
Silence3.png
First edition US cover

Author
Thomas Harris
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Hannibal Lecter
Genre
Horror, Thriller Psychological Horror
Publisher
St. Martin's Press

Publication date
 1988
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages
338 pp (hardcover)
ISBN
0-312-02282-4
OCLC
18049053

Dewey Decimal
 813/.54 19
LC Class
PS3558.A6558 S5 1988
Preceded by
Red Dragon
Followed by
Hannibal
The Silence of the Lambs is a novel by Thomas Harris. First published in 1988, it is the sequel to Harris' 1981 novel Red Dragon. Both novels feature the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter, this time pitted against FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Characters
3 Film adaptation
4 Literary significance
5 Accolades
6 References
7 External links

Plot summary[edit]
Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee, is asked to carry out an errand by Jack Crawford, the head of the FBI division that draws up psychological profiles of serial killers. Starling is to present a questionnaire to the brilliant forensic psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer, Hannibal Lecter. Lecter is serving nine consecutive life sentences in a Maryland mental institution for a series of murders.
Crawford's real intention, however, is to try to solicit Lecter's assistance in the hunt for a serial killer dubbed "Buffalo Bill", whose modus operandi involves kidnapping overweight women, starving them for about three or four days, and then killing and skinning them, before dumping the remains in nearby rivers. The nickname was started by Kansas City Homicide, as a joke that "he likes to skin his humps." Throughout the investigation, Starling periodically returns to Lecter in search of information, and the two form a strange relationship in which he offers her cryptic clues in return for information about her troubled and bleak childhood as an orphan.
When Bill's sixth victim is found in West Virginia, Starling helps Crawford perform the autopsy. Starling finds a moth pupa in the throat of the victim, and just as Lecter predicted, she has been scalped. Triangular patches of skin have also been taken from her shoulders. Furthermore, autopsy reports indicate that Bill had killed her within four days of her capture, much faster than his earlier victims. On the basis of Lecter's prediction, Starling believes that he knows who Buffalo Bill really is. She also asks why she was sent to fish for information on Buffalo Bill without being told she was doing so; Crawford explains that if she had had an agenda, Lecter would have sensed it and never spoken up.
Starling takes the pupa to the Smithsonian, where it is eventually identified as the Black Witch, which would not naturally occur where the victim was found.
In Tennessee, Catherine Baker Martin, daughter of Senator Ruth Martin, is kidnapped. Within six hours, her blouse is found on the roadside, slit up the back: Buffalo Bill's calling card. Crawford is advised that no less than the President of the United States has expressed "intense interest" in the case, and that a successful rescue is preferable. Crawford estimates they have three days before Catherine is killed. Starling is sent to Lecter with the offer of a deal: if he assists in Catherine's rescue and Buffalo Bill's capture, he will be transferred out of the asylum, something he has continually longed for. However, Lecter expresses skepticism at the genuineness of the offer.
After Starling leaves, Lecter reminisces on the past, recalling a conversation with Benjamin Raspail, a former patient who was later murdered by Jame Gumb. Raspail, during that therapy session, explained the death of a sailor named Klaus at the hands of Raspail's jealous former lover, Jame Gumb, who then used Klaus' skin to make an apron. Raspail also revealed that Gumb had an epiphany upon watching a moth hatch. Lecter's ruminations are interrupted when Dr. Frederick Chilton - the asylum's administrator and Lecter's nemesis - steps in. A listening device allowed him to record Starling's offer, and Chilton has found out that Crawford's deal is a lie. He offers one of his own: If Lecter reveals Buffalo Bill's identity, he will indeed get a transfer to another asylum, but only if Chilton gets credit for getting the information from him. Lecter insists that he'll only give the information to Senator Martin in person, in Tennessee. Chilton agrees. Unknown to Chilton, Lecter has previously hidden under his tongue a paperclip and some parts of a pen, both of which were mistakenly given to him by untrained orderlies over his many years at the asylum. He fashions the pen pieces and paperclip into an improvised lockpick, which he later uses to pick his handcuff locks.
In Tennessee, Lecter toys with Senator Martin briefly, enjoying the woman's anguish, but eventually gives her some information about Buffalo Bill: his name is William "Billy" Rubin, and he has suffered from "elephant ivory anthrax", a knifemaker's disease. He also provides an accurate physical description. The name, however, is a red herring: bilirubin is a pigment in human bile and a chief coloring agent in human feces, which the forensic lab compares to the color of Chilton's hair.
Starling tries one last time to get information from Lecter as he is about to be transferred. He offers a final clue - "we covet what we see every day" - and demands to hear her worst memory. Starling reveals that, after her father's death, she was sent to live with a cousin on a sheep and horse ranch. One night, she discovered the farmer slaughtering the spring lambs, and fled in terror with one of the slaughter horses whom she named Hannah. The farmer caught her and sent her to an orphanage, where she spent the rest of her childhood, along with Hannah. Lecter thanks her, and the two share a brief moment of connection before Chilton forces her to leave. Later on, she deduces from Lecter's clue that Buffalo Bill knew his first victim.
Shortly after this, Lecter escapes by killing and eviscerating his guards, using one of their faces as a mask to fool paramedics. Starling continues her search for Buffalo Bill, eventually tracking him down and killing him, rescuing Catherine. She is made a full-fledged FBI agent, and receives a congratulatory telegram from Lecter, who hopes that "the lambs have stopped screaming". While writing the letter, Lecter notes to himself that he will track down Chilton, but Clarice assumes he will not come after her, correctly. He predicts, also correctly, that while saving Catherine Martin may have granted Clarice some relief, the silence will never become eternal, heralding her motives for a continued career at the FBI. Clarice eventually finds rest even after Lecter's letter, sleeping peacefully "in the silence of the lambs".
Characters[edit]
Clarice Starling
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Jack Crawford
Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb
Barney Matthews
Ardelia Mapp
Dr. Frederick Chilton
Catherine Baker Martin
Senator Ruth Martin
Paul Krendler
Noble Pilcher
Albert Roden
I. J. Miggs
Film adaptation[edit]
Main article: The Silence of the Lambs (film)
Following the 1986 adaptation of Red Dragon (filmed as Manhunter), The Silence of the Lambs was adapted by Jonathan Demme in 1991. The Silence of the Lambs became the third film in Oscar history to win the five most prestigious Academy Awards – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. It stars Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter. To this day, it continues to be listed by critics as one of the best films ever made.
Literary significance[edit]
The novel was a great success. Craig Brown of The Mail on Sunday wrote, "No thriller writer is better attuned than Thomas Harris to the rhythms of suspense. No horror writer is more adept at making the stomach churn". The Independent wrote, "Utterly gripping", and Amazon.com wrote, "...driving suspense, compelling characters,...a well-executed thriller..."[1] Children's novelist Roald Dahl also greatly enjoyed the novel, describing it as "subtle, horrific and splendid, the best book I have read in a long time". Author David Foster Wallace used the book as part of his curriculum while teaching at Pomona College and later included the book as well as Harris's Red Dragon on his list of ten favorite novels.[2] John Dunning says of Silence of the Lambs: [it is] "simply the best thriller I've read in five years".[3]
Accolades[edit]
The novel won the 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.[4]
The novel also won the 1989 Anthony Award for Best Novel.[5]
It was nominated for the 1989 World Fantasy Award.[6]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Editorial Reviews". Retrieved 2008-01-08.
2.Jump up ^ "David Foster Wallace's favorite books (archived)". Retrieved 2014-12-03.
3.Jump up ^ Dunning, John. Booked to Die. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. p. 159.
4.Jump up ^ "Past Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Horror Writers Association. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
5.Jump up ^ "Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Anthony Awards Nominees". BoucherCon.info. 2003-10-02. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
6.Jump up ^ "1989 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees". SSF.net. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
External links[edit]


[hide]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
Thomas Harris' Hannibal Lecter


Characters
Hannibal Lecter ·
 Will Graham ·
 Clarice Starling ·
 Francis Dolarhyde ·
 Buffalo Bill ·
 Frederick Chilton ·
 Jack Crawford ·
 Freddy Lounds ·
 Mason Verger
 

Novels
Red Dragon (1981) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1988) ·
 Hannibal (1999) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2006)
 

Films
Manhunter (1986) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) ·
 Hannibal (2001) ·
 Red Dragon (2002) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2007)
 

Television
Hannibal (2013–present) ·
 (List of episodes)
 

  


Categories: St. Martin's Press books
1988 novels
Thriller novels
Hannibal Lecter
American novels adapted into films
Cannibalism in fiction
1983 in fiction
Sequel novels
Anthony Award-winning works
Novels about serial killers




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List of Hannibal episodes
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Hannibal is an American psychological thriller television series developed by Bryan Fuller for NBC, and is based upon characters and elements appearing in the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. The series focuses on the budding relationship between FBI Special Agent Will Graham (Hugh Dancy), a crime scene investigator who holds the ability to empathize with psychopaths and murderers, and Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen), a forensic psychiatrist and secret cannibal destined to become Graham's most cunning enemy.
The FBI staff that supports Graham is headed by Special Agent in Charge Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne), who takes Graham from his teaching job to help investigate only the most gruesome and bizarre of murders, and includes a forensic team consisting of Beverly Katz (Hettienne Park), Brian Zeller (Aaron Abrams) and Jimmy Price (Scott Thompson). While psychiatric professor Dr. Alana Bloom (Caroline Dhavernas) tries to help Graham stabilize his mind, crime blogger Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds (Lara Jean Chorostecki) frequently attempts to use him and his cases to make a name for herself.
The first season premiered on April 4, 2013, and was later followed by a second season that premiered on February 28, 2014. Each episode of the first season is named after an element of French cuisine,[1] the season two titles are named after the different elements of Japanese haute cuisine,[2] and season three episodes are named after Italian cuisine.[3]
As of May 23, 2014, 26 episodes of Hannibal have aired, concluding the second season.


Contents  [hide]
1 Series overview
2 Episodes 2.1 Season 1 (2013)
2.2 Season 2 (2014)
2.3 Season 3
3 References
4 External links

Series overview[edit]

Season
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired
 1 13 April 4, 2013 June 20, 2013
 2 13 February 28, 2014 May 23, 2014
 3 13[4] Summer 2015[5] TBA
Episodes[edit]
Season 1 (2013)[edit]

No. in
 series
No. in
 season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
 code
U.S. viewers
 (millions)

1
1 "Apéritif" David Slade Bryan Fuller April 4, 2013 101 4.36[6]
FBI Special Investigator Will Graham (Hugh Dancy), who is haunted by his ability to empathize with serial killers and mentally re-create their crimes with vivid detail, is drawn into the investigation of a series of missing college girls by Special Agent Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne), who has special interest in Graham's ability. Crawford and Graham interview the parents of the latest girl to go missing, only to discover that her body has been returned to her bedroom. Graham suspects it is an apologetic gesture from the killer. Crawford, by recommendation of Dr. Alana Bloom (Caroline Dhavernas), enlists the help of noted psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen), who takes a keen interest in the case and particularly in Graham, in whom he senses a like mind. Another girl, Cassie Boyle, is found, this one mounted on top of a deer's head in an open field with her lungs removed. Graham is convinced it is the work of someone else, a negative designed to show him the positives of the other crimes. Dr. Lecter is shown preparing himself a meal with meat which is human lungs. FBI crime scene investigator Beverly Katz (Hettienne Park) finds a shred of metal from a pipe threader on the clothes of the returned girl, which leads Graham and Dr. Lecter to a construction site that employs Garrett Jacob Hobbs, who fits Graham's profile. Dr. Lecter secretly makes a phone call to Hobbs, warning him that, "They know." Lecter and Graham arrive at Hobbs's house just as Hobbs kills his wife. Graham shoots Hobbs dead, but not before Hobbs partially cuts his daughter's throat. Later, Graham and Lecter sit with the unconscious girl in her hospital room.
2
2 "Amuse-Bouche" Michael Rymer Jim Danger Gray April 11, 2013 102 4.38[7]
Now a special investigator for the FBI, Will Graham helps to find a murderer who uses his victims as fertilizer to grow mushrooms. Tabloid blogger Freddie Lounds (Lara Jean Chorostecki) snoops around the crime scene and Dr. Lecter's office to write a story about Graham, which the killer uses to stay a step ahead of the investigation. Meanwhile, Graham and Dr. Lecter discuss their mutual feeling of responsibility for Abigail Hobbs (Kacey Rohl), which leads Graham to begin opening up to the doctor. The killer is revealed to be a pharmacist who preys on diabetics and is obsessed with the similarities between the structures of fungi and the human mind: Graham intercepts and shoots him in the arm as he attempts to kidnap the unconscious Abigail Hobbs. During another session with Lecter, Graham reluctantly admits that he found killing Garret Jacob Hobbs "right"; Lecter likens it to a feeling of being God.
3
3 "Potage" David Slade Story by: David Fury
Teleplay by: David Fury and Chris Brancato and Bryan Fuller April 18, 2013 105 3.51[8]
Abigail Hobbs awakens from her coma. Graham suspects that Garret Jacob Hobbs, dubbed the "Minnesota Shrike," killed eight girls, but not the one impaled on the deer's head; that, he maintains, was a victim of a copycat, who called Hobbs to warn him. Crawford harbors suspicions that Abigail was somehow complicit in her father's killing spree, despite objections from Dr. Bloom, Lecter and Graham. Freddie Lounds meets the brother of the impaled girl and reveals to him that Abigail Hobbs is out of the hospital. Lecter and Graham take Abigail to her home, where she and her neighbor Marissa are confronted by the brother of the impaled girl, Nicholas Boyle. The following day, Abigail is taken to the cabin where Marissa is found impaled on a deer's head. In her house, Abigail finds the hair of one of the murdered girls inside a pillow and inadvertently kills Boyle in a way that, according to Lecter, cannot be seen as self-defense. Lecter helps her cover-up the murder, after which Abigail realizes it was Lecter who made the call to her father. Lecter suggests that Abigail keep his secret in exchange for his hiding her murder.
4
4 "Œuf" Peter Medak Jennifer Schuur April 26, 2013 (India)
 Unaired (U.S.) 104 N/A
Two families are found murdered, with both mothers killed last. The only link between the families is that they both have sons who have been on the missing persons list for approximately a year. Graham concludes these "Lost Boys" are killing their old families to bond more closely to their new family. Graham continues his sessions with Dr. Lecter and confides that even if he finds the boys, he will never be able to give them back what they gave away: their families. He also admits to having paternal feelings toward Abigail Hobbs, which make him uncomfortable. Lecter's own interest in Abigail leads him to check her out of the hospital, against Dr. Bloom's wishes, and take her into his care. He gives her some tea made from psilocybin mushrooms to help with her traumatic dreams. Bloom helps Graham realize that the "Lost Boys" are under the influence of a powerful but unnamed mother figure (Molly Shannon) and uses footage from a convenience store security camera to track them to North Carolina in time to stop another young boy from murdering his family.
5
5 "Coquilles" Guillermo Navarro Story by: Scott Nimerfro
Teleplay by: Scott Nimerfro and Bryan Fuller April 25, 2013 106 2.40[9]
A murdered couple is found in a motel room, posed in praying positions with the flesh of their backs opened and strung to the ceiling to give them the appearance of wings. Using a sample of the killer's vomit found on the nightstand, the BAU team discover several medications often used together to treat cancer, specifically brain tumors. Graham surmises the killer is transforming his victims into guardian angels to watch over him because he is afraid of dying in his sleep. Meanwhile, Crawford's wife Bella (Gina Torres) becomes Dr. Lecter's new patient. She is reluctant to tell her husband that she has terminal lung cancer because he already has too much to worry about. Graham starts to suffer from episodes of sleepwalking and continues to dream about the feathered stag that has been haunting him since the Hobbs case. He confides to Dr. Lecter that the pressure of looking into killer's minds is starting to break his psyche and Lecter attempts to use this to create a wedge between Graham and Crawford. The angel-maker is tracked to an old farm, but is discovered to have committed suicide and transformed himself into an angel. During the investigation, Crawford realizes the reason for his wife's distant behavior and promises to help her through her illness any way he can.
6
6 "Entrée" Michael Rymer Story by: Kai Yu Wu
Teleplay by: Kai Yu Wu and Bryan Fuller May 2, 2013 107 2.61[10]
A nurse at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane is brutally murdered by a patient, Dr. Abel Gideon (Eddie Izzard), in a manner reminiscent of the "Chesapeake Ripper", who hasn't committed a murder in two years, the same number of years Gideon has been incarcerated. While Graham tries to discover whether Gideon truly is the Ripper, Crawford receives a phone call, apparently from the real Ripper, who plays the recorded voice of Miriam Lass (Anna Chlumsky), a trainee Crawford had consulting on the Chesapeake Ripper case two years previously when she suddenly disappeared. Bloom and Crawford make a deal with Freddie Lounds to write a story about Gideon, hoping to provoke the real Ripper to make himself visible. During a dinner with Bloom and Lecter, Dr. Frederick Chilton (Raúl Esparza), the administrator of the Baltimore hospital, tells them he had suspected Gideon of being the Ripper; Lecter surmises that Chilton unintentionally planted the thought in Gideon's mind during a session, implying that, while Gideon is not the Ripper, he believes himself to be. Later, Crawford receives another phone call, which they trace to an old observatory, where they find Miriam's cell phone clutched in the hand of a severed arm. A final flashback reveals Miriam's fate: she visits Dr. Lecter to ask about an old patient, Jeremy Olmstead, whom he had come into contact with when working as an ER attendant, who has turned up as the latest Ripper victim. While Lecter excuses himself, Miriam finds one of his sketches of the Wound Man, which precisely matches the manner in which Olmstead was murdered. Lecter sneaks up on her from behind and knocks her unconscious, revealing himself as the real Chesapeake Ripper.
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7 "Sorbet" James Foley Jesse Alexander & Bryan Fuller May 9, 2013 103 2.62[11]
The BAU is called in when a man is found in a hotel room bathtub with his kidney removed and Graham must determine whether this is the act of an organ harvester or if the Chesapeake Ripper has claimed his first victim in two years. Meanwhile, Crawford continues to be haunted by the discovery of Miriam Lass's arm. Dr. Bloom suspects that Crawford has become obsessed with catching the Ripper, and is putting Graham in danger by making him chase the Ripper. Lecter murders a medical examiner who once treated him rudely and removes his heart. When his body is found displayed on a bus, Graham becomes convinced that the latest victim was the work of the real Ripper, while the first was not. Lecter takes another four victims and harvests their organs for use in a dinner party. Through hotel security footage, the BAU team discovers that the organ harvester is a part-time paramedic, Devon Silvestri, who aspires to be a doctor. They track his ambulance in time to save the life of his latest victim, but his arrest solidifies Graham's opinion that there is only one Chesapeake Ripper, who was responsible for all of the murders except the first.
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8 "Fromage" Tim Hunter Jennifer Schuur and Bryan Fuller May 16, 2013 108 2.46[12]
Lecter's patient Franklin Froideveaux (Dan Fogler) worries that his friend Tobias may be a psychopath, but Franklin's growing obsession with Lecter is what concerns the latter more. Graham investigates the murder of a Baltimore musician who had his throat opened and a cello neck inserted through his mouth. Graham, with Lecter's guidance, interprets this as one killer serenading another. Graham's mental stability deteriorates further when he begins having auditory hallucinations of animals in pain and when his romantic feelings for Alana Bloom are rejected. At first she responds well to Graham kissing her, but then says it would be a bad idea for them to become involved. When Franklin confesses to Lecter that Tobias had told him he wanted to cut open someone's throat and "play them like a violin", Lecter confronts Tobias, who reveals that not only is he the murderer, but he knows that Lecter is one as well and feels they could be friends. Lecter passes on some of this information to Graham, once again putting an unknowing Graham in a dangerous situation when he goes to question him. Tobias kills two police officers who had accompanied Graham and escapes to Lecter's office, where Franklin is having a session. Lecter kills both Franklin and Tobias and lies to Crawford about what happened. Lecter confides to his own psychoanalyst, Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier (Gillian Anderson), that he believes he might have found a true friend in Graham.
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9 "Trou Normand" Guillermo Navarro Steve Lightfoot May 23, 2013 109 2.69[13]
A totem pole of human bodies ranging from freshly killed to decades old are found on a beach and while Graham is investigating the crime scene, he suddenly finds himself in Lecter's office, three and a half hours away, with no recollection of how he got there. Lecter theorizes that Graham's mind is trying to escape from having to investigate such brutal murders. Freddie Lounds convinces Abigail Hobbs to let her write a book about Abigail and her father, which is met with grave concern from Graham and Lecter. The body of Nicholas Boyle (whom Abigail had accidentally killed) re-surfaces and with it re-emerges Crawford's suspicion that Abigail knows more than she is letting on. The freshest totem pole victim is identified as Joel Summers, who was the son of Fletcher Marshall, the oldest body on the pole, before he was adopted. The killings are traced to Lawrence Wells (Lance Henriksen), who was having an affair with Marshall's wife and killed him in a crime of passion. The rest of the killings were for his own satisfaction and so he could 'retire'; prison would be better than any retirement home he could afford. However, Graham reveals that Summers was not Marshall's biological son, he was Wells'; the killer inadvertently murdered his own son. Graham examines Boyle's body and deduces that he was killed by Abigail. He confronts Lecter, who reveals that he helped Abigail hide the body in order to protect her future. Graham reluctantly agrees to keep her secret so that she won't inherit her father's brutal legacy. Abigail herself reveals an even greater secret to Lecter: that she actually did, as Crawford suspected, know who her father really was and helped him to procure his victims by befriending the young girls.
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10 "Buffet Froid" John Dahl Andy Black & Chris Brancato and Bryan Fuller May 30, 2013 110 2.40[14]
Beth LeBeau is found murdered, having drowned in her own blood as a result of her face being cut into a glasgow smile. Graham's mental state continues to sharply decline; he loses hours at a time and when a vivid hallucination causes Graham to contaminate the crime scene, Lecter refers him to a neurologist, an old residency colleague, Dr. Sutcliffe (John Benjamin Hickey). An MRI reveals that Graham is suffering an advanced form of encephalitis, but Lecter pressures Sutcliffe into telling Graham that he found no neurological problems so that Lecter can continue to analyze him. Graham returns to LeBeau's house, where he is attacked by her killer, who manages to escape. She is identified as Georgia Madchen (Ellen Muth), a young woman who suffers from numerous medical conditions, including Cotard's syndrome, a delusional disorder that has her convinced she is actually dead and takes away her ability to identify people's faces. She mutilated LeBeau's (her best friend) face because she was deluded into thinking LeBeau was an untrustworthy stranger. She becomes interested in Graham after their encounter and even follows him to Dr. Sutcliffe's office. Graham reaches out to her and manages to convince her that she is alive and not alone, and Georgia is brought in for medical treatment. Lecter murders Dr. Sutcliffe but frames the kill to appear as though Georgia had murdered him while following Graham.
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11 "Rôti" Guillermo Navarro Steve Lightfoot and Bryan Fuller & Scott Nimerfro June 6, 2013 111 2.36[15]
Dr. Abel Gideon escapes from custody and begins targeting the psychiatrists who attempted to treat him, displaying their bodies with a Colombian necktie. While Alana Bloom is put under protective custody, Gideon kidnaps Dr. Frederick Chilton and lures Freddie Lounds into a trap, forcing her to write an article about him. Meanwhile, Graham's undiagnosed Encephalitis drives his temperature up, causing severe hallucinations. Another psychiatrist is found similarly mutilated, only with his right arm amputated and Graham speculates that this is actually a message from the real Chesapeake Ripper telling them where to find Gideon. At the abandoned observatory where Miriam Lass's severed arm was found, Gideon begins surgically removing Chilton's organs with the intention of leaving a "gift basket" for the Ripper, whom Gideon is trying to lure out. While Crawford and a SWAT team hit the observatory, Graham's hallucination of the stag returns and he follows it, fortuitously intercepting Gideon, who had anticipated the SWAT team's arrival. In his delusional state, Graham takes Gideon to Lecter, who convinces Graham that he has hallucinated the encounter. When Graham has a seizure, Lecter uses the opportunity to set Gideon on Alana. Lecter manipulates Graham into pursuing him and Graham shoots at Gideon outside Alana's house before collapsing. Graham is hospitalized.
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12 "Relevés" Michael Rymer Chris Brancato and Bryan Fuller June 13, 2013 112 2.10[16]
Following an offhand comment by Graham, Hannibal leaves a comb in the chamber of Georgia Madchen, who accidentally sparks a fire inside her hyperbaric chamber and is burned to death. Angered, Graham deduces that several recent murders were all the work of a copycat patterning after recent serial murders, and that Georgia was killed because she may have remembered the face of whoever had killed Dr. Sutcliffe. Crawford, bothered by Graham's behavior and by Lecter's apparent concealment of Graham's hallucinations, discovers the pattern that shows Abigail was present during Garrett's victim selection processes. Crawford confronts Lecter's therapist, Dr. Du Maurier, and she later tells Lecter that she didn't reveal the details about being attacked by a patient. After releasing himself from the hospital, Graham takes Abigail back to Minnesota, to the hunting lodge. During a hallucination he deduces, correctly, that Abigail was an active participant in her father's murders. Fleeing from Graham, Abigail is comforted by Lecter, who admits to having killed more people than her father. When Abigail asks him if he is going to kill her, he simply tells her that he is sorry he couldn't protect her.
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13 "Savoureux" David Slade Steve Lightfoot and Bryan Fuller & Scott Nimerfro June 20, 2013 113 1.98[17]
Following his strange trip to Minnesota, Graham is taken into custody by Crawford for the probable murder of Abigail Hobbs. They find her severed ear in his kitchen sink and her blood under his fingernails. Alana is left devastated by the arrest and is determined to find the cause of Graham's dementia, despite Crawford's insistence that there is no underlying cause. She has him draw a clock when he tells her that Dr. Lecter had him perform a similar test, and the results solidify her belief that there is a physical explanation for Graham's instability. Katz, Price and Zeller examine Graham's homemade fishing lures and discover that four of them have included elements of human remains, whose DNA matches all four victims of the copycat killer: Cassie Boyle, Marissa Schur, Dr. Sutcliffe and Georgia Madchen. Graham escapes from custody while being transferred and goes to Lecter for help, only to have Lecter demonstrate that it is feasible for him to have murdered all four people. Graham convinces Lecter to take him back to the Hobbs house in Minnesota, where he finally comes to realize that it was Lecter who called to warn Garret Hobbs about his impending arrest and that Lecter has been manipulating him ever since to see how someone with Graham's unique ability would operate. Crawford arrives and stops Graham from killing Lecter by shooting him in the shoulder. Graham is hospitalized, where his Encephalitis is finally discovered and he is placed in a protective coma while undergoing treatment. Lecter brings dinner to Du Maurier, where she reveals that she may know much more about him than even he suspected. Next, Lecter pays one last visit to Graham in his new home: the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
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1 "Kaiseki" Tim Hunter Bryan Fuller & Steve Lightfoot February 28, 2014 201 3.27[18]
Jack Crawford visits Dr. Hannibal Lecter at his home and immediately attacks him. A protracted and brutal fight ensues, ending with Lecter stabbing Crawford's neck with a piece of broken glass. Bleeding profusely, Crawford manages to lock himself in Lecter's pantry. Twelve weeks earlier, Kade Prurnell (Cynthia Nixon), an investigator for the Inspector General's Office, warns Crawford of his misconduct, while pressuring Alana Bloom to recant her complaint, namely about Crawford's mishandling of Graham's instability. Bloom refuses, stressing that the truth must go on record. Lecter gets to walk in Graham's shoes when six partially preserved bodies are found in a river. Lecter theorizes that the killer is preserving the bodies to create a human model collection and that those in the river are imperfect castoffs. In the Baltimore asylum, Graham is determined to uncover how Lecter set him up and enlists Alana to help him recover lost memories through hypnosis. While not immediately successful, he later has a flashback of Lecter forcing Abigail Hobbs' ear down his throat with the use of a plastic tube. The killer strikes again, kidnapping a young man and taking him, alive, to an empty silo where his collection is revealed: an interconnected collage of naked bodies.
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2 "Sakizuke" Tim Hunter Jeff Vlaming and Bryan Fuller March 7, 2014 202 2.50[19]
The young man, Roland Umber, escapes from the silo, but is chased by the killer through a cornfield to the edge of a cliff and dies attempting to jump into the water below. The BAU team recovers his body but assume he was discarded and dumped like the others. Lecter picks up the scent of corn on him, which he keeps to himself. Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier terminates her relationship with Lecter, having come to the conclusion that he is a dangerous man. Beverly Katz continues to use Graham to help with the case and, using photos of Roland Umber's body, Graham realizes that he had in fact escaped and was not discarded. In return for his help, Katz promises to look into Graham's possible innocence. Lecter finds the silo without informing the BAU and kills the murderer, adding him to his own mural. Prurnell visits Graham in the asylum and offers him the chance to avoid the death penalty by pleading guilty, which Graham refuses. Du Maurier visits Graham, standing close and whispering "I believe you". Lecter goes to Du Maurier's house, only to find the furniture covered and the house empty.
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3 "Hassun" Peter Medak Jason Grote and Steve Lightfoot March 14, 2014 203 2.47[20]
Graham's trial begins and the prosecution paints him as an intelligent, creative psychopath. Crawford puts his job at risk by testifying that he may have pushed Graham too far by keeping him on the investigative team, though the admission allows him some relief. Graham's lawyer receives a severed ear in the mail, cut from a corpse within the previous forty-eight hours, causing doubts to stir among those who believe in Graham's guilt. Katz, Price, and Zeller determine that the ear was severed using the same knife that cut off Abigail Hobbs' ear, which was signed out of the courthouse evidence room by the bailiff in Graham's trial, Andrew Sykes. A large fire is triggered when the FBI raid his apartment, but it does not destroy a key piece of evidence: Sykes' body mounted on a stag's head, missing an ear, face cut into a Glasgow smile and set on fire: all of the things Graham supposedly did to his victims. Lecter presents the forensics report to Graham, who deduces that Sykes was killed in too different a manner from the others to be the same killer. Lecter agrees, but urges Will to lie about who he thinks killed Sykes in order to exonerate himself. The prosecution picks up on the dissimilarities as well, and succeeds in having the bailiff's murder deemed inadmissible. The next day, the judge in Graham's trial is found brutally murdered and displayed in the courtroom. This prompts a mistrial and saves Will from conviction – for the moment.
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4 "Takiawase" David Semel Scott Nimerfro & Bryan Fuller March 21, 2014 204 2.69[21]
Graham agrees to a form of intense light therapy with Dr. Chilton, during which time he realizes that Lecter was tactically encouraging his encephalitis. Chilton confronts Lecter about this, but is not hostile, relating to Lecter as another physician accused of manipulating his patient into murder. An acupuncturist (Amanda Plummer) lobotomizes suffering patients, leaving them to die in meadows. Her first victim is found with a beehive occupying his half-empty skull; the second is found still standing, brain dead but physically alive. After the second victim is discovered, he is immediately connected to the first as patients of the acupuncturist. When Crawford visits her, she turns herself in without a fuss. Bella Crawford talks to Lecter about the possibility of suicide in the face of her lung cancer, something which he encourages, citing Socrates and describing death as a "cure". Later, Bella visits Lecter's office after taking an overdose of morphine, and falls unconscious. After flipping a coin, Lecter saves her life with a naloxone shot. Later he visits her and Crawford in the hospital, and Bella slaps him across the face. Katz, on Graham's advice, examines the body of James Gray, the mural killer. She finds that the stitches connecting him to the mural were also surgical stitches on an opening through which his kidney was removed. Katz, starting to suspect Lecter and against Graham's advice, breaks into Lecter's home and discovers his murder dungeon. She removes a package from a freezer but is caught by Lecter and gunshots are fired.
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5 "Mukōzuke" Michael Rymer Ayanna A. Floyd and Steve Lightfoot & Bryan Fuller March 28, 2014 205 3.49[22]
An anonymous tip brings Freddie Lounds back to the observatory she and Dr. Chilton were taken to by Abel Gideon. There she finds the body of Beverly Katz, sectioned vertically and displayed in tableau. Graham is brought to the crime scene and convinces Crawford that it is the work of the Chesapeake Ripper and the mural copycat; that they are one and the same. A post-mortem examination of Katz reveals that her kidneys were removed and replaced with the kidneys of James Gray, the mural killer. Graham convinces Chilton to return Abel Gideon to the asylum, to glean information about the Chesapeake Ripper's identity. Graham uses Lounds to write an article, hoping to inspire contact from the killer of the bailiff and the judge at his trial. A new orderly at the asylum, Matthew Brown (Jonathan Tucker), confesses to Graham that he killed Sykes, hoping it would exonerate Graham, but the death of the judge was someone else's work. Brown asks Graham how he can serve Graham, who tells Brown he could kill Dr. Lecter for him. Gideon overhears this and gives Alana the chance to save Graham from himself. The orderly tranquilizes Lecter while the latter is swimming laps, strings him up with a noose and is about to kick away the bucket on which Lecter is standing when Crawford arrives. He shoots the orderly, who even while falling dead manages to kick the bucket out but Crawford saves Lecter.
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6 "Futamono" Tim Hunter Story by: Andy Black
 Teleplay by: Andy Black and Bryan Fuller & Scott Nimerfro & Steve Lightfoot April 4, 2014 206 2.18[23]
Crawford confronts Graham about setting the orderly Matthew Brown on Lecter, and Graham denies it but tries to make Crawford see that Lecter is the Chesapeake Ripper by explaining to him why he only kills in lots of three or four; he has to eat the meat he takes before it spoils. Graham assures Crawford that if the Ripper is killing again, Lecter will be throwing a dinner party. Sure enough, Lecter soon invites Crawford to a gathering he is hosting. Meanwhile, local city councilor Sheldon Isley is found surgically grafted onto a tree in a parking lot (for which Isley brokered the development deal and in the process destroyed the habitat of some rare songbirds), his chest cavity emptied of all organs except his lungs and stuffed with poisonous flowers. The autopsy reveals a number of Ripper tell-tale signs and that Isley was drowned. Price and Zeller determine from the water in his lungs that he was killed within a fifty-mile radius. Chilton records Abel Gideon confessing to Graham that he was in Lecter's home, but Gideon denies this when questioned by Crawford. Gideon is beaten by a pair of guards and put in the infirmary. Lecter throws his dinner party and Crawford takes a few samples of the food to Price and Zeller to be tested. Alana and Lecter sleep together and Lecter kidnaps Gideon from the infirmary while she is sleeping (helped by a drugged glass of wine). The infirmary guard is killed and strung up with fishing lines. Lecter uses Alana as an alibi when confronted by Crawford. Lecter cooks and serves Gideon's leg to him as a last meal. Though Price and Zeller do not find any human tissue in the samples of Lecter's food, they do find body materials in the fishing lures from such victims as the judge, James Gray, Miriam Lass, all the way back to Marissa Schur. They also find a piece of rare tree bark, which Crawford traces to an abandoned farmhouse in the initial search area, where he finds Miriam Lass still alive.
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7 "Yakimono" Michael Rymer Steve Lightfoot and Bryan Fuller April 11, 2014 207 2.25[24]
Miriam Lass is brought in to identify the Ripper, but has no memory of her encounter with Dr. Lecter and only vague recollections of her captivity. When Lecter himself is brought in, Miriam is positive it is not him. The evidence gathered from the most recent Ripper killings serves to prove that Will's alleged victims were actually the Ripper's, exonerating him of all charges. Graham is released from the asylum and urges Dr. Chilton to share what he knows about Lecter's unusual psychiatric treatment on Graham, by confessing his own psychic driving of Abel Gideon. Graham figures out that Alana and Lecter are together and warns her to stay away from him. He visits with Miriam and tells her about the light therapy used to induce his blackouts. Miriam recalls similar experiences with her captor. He then drops in on Lecter and confronts him with a gun. He says killing Lecter would feel right, but ultimately doesn't. Crawford takes Miriam to Lecter's office and he performs hypnotic regression therapy on her. The last thing she remembers before being captured is the Wound Man illustration. Price and Zeller find one of Lecter's fingerprints on a flower from Sheldon Isley's body, and Crawford repeats what Will said in the farmhouse, i.e. that whatever evidence is found, it would lead away from the Ripper. Drugs are found in Miriam's blood which were used in both Graham and Gideon's treatments, pointing to either Lecter or Chilton as the suspect. Crawford wants them both brought in, but Lecter moves first and frames Chilton by placing Gideon's mutilated body in Chilton's house and murdering the two FBI agents who were to bring Chilton in for questioning, dressing one of them as the Wound Man. Chilton goes to Graham for help, intending to flee the country, but Crawford catches up with him first and brings him into custody. Miriam "remembers" Chilton performing the treatment on her, identifying him as the Ripper. In a moment of rage and confusion, she takes Crawford's gun and shoots Chilton in the face. Graham visits Lecter again and asks to resume his therapy.
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8 "Su-zakana" Vincenzo Natali Scott Nimerfro and Bryan Fuller & Steve Lightfoot April 18, 2014 208 2.80[25]
Lecter begins therapy with a new patient named Margot Verger (Katharine Isabelle), who suffers abuse at the hands of her sadistic brother Mason. Will Graham, now cleared of being the Chesapeake Ripper, resumes assisting the FBI, and willingly continues his therapy with Lecter. Finding a female victim placed inside a dead horse's uterus, Graham and Crawford interview previous stable employee Peter Bernardone (Jeremy Davies), who left after suffering a head injury from a horse, and denies committing the crime. Performing an autopsy, the horse victim is found to have a live bird trapped in her chest cavity, and soil found inside her throat leads the FBI to a mass burial ground. Graham questions Peter further, who states he placed the soil to lead them to his social worker Clark Ingram (Chris Diamantopoulos), who is responsible for the mass grave and the horse victim. Clark, assigned to assist Peter following his injury, performs an interview with Dr. Bloom, which leads Graham to accuse him of being the real killer; despite Clark's counter-accusation of Peter, Graham sympathizes with Peter's vulnerable state, and believes he too is being manipulated. Peter returns to the stables, only to find Clark has used a hammer to kill the horse that injured Peter, further implicating him. Graham and Lecter, arriving at the stables as Peter sews up the dead horse's torso, learn he placed Clark inside the horse; shortly thereafter, Peter clarifies he did not murder Clark, but instead trapped him alive so he could experience the fate of his victims. Returning to find Clark emerging from the horse and picking up his hammer, Graham holds him at gunpoint and threatens to kill him for trying to frame Peter. Lecter confides that he is fascinated with Graham's unpredictability, but warns that killing Clark won't resolve his own internal conflicts. After Lecter takes Graham's gun, the pair arrest Clark for his crimes.
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9 "Shiizakana" Michael Rymer Jeff Vlaming and Bryan Fuller April 25, 2014 209 2.45[26]
A truck driver is found horribly mauled, and Crawford believes it is not a simple animal attack, but the work of someone with a large animal trained to kill on command. Later discovering a couple who are similarly mutilated and killed, the BAU team realize that while it appears to be an animal, it is more likely a killer who stalks and kills while wearing a mechanical beast suit. Dr. Lecter informs Crawford that he previously treated Randall Tier (Mark O'Brien), a patient who fits the profile; only a teenager when Lecter treated him, Tier suffers an identity disorder, causing him to believe he is an animal in the body of a human. Meanwhile, Graham is approached by Margot Verger, seeking insight on Lecter's unusual therapy, and the two discover that they share similar personal problems. Visiting Lecter, Graham informs him that Dr. Du Maurier confided her belief in him, and questions if Dr. Lecter has a history of manipulating patients. Lecter approaches Tier and warns him the FBI is investigating him, and asks him to kill Graham. After one of his dogs, Buster, is attacked and injured outside his home, Graham rescues it and locks himself inside, only for Tier to break through a window and attack him. As Lecter returns home, he enters his dining room and finds Graham has killed Tier, and has laid the corpse on his dining table.
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10 "Naka-Choko" Vincenzo Natali Story by: Steve Lightfoot and Kai Yu Wu
Teleplay by: Steve Lightfoot May 2, 2014 210 2.28[27]
As Randall Tier smashes into Graham's house, Graham alternates seeing him as the feathered stag, the Wendigo, and as Lecter. A struggle ensues and, overpowering Tier, Graham pummels him before snapping his neck. Taking Tier's body to Lecter, Graham states he and Hannibal are even, having both sent psychopaths to kill each other. Crawford asks Lecter and Graham to analyze Tier's corpse, parts of which have been combined with a saber-tooth display; both Graham and Lecter discuss the former's actions, their conversation disguised as a crime scene analysis. Meeting with Freddie Lounds, Graham learns she still believes Graham's story of Lecter being the real Chesapeake Ripper. Margot visits her brother, Mason Verger (Michael Pitt), who shows her that he is training specially bred pigs to eat people alive. Margot meets with Graham again, and they further confide in each other, which leads to them having sex. Lounds visits Alana Bloom for an interview, and, after noting that Tier is the fourth ex-patient of Lecter's to have been murdered, states she believes Graham and Lecter are killing together. Mason meets with Hannibal and explains he is suspicious about what Margot may disclose; when Lecter then outlines doctor-patient confidentiality and offers to treat Mason, he accepts. Learning of Lounds' suspicions from Alana, Lecter waits in her apartment to kill her. Concurrently, Lounds arrives at Graham's house and investigates his locked barn, where she finds Tier's bloodied animal suit, along with his jawbone. Graham appears and, when Lounds flees and calls Crawford, Graham overpowers her. Crawford shares Lounds' phone call, only unintelligible screams, with Graham, who mentions he invited her to an interview she failed to attend. Joining Lecter for dinner, Graham provides the ingredients and meat, and is vague about the meat's origin. Eating together, Lecter presses Graham on its source, and the latter confirms that it is "long pig".
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11 "Kō No Mono" David Slade Jeff Vlaming & Andy Black and Bryan Fuller May 9, 2014 211 1.95[28]
At the TattleCrime offices, a burning body in a wheelchair rolls into the parking garage, and a dental analysis confirms it is Lounds. Margot meets with Graham and Lecter, informing them she is pregnant with Graham's child, but that she is hiding it from Mason. Graham is visited by Alana, who is worried about his relationship with Lecter, and asks if he killed Lounds; Graham responds vaguely, but gives Alana his pistol and tells her to practice using it. Mason attends therapy with Lecter, who implies Mason could have an heir through Margot, hinting at her pregnancy. Graham attends Lounds' funeral with Alana, and further implies he murdered her. Several hours later, Lounds' grave is found disturbed, her body posed like Shiva, which Bloom deduces was done by an admirer of Lounds' killer. Margot, aware Mason knows of her pregnancy, attempts to flee, only for Mason's assistant Carlo to crash into her car. Waking on an operating table, Margo learns from Mason that he is having her made infertile, leaving him as the only source of any family heir. Alana confronts Crawford, demanding to know what he and Will are hiding; Crawford reveals Lounds is alive. Learning what Mason did to Margot, Graham breaks into his farm and, when taunted by Mason, hangs him over his pit of pigs. Graham spares Mason, but notes Lecter is manipulating them all, and suggests Mason feed Lecter to his pigs.
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12 "Tome-wan" Michael Rymer Chris Brancato and Bryan Fuller & Scott Nimerfro May 16, 2014 212 2.32[29]
Meeting for therapy, Graham claims that Lecter wants Mason dead, and that he informed Verger of it; despite agreeing with the doctor, Graham still fantasizes about feeding Lecter to Mason's pigs. Learning Mason compares maiming Margot to "playing chicken", Lecter informs Graham and Margot, who suggest she seek revenge by surviving her brother rather than kill him. Speaking with Crawford, Graham is told to tread carefully, as his mutilating Tier's corpse contradicts his self-defense claim. Crawford reveals he has located Dr. Du Maurier, who admits she killed the patient who attacked her. Having done so at Lecter's command, feeling there was no alternative, she suggests Graham be cautious lest he be manipulated. Meeting with Lecter, Graham boasts awareness of his manipulative ways; concurrently, Du Maurier warns that if they think they will catch Lecter, it's because that's what he wants them to think. Three of Verger's employees capture Lecter and take him to Verger's farm, where he is to be fed to the pigs with Graham brought in to witness. Asked to cut Lecter's throat to encourage the pigs, Graham instead cuts him free before being knocked out. Captured by Lecter, Verger is forced to inhale several psychedelic drugs, after which Lecter is able to convince Verger to mutilate his own face. Regaining consciousness, Graham returns home to find Verger removing and feeding pieces of his face to the dogs. Lecter asks Graham what they should do with Verger and, when Graham is indifferent, Lecter breaks Verger's neck, leaving him alive but paralyzed. Mason, now bedridden and in Margot's care, lies to Crawford that his mutilation was due to an accident involving his pigs. Speaking with Lecter about their friendship, Graham warns they will soon be caught, and suggests Lecter reveal himself to Crawford.
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13 "Mizumono" David Slade Steve Lightfoot and Bryan Fuller May 23, 2014 213 2.35[30]
Speaking with both Lecter and Crawford, Graham reflects on his relationship with both and, when both ask if he can be trusted, he confirms. Graham requests Lounds respect Abigail Hobbs' memory and write only on him and Lecter, and when Lounds questions if Graham expects to survive, he does not answer. Helping Lecter destroy his patient records, Graham brushes off Lecter's suggestion they escape without confessing, and, when they pass each other, Lecter recognizes Lounds' scent on him. Alana, accepting Lecter is the Chesapeake Ripper, warns Graham of trapping Lecter, as he could be caught by Lecter instead. Sharing a final meal, Lecter questions Graham's loyalty and, when asked if he would take Crawford's forgiveness, Graham notes it isn't an option as Crawford wants justice. Crawford is confronted by Prurnell, and forced to take a work absence; as he allowed Graham to mutilate Tier and is plotting to entrap Lecter, she finds him unfit to work. Warned by Alana that the FBI is attempting to arrest him, Graham attempts to further earn Lecter's trust, and phones to warn him. A fight breaks out between Crawford and Lecter; Crawford, wounded, hides from Lecter in the pantry, only for Lecter to be held at gunpoint by Alana. Lecter tells Alana to walk away or he will kill her; she tries to shoot Lecter, who reveals he emptied her gun earlier. Escaping upstairs and reloading, Alana suddenly finds she isn't alone; turning around, she finds Abigail Hobbs alive, who apologizes and pushes her out the window. Graham, arriving to find Alana seriously injured, phones for help and enters to find Jack. Graham finds Abigail, who again apologizes, stating she obeyed Lecter as she didn't know what else she could do. Lecter appears, embracing Graham and stabbing him with a linoleum knife, while explaining that he spared Abigail as a surprise. Lecter forgives Graham for repaying his trust with betrayal, but questions if Graham will ever do the same as he cuts Abigail's throat and leaves the others to bleed. He is next seen aboard a plane to France with Dr. Du Maurier.
Season 3[edit]
On May 9, 2014, NBC renewed Hannibal for a third season,[31] set to premiere in summer 2015.[5] The season began principal photography on October 20, 2014, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[32] Some filming of exterior scenes will be shot in Florence, Italy.[4]

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1 "Antipasto"[33] Vincenzo Natali Bryan Fuller & Steve Lightfoot Summer 2015[5]  TBA
28
2 "Primavera"[34] TBA TBA   TBA
29
3 "Secondo"[34] TBA TBA   TBA
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List of Hannibal episodes at the Internet Movie Database


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Hannibal is an American psychological thriller television series developed by Bryan Fuller for NBC, and is based upon characters and elements appearing in the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. The series focuses on the budding relationship between FBI Special Agent Will Graham (Hugh Dancy), a crime scene investigator who holds the ability to empathize with psychopaths and murderers, and Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen), a forensic psychiatrist and secret cannibal destined to become Graham's most cunning enemy.
The FBI staff that supports Graham is headed by Special Agent in Charge Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne), who takes Graham from his teaching job to help investigate only the most gruesome and bizarre of murders, and includes a forensic team consisting of Beverly Katz (Hettienne Park), Brian Zeller (Aaron Abrams) and Jimmy Price (Scott Thompson). While psychiatric professor Dr. Alana Bloom (Caroline Dhavernas) tries to help Graham stabilize his mind, crime blogger Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds (Lara Jean Chorostecki) frequently attempts to use him and his cases to make a name for herself.
The first season premiered on April 4, 2013, and was later followed by a second season that premiered on February 28, 2014. Each episode of the first season is named after an element of French cuisine,[1] the season two titles are named after the different elements of Japanese haute cuisine,[2] and season three episodes are named after Italian cuisine.[3]
As of May 23, 2014, 26 episodes of Hannibal have aired, concluding the second season.


Contents  [hide]
1 Series overview
2 Episodes 2.1 Season 1 (2013)
2.2 Season 2 (2014)
2.3 Season 3
3 References
4 External links

Series overview[edit]

Season
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired
 1 13 April 4, 2013 June 20, 2013
 2 13 February 28, 2014 May 23, 2014
 3 13[4] Summer 2015[5] TBA
Episodes[edit]
Season 1 (2013)[edit]

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Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
 code
U.S. viewers
 (millions)

1
1 "Apéritif" David Slade Bryan Fuller April 4, 2013 101 4.36[6]
FBI Special Investigator Will Graham (Hugh Dancy), who is haunted by his ability to empathize with serial killers and mentally re-create their crimes with vivid detail, is drawn into the investigation of a series of missing college girls by Special Agent Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne), who has special interest in Graham's ability. Crawford and Graham interview the parents of the latest girl to go missing, only to discover that her body has been returned to her bedroom. Graham suspects it is an apologetic gesture from the killer. Crawford, by recommendation of Dr. Alana Bloom (Caroline Dhavernas), enlists the help of noted psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen), who takes a keen interest in the case and particularly in Graham, in whom he senses a like mind. Another girl, Cassie Boyle, is found, this one mounted on top of a deer's head in an open field with her lungs removed. Graham is convinced it is the work of someone else, a negative designed to show him the positives of the other crimes. Dr. Lecter is shown preparing himself a meal with meat which is human lungs. FBI crime scene investigator Beverly Katz (Hettienne Park) finds a shred of metal from a pipe threader on the clothes of the returned girl, which leads Graham and Dr. Lecter to a construction site that employs Garrett Jacob Hobbs, who fits Graham's profile. Dr. Lecter secretly makes a phone call to Hobbs, warning him that, "They know." Lecter and Graham arrive at Hobbs's house just as Hobbs kills his wife. Graham shoots Hobbs dead, but not before Hobbs partially cuts his daughter's throat. Later, Graham and Lecter sit with the unconscious girl in her hospital room.
2
2 "Amuse-Bouche" Michael Rymer Jim Danger Gray April 11, 2013 102 4.38[7]
Now a special investigator for the FBI, Will Graham helps to find a murderer who uses his victims as fertilizer to grow mushrooms. Tabloid blogger Freddie Lounds (Lara Jean Chorostecki) snoops around the crime scene and Dr. Lecter's office to write a story about Graham, which the killer uses to stay a step ahead of the investigation. Meanwhile, Graham and Dr. Lecter discuss their mutual feeling of responsibility for Abigail Hobbs (Kacey Rohl), which leads Graham to begin opening up to the doctor. The killer is revealed to be a pharmacist who preys on diabetics and is obsessed with the similarities between the structures of fungi and the human mind: Graham intercepts and shoots him in the arm as he attempts to kidnap the unconscious Abigail Hobbs. During another session with Lecter, Graham reluctantly admits that he found killing Garret Jacob Hobbs "right"; Lecter likens it to a feeling of being God.
3
3 "Potage" David Slade Story by: David Fury
Teleplay by: David Fury and Chris Brancato and Bryan Fuller April 18, 2013 105 3.51[8]
Abigail Hobbs awakens from her coma. Graham suspects that Garret Jacob Hobbs, dubbed the "Minnesota Shrike," killed eight girls, but not the one impaled on the deer's head; that, he maintains, was a victim of a copycat, who called Hobbs to warn him. Crawford harbors suspicions that Abigail was somehow complicit in her father's killing spree, despite objections from Dr. Bloom, Lecter and Graham. Freddie Lounds meets the brother of the impaled girl and reveals to him that Abigail Hobbs is out of the hospital. Lecter and Graham take Abigail to her home, where she and her neighbor Marissa are confronted by the brother of the impaled girl, Nicholas Boyle. The following day, Abigail is taken to the cabin where Marissa is found impaled on a deer's head. In her house, Abigail finds the hair of one of the murdered girls inside a pillow and inadvertently kills Boyle in a way that, according to Lecter, cannot be seen as self-defense. Lecter helps her cover-up the murder, after which Abigail realizes it was Lecter who made the call to her father. Lecter suggests that Abigail keep his secret in exchange for his hiding her murder.
4
4 "Œuf" Peter Medak Jennifer Schuur April 26, 2013 (India)
 Unaired (U.S.) 104 N/A
Two families are found murdered, with both mothers killed last. The only link between the families is that they both have sons who have been on the missing persons list for approximately a year. Graham concludes these "Lost Boys" are killing their old families to bond more closely to their new family. Graham continues his sessions with Dr. Lecter and confides that even if he finds the boys, he will never be able to give them back what they gave away: their families. He also admits to having paternal feelings toward Abigail Hobbs, which make him uncomfortable. Lecter's own interest in Abigail leads him to check her out of the hospital, against Dr. Bloom's wishes, and take her into his care. He gives her some tea made from psilocybin mushrooms to help with her traumatic dreams. Bloom helps Graham realize that the "Lost Boys" are under the influence of a powerful but unnamed mother figure (Molly Shannon) and uses footage from a convenience store security camera to track them to North Carolina in time to stop another young boy from murdering his family.
5
5 "Coquilles" Guillermo Navarro Story by: Scott Nimerfro
Teleplay by: Scott Nimerfro and Bryan Fuller April 25, 2013 106 2.40[9]
A murdered couple is found in a motel room, posed in praying positions with the flesh of their backs opened and strung to the ceiling to give them the appearance of wings. Using a sample of the killer's vomit found on the nightstand, the BAU team discover several medications often used together to treat cancer, specifically brain tumors. Graham surmises the killer is transforming his victims into guardian angels to watch over him because he is afraid of dying in his sleep. Meanwhile, Crawford's wife Bella (Gina Torres) becomes Dr. Lecter's new patient. She is reluctant to tell her husband that she has terminal lung cancer because he already has too much to worry about. Graham starts to suffer from episodes of sleepwalking and continues to dream about the feathered stag that has been haunting him since the Hobbs case. He confides to Dr. Lecter that the pressure of looking into killer's minds is starting to break his psyche and Lecter attempts to use this to create a wedge between Graham and Crawford. The angel-maker is tracked to an old farm, but is discovered to have committed suicide and transformed himself into an angel. During the investigation, Crawford realizes the reason for his wife's distant behavior and promises to help her through her illness any way he can.
6
6 "Entrée" Michael Rymer Story by: Kai Yu Wu
Teleplay by: Kai Yu Wu and Bryan Fuller May 2, 2013 107 2.61[10]
A nurse at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane is brutally murdered by a patient, Dr. Abel Gideon (Eddie Izzard), in a manner reminiscent of the "Chesapeake Ripper", who hasn't committed a murder in two years, the same number of years Gideon has been incarcerated. While Graham tries to discover whether Gideon truly is the Ripper, Crawford receives a phone call, apparently from the real Ripper, who plays the recorded voice of Miriam Lass (Anna Chlumsky), a trainee Crawford had consulting on the Chesapeake Ripper case two years previously when she suddenly disappeared. Bloom and Crawford make a deal with Freddie Lounds to write a story about Gideon, hoping to provoke the real Ripper to make himself visible. During a dinner with Bloom and Lecter, Dr. Frederick Chilton (Raúl Esparza), the administrator of the Baltimore hospital, tells them he had suspected Gideon of being the Ripper; Lecter surmises that Chilton unintentionally planted the thought in Gideon's mind during a session, implying that, while Gideon is not the Ripper, he believes himself to be. Later, Crawford receives another phone call, which they trace to an old observatory, where they find Miriam's cell phone clutched in the hand of a severed arm. A final flashback reveals Miriam's fate: she visits Dr. Lecter to ask about an old patient, Jeremy Olmstead, whom he had come into contact with when working as an ER attendant, who has turned up as the latest Ripper victim. While Lecter excuses himself, Miriam finds one of his sketches of the Wound Man, which precisely matches the manner in which Olmstead was murdered. Lecter sneaks up on her from behind and knocks her unconscious, revealing himself as the real Chesapeake Ripper.
7
7 "Sorbet" James Foley Jesse Alexander & Bryan Fuller May 9, 2013 103 2.62[11]
The BAU is called in when a man is found in a hotel room bathtub with his kidney removed and Graham must determine whether this is the act of an organ harvester or if the Chesapeake Ripper has claimed his first victim in two years. Meanwhile, Crawford continues to be haunted by the discovery of Miriam Lass's arm. Dr. Bloom suspects that Crawford has become obsessed with catching the Ripper, and is putting Graham in danger by making him chase the Ripper. Lecter murders a medical examiner who once treated him rudely and removes his heart. When his body is found displayed on a bus, Graham becomes convinced that the latest victim was the work of the real Ripper, while the first was not. Lecter takes another four victims and harvests their organs for use in a dinner party. Through hotel security footage, the BAU team discovers that the organ harvester is a part-time paramedic, Devon Silvestri, who aspires to be a doctor. They track his ambulance in time to save the life of his latest victim, but his arrest solidifies Graham's opinion that there is only one Chesapeake Ripper, who was responsible for all of the murders except the first.
8
8 "Fromage" Tim Hunter Jennifer Schuur and Bryan Fuller May 16, 2013 108 2.46[12]
Lecter's patient Franklin Froideveaux (Dan Fogler) worries that his friend Tobias may be a psychopath, but Franklin's growing obsession with Lecter is what concerns the latter more. Graham investigates the murder of a Baltimore musician who had his throat opened and a cello neck inserted through his mouth. Graham, with Lecter's guidance, interprets this as one killer serenading another. Graham's mental stability deteriorates further when he begins having auditory hallucinations of animals in pain and when his romantic feelings for Alana Bloom are rejected. At first she responds well to Graham kissing her, but then says it would be a bad idea for them to become involved. When Franklin confesses to Lecter that Tobias had told him he wanted to cut open someone's throat and "play them like a violin", Lecter confronts Tobias, who reveals that not only is he the murderer, but he knows that Lecter is one as well and feels they could be friends. Lecter passes on some of this information to Graham, once again putting an unknowing Graham in a dangerous situation when he goes to question him. Tobias kills two police officers who had accompanied Graham and escapes to Lecter's office, where Franklin is having a session. Lecter kills both Franklin and Tobias and lies to Crawford about what happened. Lecter confides to his own psychoanalyst, Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier (Gillian Anderson), that he believes he might have found a true friend in Graham.
9
9 "Trou Normand" Guillermo Navarro Steve Lightfoot May 23, 2013 109 2.69[13]
A totem pole of human bodies ranging from freshly killed to decades old are found on a beach and while Graham is investigating the crime scene, he suddenly finds himself in Lecter's office, three and a half hours away, with no recollection of how he got there. Lecter theorizes that Graham's mind is trying to escape from having to investigate such brutal murders. Freddie Lounds convinces Abigail Hobbs to let her write a book about Abigail and her father, which is met with grave concern from Graham and Lecter. The body of Nicholas Boyle (whom Abigail had accidentally killed) re-surfaces and with it re-emerges Crawford's suspicion that Abigail knows more than she is letting on. The freshest totem pole victim is identified as Joel Summers, who was the son of Fletcher Marshall, the oldest body on the pole, before he was adopted. The killings are traced to Lawrence Wells (Lance Henriksen), who was having an affair with Marshall's wife and killed him in a crime of passion. The rest of the killings were for his own satisfaction and so he could 'retire'; prison would be better than any retirement home he could afford. However, Graham reveals that Summers was not Marshall's biological son, he was Wells'; the killer inadvertently murdered his own son. Graham examines Boyle's body and deduces that he was killed by Abigail. He confronts Lecter, who reveals that he helped Abigail hide the body in order to protect her future. Graham reluctantly agrees to keep her secret so that she won't inherit her father's brutal legacy. Abigail herself reveals an even greater secret to Lecter: that she actually did, as Crawford suspected, know who her father really was and helped him to procure his victims by befriending the young girls.
10
10 "Buffet Froid" John Dahl Andy Black & Chris Brancato and Bryan Fuller May 30, 2013 110 2.40[14]
Beth LeBeau is found murdered, having drowned in her own blood as a result of her face being cut into a glasgow smile. Graham's mental state continues to sharply decline; he loses hours at a time and when a vivid hallucination causes Graham to contaminate the crime scene, Lecter refers him to a neurologist, an old residency colleague, Dr. Sutcliffe (John Benjamin Hickey). An MRI reveals that Graham is suffering an advanced form of encephalitis, but Lecter pressures Sutcliffe into telling Graham that he found no neurological problems so that Lecter can continue to analyze him. Graham returns to LeBeau's house, where he is attacked by her killer, who manages to escape. She is identified as Georgia Madchen (Ellen Muth), a young woman who suffers from numerous medical conditions, including Cotard's syndrome, a delusional disorder that has her convinced she is actually dead and takes away her ability to identify people's faces. She mutilated LeBeau's (her best friend) face because she was deluded into thinking LeBeau was an untrustworthy stranger. She becomes interested in Graham after their encounter and even follows him to Dr. Sutcliffe's office. Graham reaches out to her and manages to convince her that she is alive and not alone, and Georgia is brought in for medical treatment. Lecter murders Dr. Sutcliffe but frames the kill to appear as though Georgia had murdered him while following Graham.
11
11 "Rôti" Guillermo Navarro Steve Lightfoot and Bryan Fuller & Scott Nimerfro June 6, 2013 111 2.36[15]
Dr. Abel Gideon escapes from custody and begins targeting the psychiatrists who attempted to treat him, displaying their bodies with a Colombian necktie. While Alana Bloom is put under protective custody, Gideon kidnaps Dr. Frederick Chilton and lures Freddie Lounds into a trap, forcing her to write an article about him. Meanwhile, Graham's undiagnosed Encephalitis drives his temperature up, causing severe hallucinations. Another psychiatrist is found similarly mutilated, only with his right arm amputated and Graham speculates that this is actually a message from the real Chesapeake Ripper telling them where to find Gideon. At the abandoned observatory where Miriam Lass's severed arm was found, Gideon begins surgically removing Chilton's organs with the intention of leaving a "gift basket" for the Ripper, whom Gideon is trying to lure out. While Crawford and a SWAT team hit the observatory, Graham's hallucination of the stag returns and he follows it, fortuitously intercepting Gideon, who had anticipated the SWAT team's arrival. In his delusional state, Graham takes Gideon to Lecter, who convinces Graham that he has hallucinated the encounter. When Graham has a seizure, Lecter uses the opportunity to set Gideon on Alana. Lecter manipulates Graham into pursuing him and Graham shoots at Gideon outside Alana's house before collapsing. Graham is hospitalized.
12
12 "Relevés" Michael Rymer Chris Brancato and Bryan Fuller June 13, 2013 112 2.10[16]
Following an offhand comment by Graham, Hannibal leaves a comb in the chamber of Georgia Madchen, who accidentally sparks a fire inside her hyperbaric chamber and is burned to death. Angered, Graham deduces that several recent murders were all the work of a copycat patterning after recent serial murders, and that Georgia was killed because she may have remembered the face of whoever had killed Dr. Sutcliffe. Crawford, bothered by Graham's behavior and by Lecter's apparent concealment of Graham's hallucinations, discovers the pattern that shows Abigail was present during Garrett's victim selection processes. Crawford confronts Lecter's therapist, Dr. Du Maurier, and she later tells Lecter that she didn't reveal the details about being attacked by a patient. After releasing himself from the hospital, Graham takes Abigail back to Minnesota, to the hunting lodge. During a hallucination he deduces, correctly, that Abigail was an active participant in her father's murders. Fleeing from Graham, Abigail is comforted by Lecter, who admits to having killed more people than her father. When Abigail asks him if he is going to kill her, he simply tells her that he is sorry he couldn't protect her.
13
13 "Savoureux" David Slade Steve Lightfoot and Bryan Fuller & Scott Nimerfro June 20, 2013 113 1.98[17]
Following his strange trip to Minnesota, Graham is taken into custody by Crawford for the probable murder of Abigail Hobbs. They find her severed ear in his kitchen sink and her blood under his fingernails. Alana is left devastated by the arrest and is determined to find the cause of Graham's dementia, despite Crawford's insistence that there is no underlying cause. She has him draw a clock when he tells her that Dr. Lecter had him perform a similar test, and the results solidify her belief that there is a physical explanation for Graham's instability. Katz, Price and Zeller examine Graham's homemade fishing lures and discover that four of them have included elements of human remains, whose DNA matches all four victims of the copycat killer: Cassie Boyle, Marissa Schur, Dr. Sutcliffe and Georgia Madchen. Graham escapes from custody while being transferred and goes to Lecter for help, only to have Lecter demonstrate that it is feasible for him to have murdered all four people. Graham convinces Lecter to take him back to the Hobbs house in Minnesota, where he finally comes to realize that it was Lecter who called to warn Garret Hobbs about his impending arrest and that Lecter has been manipulating him ever since to see how someone with Graham's unique ability would operate. Crawford arrives and stops Graham from killing Lecter by shooting him in the shoulder. Graham is hospitalized, where his Encephalitis is finally discovered and he is placed in a protective coma while undergoing treatment. Lecter brings dinner to Du Maurier, where she reveals that she may know much more about him than even he suspected. Next, Lecter pays one last visit to Graham in his new home: the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
Season 2 (2014)[edit]

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Production
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U.S. viewers
 (millions)

14
1 "Kaiseki" Tim Hunter Bryan Fuller & Steve Lightfoot February 28, 2014 201 3.27[18]
Jack Crawford visits Dr. Hannibal Lecter at his home and immediately attacks him. A protracted and brutal fight ensues, ending with Lecter stabbing Crawford's neck with a piece of broken glass. Bleeding profusely, Crawford manages to lock himself in Lecter's pantry. Twelve weeks earlier, Kade Prurnell (Cynthia Nixon), an investigator for the Inspector General's Office, warns Crawford of his misconduct, while pressuring Alana Bloom to recant her complaint, namely about Crawford's mishandling of Graham's instability. Bloom refuses, stressing that the truth must go on record. Lecter gets to walk in Graham's shoes when six partially preserved bodies are found in a river. Lecter theorizes that the killer is preserving the bodies to create a human model collection and that those in the river are imperfect castoffs. In the Baltimore asylum, Graham is determined to uncover how Lecter set him up and enlists Alana to help him recover lost memories through hypnosis. While not immediately successful, he later has a flashback of Lecter forcing Abigail Hobbs' ear down his throat with the use of a plastic tube. The killer strikes again, kidnapping a young man and taking him, alive, to an empty silo where his collection is revealed: an interconnected collage of naked bodies.
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2 "Sakizuke" Tim Hunter Jeff Vlaming and Bryan Fuller March 7, 2014 202 2.50[19]
The young man, Roland Umber, escapes from the silo, but is chased by the killer through a cornfield to the edge of a cliff and dies attempting to jump into the water below. The BAU team recovers his body but assume he was discarded and dumped like the others. Lecter picks up the scent of corn on him, which he keeps to himself. Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier terminates her relationship with Lecter, having come to the conclusion that he is a dangerous man. Beverly Katz continues to use Graham to help with the case and, using photos of Roland Umber's body, Graham realizes that he had in fact escaped and was not discarded. In return for his help, Katz promises to look into Graham's possible innocence. Lecter finds the silo without informing the BAU and kills the murderer, adding him to his own mural. Prurnell visits Graham in the asylum and offers him the chance to avoid the death penalty by pleading guilty, which Graham refuses. Du Maurier visits Graham, standing close and whispering "I believe you". Lecter goes to Du Maurier's house, only to find the furniture covered and the house empty.
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3 "Hassun" Peter Medak Jason Grote and Steve Lightfoot March 14, 2014 203 2.47[20]
Graham's trial begins and the prosecution paints him as an intelligent, creative psychopath. Crawford puts his job at risk by testifying that he may have pushed Graham too far by keeping him on the investigative team, though the admission allows him some relief. Graham's lawyer receives a severed ear in the mail, cut from a corpse within the previous forty-eight hours, causing doubts to stir among those who believe in Graham's guilt. Katz, Price, and Zeller determine that the ear was severed using the same knife that cut off Abigail Hobbs' ear, which was signed out of the courthouse evidence room by the bailiff in Graham's trial, Andrew Sykes. A large fire is triggered when the FBI raid his apartment, but it does not destroy a key piece of evidence: Sykes' body mounted on a stag's head, missing an ear, face cut into a Glasgow smile and set on fire: all of the things Graham supposedly did to his victims. Lecter presents the forensics report to Graham, who deduces that Sykes was killed in too different a manner from the others to be the same killer. Lecter agrees, but urges Will to lie about who he thinks killed Sykes in order to exonerate himself. The prosecution picks up on the dissimilarities as well, and succeeds in having the bailiff's murder deemed inadmissible. The next day, the judge in Graham's trial is found brutally murdered and displayed in the courtroom. This prompts a mistrial and saves Will from conviction – for the moment.
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4 "Takiawase" David Semel Scott Nimerfro & Bryan Fuller March 21, 2014 204 2.69[21]
Graham agrees to a form of intense light therapy with Dr. Chilton, during which time he realizes that Lecter was tactically encouraging his encephalitis. Chilton confronts Lecter about this, but is not hostile, relating to Lecter as another physician accused of manipulating his patient into murder. An acupuncturist (Amanda Plummer) lobotomizes suffering patients, leaving them to die in meadows. Her first victim is found with a beehive occupying his half-empty skull; the second is found still standing, brain dead but physically alive. After the second victim is discovered, he is immediately connected to the first as patients of the acupuncturist. When Crawford visits her, she turns herself in without a fuss. Bella Crawford talks to Lecter about the possibility of suicide in the face of her lung cancer, something which he encourages, citing Socrates and describing death as a "cure". Later, Bella visits Lecter's office after taking an overdose of morphine, and falls unconscious. After flipping a coin, Lecter saves her life with a naloxone shot. Later he visits her and Crawford in the hospital, and Bella slaps him across the face. Katz, on Graham's advice, examines the body of James Gray, the mural killer. She finds that the stitches connecting him to the mural were also surgical stitches on an opening through which his kidney was removed. Katz, starting to suspect Lecter and against Graham's advice, breaks into Lecter's home and discovers his murder dungeon. She removes a package from a freezer but is caught by Lecter and gunshots are fired.
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5 "Mukōzuke" Michael Rymer Ayanna A. Floyd and Steve Lightfoot & Bryan Fuller March 28, 2014 205 3.49[22]
An anonymous tip brings Freddie Lounds back to the observatory she and Dr. Chilton were taken to by Abel Gideon. There she finds the body of Beverly Katz, sectioned vertically and displayed in tableau. Graham is brought to the crime scene and convinces Crawford that it is the work of the Chesapeake Ripper and the mural copycat; that they are one and the same. A post-mortem examination of Katz reveals that her kidneys were removed and replaced with the kidneys of James Gray, the mural killer. Graham convinces Chilton to return Abel Gideon to the asylum, to glean information about the Chesapeake Ripper's identity. Graham uses Lounds to write an article, hoping to inspire contact from the killer of the bailiff and the judge at his trial. A new orderly at the asylum, Matthew Brown (Jonathan Tucker), confesses to Graham that he killed Sykes, hoping it would exonerate Graham, but the death of the judge was someone else's work. Brown asks Graham how he can serve Graham, who tells Brown he could kill Dr. Lecter for him. Gideon overhears this and gives Alana the chance to save Graham from himself. The orderly tranquilizes Lecter while the latter is swimming laps, strings him up with a noose and is about to kick away the bucket on which Lecter is standing when Crawford arrives. He shoots the orderly, who even while falling dead manages to kick the bucket out but Crawford saves Lecter.
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6 "Futamono" Tim Hunter Story by: Andy Black
 Teleplay by: Andy Black and Bryan Fuller & Scott Nimerfro & Steve Lightfoot April 4, 2014 206 2.18[23]
Crawford confronts Graham about setting the orderly Matthew Brown on Lecter, and Graham denies it but tries to make Crawford see that Lecter is the Chesapeake Ripper by explaining to him why he only kills in lots of three or four; he has to eat the meat he takes before it spoils. Graham assures Crawford that if the Ripper is killing again, Lecter will be throwing a dinner party. Sure enough, Lecter soon invites Crawford to a gathering he is hosting. Meanwhile, local city councilor Sheldon Isley is found surgically grafted onto a tree in a parking lot (for which Isley brokered the development deal and in the process destroyed the habitat of some rare songbirds), his chest cavity emptied of all organs except his lungs and stuffed with poisonous flowers. The autopsy reveals a number of Ripper tell-tale signs and that Isley was drowned. Price and Zeller determine from the water in his lungs that he was killed within a fifty-mile radius. Chilton records Abel Gideon confessing to Graham that he was in Lecter's home, but Gideon denies this when questioned by Crawford. Gideon is beaten by a pair of guards and put in the infirmary. Lecter throws his dinner party and Crawford takes a few samples of the food to Price and Zeller to be tested. Alana and Lecter sleep together and Lecter kidnaps Gideon from the infirmary while she is sleeping (helped by a drugged glass of wine). The infirmary guard is killed and strung up with fishing lines. Lecter uses Alana as an alibi when confronted by Crawford. Lecter cooks and serves Gideon's leg to him as a last meal. Though Price and Zeller do not find any human tissue in the samples of Lecter's food, they do find body materials in the fishing lures from such victims as the judge, James Gray, Miriam Lass, all the way back to Marissa Schur. They also find a piece of rare tree bark, which Crawford traces to an abandoned farmhouse in the initial search area, where he finds Miriam Lass still alive.
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7 "Yakimono" Michael Rymer Steve Lightfoot and Bryan Fuller April 11, 2014 207 2.25[24]
Miriam Lass is brought in to identify the Ripper, but has no memory of her encounter with Dr. Lecter and only vague recollections of her captivity. When Lecter himself is brought in, Miriam is positive it is not him. The evidence gathered from the most recent Ripper killings serves to prove that Will's alleged victims were actually the Ripper's, exonerating him of all charges. Graham is released from the asylum and urges Dr. Chilton to share what he knows about Lecter's unusual psychiatric treatment on Graham, by confessing his own psychic driving of Abel Gideon. Graham figures out that Alana and Lecter are together and warns her to stay away from him. He visits with Miriam and tells her about the light therapy used to induce his blackouts. Miriam recalls similar experiences with her captor. He then drops in on Lecter and confronts him with a gun. He says killing Lecter would feel right, but ultimately doesn't. Crawford takes Miriam to Lecter's office and he performs hypnotic regression therapy on her. The last thing she remembers before being captured is the Wound Man illustration. Price and Zeller find one of Lecter's fingerprints on a flower from Sheldon Isley's body, and Crawford repeats what Will said in the farmhouse, i.e. that whatever evidence is found, it would lead away from the Ripper. Drugs are found in Miriam's blood which were used in both Graham and Gideon's treatments, pointing to either Lecter or Chilton as the suspect. Crawford wants them both brought in, but Lecter moves first and frames Chilton by placing Gideon's mutilated body in Chilton's house and murdering the two FBI agents who were to bring Chilton in for questioning, dressing one of them as the Wound Man. Chilton goes to Graham for help, intending to flee the country, but Crawford catches up with him first and brings him into custody. Miriam "remembers" Chilton performing the treatment on her, identifying him as the Ripper. In a moment of rage and confusion, she takes Crawford's gun and shoots Chilton in the face. Graham visits Lecter again and asks to resume his therapy.
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8 "Su-zakana" Vincenzo Natali Scott Nimerfro and Bryan Fuller & Steve Lightfoot April 18, 2014 208 2.80[25]
Lecter begins therapy with a new patient named Margot Verger (Katharine Isabelle), who suffers abuse at the hands of her sadistic brother Mason. Will Graham, now cleared of being the Chesapeake Ripper, resumes assisting the FBI, and willingly continues his therapy with Lecter. Finding a female victim placed inside a dead horse's uterus, Graham and Crawford interview previous stable employee Peter Bernardone (Jeremy Davies), who left after suffering a head injury from a horse, and denies committing the crime. Performing an autopsy, the horse victim is found to have a live bird trapped in her chest cavity, and soil found inside her throat leads the FBI to a mass burial ground. Graham questions Peter further, who states he placed the soil to lead them to his social worker Clark Ingram (Chris Diamantopoulos), who is responsible for the mass grave and the horse victim. Clark, assigned to assist Peter following his injury, performs an interview with Dr. Bloom, which leads Graham to accuse him of being the real killer; despite Clark's counter-accusation of Peter, Graham sympathizes with Peter's vulnerable state, and believes he too is being manipulated. Peter returns to the stables, only to find Clark has used a hammer to kill the horse that injured Peter, further implicating him. Graham and Lecter, arriving at the stables as Peter sews up the dead horse's torso, learn he placed Clark inside the horse; shortly thereafter, Peter clarifies he did not murder Clark, but instead trapped him alive so he could experience the fate of his victims. Returning to find Clark emerging from the horse and picking up his hammer, Graham holds him at gunpoint and threatens to kill him for trying to frame Peter. Lecter confides that he is fascinated with Graham's unpredictability, but warns that killing Clark won't resolve his own internal conflicts. After Lecter takes Graham's gun, the pair arrest Clark for his crimes.
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9 "Shiizakana" Michael Rymer Jeff Vlaming and Bryan Fuller April 25, 2014 209 2.45[26]
A truck driver is found horribly mauled, and Crawford believes it is not a simple animal attack, but the work of someone with a large animal trained to kill on command. Later discovering a couple who are similarly mutilated and killed, the BAU team realize that while it appears to be an animal, it is more likely a killer who stalks and kills while wearing a mechanical beast suit. Dr. Lecter informs Crawford that he previously treated Randall Tier (Mark O'Brien), a patient who fits the profile; only a teenager when Lecter treated him, Tier suffers an identity disorder, causing him to believe he is an animal in the body of a human. Meanwhile, Graham is approached by Margot Verger, seeking insight on Lecter's unusual therapy, and the two discover that they share similar personal problems. Visiting Lecter, Graham informs him that Dr. Du Maurier confided her belief in him, and questions if Dr. Lecter has a history of manipulating patients. Lecter approaches Tier and warns him the FBI is investigating him, and asks him to kill Graham. After one of his dogs, Buster, is attacked and injured outside his home, Graham rescues it and locks himself inside, only for Tier to break through a window and attack him. As Lecter returns home, he enters his dining room and finds Graham has killed Tier, and has laid the corpse on his dining table.
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10 "Naka-Choko" Vincenzo Natali Story by: Steve Lightfoot and Kai Yu Wu
Teleplay by: Steve Lightfoot May 2, 2014 210 2.28[27]
As Randall Tier smashes into Graham's house, Graham alternates seeing him as the feathered stag, the Wendigo, and as Lecter. A struggle ensues and, overpowering Tier, Graham pummels him before snapping his neck. Taking Tier's body to Lecter, Graham states he and Hannibal are even, having both sent psychopaths to kill each other. Crawford asks Lecter and Graham to analyze Tier's corpse, parts of which have been combined with a saber-tooth display; both Graham and Lecter discuss the former's actions, their conversation disguised as a crime scene analysis. Meeting with Freddie Lounds, Graham learns she still believes Graham's story of Lecter being the real Chesapeake Ripper. Margot visits her brother, Mason Verger (Michael Pitt), who shows her that he is training specially bred pigs to eat people alive. Margot meets with Graham again, and they further confide in each other, which leads to them having sex. Lounds visits Alana Bloom for an interview, and, after noting that Tier is the fourth ex-patient of Lecter's to have been murdered, states she believes Graham and Lecter are killing together. Mason meets with Hannibal and explains he is suspicious about what Margot may disclose; when Lecter then outlines doctor-patient confidentiality and offers to treat Mason, he accepts. Learning of Lounds' suspicions from Alana, Lecter waits in her apartment to kill her. Concurrently, Lounds arrives at Graham's house and investigates his locked barn, where she finds Tier's bloodied animal suit, along with his jawbone. Graham appears and, when Lounds flees and calls Crawford, Graham overpowers her. Crawford shares Lounds' phone call, only unintelligible screams, with Graham, who mentions he invited her to an interview she failed to attend. Joining Lecter for dinner, Graham provides the ingredients and meat, and is vague about the meat's origin. Eating together, Lecter presses Graham on its source, and the latter confirms that it is "long pig".
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11 "Kō No Mono" David Slade Jeff Vlaming & Andy Black and Bryan Fuller May 9, 2014 211 1.95[28]
At the TattleCrime offices, a burning body in a wheelchair rolls into the parking garage, and a dental analysis confirms it is Lounds. Margot meets with Graham and Lecter, informing them she is pregnant with Graham's child, but that she is hiding it from Mason. Graham is visited by Alana, who is worried about his relationship with Lecter, and asks if he killed Lounds; Graham responds vaguely, but gives Alana his pistol and tells her to practice using it. Mason attends therapy with Lecter, who implies Mason could have an heir through Margot, hinting at her pregnancy. Graham attends Lounds' funeral with Alana, and further implies he murdered her. Several hours later, Lounds' grave is found disturbed, her body posed like Shiva, which Bloom deduces was done by an admirer of Lounds' killer. Margot, aware Mason knows of her pregnancy, attempts to flee, only for Mason's assistant Carlo to crash into her car. Waking on an operating table, Margo learns from Mason that he is having her made infertile, leaving him as the only source of any family heir. Alana confronts Crawford, demanding to know what he and Will are hiding; Crawford reveals Lounds is alive. Learning what Mason did to Margot, Graham breaks into his farm and, when taunted by Mason, hangs him over his pit of pigs. Graham spares Mason, but notes Lecter is manipulating them all, and suggests Mason feed Lecter to his pigs.
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12 "Tome-wan" Michael Rymer Chris Brancato and Bryan Fuller & Scott Nimerfro May 16, 2014 212 2.32[29]
Meeting for therapy, Graham claims that Lecter wants Mason dead, and that he informed Verger of it; despite agreeing with the doctor, Graham still fantasizes about feeding Lecter to Mason's pigs. Learning Mason compares maiming Margot to "playing chicken", Lecter informs Graham and Margot, who suggest she seek revenge by surviving her brother rather than kill him. Speaking with Crawford, Graham is told to tread carefully, as his mutilating Tier's corpse contradicts his self-defense claim. Crawford reveals he has located Dr. Du Maurier, who admits she killed the patient who attacked her. Having done so at Lecter's command, feeling there was no alternative, she suggests Graham be cautious lest he be manipulated. Meeting with Lecter, Graham boasts awareness of his manipulative ways; concurrently, Du Maurier warns that if they think they will catch Lecter, it's because that's what he wants them to think. Three of Verger's employees capture Lecter and take him to Verger's farm, where he is to be fed to the pigs with Graham brought in to witness. Asked to cut Lecter's throat to encourage the pigs, Graham instead cuts him free before being knocked out. Captured by Lecter, Verger is forced to inhale several psychedelic drugs, after which Lecter is able to convince Verger to mutilate his own face. Regaining consciousness, Graham returns home to find Verger removing and feeding pieces of his face to the dogs. Lecter asks Graham what they should do with Verger and, when Graham is indifferent, Lecter breaks Verger's neck, leaving him alive but paralyzed. Mason, now bedridden and in Margot's care, lies to Crawford that his mutilation was due to an accident involving his pigs. Speaking with Lecter about their friendship, Graham warns they will soon be caught, and suggests Lecter reveal himself to Crawford.
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13 "Mizumono" David Slade Steve Lightfoot and Bryan Fuller May 23, 2014 213 2.35[30]
Speaking with both Lecter and Crawford, Graham reflects on his relationship with both and, when both ask if he can be trusted, he confirms. Graham requests Lounds respect Abigail Hobbs' memory and write only on him and Lecter, and when Lounds questions if Graham expects to survive, he does not answer. Helping Lecter destroy his patient records, Graham brushes off Lecter's suggestion they escape without confessing, and, when they pass each other, Lecter recognizes Lounds' scent on him. Alana, accepting Lecter is the Chesapeake Ripper, warns Graham of trapping Lecter, as he could be caught by Lecter instead. Sharing a final meal, Lecter questions Graham's loyalty and, when asked if he would take Crawford's forgiveness, Graham notes it isn't an option as Crawford wants justice. Crawford is confronted by Prurnell, and forced to take a work absence; as he allowed Graham to mutilate Tier and is plotting to entrap Lecter, she finds him unfit to work. Warned by Alana that the FBI is attempting to arrest him, Graham attempts to further earn Lecter's trust, and phones to warn him. A fight breaks out between Crawford and Lecter; Crawford, wounded, hides from Lecter in the pantry, only for Lecter to be held at gunpoint by Alana. Lecter tells Alana to walk away or he will kill her; she tries to shoot Lecter, who reveals he emptied her gun earlier. Escaping upstairs and reloading, Alana suddenly finds she isn't alone; turning around, she finds Abigail Hobbs alive, who apologizes and pushes her out the window. Graham, arriving to find Alana seriously injured, phones for help and enters to find Jack. Graham finds Abigail, who again apologizes, stating she obeyed Lecter as she didn't know what else she could do. Lecter appears, embracing Graham and stabbing him with a linoleum knife, while explaining that he spared Abigail as a surprise. Lecter forgives Graham for repaying his trust with betrayal, but questions if Graham will ever do the same as he cuts Abigail's throat and leaves the others to bleed. He is next seen aboard a plane to France with Dr. Du Maurier.
Season 3[edit]
On May 9, 2014, NBC renewed Hannibal for a third season,[31] set to premiere in summer 2015.[5] The season began principal photography on October 20, 2014, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[32] Some filming of exterior scenes will be shot in Florence, Italy.[4]

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1 "Antipasto"[33] Vincenzo Natali Bryan Fuller & Steve Lightfoot Summer 2015[5]  TBA
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2 "Primavera"[34] TBA TBA   TBA
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3 "Secondo"[34] TBA TBA   TBA
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External links[edit]
Official website
List of Hannibal episodes at the Internet Movie Database


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Hannibal (TV series)
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Hannibal
Hannibal TV logo.png
Genre
Psychological thriller
Psychological horror
Crime thriller

Based on
Characters from Red Dragon
 by Thomas Harris
Developed by
Bryan Fuller
Starring
Hugh Dancy
Mads Mikkelsen
Caroline Dhavernas
Hettienne Park
Laurence Fishburne
Gillian Anderson
Scott Thompson
Aaron Abrams

Composer(s)
Brian Reitzell
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
2
No. of episodes
26 (List of episodes)
Production

Executive producer(s)
Bryan Fuller
Martha De Laurentiis
Sidonie Dumas
Christophe Riandee
Katie O'Connell
Elisa Roth
Sara Colleton
David Slade
Chris Brancato
Jesse Alexander
Michael Rymer
Steve Lightfoot

Producer(s)
Carol Dunn Trussell
Michael Wray

Location(s)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cinematography
James Hawkinson
Karim Hussain

Running time
42 minutes
Production company(s)
Dino de Laurentiis Company
Living Dead Guy Productions
AXN Original Productions
Gaumont International Television

Distributor
Sony Pictures Television
Broadcast

Original channel
NBC
Original run
April 4, 2013 – present
External links
Official website
Hannibal is an American psychological thriller–horror television series developed by Bryan Fuller for NBC. The series is based on characters and elements appearing in the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris and focuses on the budding relationship between FBI special investigator Will Graham and Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a forensic psychiatrist destined to become Graham's most cunning enemy.
The series received a 13-episode order for its first season and, unlike most U.S. network shows, all future seasons will feature 13 episodes.[1] David Slade executive produced and directed the first episode. The series premiered on NBC on April 4, 2013.[2] On May 9, 2014, NBC renewed Hannibal for a third season,[3] to premiere in summer 2015.[4]
The series has received critical acclaim, with the performances of the lead actors and the visual style of the show being singled out by critics.[5][6][7]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast and characters 2.1 Main
2.2 Recurring
3 Production 3.1 Development
3.2 Casting
3.3 Filming
4 Episodes
5 Broadcast 5.1 Episode order
5.2 Removal from KSL-TV
5.3 International broadcast
6 Reception 6.1 Critical reviews 6.1.1 Season 1
6.1.2 Season 2
6.2 Awards and accolades
6.3 Nielsen ratings
7 Home media releases
8 References
9 External links

Plot[edit]
Criminal profiler Will Graham is tasked by FBI agent Jack Crawford, the head of Behavioral Sciences, to help investigate the disappearances of eight young girls across Minnesota. With the investigation weighing heavily on Graham, Crawford decides to have him supervised by psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, who, unbeknownst to them, is a serial killer himself. Graham and Crawford's team investigate several subsequent murders, while also trying to catch the Chesapeake Ripper, a prolific serial killer who is actually hiding among them.
Cast and characters[edit]



 Main cast of Hannibal, from left to right: Dancy (Will Graham), Dhavernas (Alana Bloom), Fishburne (Jack Crawford), Abrams (Brian Zeller), Chorostecki (Freddie Lounds), Park (Beverly Katz), Thompson (Jimmy Price), Mikkelsen (Hannibal Lecter).
Main[edit]
##Hugh Dancy as Will Graham, a gifted criminal profiler and hunter of serial killers. He visualizes himself committing the murders he investigates to understand the killers' behaviors; throughout the series, Graham's involvement with the investigations takes a toll on his psyche.
##Mads Mikkelsen as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant forensic psychiatrist, cannibalistic serial killer, and culinarian; Lecter develops a keen interest in Graham.
##Caroline Dhavernas as Dr. Alana Bloom, a professor of psychiatry, and consultant profiler for the FBI, who has professional relationships with both Graham and Lecter.
##Laurence Fishburne as Special Agent-in-Charge Jack Crawford, head of Behavioral Sciences at the FBI and Graham's boss. (regular seasons 1–2; recurring season 3)[8]
##Hettienne Park as Special Agent Beverly Katz, a crime scene investigator specializing in fiber analysis. (seasons 1–2)[9]
##Gillian Anderson as Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier, Lecter's psychotherapist, who was once mysteriously attacked by one of Lecter's former patients. (recurring seasons 1–2; regular season 3)[10]
##Scott Thompson as Special Agent Dr. Jimmy Price, a crime scene investigator specializing in latent fingerprints. (recurring season 1; also starring season 2–present)
##Aaron Abrams as Special Agent Brian Zeller, a crime scene investigator. (recurring season 1; also starring season 2–present)
Recurring[edit]
##Lara Jean Chorostecki as Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds, a tabloid blogger who runs the true crime website TattleCrime.
##Vladimir Jon Cubrt as Garrett Jacob Hobbs, a serial killer known as the Minnesota Shrike.
##Kacey Rohl as Abigail Hobbs, daughter and accomplice of serial killer Garrett Jacob Hobbs, who develops a complicated father-daughter relationship with Lecter.
##Raúl Esparza as Dr. Frederick Chilton, administrator of Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
##Eddie Izzard as Dr. Abel Gideon, a surgeon institutionalized for killing his family, who is led to believe that he is the Chesapeake Ripper by Dr. Chilton.
##Anna Chlumsky as Miriam Lass, an FBI trainee and Jack Crawford's protégée. She mysteriously disappears while investigating the Chesapeake Ripper.
##Gina Torres as Phyllis "Bella" Crawford, Jack Crawford's wife, who is suffering from terminal lung cancer.
##Cynthia Nixon as Kade Prurnell, an investigator for the Office of the Inspector General. (season 2)
##Katharine Isabelle as Margot Verger, one of Lecter's patients; she has suffered years of abuse at the hands of her twin brother. (season 2)
##Michael Pitt (season 2) and Joe Anderson (season 3) as Mason Verger, Margot's sadistic twin brother, who does not quite see eye-to-eye with Dr. Lecter.
##Tao Okamoto as Chiyoh, handmaiden to Hannibal's aunt, Lady Murasaki. (season 3)[11]
##Richard Armitage as Francis Dolarhyde, a serial killer known as "the Tooth Fairy" due to his unsightly habit of biting the skin of his victims. (season 3)[12]
##Nina Arianda as Molly Graham, Will's wife who helped him overcome his dark past. She continues to support Will when he was asked to return to the FBI. (season 3)[13]
##Rutina Wesley as Reba McClane, a blind woman and love interest of Francis Dolarhyde. (season 3)[14]
##Fortunato Cerlino as Rinaldo Pazzi, an Italian inspector who teams up with Will to search for Hannibal. (season 3)[15]
##Glenn Fleshler as Dr. Cordell Doemling, the creepy yet gentle and intelligent nurse to Mason Verger. (season 3)[16]
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
NBC began developing a Hannibal series in 2011 and former head of drama Katie O'Connell brought in her long-time friend Bryan Fuller (who had previously served as a writer-producer on NBC's Heroes) to write a pilot script in November. NBC gave the series a financial commitment before Fuller had completed his script.[17] On February 14, 2012, NBC bypassed the pilot stage of development by giving the series a 13-episode first season based solely on the strength of Fuller's script.[18] The series went into production quickly thereafter.



 Promotional poster for the first season featuring Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen).
30 Days of Night director David Slade, who had previously directed the pilot for NBC's Awake, directed the first episode and serves as an executive producer.[19] José Andrés has been brought onto the project as a special "culinary cannibal consultant" and will advise the crew on proper procedure for preparing human flesh for consumption.[20]
Fuller discussed the limited episode order and the continuing story arc he envisions for the series. "Doing a cable model on network television gives us the opportunity not to dally in our storytelling because we have a lot of real estate to cover". Speaking specifically about the Lecter character, Fuller said, "There is a cheery disposition to our Hannibal. He's not being telegraphed as a villain. If the audience didn't know who he was, they wouldn't see him coming. What we have is Alfred Hitchcock's principle of suspense—show the audience the bomb under the table and let them sweat when it's going to go boom". He went on to call the relationship between Graham and Lecter as "really a love story", saying "As Hannibal has said [to Graham] in a couple of the movies, 'You're a lot more like me than you realize'. We'll get to the bottom of exactly what that means over the course of the first two seasons".[1]
Fuller originally planned for the show to run for seven seasons: the first three consisting of original material, the fourth covering Red Dragon, the fifth The Silence of the Lambs, the sixth Hannibal, and the seventh an original storyline resolving Hannibal '​s ending.[21] However, after the conclusion of the second season, Fuller stated he now envisions the show to run six seasons, while incorporating the books into the show in a different way than he originally planned.[22] Fuller would like to include other characters from the book series (such as Jame Gumb and Clarice Starling) provided he can get the rights from MGM.[23] Franklin Froideveaux and Tobias Budge were created because Fuller could not secure the rights to The Silence of the Lambs characters Benjamin Raspail and Jame Gumb.[23] Fuller added they also tried to get the rights to Barney Matthews, an orderly at the Baltimore State Hospital, but were denied, thus a character based on Barney was scheduled to appear in the second season, named Matthew Brown.[24]



 Promotional poster for the second season featuring Will Graham (Hugh Dancy).
Regarding the series' influences, Fuller stated: "When I sat down to the script, I was very consciously saying, 'What would David Lynch do with a Hannibal Lecter character? What sort of strange, unexpected places would he take this world?' I'm a great admirer of his work and his aesthetic and his meticulous sound design. Those were all components that I felt very strongly needed to be part of our Hannibal Lecter story. Between Lynch and Kubrick, there's a lot of inspiration."[25]
Casting[edit]
English actor Hugh Dancy was the first actor to be cast, taking on the lead role of FBI criminal profiler Will Graham, who seeks help from Lecter in profiling and capturing serial killers.[26] In June 2012, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen was cast as Lecter.[27][28] Soon after this, actor Laurence Fishburne was cast as FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit commander Jack Crawford.[29] Caroline Dhavernas was later cast as Dr. Alana Bloom, a former student of Hannibal Lecter, and Hettienne Park was cast as CSI Beverly Katz.[30][31] Lara Jean Chorostecki, Kacey Rohl, Scott Thompson and Aaron Abrams were cast in recurring roles.[32]
Gina Torres has a recurring role as Phyllis "Bella" Crawford, Jack Crawford's terminally ill wife; she and Laurence Fishburne are married in real life.[33] Ellen Greene, Raúl Esparza and Gillian Anderson were later cast in recurring roles and appeared later in season one, though Greene actually appeared in only one episode.[34][35][36] Molly Shannon, Eddie Izzard and Lance Henriksen guest-starred during the first season.[37][38][39]
Several of the actors on the series have worked with creator Bryan Fuller previously, including Dhavernas, who played the lead role in Wonderfalls,[30] and Torres, Greene, Esparza and Shannon, who all appeared in the television series Pushing Daisies.[36] Chelan Simmons reprised her role as Gretchen Speck-Horowitz from Wonderfalls in an episode of Hannibal.[40] Ellen Muth, who starred in Fuller's Dead Like Me, guest-starred as a character named Georgia, a nod to her original character and a "reinterpretation of that character".[41]
David Bowie was approached for the role of Hannibal's uncle, Robert Lecter, for the second season,[42] but was unavailable for the role.[43] Gillian Anderson returned as Lecter's psychiatrist, Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier, in multiple episodes for the second season.[44] Eddie Izzard reprised his role as Dr. Abel Gideon for the second season.[45] Cynthia Nixon joined the recurring cast as Kade Prurnell, an employee of the Office of the Inspector General, who is investigating Jack Crawford's role in the events of the first season.[46] Katharine Isabelle joined the recurring cast as Margot Verger, who was originally described as a potential love interest for Graham, but Fuller later clarified that, as in the novel Hannibal, Margot "... is a member of the LGBT community!"[47][48] Michael Pitt joined the recurring cast in the role of Mason Verger, Margot's abusive twin brother.[49] Amanda Plummer guest-starred in the second season, playing Katherine Pimms, an acupuncturist.[50] Jeremy Davies and Chris Diamantopoulos appear in two episodes.[51]
Fuller stated in June 2014 after winning the Saturn Award for Best Network Television Series that they were told by Bowie's management to ask again for his availability for the third season. He also went on to list David Thewlis, Brad Dourif, Kristin Chenoweth, Lee Pace, and Anna Friel as actors he'd like to appear on the series.[52] Tao Okamoto was announced to play Lady Murasaki, Hannibal's enigmatic aunt, in season three,[53] however, Fuller later confirmed at a PaleyFest panel in New York that Okamoto will in fact be playing the role of Chiyoh, Lady Murasaki's handmaid.[11] For the third season, Joe Anderson replaced Michael Pitt as Mason Verger, as Pitt decided not to return to the role.[54] In January 2015, several recurring roles were cast, including Richard Armitage as Francis Dolarhyde; Nina Arianda as Molly Graham, Will's wife; Rutina Wesley as Reba McClane; and Glenn Fleshler as Dr. Cordell Doemling.[12][13][14][16]
Filming[edit]
Filming of Hannibal takes place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[55] The first season began shooting on August 27, 2012.[20] The series began production on the second season in Toronto in August 2013.[42] Filming for season 3 began on October 20, 2014, in Toronto.[56]
Episodes[edit]
Main article: List of Hannibal episodes

Season
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired
 1 13 April 4, 2013 June 20, 2013
 2 13 February 28, 2014 May 23, 2014
 3 13[57] Summer 2015[4] TBA
Broadcast[edit]
Episode order[edit]
The series' fourth episode, "Œuf", which revolves around kidnapped children who have been brainwashed into murdering their own former families, was pulled from the United States broadcast schedule at the request of creator Bryan Fuller. The episode was still shown in other countries.[58] This was not a result of the Boston Marathon bombings as some reports have indicated, but was actually decided just hours beforehand.[59] Fuller said of the decision, "With this episode, it wasn't about the graphic imagery or violence. It was the associations that came with the subject matter that I felt would inhibit the enjoyment of the overall episode. It was my own sensitivity... We want to be respectful of the social climate we're in right now".[60] In lieu of a traditional broadcast, a portion of the episode was broken into a series of webisodes, which was made available through various online media outlets.[61] The complete episode was later made available via iTunes on April 29, 2013, and the episode appears in the order intended on the DVD and Blu-ray release.[62]
Removal from KSL-TV[edit]
The series was pulled by Salt Lake City, Utah's KSL-TV (Channel 5) as of April 29, 2013, after four episodes were aired, and started airing in that market beginning with the May 4 episode during late night Saturdays after Saturday Night Live on KUCW, Salt Lake City's CW affiliate.[63]
International broadcast[edit]
Citytv picked up broadcasting rights in Canada, where the show is filmed, as a mid-season debut.[64]
In Europe, one year before originally airing, in April 10, 2012, the ProSiebenSat.1 Media Group acquired the rights to broadcast the series in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark beginning in 2013.[65] Sky Living started broadcasting the show in the UK and Republic of Ireland from May 7, 2013.[66]
In the South Pacific, the series is also broadcast on the Seven Network in Australia, from mid-April 2013[67] and in New Zealand, the show premiered on TV3 on January 25, 2014.[68] The series airs in Latin America through AXN.[69] In Middle East and North Africa region, the series is broadcast on OSN.[70]
Reception[edit]
Critical reviews[edit]
Season 1[edit]
Reviews for Hannibal have been positive. On critic website Metacritic, the first season scored 69 out of 100 based on 32 reviews, which constitutes "generally favorable reviews".[71] Joanne Ostrow of The Denver Post praised the series as a "... well constructed, masterfully written piece," but stated "... this level of violent imagery is not my cup of tea..." She also had high praise for the characters, stating that they are "... so compelling, however, that you may give in to the gore-fest."[72] Paul Doro of Shock Till You Drop gave Hannibal an 8/10 and said of the series, "The stab at classy horror mostly succeeds due to excellent performances from the leads, genuine suspense and surprises, well-constructed short and long-term mysteries, and an appropriately disconcerting mood that permeates the action right from the start..." and praised Hugh Dancy in particular, saying he "... does an outstanding job of subtlety conveying how painful human interaction is for him, and despite being abrasive and unpleasant, you are always in his corner and really feel for the guy."[73] Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly gave the show an A- and called it "... finely acted, visually scrumptious, and deliciously subversive."[74]
Brian Lowry of Variety said Hannibal is "... the tastiest drama the network has introduced in awhile," and had particular praise for the central trio of Dancy, Mikkelsen and Fishburne.[5] Eric Goldman of IGN gave the series a 9/10, which constitutes a score of "Amazing". He said, "A prequel TV series about Hannibal Lecter has to overcome a lot of preconceptions ... But guess what? None of that matters when you actually watch the show, because Hannibal is terrific."[75] Linda Stasi of The New York Post gave the series two and a half stars out of four, praising the performances and called it "... The most beautifully shot and produced show on network TV, with many scenes simply and literally breathtaking..."[76] Jeff Simon from The Buffalo News called Hannibal "deeply sinister" and "brilliant."[77] The Chicago Sun Times' TV critic Lori Rackl said, "Hannibal is a haunting, riveting... drama that has the look and feel of a show audiences have become more accustomed to seeing on cable than broadcast," and concluded that "It's also extremely well executed... bound to leave viewers hungry for more."[6] Alan Sepinwall of HitFix called Hannibal "creepy, haunting, smart, utterly gorgeous..." and the best of this season's serial killer shows.[78] Sepinwall also praised the character of Hannibal, writing he has been made into a believable supervillain without making the police force and others look incompetent.[79] Reflecting on the completed first season, The A.V. Club '​s Todd VanDerWerff wrote that the series acts as a corrective to the "empty" violence on much of television and "restores the seriousness of purpose to a genre long in need of it.... Hannibal is interested in death and murder as a means to glance sidelong at some of life’s largest questions. When not functioning as a cop drama, it’s an intricately twisted serial-killer thriller, but it’s also a surprisingly deep series about psychiatry and the state of the human mind." VanDerWerff concluded that Fuller had taken a series "that had every reason to be a cheap cash-in and has, instead, turned into one of TV’s best shows."[80]
Other reviews were less favorable. Glenn Garvin from The Miami Herald called it "a fast-food hash of poor planning and worse execution...", referring to the writing as "a mess of unmemorable dialogue and unworkable characterizations."[81] Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe was similarly critical, calling the series "rank and depressing," and concluded that it is "shocking, gruesome, and, ultimately, hollow."[82]
Season 2[edit]
On Metacritic, the second season scored 88 out of 100 based on 14 reviews, which constitutes "universal acclaim".[83] On April 10, 2014, Hannibal was voted the winner for Hulu's "Best in Show" online competition.[84] On Rotten Tomatoes, the second season scored a 100% "certified fresh" rating with an average rating of 9.2 out of 10 based on 24 reviews. The consensus reads: "With powerful imagery and a strong, unpredictable story, season two of Hannibal continues to build on the first season's promise."[85]
Mark Peters of Slate called Hannibal "an engrossing, psychologically dense show that is also visually stunning... the kind of gem seldom found on network TV." He did however note that the female characters were less developed.[86] Matt Zoller Seitz, writing for New York magazine heaped praise on the show, calling it "serenely unlike anything else on TV or anything that ever has been on TV."[87] Alan Sepinwall of HitFix continued his praise of the series, highlighting the performances of the lead actors.[88] The A.V. Club named it the best TV series of 2014, and wrote that Hannibal was "the best, most elegantly designed thrill ride on TV in 2014".[89]
The season two finale was met with universal critical acclaim. Gathering a perfect rating of 10 out of 10 on IGN, reviewer Eric Goldman stated, "Hannibal ended its fantastic second season with a thrilling, exciting and audacious series of events" and praised the directing by David Slade.[90] The finale also earned a perfect "A" grade by The A.V. Club, where reviewer Molly Eichel called it "an entirely perfect cap to this season."[91] Den of Geek reviewer Laura Akers labelled the episode "simply divine" and stated that she has "rarely found [herself] looking forward to a show's return more".[92] Emma Dibdin of Digital Spy also heavily praised the episode, specifically Mikkelsen's performance, stating that he is "so convincingly predatory...and so simultaneously scary and sad". She also laid praise on the sound design of the episode by saying that "the integration of a ticking clock worked so well not just in the usual 'time is running out' way, but also a subconscious reminder of Hannibal's manipulation of Will".[93] TV Guide named it the best TV episode of 2014.[94]
Awards and accolades[edit]
Awards and accolades for Hannibal

Year
Award
Category
Nominee(s)
Result

2013 Online Film & Television Association Awards Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series Gillian Anderson Nominated
Best New Theme Song in a Series  Nominated
Best New Titles Sequence  Nominated
2014 IGN Awards[95] Best TV Actor Hugh Dancy Nominated
Best TV Horror Series  Won
Best TV Villain Mads Mikkelsen Nominated
Best TV Series  Nominated
Best New TV Series  Won
Saturn Awards[96] Best Network Television Series  Won
Best Actor on Television Hugh Dancy Nominated
Mads Mikkelsen Won
Best Guest Star on Television Gina Torres Nominated
Critics' Choice Television Award[97] Best Drama Actor Hugh Dancy Nominated
EWwy Award[98] Best Drama Series  Won
Best Guest Actor, Drama Michael Pitt Nominated
Online Film & Television Association Awards Best Actor in a Drama Series Mads Mikkelsen Nominated
2015 Satellite Awards[99] Best Actor – Television Series Drama Mads Mikkelsen Pending
Best Television Series – Drama  Pending
IGN Awards[100] Best TV Series  Won
Best TV Horror Series  Won
Best TV Villain Mads Mikkelsen Won
Best TV Episode "Mizumono" Nominated

Nielsen ratings[edit]
U.S. television ratings for Hannibal

Season
Timeslot (ET)
Episodes
Premiere
Finale
TV season
Rank
Average viewership

Date
Viewers
 (millions)
Date
Viewers
 (millions)

1
Thursday 10:00 pm

13
April 4, 2013

4.36[101]
June 20, 2013

1.98[102]
2012–13

2.90[103]

2
Friday 10:00 pm

13
February 28, 2014

3.27[104]
May 23, 2014

2.35[105]
2013–14

2.54[106]

Home media releases[edit]
The first season, including all 13 episodes, was released on Blu-ray and DVD in region 2 on September 2, 2013,[107] in region 1 on September 24, 2013,[108] and in region 4 on September 25, 2013.[109] The region 1 set includes two audio commentaries (by Bryan Fuller, David Slade and Hugh Dancy on "Apéritif" and "Savoureux"), deleted scenes, gag reel, pilot episode storyboards, four featurettes, and "producer's cut" versions of five episodes.[108]
The second season, including all 13 episodes, was released on Blu-ray and DVD in region 1 on September 16, 2014. Bonus features include episode audio commentaries with cast and cast, several behind-the-scene featurettes, a gag reel, and deleted scenes.[110]
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Hannibal
Hannibal TV logo.png
Genre
Psychological thriller
Psychological horror
Crime thriller

Based on
Characters from Red Dragon
 by Thomas Harris
Developed by
Bryan Fuller
Starring
Hugh Dancy
Mads Mikkelsen
Caroline Dhavernas
Hettienne Park
Laurence Fishburne
Gillian Anderson
Scott Thompson
Aaron Abrams

Composer(s)
Brian Reitzell
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
2
No. of episodes
26 (List of episodes)
Production

Executive producer(s)
Bryan Fuller
Martha De Laurentiis
Sidonie Dumas
Christophe Riandee
Katie O'Connell
Elisa Roth
Sara Colleton
David Slade
Chris Brancato
Jesse Alexander
Michael Rymer
Steve Lightfoot

Producer(s)
Carol Dunn Trussell
Michael Wray

Location(s)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cinematography
James Hawkinson
Karim Hussain

Running time
42 minutes
Production company(s)
Dino de Laurentiis Company
Living Dead Guy Productions
AXN Original Productions
Gaumont International Television

Distributor
Sony Pictures Television
Broadcast

Original channel
NBC
Original run
April 4, 2013 – present
External links
Official website
Hannibal is an American psychological thriller–horror television series developed by Bryan Fuller for NBC. The series is based on characters and elements appearing in the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris and focuses on the budding relationship between FBI special investigator Will Graham and Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a forensic psychiatrist destined to become Graham's most cunning enemy.
The series received a 13-episode order for its first season and, unlike most U.S. network shows, all future seasons will feature 13 episodes.[1] David Slade executive produced and directed the first episode. The series premiered on NBC on April 4, 2013.[2] On May 9, 2014, NBC renewed Hannibal for a third season,[3] to premiere in summer 2015.[4]
The series has received critical acclaim, with the performances of the lead actors and the visual style of the show being singled out by critics.[5][6][7]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast and characters 2.1 Main
2.2 Recurring
3 Production 3.1 Development
3.2 Casting
3.3 Filming
4 Episodes
5 Broadcast 5.1 Episode order
5.2 Removal from KSL-TV
5.3 International broadcast
6 Reception 6.1 Critical reviews 6.1.1 Season 1
6.1.2 Season 2
6.2 Awards and accolades
6.3 Nielsen ratings
7 Home media releases
8 References
9 External links

Plot[edit]
Criminal profiler Will Graham is tasked by FBI agent Jack Crawford, the head of Behavioral Sciences, to help investigate the disappearances of eight young girls across Minnesota. With the investigation weighing heavily on Graham, Crawford decides to have him supervised by psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, who, unbeknownst to them, is a serial killer himself. Graham and Crawford's team investigate several subsequent murders, while also trying to catch the Chesapeake Ripper, a prolific serial killer who is actually hiding among them.
Cast and characters[edit]



 Main cast of Hannibal, from left to right: Dancy (Will Graham), Dhavernas (Alana Bloom), Fishburne (Jack Crawford), Abrams (Brian Zeller), Chorostecki (Freddie Lounds), Park (Beverly Katz), Thompson (Jimmy Price), Mikkelsen (Hannibal Lecter).
Main[edit]
##Hugh Dancy as Will Graham, a gifted criminal profiler and hunter of serial killers. He visualizes himself committing the murders he investigates to understand the killers' behaviors; throughout the series, Graham's involvement with the investigations takes a toll on his psyche.
##Mads Mikkelsen as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant forensic psychiatrist, cannibalistic serial killer, and culinarian; Lecter develops a keen interest in Graham.
##Caroline Dhavernas as Dr. Alana Bloom, a professor of psychiatry, and consultant profiler for the FBI, who has professional relationships with both Graham and Lecter.
##Laurence Fishburne as Special Agent-in-Charge Jack Crawford, head of Behavioral Sciences at the FBI and Graham's boss. (regular seasons 1–2; recurring season 3)[8]
##Hettienne Park as Special Agent Beverly Katz, a crime scene investigator specializing in fiber analysis. (seasons 1–2)[9]
##Gillian Anderson as Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier, Lecter's psychotherapist, who was once mysteriously attacked by one of Lecter's former patients. (recurring seasons 1–2; regular season 3)[10]
##Scott Thompson as Special Agent Dr. Jimmy Price, a crime scene investigator specializing in latent fingerprints. (recurring season 1; also starring season 2–present)
##Aaron Abrams as Special Agent Brian Zeller, a crime scene investigator. (recurring season 1; also starring season 2–present)
Recurring[edit]
##Lara Jean Chorostecki as Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds, a tabloid blogger who runs the true crime website TattleCrime.
##Vladimir Jon Cubrt as Garrett Jacob Hobbs, a serial killer known as the Minnesota Shrike.
##Kacey Rohl as Abigail Hobbs, daughter and accomplice of serial killer Garrett Jacob Hobbs, who develops a complicated father-daughter relationship with Lecter.
##Raúl Esparza as Dr. Frederick Chilton, administrator of Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
##Eddie Izzard as Dr. Abel Gideon, a surgeon institutionalized for killing his family, who is led to believe that he is the Chesapeake Ripper by Dr. Chilton.
##Anna Chlumsky as Miriam Lass, an FBI trainee and Jack Crawford's protégée. She mysteriously disappears while investigating the Chesapeake Ripper.
##Gina Torres as Phyllis "Bella" Crawford, Jack Crawford's wife, who is suffering from terminal lung cancer.
##Cynthia Nixon as Kade Prurnell, an investigator for the Office of the Inspector General. (season 2)
##Katharine Isabelle as Margot Verger, one of Lecter's patients; she has suffered years of abuse at the hands of her twin brother. (season 2)
##Michael Pitt (season 2) and Joe Anderson (season 3) as Mason Verger, Margot's sadistic twin brother, who does not quite see eye-to-eye with Dr. Lecter.
##Tao Okamoto as Chiyoh, handmaiden to Hannibal's aunt, Lady Murasaki. (season 3)[11]
##Richard Armitage as Francis Dolarhyde, a serial killer known as "the Tooth Fairy" due to his unsightly habit of biting the skin of his victims. (season 3)[12]
##Nina Arianda as Molly Graham, Will's wife who helped him overcome his dark past. She continues to support Will when he was asked to return to the FBI. (season 3)[13]
##Rutina Wesley as Reba McClane, a blind woman and love interest of Francis Dolarhyde. (season 3)[14]
##Fortunato Cerlino as Rinaldo Pazzi, an Italian inspector who teams up with Will to search for Hannibal. (season 3)[15]
##Glenn Fleshler as Dr. Cordell Doemling, the creepy yet gentle and intelligent nurse to Mason Verger. (season 3)[16]
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
NBC began developing a Hannibal series in 2011 and former head of drama Katie O'Connell brought in her long-time friend Bryan Fuller (who had previously served as a writer-producer on NBC's Heroes) to write a pilot script in November. NBC gave the series a financial commitment before Fuller had completed his script.[17] On February 14, 2012, NBC bypassed the pilot stage of development by giving the series a 13-episode first season based solely on the strength of Fuller's script.[18] The series went into production quickly thereafter.



 Promotional poster for the first season featuring Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen).
30 Days of Night director David Slade, who had previously directed the pilot for NBC's Awake, directed the first episode and serves as an executive producer.[19] José Andrés has been brought onto the project as a special "culinary cannibal consultant" and will advise the crew on proper procedure for preparing human flesh for consumption.[20]
Fuller discussed the limited episode order and the continuing story arc he envisions for the series. "Doing a cable model on network television gives us the opportunity not to dally in our storytelling because we have a lot of real estate to cover". Speaking specifically about the Lecter character, Fuller said, "There is a cheery disposition to our Hannibal. He's not being telegraphed as a villain. If the audience didn't know who he was, they wouldn't see him coming. What we have is Alfred Hitchcock's principle of suspense—show the audience the bomb under the table and let them sweat when it's going to go boom". He went on to call the relationship between Graham and Lecter as "really a love story", saying "As Hannibal has said [to Graham] in a couple of the movies, 'You're a lot more like me than you realize'. We'll get to the bottom of exactly what that means over the course of the first two seasons".[1]
Fuller originally planned for the show to run for seven seasons: the first three consisting of original material, the fourth covering Red Dragon, the fifth The Silence of the Lambs, the sixth Hannibal, and the seventh an original storyline resolving Hannibal '​s ending.[21] However, after the conclusion of the second season, Fuller stated he now envisions the show to run six seasons, while incorporating the books into the show in a different way than he originally planned.[22] Fuller would like to include other characters from the book series (such as Jame Gumb and Clarice Starling) provided he can get the rights from MGM.[23] Franklin Froideveaux and Tobias Budge were created because Fuller could not secure the rights to The Silence of the Lambs characters Benjamin Raspail and Jame Gumb.[23] Fuller added they also tried to get the rights to Barney Matthews, an orderly at the Baltimore State Hospital, but were denied, thus a character based on Barney was scheduled to appear in the second season, named Matthew Brown.[24]



 Promotional poster for the second season featuring Will Graham (Hugh Dancy).
Regarding the series' influences, Fuller stated: "When I sat down to the script, I was very consciously saying, 'What would David Lynch do with a Hannibal Lecter character? What sort of strange, unexpected places would he take this world?' I'm a great admirer of his work and his aesthetic and his meticulous sound design. Those were all components that I felt very strongly needed to be part of our Hannibal Lecter story. Between Lynch and Kubrick, there's a lot of inspiration."[25]
Casting[edit]
English actor Hugh Dancy was the first actor to be cast, taking on the lead role of FBI criminal profiler Will Graham, who seeks help from Lecter in profiling and capturing serial killers.[26] In June 2012, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen was cast as Lecter.[27][28] Soon after this, actor Laurence Fishburne was cast as FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit commander Jack Crawford.[29] Caroline Dhavernas was later cast as Dr. Alana Bloom, a former student of Hannibal Lecter, and Hettienne Park was cast as CSI Beverly Katz.[30][31] Lara Jean Chorostecki, Kacey Rohl, Scott Thompson and Aaron Abrams were cast in recurring roles.[32]
Gina Torres has a recurring role as Phyllis "Bella" Crawford, Jack Crawford's terminally ill wife; she and Laurence Fishburne are married in real life.[33] Ellen Greene, Raúl Esparza and Gillian Anderson were later cast in recurring roles and appeared later in season one, though Greene actually appeared in only one episode.[34][35][36] Molly Shannon, Eddie Izzard and Lance Henriksen guest-starred during the first season.[37][38][39]
Several of the actors on the series have worked with creator Bryan Fuller previously, including Dhavernas, who played the lead role in Wonderfalls,[30] and Torres, Greene, Esparza and Shannon, who all appeared in the television series Pushing Daisies.[36] Chelan Simmons reprised her role as Gretchen Speck-Horowitz from Wonderfalls in an episode of Hannibal.[40] Ellen Muth, who starred in Fuller's Dead Like Me, guest-starred as a character named Georgia, a nod to her original character and a "reinterpretation of that character".[41]
David Bowie was approached for the role of Hannibal's uncle, Robert Lecter, for the second season,[42] but was unavailable for the role.[43] Gillian Anderson returned as Lecter's psychiatrist, Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier, in multiple episodes for the second season.[44] Eddie Izzard reprised his role as Dr. Abel Gideon for the second season.[45] Cynthia Nixon joined the recurring cast as Kade Prurnell, an employee of the Office of the Inspector General, who is investigating Jack Crawford's role in the events of the first season.[46] Katharine Isabelle joined the recurring cast as Margot Verger, who was originally described as a potential love interest for Graham, but Fuller later clarified that, as in the novel Hannibal, Margot "... is a member of the LGBT community!"[47][48] Michael Pitt joined the recurring cast in the role of Mason Verger, Margot's abusive twin brother.[49] Amanda Plummer guest-starred in the second season, playing Katherine Pimms, an acupuncturist.[50] Jeremy Davies and Chris Diamantopoulos appear in two episodes.[51]
Fuller stated in June 2014 after winning the Saturn Award for Best Network Television Series that they were told by Bowie's management to ask again for his availability for the third season. He also went on to list David Thewlis, Brad Dourif, Kristin Chenoweth, Lee Pace, and Anna Friel as actors he'd like to appear on the series.[52] Tao Okamoto was announced to play Lady Murasaki, Hannibal's enigmatic aunt, in season three,[53] however, Fuller later confirmed at a PaleyFest panel in New York that Okamoto will in fact be playing the role of Chiyoh, Lady Murasaki's handmaid.[11] For the third season, Joe Anderson replaced Michael Pitt as Mason Verger, as Pitt decided not to return to the role.[54] In January 2015, several recurring roles were cast, including Richard Armitage as Francis Dolarhyde; Nina Arianda as Molly Graham, Will's wife; Rutina Wesley as Reba McClane; and Glenn Fleshler as Dr. Cordell Doemling.[12][13][14][16]
Filming[edit]
Filming of Hannibal takes place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[55] The first season began shooting on August 27, 2012.[20] The series began production on the second season in Toronto in August 2013.[42] Filming for season 3 began on October 20, 2014, in Toronto.[56]
Episodes[edit]
Main article: List of Hannibal episodes

Season
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired
 1 13 April 4, 2013 June 20, 2013
 2 13 February 28, 2014 May 23, 2014
 3 13[57] Summer 2015[4] TBA
Broadcast[edit]
Episode order[edit]
The series' fourth episode, "Œuf", which revolves around kidnapped children who have been brainwashed into murdering their own former families, was pulled from the United States broadcast schedule at the request of creator Bryan Fuller. The episode was still shown in other countries.[58] This was not a result of the Boston Marathon bombings as some reports have indicated, but was actually decided just hours beforehand.[59] Fuller said of the decision, "With this episode, it wasn't about the graphic imagery or violence. It was the associations that came with the subject matter that I felt would inhibit the enjoyment of the overall episode. It was my own sensitivity... We want to be respectful of the social climate we're in right now".[60] In lieu of a traditional broadcast, a portion of the episode was broken into a series of webisodes, which was made available through various online media outlets.[61] The complete episode was later made available via iTunes on April 29, 2013, and the episode appears in the order intended on the DVD and Blu-ray release.[62]
Removal from KSL-TV[edit]
The series was pulled by Salt Lake City, Utah's KSL-TV (Channel 5) as of April 29, 2013, after four episodes were aired, and started airing in that market beginning with the May 4 episode during late night Saturdays after Saturday Night Live on KUCW, Salt Lake City's CW affiliate.[63]
International broadcast[edit]
Citytv picked up broadcasting rights in Canada, where the show is filmed, as a mid-season debut.[64]
In Europe, one year before originally airing, in April 10, 2012, the ProSiebenSat.1 Media Group acquired the rights to broadcast the series in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark beginning in 2013.[65] Sky Living started broadcasting the show in the UK and Republic of Ireland from May 7, 2013.[66]
In the South Pacific, the series is also broadcast on the Seven Network in Australia, from mid-April 2013[67] and in New Zealand, the show premiered on TV3 on January 25, 2014.[68] The series airs in Latin America through AXN.[69] In Middle East and North Africa region, the series is broadcast on OSN.[70]
Reception[edit]
Critical reviews[edit]
Season 1[edit]
Reviews for Hannibal have been positive. On critic website Metacritic, the first season scored 69 out of 100 based on 32 reviews, which constitutes "generally favorable reviews".[71] Joanne Ostrow of The Denver Post praised the series as a "... well constructed, masterfully written piece," but stated "... this level of violent imagery is not my cup of tea..." She also had high praise for the characters, stating that they are "... so compelling, however, that you may give in to the gore-fest."[72] Paul Doro of Shock Till You Drop gave Hannibal an 8/10 and said of the series, "The stab at classy horror mostly succeeds due to excellent performances from the leads, genuine suspense and surprises, well-constructed short and long-term mysteries, and an appropriately disconcerting mood that permeates the action right from the start..." and praised Hugh Dancy in particular, saying he "... does an outstanding job of subtlety conveying how painful human interaction is for him, and despite being abrasive and unpleasant, you are always in his corner and really feel for the guy."[73] Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly gave the show an A- and called it "... finely acted, visually scrumptious, and deliciously subversive."[74]
Brian Lowry of Variety said Hannibal is "... the tastiest drama the network has introduced in awhile," and had particular praise for the central trio of Dancy, Mikkelsen and Fishburne.[5] Eric Goldman of IGN gave the series a 9/10, which constitutes a score of "Amazing". He said, "A prequel TV series about Hannibal Lecter has to overcome a lot of preconceptions ... But guess what? None of that matters when you actually watch the show, because Hannibal is terrific."[75] Linda Stasi of The New York Post gave the series two and a half stars out of four, praising the performances and called it "... The most beautifully shot and produced show on network TV, with many scenes simply and literally breathtaking..."[76] Jeff Simon from The Buffalo News called Hannibal "deeply sinister" and "brilliant."[77] The Chicago Sun Times' TV critic Lori Rackl said, "Hannibal is a haunting, riveting... drama that has the look and feel of a show audiences have become more accustomed to seeing on cable than broadcast," and concluded that "It's also extremely well executed... bound to leave viewers hungry for more."[6] Alan Sepinwall of HitFix called Hannibal "creepy, haunting, smart, utterly gorgeous..." and the best of this season's serial killer shows.[78] Sepinwall also praised the character of Hannibal, writing he has been made into a believable supervillain without making the police force and others look incompetent.[79] Reflecting on the completed first season, The A.V. Club '​s Todd VanDerWerff wrote that the series acts as a corrective to the "empty" violence on much of television and "restores the seriousness of purpose to a genre long in need of it.... Hannibal is interested in death and murder as a means to glance sidelong at some of life’s largest questions. When not functioning as a cop drama, it’s an intricately twisted serial-killer thriller, but it’s also a surprisingly deep series about psychiatry and the state of the human mind." VanDerWerff concluded that Fuller had taken a series "that had every reason to be a cheap cash-in and has, instead, turned into one of TV’s best shows."[80]
Other reviews were less favorable. Glenn Garvin from The Miami Herald called it "a fast-food hash of poor planning and worse execution...", referring to the writing as "a mess of unmemorable dialogue and unworkable characterizations."[81] Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe was similarly critical, calling the series "rank and depressing," and concluded that it is "shocking, gruesome, and, ultimately, hollow."[82]
Season 2[edit]
On Metacritic, the second season scored 88 out of 100 based on 14 reviews, which constitutes "universal acclaim".[83] On April 10, 2014, Hannibal was voted the winner for Hulu's "Best in Show" online competition.[84] On Rotten Tomatoes, the second season scored a 100% "certified fresh" rating with an average rating of 9.2 out of 10 based on 24 reviews. The consensus reads: "With powerful imagery and a strong, unpredictable story, season two of Hannibal continues to build on the first season's promise."[85]
Mark Peters of Slate called Hannibal "an engrossing, psychologically dense show that is also visually stunning... the kind of gem seldom found on network TV." He did however note that the female characters were less developed.[86] Matt Zoller Seitz, writing for New York magazine heaped praise on the show, calling it "serenely unlike anything else on TV or anything that ever has been on TV."[87] Alan Sepinwall of HitFix continued his praise of the series, highlighting the performances of the lead actors.[88] The A.V. Club named it the best TV series of 2014, and wrote that Hannibal was "the best, most elegantly designed thrill ride on TV in 2014".[89]
The season two finale was met with universal critical acclaim. Gathering a perfect rating of 10 out of 10 on IGN, reviewer Eric Goldman stated, "Hannibal ended its fantastic second season with a thrilling, exciting and audacious series of events" and praised the directing by David Slade.[90] The finale also earned a perfect "A" grade by The A.V. Club, where reviewer Molly Eichel called it "an entirely perfect cap to this season."[91] Den of Geek reviewer Laura Akers labelled the episode "simply divine" and stated that she has "rarely found [herself] looking forward to a show's return more".[92] Emma Dibdin of Digital Spy also heavily praised the episode, specifically Mikkelsen's performance, stating that he is "so convincingly predatory...and so simultaneously scary and sad". She also laid praise on the sound design of the episode by saying that "the integration of a ticking clock worked so well not just in the usual 'time is running out' way, but also a subconscious reminder of Hannibal's manipulation of Will".[93] TV Guide named it the best TV episode of 2014.[94]
Awards and accolades[edit]
Awards and accolades for Hannibal

Year
Award
Category
Nominee(s)
Result

2013 Online Film & Television Association Awards Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series Gillian Anderson Nominated
Best New Theme Song in a Series  Nominated
Best New Titles Sequence  Nominated
2014 IGN Awards[95] Best TV Actor Hugh Dancy Nominated
Best TV Horror Series  Won
Best TV Villain Mads Mikkelsen Nominated
Best TV Series  Nominated
Best New TV Series  Won
Saturn Awards[96] Best Network Television Series  Won
Best Actor on Television Hugh Dancy Nominated
Mads Mikkelsen Won
Best Guest Star on Television Gina Torres Nominated
Critics' Choice Television Award[97] Best Drama Actor Hugh Dancy Nominated
EWwy Award[98] Best Drama Series  Won
Best Guest Actor, Drama Michael Pitt Nominated
Online Film & Television Association Awards Best Actor in a Drama Series Mads Mikkelsen Nominated
2015 Satellite Awards[99] Best Actor – Television Series Drama Mads Mikkelsen Pending
Best Television Series – Drama  Pending
IGN Awards[100] Best TV Series  Won
Best TV Horror Series  Won
Best TV Villain Mads Mikkelsen Won
Best TV Episode "Mizumono" Nominated

Nielsen ratings[edit]
U.S. television ratings for Hannibal

Season
Timeslot (ET)
Episodes
Premiere
Finale
TV season
Rank
Average viewership

Date
Viewers
 (millions)
Date
Viewers
 (millions)

1
Thursday 10:00 pm

13
April 4, 2013

4.36[101]
June 20, 2013

1.98[102]
2012–13

2.90[103]

2
Friday 10:00 pm

13
February 28, 2014

3.27[104]
May 23, 2014

2.35[105]
2013–14

2.54[106]

Home media releases[edit]
The first season, including all 13 episodes, was released on Blu-ray and DVD in region 2 on September 2, 2013,[107] in region 1 on September 24, 2013,[108] and in region 4 on September 25, 2013.[109] The region 1 set includes two audio commentaries (by Bryan Fuller, David Slade and Hugh Dancy on "Apéritif" and "Savoureux"), deleted scenes, gag reel, pilot episode storyboards, four featurettes, and "producer's cut" versions of five episodes.[108]
The second season, including all 13 episodes, was released on Blu-ray and DVD in region 1 on September 16, 2014. Bonus features include episode audio commentaries with cast and cast, several behind-the-scene featurettes, a gag reel, and deleted scenes.[110]
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Hannibal Lecter

Creator
Thomas Harris
Original work
Red Dragon
Print publications

Novels
Red Dragon (1981)
The Silence of the Lambs (1988)
Hannibal (1999)
Hannibal Rising (2006)

Films and television

Films
Manhunter (1986)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Hannibal (2001)
Red Dragon (2002)
Hannibal Rising (2007)

Television series
Hannibal (2013–present)
The Hannibal Lecter franchise is an American media franchise that features the character of Hannibal Lecter, who originally appeared in a series of novels (starting with Red Dragon in 1981) by Thomas Harris. The series has since expanded into film and television.


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1 Novels
2 Films and television 2.1 Cast and characters
2.2 Critical reaction
3 References

Novels[edit]
Red Dragon (1981)
The Silence of the Lambs (1988)
Hannibal (1999)
Hannibal Rising (2006)
Films and television[edit]
Manhunter (1986)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Hannibal (2001)
Red Dragon (2002)
Hannibal Rising (2007)
Hannibal (TV series) (2013–present)
The first adaptation was the 1986 film Manhunter, which was an adaptation of Red Dragon, directed by Michael Mann.
The next adaptation was 1991's The Silence of the Lambs, which was directed by Jonathan Demme and was the first film to feature Anthony Hopkins in the role of Hannibal Lecter. Silence was a success, both critically and financially, and went on to become the third film in Academy Awards history to win in all top five categories (Best Actor for Hopkins, Best Actress for Jodie Foster, Best Director for Demme, Best Adapted Screenplay for Ted Tally, and Best Picture). Hopkins reprised the role in the next two films, 2001's Hannibal, a sequel directed by Ridley Scott, and 2002's Red Dragon, a prequel directed by Brett Ratner. In 2002, Hopkins revealed that he had written a screenplay for another sequel, ending with Clarice killing Lecter; it was not produced.[1]
In 2007, Hannibal Rising was released. The film is a prequel, directed by Peter Webber and starring Gaspard Ulliel as Lecter.
In 2013, the TV series Hannibal premiered. Developed by Bryan Fuller, it is not a direct adaptation, but based on characters and elements from the novels. Some characters appear under the opposite gender, such as Freddy Lounds, who is renamed Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds. The series has garnered much critical acclaim since its premiere, winning the 2014 Saturn Award for Best Network Television Series.
Cast and characters[edit]


Manhunter
 (1986)
The Silence of the Lambs
 (1991)
Hannibal
 (2001)
Red Dragon
 (2002)
Hannibal Rising
 (2007)
Hannibal
 (TV series)
 (2013–present)

Hannibal Lecter
Brian Cox
(as Hannibal Lecktor) Anthony Hopkins Gaspard Ulliel
Aaran Thomas (young) Mads Mikkelsen
Will Graham
William Petersen  Edward Norton  Hugh Dancy
Jack Crawford
Dennis Farina Scott Glenn  Harvey Keitel  Laurence Fishburne
Frederick Chilton
Benjamin Hendrickson Anthony Heald  Anthony Heald  Raúl Esparza
Francis Dolarhyde
 (The Tooth Fairy)
Tom Noonan
(as Francis Dollarhyde)  Ralph Fiennes  Richard Armitage
Clarice Starling
 Jodie Foster
Masha Skorobogatov (young) Julianne Moore 
Buffalo Bill
 (Jame Gumb)
 Ted Levine 
Barney Matthews
 Frankie Faison  Jonathan Tucker
(as Matthew Brown)
Freddy Lounds
Stephen Lang  Philip Seymour Hoffman  Lara Jean Chorostecki
(as Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds)
Mason Verger
 Gary Oldman  Michael Pitt
Joe Anderson
Paul Krendler
 Ron Vawter Ray Liotta  Cynthia Nixon[2]
(as Kade Prurnell)
Reba McClane
Joan Allen  Emily Watson  Rutina Wesley
Molly Graham
Kim Greist  Mary-Louise Parker  Nina Arianda
Rinaldo Pazzi
 Giancarlo Giannini  Fortunato Cerlino
Cordell Doemling
 Željko Ivanek  Glenn Fleshler
Lady Murasaki
 Gong Li 
Bedelia Du Maurier
 Gillian Anderson
Abel Gideon
 Eddie Izzard
Critical reaction[edit]
Film Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic
Manhunter 94% (33 reviews) [3] 78 (10 reviews) [4]
The Silence of the Lambs 94% (71 reviews) [5] 84 (17 reviews) [6]
Hannibal 39% (164 reviews) [7] 57 (36 reviews) [8]
Red Dragon 69% (185 reviews) [9] 60 (36 reviews) [10]
Hannibal Rising 15% (143 reviews) [11] 35 (30 reviews) [12]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Oldenburg, Ann (October 3, 2002). "Marquee names serve up another helping of Hannibal". USA Today. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
2.Jump up ^ VanDerWerff, Todd (March 8, 2014). "Hannibal’s Bryan Fuller on blending Busby Berkeley with murder". The A.V. Club. Retrieved March 8, 2014. "Kade Prurnell is an anagram of a character from Hannibal, actually the Ray Liotta character. So it’s like, “Your anagrams are showing, Dr. Lecter.” We couldn’t get the rights to that character, because that character originated in Silence of the Lambs. The character’s name was Paul Krendler, and we wanted to call her Paula Krendler, and they said no, because the way the rights go, it’s not by the literature, it’s actually by the character’s introduction. So if a character is first seen in Silence of the Lambs, we’re screwed, as far as rights go. In order to change the character so it’s not that but sort of services the same mythology in the show and reinvent the character in a way that won’t get us sued, [Laughs.] we anagrammed her and made her slightly different from the character in both Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal to our own purposes."
3.Jump up ^ "Manhunter RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
4.Jump up ^ "Manhunter MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
5.Jump up ^ "Silence of the Lambs RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
6.Jump up ^ "Silence of the Lambs MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
7.Jump up ^ "Hannibal RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
8.Jump up ^ "Hannibal MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
9.Jump up ^ "Red Dragon RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
10.Jump up ^ "Red Dragon MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
11.Jump up ^ "Hannibal Rising RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
12.Jump up ^ "Hannibal Rising MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.


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Hannibal Lecter (franchise)
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Hannibal Lecter

Creator
Thomas Harris
Original work
Red Dragon
Print publications

Novels
Red Dragon (1981)
The Silence of the Lambs (1988)
Hannibal (1999)
Hannibal Rising (2006)

Films and television

Films
Manhunter (1986)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Hannibal (2001)
Red Dragon (2002)
Hannibal Rising (2007)

Television series
Hannibal (2013–present)
The Hannibal Lecter franchise is an American media franchise that features the character of Hannibal Lecter, who originally appeared in a series of novels (starting with Red Dragon in 1981) by Thomas Harris. The series has since expanded into film and television.


Contents  [hide]
1 Novels
2 Films and television 2.1 Cast and characters
2.2 Critical reaction
3 References

Novels[edit]
Red Dragon (1981)
The Silence of the Lambs (1988)
Hannibal (1999)
Hannibal Rising (2006)
Films and television[edit]
Manhunter (1986)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Hannibal (2001)
Red Dragon (2002)
Hannibal Rising (2007)
Hannibal (TV series) (2013–present)
The first adaptation was the 1986 film Manhunter, which was an adaptation of Red Dragon, directed by Michael Mann.
The next adaptation was 1991's The Silence of the Lambs, which was directed by Jonathan Demme and was the first film to feature Anthony Hopkins in the role of Hannibal Lecter. Silence was a success, both critically and financially, and went on to become the third film in Academy Awards history to win in all top five categories (Best Actor for Hopkins, Best Actress for Jodie Foster, Best Director for Demme, Best Adapted Screenplay for Ted Tally, and Best Picture). Hopkins reprised the role in the next two films, 2001's Hannibal, a sequel directed by Ridley Scott, and 2002's Red Dragon, a prequel directed by Brett Ratner. In 2002, Hopkins revealed that he had written a screenplay for another sequel, ending with Clarice killing Lecter; it was not produced.[1]
In 2007, Hannibal Rising was released. The film is a prequel, directed by Peter Webber and starring Gaspard Ulliel as Lecter.
In 2013, the TV series Hannibal premiered. Developed by Bryan Fuller, it is not a direct adaptation, but based on characters and elements from the novels. Some characters appear under the opposite gender, such as Freddy Lounds, who is renamed Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds. The series has garnered much critical acclaim since its premiere, winning the 2014 Saturn Award for Best Network Television Series.
Cast and characters[edit]


Manhunter
 (1986)
The Silence of the Lambs
 (1991)
Hannibal
 (2001)
Red Dragon
 (2002)
Hannibal Rising
 (2007)
Hannibal
 (TV series)
 (2013–present)

Hannibal Lecter
Brian Cox
(as Hannibal Lecktor) Anthony Hopkins Gaspard Ulliel
Aaran Thomas (young) Mads Mikkelsen
Will Graham
William Petersen  Edward Norton  Hugh Dancy
Jack Crawford
Dennis Farina Scott Glenn  Harvey Keitel  Laurence Fishburne
Frederick Chilton
Benjamin Hendrickson Anthony Heald  Anthony Heald  Raúl Esparza
Francis Dolarhyde
 (The Tooth Fairy)
Tom Noonan
(as Francis Dollarhyde)  Ralph Fiennes  Richard Armitage
Clarice Starling
 Jodie Foster
Masha Skorobogatov (young) Julianne Moore 
Buffalo Bill
 (Jame Gumb)
 Ted Levine 
Barney Matthews
 Frankie Faison  Jonathan Tucker
(as Matthew Brown)
Freddy Lounds
Stephen Lang  Philip Seymour Hoffman  Lara Jean Chorostecki
(as Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds)
Mason Verger
 Gary Oldman  Michael Pitt
Joe Anderson
Paul Krendler
 Ron Vawter Ray Liotta  Cynthia Nixon[2]
(as Kade Prurnell)
Reba McClane
Joan Allen  Emily Watson  Rutina Wesley
Molly Graham
Kim Greist  Mary-Louise Parker  Nina Arianda
Rinaldo Pazzi
 Giancarlo Giannini  Fortunato Cerlino
Cordell Doemling
 Željko Ivanek  Glenn Fleshler
Lady Murasaki
 Gong Li 
Bedelia Du Maurier
 Gillian Anderson
Abel Gideon
 Eddie Izzard
Critical reaction[edit]
Film Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic
Manhunter 94% (33 reviews) [3] 78 (10 reviews) [4]
The Silence of the Lambs 94% (71 reviews) [5] 84 (17 reviews) [6]
Hannibal 39% (164 reviews) [7] 57 (36 reviews) [8]
Red Dragon 69% (185 reviews) [9] 60 (36 reviews) [10]
Hannibal Rising 15% (143 reviews) [11] 35 (30 reviews) [12]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Oldenburg, Ann (October 3, 2002). "Marquee names serve up another helping of Hannibal". USA Today. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
2.Jump up ^ VanDerWerff, Todd (March 8, 2014). "Hannibal’s Bryan Fuller on blending Busby Berkeley with murder". The A.V. Club. Retrieved March 8, 2014. "Kade Prurnell is an anagram of a character from Hannibal, actually the Ray Liotta character. So it’s like, “Your anagrams are showing, Dr. Lecter.” We couldn’t get the rights to that character, because that character originated in Silence of the Lambs. The character’s name was Paul Krendler, and we wanted to call her Paula Krendler, and they said no, because the way the rights go, it’s not by the literature, it’s actually by the character’s introduction. So if a character is first seen in Silence of the Lambs, we’re screwed, as far as rights go. In order to change the character so it’s not that but sort of services the same mythology in the show and reinvent the character in a way that won’t get us sued, [Laughs.] we anagrammed her and made her slightly different from the character in both Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal to our own purposes."
3.Jump up ^ "Manhunter RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
4.Jump up ^ "Manhunter MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
5.Jump up ^ "Silence of the Lambs RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
6.Jump up ^ "Silence of the Lambs MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
7.Jump up ^ "Hannibal RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
8.Jump up ^ "Hannibal MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
9.Jump up ^ "Red Dragon RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
10.Jump up ^ "Red Dragon MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
11.Jump up ^ "Hannibal Rising RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
12.Jump up ^ "Hannibal Rising MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.


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 Frederick Chilton ·
 Jack Crawford ·
 Freddy Lounds ·
 Mason Verger
 

Novels
Red Dragon (1981) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1988) ·
 Hannibal (1999) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2006)
 

Films
Manhunter (1986) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) ·
 Hannibal (2001) ·
 Red Dragon (2002) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2007)
 

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Hannibal Rising
Hannibalrisingposter.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Peter Webber
Produced by
Dino De Laurentiis
 Martha De Laurentiis
Tarak Ben Ammar
Screenplay by
Thomas Harris
Based on
Hannibal Rising
 by Thomas Harris
Starring
Gaspard Ulliel
Gong Li
Rhys Ifans
Dominic West
Music by
Ilan Eshkeri
Shigeru Umebayashi
Cinematography
Ben Davis
Edited by
Pietro Scalia
 Valerio Bonelli

Production
 company

Dino De Laurentiis Company

Distributed by
Momentum Pictures (UK)
 SPI International (Czech Republic)
The Weinstein Company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (US)

Release dates

7 February 2007 (France)
9 February 2007 (Italy/US/UK)
22 February 2007 (Czech Republic)


Running time
 121 minutes[1]
 130 minutes (Extended cut)
Country
France
United Kingdom
United States[2]

Language
English
 French
 German
 Russian
Budget
$50 million[3]
Box office
$82,169,884[4]
Hannibal Rising is a 2007 horror film and the fifth film of the Hannibal Lecter franchise. It is a prequel to the previous three films: Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal. The film is an adaptation of Thomas Harris' 2006 novel of the same name and tells the story of Lecter's evolution into the infamous cannibal/serial killer of the previous films and books.
French actor Gaspard Ulliel portrays Lecter. Anthony Hopkins played the role in three previous films, and Brian Cox portrayed him in Manhunter (1986).
Hannibal Rising was directed by Peter Webber from a screenplay by Harris, and was filmed in Barrandov Studios in Prague. It was produced by the Dino De Laurentiis Company and was released on 9 February 2007. Theatrical distribution in the United States was handled by The Weinstein Company and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The DVD was released on 29 May 2007.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception 4.1 Critical response
4.2 Box office
5 Home media
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
In 1944, an eight-year-old Hannibal Lecter lives in Lecter Castle in Lithuania. Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union turns the Baltic region into part of the bloodiest front line of World War II. Lecter, his younger sister Mischa, and their parents travel to the family's hunting lodge in the woods to elude the advancing German troops. The Nazis are finally driven out of the countries soon to be occupied by the Soviet Union. During their retreat, however, they destroy a Soviet tank that had stopped at the Lecter family's lodge looking for water. The explosion kills everyone but Lecter and Mischa. They survive in the cottage until six former Lithuanian militiamen, led by a Nazi collaborator named Vladis Grutas, storm and loot it. Finding no other food in the bitterly cold Baltic winter, the men look menacingly at Lecter and Mischa.
By 1952, Lecter Castle has been turned into a Soviet orphanage. After dealing violently with a bully, Lecter escapes from the castle orphanage to Paris to live with his widowed aunt, the Lady Murasaki. While in France, Lecter flourishes as a student. He commits his first murder as a teenager, killing a local butcher who has insulted his aunt. He is suspected of the murder by Inspector Popil, a French detective who also lost his family in the war. Thanks in part to his aunt's intervention, Lecter escapes responsibility for the crime.
Eventually, Lecter becomes the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France. He receives a working scholarship at a hospital in Paris, where he is given a job preparing cadavers. One day, Lecter witnesses a condemned war criminal receiving a sodium thiopental injection recall details about his war crimes. In an attempt to recall the names of those responsible for his sister's death, Lecter injects himself with the solution. His subsequent flashback reveals the men who had killed and cannibalized Mischa. Lecter returns to Lithuania in search of his sister's remains. He excavates the ruins of the lodge where his family died, and upon finding Mischa's remains, he gives her a proper burial. He also unearths the dog-tags of the deserters who killed his sister. One of them, Dortlich, shows up and attempts to kill him but is incapacitated by Lecter. After he buries Mischa's remains, Lecter forces Dortlich to reveal the whereabouts of the rest of his gang, then decapitates him. Dortlich's blood splashes on Lecter's face. He wipes it off with his hand, then seemingly lost in thought, he licks the blood from his hand.
Lecter begins his search for the rest of the men responsible for Mischa's death. In Fontainbleau, he visits a restaurant that belongs to Kolnas. There, he sees Kolnas' young daughter, who is wearing Mischa's bracelet. Lecter tucks Kolnas' dog-tag into her pocket for her father to find. Dortlich's murder has put the rest of the group on alert and, because of the similarity to the butcher's murder, causes Inspector Popil to renew his suspicions about Lecter. Grutas, now a sex trafficker, dispatches a second member of the group, Zigmas Milko, to kill Lecter at the medical school. Lecter kills Milko instead, drowning him in formaldehyde inside his laboratory. Popil talks with Lecter about his suspicions that the young man is hunting down the men who killed his sister; Lecter suggests that as both of their families were killed in the war, then both he and Popil could be among the murder suspects. Later, Lecter meets with Lady Murasaki; they kiss and are on the verge of beginning a physical relationship, when she begs him to stop his quest for vengeance and to forgive the men who killed his sister. Lecter turns away, saying that he cannot promise her this, as he made a promise first to Mischa.
Lecter invades Grutas' home and attacks him, but Grutas is rescued by his bodyguards. Grutas then kidnaps Lady Murasaki and telephones Lecter, using her as bait. Lecter recognizes a sound in the background of the phone call: the sounds of Kolnas' birds from the restaurant. He goes there and plays on Kolnas' emotions by threatening his children. Frightened, Kolnas gives up the location of Grutas' houseboat. Although he has promised to spare Kolnas for his children's sake, Lecter kills him when he grabs for a gun. Lecter confronts Grutas on the houseboat. During their final confrontation, Grutas claims that Lecter, too, had consumed his sister in broth fed to him by the soldiers. He jeers that now Lecter must kill even more people -- including himself -- to keep this fact a secret. Enraged, Lecter carves an "M" for "Mischa" into Gruta's chest and abdomen. With the still-living Grutas groaning on the floor, Lecter professes his love to Lady Murasaki. Horrified by his behavior, she says, "What is there left in you to love?" and flees from him. The houseboat explodes and is incinerated. Lecter, assumed by all to be dead, emerges from the woods. In the final scene, Lecter has traveled to Canada, where he hunts down the last member of the group, Grentz.
Cast[edit]
Gaspard Ulliel as Hannibal Lecter Aaran Thomas as young Hannibal Lecter
Gong Li as Lady Murasaki
Dominic West as Inspector Pascal Popil
Rhys Ifans as Vladis Grutas
Helena-Lia Tachovska as Mischa Lecter
Kevin McKidd as Petras Kolnas
Richard Brake as Enrikas Dortlich
Stephen Martin Walters as Zigmas Milko
Ivan Marevich as Bronys Grentz
Charles Maquignon as Paul Momund
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė as Mrs. Lecter
Beata Ben Ammar as Madam Kolnas
Pavel Bezdek as Dieter
Goran Kostić as Pot Watcher
Robbie Kay as Robert Kay, Kolnas's son
Production[edit]
[icon] This section requires expansion. (October 2014)
Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
[icon] This section requires expansion. (October 2014)
Hannibal Rising received generally negative reviews from film critics, though Ulliel's performance as Hannibal was generally praised. The film garnered a 15% approval rating from 143 critics—an average rating of 3.9 out of 10—on the review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, which said, "Hannibal Rising reduces the horror icon to a collection of dime-store psychological traits."[5] Metacritic provides a score of 35% based on reviews from 30 critics, which indicates "generally unfavorable" reviews.[6] The film was nominated for, but did not win, two Golden Raspberry awards. They were for Worst Prequel or Sequel (lost to Daddy Day Camp) and Worst Excuse for a Horror Movie (lost to I Know Who Killed Me).
Box office[edit]
The film opened at #2 in the United States with $13.4 million, less than half of the $33.7 million opening of Norbit[7] which was released during the same week as Hannibal Rising. In its second week of release, Hannibal Rising dropped to #7 at the U.S. box office, making $5.5 million, a 59% drop from the previous week. It dropped out of the top 10 U.S. grossing films in its third week of release at #13 with $1,706,165 in revenue, a 69% drop from the previous week. After a theatrical release of 91 days, the final total North American domestic gross of the film was $27,669,725, less than the opening weekend gross of both Hannibal and Red Dragon ($58,003,121 and $36,540,945, respectively).
Home media[edit]
 The DVD was released on 29 May 2007 and sold 480,861 units in the opening weekend, generating revenue of $10,574,133. As of August 2009, the film has grossed $23,242,853 from DVD sales alone. Blu-ray sales or DVD rentals are not included.[8]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "HANNIBAL RISING (18)". British Board of Film Classification. 15 January 2007. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
2.Jump up ^ Harvey, Dennis (8 February 2007). "Hannibal Rising". Variety. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
3.Jump up ^ Hannibal Rising, The Numbers
4.Jump up ^ Hannibal Rising, Box Office Mojo
5.Jump up ^ Hannibal Rising at Rotten Tomatoes Flixster
6.Jump up ^ Hannibal Rising at Metacritic CBS Interactive
7.Jump up ^ Gwyneth Paltrow finds "Country Strong" a struggle (Reuters), 21 December 2010 Yahoo! Movies: Movie News
8.Jump up ^ Hannibal Rising – DVD Sales. The Numbers. Retrieved on 2010-12-22.
External links[edit]
Official website
Hannibal Rising at the Internet Movie Database
Hannibal Rising at Box Office Mojo
Hannibal Rising at Rotten Tomatoes
Hannibal Rising at Metacritic
Cinefantastique Online Review


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Hannibal Rising
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Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Peter Webber
Produced by
Dino De Laurentiis
 Martha De Laurentiis
Tarak Ben Ammar
Screenplay by
Thomas Harris
Based on
Hannibal Rising
 by Thomas Harris
Starring
Gaspard Ulliel
Gong Li
Rhys Ifans
Dominic West
Music by
Ilan Eshkeri
Shigeru Umebayashi
Cinematography
Ben Davis
Edited by
Pietro Scalia
 Valerio Bonelli

Production
 company

Dino De Laurentiis Company

Distributed by
Momentum Pictures (UK)
 SPI International (Czech Republic)
The Weinstein Company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (US)

Release dates

7 February 2007 (France)
9 February 2007 (Italy/US/UK)
22 February 2007 (Czech Republic)


Running time
 121 minutes[1]
 130 minutes (Extended cut)
Country
France
United Kingdom
United States[2]

Language
English
 French
 German
 Russian
Budget
$50 million[3]
Box office
$82,169,884[4]
Hannibal Rising is a 2007 horror film and the fifth film of the Hannibal Lecter franchise. It is a prequel to the previous three films: Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal. The film is an adaptation of Thomas Harris' 2006 novel of the same name and tells the story of Lecter's evolution into the infamous cannibal/serial killer of the previous films and books.
French actor Gaspard Ulliel portrays Lecter. Anthony Hopkins played the role in three previous films, and Brian Cox portrayed him in Manhunter (1986).
Hannibal Rising was directed by Peter Webber from a screenplay by Harris, and was filmed in Barrandov Studios in Prague. It was produced by the Dino De Laurentiis Company and was released on 9 February 2007. Theatrical distribution in the United States was handled by The Weinstein Company and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The DVD was released on 29 May 2007.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception 4.1 Critical response
4.2 Box office
5 Home media
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
In 1944, an eight-year-old Hannibal Lecter lives in Lecter Castle in Lithuania. Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union turns the Baltic region into part of the bloodiest front line of World War II. Lecter, his younger sister Mischa, and their parents travel to the family's hunting lodge in the woods to elude the advancing German troops. The Nazis are finally driven out of the countries soon to be occupied by the Soviet Union. During their retreat, however, they destroy a Soviet tank that had stopped at the Lecter family's lodge looking for water. The explosion kills everyone but Lecter and Mischa. They survive in the cottage until six former Lithuanian militiamen, led by a Nazi collaborator named Vladis Grutas, storm and loot it. Finding no other food in the bitterly cold Baltic winter, the men look menacingly at Lecter and Mischa.
By 1952, Lecter Castle has been turned into a Soviet orphanage. After dealing violently with a bully, Lecter escapes from the castle orphanage to Paris to live with his widowed aunt, the Lady Murasaki. While in France, Lecter flourishes as a student. He commits his first murder as a teenager, killing a local butcher who has insulted his aunt. He is suspected of the murder by Inspector Popil, a French detective who also lost his family in the war. Thanks in part to his aunt's intervention, Lecter escapes responsibility for the crime.
Eventually, Lecter becomes the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France. He receives a working scholarship at a hospital in Paris, where he is given a job preparing cadavers. One day, Lecter witnesses a condemned war criminal receiving a sodium thiopental injection recall details about his war crimes. In an attempt to recall the names of those responsible for his sister's death, Lecter injects himself with the solution. His subsequent flashback reveals the men who had killed and cannibalized Mischa. Lecter returns to Lithuania in search of his sister's remains. He excavates the ruins of the lodge where his family died, and upon finding Mischa's remains, he gives her a proper burial. He also unearths the dog-tags of the deserters who killed his sister. One of them, Dortlich, shows up and attempts to kill him but is incapacitated by Lecter. After he buries Mischa's remains, Lecter forces Dortlich to reveal the whereabouts of the rest of his gang, then decapitates him. Dortlich's blood splashes on Lecter's face. He wipes it off with his hand, then seemingly lost in thought, he licks the blood from his hand.
Lecter begins his search for the rest of the men responsible for Mischa's death. In Fontainbleau, he visits a restaurant that belongs to Kolnas. There, he sees Kolnas' young daughter, who is wearing Mischa's bracelet. Lecter tucks Kolnas' dog-tag into her pocket for her father to find. Dortlich's murder has put the rest of the group on alert and, because of the similarity to the butcher's murder, causes Inspector Popil to renew his suspicions about Lecter. Grutas, now a sex trafficker, dispatches a second member of the group, Zigmas Milko, to kill Lecter at the medical school. Lecter kills Milko instead, drowning him in formaldehyde inside his laboratory. Popil talks with Lecter about his suspicions that the young man is hunting down the men who killed his sister; Lecter suggests that as both of their families were killed in the war, then both he and Popil could be among the murder suspects. Later, Lecter meets with Lady Murasaki; they kiss and are on the verge of beginning a physical relationship, when she begs him to stop his quest for vengeance and to forgive the men who killed his sister. Lecter turns away, saying that he cannot promise her this, as he made a promise first to Mischa.
Lecter invades Grutas' home and attacks him, but Grutas is rescued by his bodyguards. Grutas then kidnaps Lady Murasaki and telephones Lecter, using her as bait. Lecter recognizes a sound in the background of the phone call: the sounds of Kolnas' birds from the restaurant. He goes there and plays on Kolnas' emotions by threatening his children. Frightened, Kolnas gives up the location of Grutas' houseboat. Although he has promised to spare Kolnas for his children's sake, Lecter kills him when he grabs for a gun. Lecter confronts Grutas on the houseboat. During their final confrontation, Grutas claims that Lecter, too, had consumed his sister in broth fed to him by the soldiers. He jeers that now Lecter must kill even more people -- including himself -- to keep this fact a secret. Enraged, Lecter carves an "M" for "Mischa" into Gruta's chest and abdomen. With the still-living Grutas groaning on the floor, Lecter professes his love to Lady Murasaki. Horrified by his behavior, she says, "What is there left in you to love?" and flees from him. The houseboat explodes and is incinerated. Lecter, assumed by all to be dead, emerges from the woods. In the final scene, Lecter has traveled to Canada, where he hunts down the last member of the group, Grentz.
Cast[edit]
Gaspard Ulliel as Hannibal Lecter Aaran Thomas as young Hannibal Lecter
Gong Li as Lady Murasaki
Dominic West as Inspector Pascal Popil
Rhys Ifans as Vladis Grutas
Helena-Lia Tachovska as Mischa Lecter
Kevin McKidd as Petras Kolnas
Richard Brake as Enrikas Dortlich
Stephen Martin Walters as Zigmas Milko
Ivan Marevich as Bronys Grentz
Charles Maquignon as Paul Momund
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė as Mrs. Lecter
Beata Ben Ammar as Madam Kolnas
Pavel Bezdek as Dieter
Goran Kostić as Pot Watcher
Robbie Kay as Robert Kay, Kolnas's son
Production[edit]
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Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
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Hannibal Rising received generally negative reviews from film critics, though Ulliel's performance as Hannibal was generally praised. The film garnered a 15% approval rating from 143 critics—an average rating of 3.9 out of 10—on the review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, which said, "Hannibal Rising reduces the horror icon to a collection of dime-store psychological traits."[5] Metacritic provides a score of 35% based on reviews from 30 critics, which indicates "generally unfavorable" reviews.[6] The film was nominated for, but did not win, two Golden Raspberry awards. They were for Worst Prequel or Sequel (lost to Daddy Day Camp) and Worst Excuse for a Horror Movie (lost to I Know Who Killed Me).
Box office[edit]
The film opened at #2 in the United States with $13.4 million, less than half of the $33.7 million opening of Norbit[7] which was released during the same week as Hannibal Rising. In its second week of release, Hannibal Rising dropped to #7 at the U.S. box office, making $5.5 million, a 59% drop from the previous week. It dropped out of the top 10 U.S. grossing films in its third week of release at #13 with $1,706,165 in revenue, a 69% drop from the previous week. After a theatrical release of 91 days, the final total North American domestic gross of the film was $27,669,725, less than the opening weekend gross of both Hannibal and Red Dragon ($58,003,121 and $36,540,945, respectively).
Home media[edit]
 The DVD was released on 29 May 2007 and sold 480,861 units in the opening weekend, generating revenue of $10,574,133. As of August 2009, the film has grossed $23,242,853 from DVD sales alone. Blu-ray sales or DVD rentals are not included.[8]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "HANNIBAL RISING (18)". British Board of Film Classification. 15 January 2007. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
2.Jump up ^ Harvey, Dennis (8 February 2007). "Hannibal Rising". Variety. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
3.Jump up ^ Hannibal Rising, The Numbers
4.Jump up ^ Hannibal Rising, Box Office Mojo
5.Jump up ^ Hannibal Rising at Rotten Tomatoes Flixster
6.Jump up ^ Hannibal Rising at Metacritic CBS Interactive
7.Jump up ^ Gwyneth Paltrow finds "Country Strong" a struggle (Reuters), 21 December 2010 Yahoo! Movies: Movie News
8.Jump up ^ Hannibal Rising – DVD Sales. The Numbers. Retrieved on 2010-12-22.
External links[edit]
Official website
Hannibal Rising at the Internet Movie Database
Hannibal Rising at Box Office Mojo
Hannibal Rising at Rotten Tomatoes
Hannibal Rising at Metacritic
Cinefantastique Online Review


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Red Dragon (film)
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Red Dragon
Red Dragon movie.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Brett Ratner
Produced by
Dino De Laurentiis
 Martha De Laurentiis
Screenplay by
Ted Tally
Based on
Red Dragon
 by Thomas Harris
Starring
Anthony Hopkins
Edward Norton
Ralph Fiennes
Harvey Keitel
Emily Watson
Mary-Louise Parker
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Music by
Danny Elfman
Cinematography
Dante Spinotti
Edited by
Mark Helfrich

Production
 company

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 Scott Free Productions

Distributed by
Universal Pictures
 (United States)
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
 (Select International)

Release dates

October 4, 2002


Running time
 124 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$78 million[1]
Box office
$209,196,298[1]
Red Dragon is a 2002 American crime thriller film based on Thomas Harris' novel of the same name, featuring psychiatrist and serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. It is a prequel to both The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Hannibal (2001). It is a remake of the 1986 film Manhunter (1986).
The film was directed by Brett Ratner and written for the screen by Ted Tally, who also wrote the screenplay for the Oscar-winning The Silence of the Lambs. It stars Edward Norton as FBI agent Will Graham and Anthony Hopkins as Lecter, a role he had, by then, played twice before in The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. The film also stars Ralph Fiennes, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mary-Louise Parker, Emily Watson, and Harvey Keitel.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Soundtrack
4 Release 4.1 Box office
4.2 Critical response
4.3 Accolades
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
In Baltimore, Maryland psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter attends a symphonic orchestra performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream. The flute player repeatedly misses out on his part, profoundly irritating Lecter. Later, Lecter hosts a dinner party in his townhouse for the orchestra's board of directors, at which the disappearance of a musician, a flute player, is brought up during conversation.
After the party, Lecter is later visited by Will Graham, a gifted FBI agent and a psychologist, with whom he has been working on a psychological profile of a serial killer who has removed edible body parts from his victims, leading Graham to believe that the killer could be a cannibal. During the consultation, Graham discovers evidence implicating Lecter in the murders. Lecter attacks Graham, almost disembowelling him, before Graham overpowers Lecter. Lecter is sentenced to life imprisonment in an institution for the criminally insane while Graham, traumatized by the experience, retires from the FBI.
Some years later, another serial killer, nicknamed "The Tooth Fairy", appears. He stalks and kills seemingly random Southern families during sequential full moons. Hoping to capture the killer before his next attack, Special Agent Jack Crawford seeks Graham's assistance in determining his psychological profile. The death of another family weighing on his conscience, Graham reluctantly agrees. After visiting the crime scenes and speaking with Crawford, he concludes that he must once again consult Dr. Lecter for advice.
"The Tooth Fairy" is actually a psychotic named Francis Dolarhyde who kills at the behest of an alternate personality he calls "The Great Red Dragon." He is obsessed with the William Blake painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun, and believes that each victim he "changes" brings him closer to "becoming" the Dragon. His pathology is born from the severe abuse he suffered at the hands of his sadistic grandmother, since he was orphaned after his parents died at a young age.
Meanwhile, Freddy Lounds, a tabloid reporter who hounded Graham after Lecter's capture, now follows him for leads on the Tooth Fairy. There is a secret correspondence between Lecter and Dolarhyde. Graham's wife and son are endangered when Lecter gives the Tooth Fairy the agent's home address, forcing them to be relocated to a farm owned by Crawford's brother. Lecter, aware that the police are onto him, raises the stakes: in return for his help, he requests a first-class meal in his cell and the return of his book privileges.
Hoping to lure the Tooth Fairy out of hiding, Graham gives Lounds an interview, in which he disparages the killer as an impotent homosexual to anger the Tooth Fairy. This provokes Dolarhyde, who kidnaps Lounds, glues him to an antique wheelchair, forces him to recant his allegations, bites off his lips and then sets him on fire outside his newspaper's offices as a warning.
Meanwhile, at his job in a St. Louis photo lab, Dolarhyde falls in love with Reba McClane, a blind co-worker, but his Dragon personality demands that he kill her. He takes her home, where they make love. Dolarhyde attempts to stop the Dragon's "possession" of him by going to the Brooklyn Museum and literally consuming the original Blake painting.
Meanwhile, Graham deduces that the killer knew the layout of his victims' houses from their home videos, which he could only have seen if he worked for the editing company that transfers home movies to video cassette and edits them. From this point, he starts searching the companies and their workers so he could determine the real identity of the Tooth Fairy.
At work, Dolarhyde finds McClane with a co-worker, Ralph Mandy, whom she actually dislikes. Enraged for this apparent betrayal, Dolarhyde kills Mandy, kidnaps McClane, takes her to his house, and then sets it on fire. Finding himself unable to shoot her, Dolarhyde apparently shoots himself. McClane is able to escape as the police arrive and the house explodes.
Dolarhyde, having staged his own death, turns up at Graham's home in Florida where he holds Graham's son hostage, threatening to kill him with a piece of broken glass. To defuse the situation, Graham slings insults at his son that are reminiscent of the ones Dolarhyde's grandmother had used against him. Feeling a sudden sympathy for the boy, the enraged Dolarhyde attacks Graham as the boy flees to safety. Both men are severely wounded in a shootout which ends when Graham's wife Molly kills Dolarhyde.
After the death of Dolarhyde, Graham receives a letter from Lecter, which bids him well, praises him for exposing and killing the Tooth Fairy and hopes that he isn't "too ugly", since he mocked his appearance and his hair, and tells him they are going to cross paths soon. With the death of Dolarhyde, Graham retires from the FBI once again and continues to have a family life.
Some time later, Lecter's jailer, Frederick Chilton, then tells him that a "young woman from the FBI is here to see you." Lecter asks, "What is her name?"
Cast[edit]
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter
Edward Norton as Will Graham
Ralph Fiennes as Francis Dolarhyde
Harvey Keitel as Jack Crawford
Emily Watson as Reba McClane
Mary-Louise Parker as Molly Graham
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Freddy Lounds
Frank Whaley as Ralph Mandy
Anthony Heald as Frederick Chilton
Ken Leung as Lloyd Bowman
Frankie Faison as Barney Matthews
Ellen Burstyn as voice of Grandma Dolarhyde
Tyler Patrick Jones as Josh Graham
Soundtrack[edit]

Red Dragon: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Soundtrack album by Danny Elfman

Released
September 24, 2002
Recorded
2002
Genre
Classical
Length
57:10
Label
Decca Records
Producer
Mark Helfrich
Brett Ratner
Danny Elfman chronology

Men in Black II
 (2002) Red Dragon
 (2002) Chicago
 (2002)

Red Dragon: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack to the film of the same name, released by Decca Records composed by Danny Elfman, and produced by Mark Helfrich and Brett Ratner. It was released on September 24, 2002 in the United States and Canada.[2]
Track listing
All music composed by Danny Elfman.

No.
Title
Length

1. "Logos"   0:50
2. "The Revelation"   2:41
3. "Main Titles"   3:00
4. "The Cell"   3:27
5. "The Old Mansion"   4:45
6. "The Address"   1:41
7. "We're Different"   1:26
8. "The Note"   2:47
9. "Enter the Dragon"   5:52
10. "Threats"   2:23
11. "Tiger Balls"   1:32
12. "Love on a Couch"   5:09
13. "Devouring the Dragon"   3:43
14. "The Fire"   4:34
15. "The Book"   0:34
16. "He's Back!"   6:08
17. "End Credits Suite"   6:45
Release[edit]
Box office[edit]
Red Dragon was released on October 4, 2002, and opened in 3,357 theaters in the United States, grossing $13,478,355 on its opening day and $36,540,945 on its opening weekend, ranking #1 with a per theater average of $10,885.[3][4] On its second weekend, it remained #1 and grossed $17,655,750 – $5,250 per theater.[5] By its third weekend it dropped down to #3 and made $8,763,545 – $2,649 per theater.[6]
Red Dragon grossed $93,149,898 in the United States and Canada and $116,046,400 overseas. In total, the film has grossed $209,196,298 worldwide.[7]
Critical response[edit]
Red Dragon received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives a score of 69% based on reviews from 185 critics, with the site's consensus that the film is "competently made, but everything is a bit too familiar", and an average score of 6.4/10, making the film "fresh" on the website's rating system.[8] At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 60%, based on 36 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".[9]
Richard Corliss of the Time magazine gave the film a positive review, stating: "This darkly seductive, flawlessly acted piece is worlds removed from most horror films. Here monsters have their grandeur, heroes their gravity. And when they collide, a dance of death ensues between two souls doomed to understand each other."[10] Todd McCarthy of Variety magazine also gave the film a positive review, saying that the "audiences will be excused for any feelings of déjà vu the new film might inspire. That won't prevent them from watching it in rapt, anxious silence, however, as the gruesome crimes, twisted psychology and deterministic dread that lie at the heart of Harris' work are laid out with care and skill."[11] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three-and-a-half-stars-out-of-four, praising Brett Ratner's directing and the film's atmosphere. He stated: "To my surprise, Ratner does a sure, stylish job, appreciating the droll humor of Lecter's predicament, creating a depraved new villain in the Tooth Fairy (Ralph Fiennes), and using the quiet, intense skills of Norton to create a character whose old fears feed into his new ones. There is also humor, of the uneasy he-can't-get-away-with-this variety, in the character of a nosy scandal-sheet reporter (Philip Seymour Hoffman)."[12] David Sterritt of the Christian Science Monitor gave the film a positive review, stated that "the most refreshing aspect of Red Dragon is its reliance on old-fashioned acting instead of computer-aided gizmos. Hopkins overdoes his role at times -- his vocal tones are almost campy -- but his piercing eyes are as menacing as ever, and Ralph Fiennes is scarily good as his fellow lunatic."[13] David Grove of the Film Threat, who gave the film four-stars-out-of-five, said: "Is Red Dragon a better film than Manhunter? I don’t know. I think it stands on its own, but I wonder how much people who are intimately familiar with Manhunter will be shocked by it, although the ending is altogether different and much more realized, I think.[14] Rick Kisonak, also for the Film Threat has, like Grove, gave the film a positive review and three-stars-out-of-five, saying: "The only downside to this delectable third course? The regrettable likelihood that Lecter fans will have to make do without dessert."[15]
Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle, gave the film mixed review, saying that "in Hollywood, where integrity is rapidly consumed and careers defined by market value, there's trash and there's trash with a pedigree."[16] Stephanie Zacharek, for the Salon website, gave the film also mixed review, stating: "If you buy the overprocessed headcheese of the serial killer as refined genius, you'll love Red Dragon. Or maybe not. Even Hannibal Lecter devotees may lose patience with this picture's grandiose, self-serious ponderousness -- that's Lecterese for, 'It's kind of boring in patches, actually.'"[17] William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer who gave the film a mixed review, said that the film "basically lives up to the old adage that the final work in a trilogy is invariably the weakest."[18] Michael Atkinson of The Village Voice gave the film a negative review, he stated: "Red Dragon '​s formula is so risible and rote by now that the natural reaction to scenes of peril, torture, and suffering is flippant laughter."[19]
Accolades[edit]
Red Dragon was nominated for 13 awards, and won several, including Empire Award for Best British Actress (Emily Watson) and Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Young Actor Age Ten or Younger (Tyler Patrick Jones).[20]

Date
Award
Category
Recipient
Result
May 18, 2003 Saturn Awards Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film
Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Ralph Fiennes Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Emily Watson Nominated
February 5, 2003 Empire Awards Best British Actress Emily Watson Nominated
February 13, 2003 London Film Critics Circle Awards British Supporting Actress of the Year Emily Watson Won
August 2, 2003 Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie – Horror/Thriller
Nominated
March 29, 2003 Young Artist Awards Best Performance in a Feature Film – Young Actor Age Ten or Younger Tyler Patrick Jones Won
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "Red Dragon (2002)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
2.Jump up ^ "Red Dragon [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]". AllMusic. All Media Guide. Retrieved 2012-07-24.
3.Jump up ^ "Daily Box Office for Friday, October 4, 2002". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
4.Jump up ^ "Weekend Box Office Results for October 4-6, 2002". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
5.Jump up ^ "Weekend Box Office Results for October 11-13, 2002". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
6.Jump up ^ "Weekend Box Office Results for October 18-20, 2002". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
7.Jump up ^ "Red Dragon (2002)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
8.Jump up ^ "Red Dragon". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
9.Jump up ^ "Red Dragon". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
10.Jump up ^ Corliss, Richard (September 30, 2002). "Here Be Monsters". Time. Time Inc. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
11.Jump up ^ McCarthy, Todd (September 26, 2002). "Film Reviews: Red Dragon". Variety. Reed Business Information. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
12.Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger (October 4, 2002). "Red Dragon". Chicago Sun-Times. RogerEbert.com. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
13.Jump up ^ Sterritt, David (October 4, 2002). "The doctor is in: Hannibal returns in 'Lambs' prequel". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
14.Jump up ^ Grove, David (October 4, 2002). "Red Dragon". Film Threat. Hamster Stampede LLC. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
15.Jump up ^ Kisonak, Rick (October 8, 2002). "Red Dragon". Film Threat. Hamster Stampede LLC. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
16.Jump up ^ Guthmann, Edward (October 4, 2002). "'Dragon' has no bite / All-star cast fails to make 'Silence of the Lambs' prequel appetizing". San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst Communications Inc. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
17.Jump up ^ Zacharek, Stephanie (October 4, 2002). "Red Dragon". Salon. Salon Media Group, Inc. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
18.Jump up ^ Arnold, William (October 3, 2002). "Lecter series has run its course, but Hopkins is still delicious". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Hearst Communications Inc. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
19.Jump up ^ Atkinson, Michael (October 1, 2002). "Monsters, Inc.". The Village Voice. Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
20.Jump up ^ "Awards for 'Red Dragon'". IMDb. Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
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Red Dragon
Red Dragon movie.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Brett Ratner
Produced by
Dino De Laurentiis
 Martha De Laurentiis
Screenplay by
Ted Tally
Based on
Red Dragon
 by Thomas Harris
Starring
Anthony Hopkins
Edward Norton
Ralph Fiennes
Harvey Keitel
Emily Watson
Mary-Louise Parker
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Music by
Danny Elfman
Cinematography
Dante Spinotti
Edited by
Mark Helfrich

Production
 company

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 Scott Free Productions

Distributed by
Universal Pictures
 (United States)
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
 (Select International)

Release dates

October 4, 2002


Running time
 124 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$78 million[1]
Box office
$209,196,298[1]
Red Dragon is a 2002 American crime thriller film based on Thomas Harris' novel of the same name, featuring psychiatrist and serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. It is a prequel to both The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Hannibal (2001). It is a remake of the 1986 film Manhunter (1986).
The film was directed by Brett Ratner and written for the screen by Ted Tally, who also wrote the screenplay for the Oscar-winning The Silence of the Lambs. It stars Edward Norton as FBI agent Will Graham and Anthony Hopkins as Lecter, a role he had, by then, played twice before in The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. The film also stars Ralph Fiennes, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mary-Louise Parker, Emily Watson, and Harvey Keitel.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Soundtrack
4 Release 4.1 Box office
4.2 Critical response
4.3 Accolades
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
In Baltimore, Maryland psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter attends a symphonic orchestra performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream. The flute player repeatedly misses out on his part, profoundly irritating Lecter. Later, Lecter hosts a dinner party in his townhouse for the orchestra's board of directors, at which the disappearance of a musician, a flute player, is brought up during conversation.
After the party, Lecter is later visited by Will Graham, a gifted FBI agent and a psychologist, with whom he has been working on a psychological profile of a serial killer who has removed edible body parts from his victims, leading Graham to believe that the killer could be a cannibal. During the consultation, Graham discovers evidence implicating Lecter in the murders. Lecter attacks Graham, almost disembowelling him, before Graham overpowers Lecter. Lecter is sentenced to life imprisonment in an institution for the criminally insane while Graham, traumatized by the experience, retires from the FBI.
Some years later, another serial killer, nicknamed "The Tooth Fairy", appears. He stalks and kills seemingly random Southern families during sequential full moons. Hoping to capture the killer before his next attack, Special Agent Jack Crawford seeks Graham's assistance in determining his psychological profile. The death of another family weighing on his conscience, Graham reluctantly agrees. After visiting the crime scenes and speaking with Crawford, he concludes that he must once again consult Dr. Lecter for advice.
"The Tooth Fairy" is actually a psychotic named Francis Dolarhyde who kills at the behest of an alternate personality he calls "The Great Red Dragon." He is obsessed with the William Blake painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun, and believes that each victim he "changes" brings him closer to "becoming" the Dragon. His pathology is born from the severe abuse he suffered at the hands of his sadistic grandmother, since he was orphaned after his parents died at a young age.
Meanwhile, Freddy Lounds, a tabloid reporter who hounded Graham after Lecter's capture, now follows him for leads on the Tooth Fairy. There is a secret correspondence between Lecter and Dolarhyde. Graham's wife and son are endangered when Lecter gives the Tooth Fairy the agent's home address, forcing them to be relocated to a farm owned by Crawford's brother. Lecter, aware that the police are onto him, raises the stakes: in return for his help, he requests a first-class meal in his cell and the return of his book privileges.
Hoping to lure the Tooth Fairy out of hiding, Graham gives Lounds an interview, in which he disparages the killer as an impotent homosexual to anger the Tooth Fairy. This provokes Dolarhyde, who kidnaps Lounds, glues him to an antique wheelchair, forces him to recant his allegations, bites off his lips and then sets him on fire outside his newspaper's offices as a warning.
Meanwhile, at his job in a St. Louis photo lab, Dolarhyde falls in love with Reba McClane, a blind co-worker, but his Dragon personality demands that he kill her. He takes her home, where they make love. Dolarhyde attempts to stop the Dragon's "possession" of him by going to the Brooklyn Museum and literally consuming the original Blake painting.
Meanwhile, Graham deduces that the killer knew the layout of his victims' houses from their home videos, which he could only have seen if he worked for the editing company that transfers home movies to video cassette and edits them. From this point, he starts searching the companies and their workers so he could determine the real identity of the Tooth Fairy.
At work, Dolarhyde finds McClane with a co-worker, Ralph Mandy, whom she actually dislikes. Enraged for this apparent betrayal, Dolarhyde kills Mandy, kidnaps McClane, takes her to his house, and then sets it on fire. Finding himself unable to shoot her, Dolarhyde apparently shoots himself. McClane is able to escape as the police arrive and the house explodes.
Dolarhyde, having staged his own death, turns up at Graham's home in Florida where he holds Graham's son hostage, threatening to kill him with a piece of broken glass. To defuse the situation, Graham slings insults at his son that are reminiscent of the ones Dolarhyde's grandmother had used against him. Feeling a sudden sympathy for the boy, the enraged Dolarhyde attacks Graham as the boy flees to safety. Both men are severely wounded in a shootout which ends when Graham's wife Molly kills Dolarhyde.
After the death of Dolarhyde, Graham receives a letter from Lecter, which bids him well, praises him for exposing and killing the Tooth Fairy and hopes that he isn't "too ugly", since he mocked his appearance and his hair, and tells him they are going to cross paths soon. With the death of Dolarhyde, Graham retires from the FBI once again and continues to have a family life.
Some time later, Lecter's jailer, Frederick Chilton, then tells him that a "young woman from the FBI is here to see you." Lecter asks, "What is her name?"
Cast[edit]
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter
Edward Norton as Will Graham
Ralph Fiennes as Francis Dolarhyde
Harvey Keitel as Jack Crawford
Emily Watson as Reba McClane
Mary-Louise Parker as Molly Graham
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Freddy Lounds
Frank Whaley as Ralph Mandy
Anthony Heald as Frederick Chilton
Ken Leung as Lloyd Bowman
Frankie Faison as Barney Matthews
Ellen Burstyn as voice of Grandma Dolarhyde
Tyler Patrick Jones as Josh Graham
Soundtrack[edit]

Red Dragon: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Soundtrack album by Danny Elfman

Released
September 24, 2002
Recorded
2002
Genre
Classical
Length
57:10
Label
Decca Records
Producer
Mark Helfrich
Brett Ratner
Danny Elfman chronology

Men in Black II
 (2002) Red Dragon
 (2002) Chicago
 (2002)

Red Dragon: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack to the film of the same name, released by Decca Records composed by Danny Elfman, and produced by Mark Helfrich and Brett Ratner. It was released on September 24, 2002 in the United States and Canada.[2]
Track listing
All music composed by Danny Elfman.

No.
Title
Length

1. "Logos"   0:50
2. "The Revelation"   2:41
3. "Main Titles"   3:00
4. "The Cell"   3:27
5. "The Old Mansion"   4:45
6. "The Address"   1:41
7. "We're Different"   1:26
8. "The Note"   2:47
9. "Enter the Dragon"   5:52
10. "Threats"   2:23
11. "Tiger Balls"   1:32
12. "Love on a Couch"   5:09
13. "Devouring the Dragon"   3:43
14. "The Fire"   4:34
15. "The Book"   0:34
16. "He's Back!"   6:08
17. "End Credits Suite"   6:45
Release[edit]
Box office[edit]
Red Dragon was released on October 4, 2002, and opened in 3,357 theaters in the United States, grossing $13,478,355 on its opening day and $36,540,945 on its opening weekend, ranking #1 with a per theater average of $10,885.[3][4] On its second weekend, it remained #1 and grossed $17,655,750 – $5,250 per theater.[5] By its third weekend it dropped down to #3 and made $8,763,545 – $2,649 per theater.[6]
Red Dragon grossed $93,149,898 in the United States and Canada and $116,046,400 overseas. In total, the film has grossed $209,196,298 worldwide.[7]
Critical response[edit]
Red Dragon received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives a score of 69% based on reviews from 185 critics, with the site's consensus that the film is "competently made, but everything is a bit too familiar", and an average score of 6.4/10, making the film "fresh" on the website's rating system.[8] At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 60%, based on 36 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".[9]
Richard Corliss of the Time magazine gave the film a positive review, stating: "This darkly seductive, flawlessly acted piece is worlds removed from most horror films. Here monsters have their grandeur, heroes their gravity. And when they collide, a dance of death ensues between two souls doomed to understand each other."[10] Todd McCarthy of Variety magazine also gave the film a positive review, saying that the "audiences will be excused for any feelings of déjà vu the new film might inspire. That won't prevent them from watching it in rapt, anxious silence, however, as the gruesome crimes, twisted psychology and deterministic dread that lie at the heart of Harris' work are laid out with care and skill."[11] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three-and-a-half-stars-out-of-four, praising Brett Ratner's directing and the film's atmosphere. He stated: "To my surprise, Ratner does a sure, stylish job, appreciating the droll humor of Lecter's predicament, creating a depraved new villain in the Tooth Fairy (Ralph Fiennes), and using the quiet, intense skills of Norton to create a character whose old fears feed into his new ones. There is also humor, of the uneasy he-can't-get-away-with-this variety, in the character of a nosy scandal-sheet reporter (Philip Seymour Hoffman)."[12] David Sterritt of the Christian Science Monitor gave the film a positive review, stated that "the most refreshing aspect of Red Dragon is its reliance on old-fashioned acting instead of computer-aided gizmos. Hopkins overdoes his role at times -- his vocal tones are almost campy -- but his piercing eyes are as menacing as ever, and Ralph Fiennes is scarily good as his fellow lunatic."[13] David Grove of the Film Threat, who gave the film four-stars-out-of-five, said: "Is Red Dragon a better film than Manhunter? I don’t know. I think it stands on its own, but I wonder how much people who are intimately familiar with Manhunter will be shocked by it, although the ending is altogether different and much more realized, I think.[14] Rick Kisonak, also for the Film Threat has, like Grove, gave the film a positive review and three-stars-out-of-five, saying: "The only downside to this delectable third course? The regrettable likelihood that Lecter fans will have to make do without dessert."[15]
Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle, gave the film mixed review, saying that "in Hollywood, where integrity is rapidly consumed and careers defined by market value, there's trash and there's trash with a pedigree."[16] Stephanie Zacharek, for the Salon website, gave the film also mixed review, stating: "If you buy the overprocessed headcheese of the serial killer as refined genius, you'll love Red Dragon. Or maybe not. Even Hannibal Lecter devotees may lose patience with this picture's grandiose, self-serious ponderousness -- that's Lecterese for, 'It's kind of boring in patches, actually.'"[17] William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer who gave the film a mixed review, said that the film "basically lives up to the old adage that the final work in a trilogy is invariably the weakest."[18] Michael Atkinson of The Village Voice gave the film a negative review, he stated: "Red Dragon '​s formula is so risible and rote by now that the natural reaction to scenes of peril, torture, and suffering is flippant laughter."[19]
Accolades[edit]
Red Dragon was nominated for 13 awards, and won several, including Empire Award for Best British Actress (Emily Watson) and Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Young Actor Age Ten or Younger (Tyler Patrick Jones).[20]

Date
Award
Category
Recipient
Result
May 18, 2003 Saturn Awards Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film
Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Ralph Fiennes Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Emily Watson Nominated
February 5, 2003 Empire Awards Best British Actress Emily Watson Nominated
February 13, 2003 London Film Critics Circle Awards British Supporting Actress of the Year Emily Watson Won
August 2, 2003 Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie – Horror/Thriller
Nominated
March 29, 2003 Young Artist Awards Best Performance in a Feature Film – Young Actor Age Ten or Younger Tyler Patrick Jones Won
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "Red Dragon (2002)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
2.Jump up ^ "Red Dragon [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]". AllMusic. All Media Guide. Retrieved 2012-07-24.
3.Jump up ^ "Daily Box Office for Friday, October 4, 2002". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
4.Jump up ^ "Weekend Box Office Results for October 4-6, 2002". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
5.Jump up ^ "Weekend Box Office Results for October 11-13, 2002". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
6.Jump up ^ "Weekend Box Office Results for October 18-20, 2002". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
7.Jump up ^ "Red Dragon (2002)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
8.Jump up ^ "Red Dragon". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
9.Jump up ^ "Red Dragon". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
10.Jump up ^ Corliss, Richard (September 30, 2002). "Here Be Monsters". Time. Time Inc. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
11.Jump up ^ McCarthy, Todd (September 26, 2002). "Film Reviews: Red Dragon". Variety. Reed Business Information. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
12.Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger (October 4, 2002). "Red Dragon". Chicago Sun-Times. RogerEbert.com. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
13.Jump up ^ Sterritt, David (October 4, 2002). "The doctor is in: Hannibal returns in 'Lambs' prequel". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
14.Jump up ^ Grove, David (October 4, 2002). "Red Dragon". Film Threat. Hamster Stampede LLC. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
15.Jump up ^ Kisonak, Rick (October 8, 2002). "Red Dragon". Film Threat. Hamster Stampede LLC. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
16.Jump up ^ Guthmann, Edward (October 4, 2002). "'Dragon' has no bite / All-star cast fails to make 'Silence of the Lambs' prequel appetizing". San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst Communications Inc. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
17.Jump up ^ Zacharek, Stephanie (October 4, 2002). "Red Dragon". Salon. Salon Media Group, Inc. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
18.Jump up ^ Arnold, William (October 3, 2002). "Lecter series has run its course, but Hopkins is still delicious". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Hearst Communications Inc. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
19.Jump up ^ Atkinson, Michael (October 1, 2002). "Monsters, Inc.". The Village Voice. Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
20.Jump up ^ "Awards for 'Red Dragon'". IMDb. Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
External links[edit]
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Manhunter (film)
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Manhunter
The film's poster. Petersen's face is in silhouette at the top, along with the tagline "It's just you and me now, sport". Below this is a silhouette of Noonan standing in a doorway with a flash-light. The film's title is along the bottom in orange lettering.
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Michael Mann
Produced by
Richard A. Roth
Written by
Michael Mann
Based on
Red Dragon
 by Thomas Harris
Starring
William Petersen
Kim Greist
Joan Allen
Brian Cox
Dennis Farina
Stephen Lang
Tom Noonan

Music by
Michel Rubini
The Reds

Cinematography
Dante Spinotti
Edited by
Dov Hoenig

Production
 company

De Laurentiis Entertainment Group
Red Dragon Productions

Distributed by
De Laurentiis Entertainment Group

Release dates

August 15, 1986


Running time
 124 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$15 million[1]
Box office
$8,620,929[2]
Manhunter is a 1986 American crime thriller film based on Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon. Written and directed by Michael Mann, it stars William Petersen as Will Graham and features Brian Cox as Hannibal Lecktor. When asked to investigate a killer known as "The Tooth Fairy", FBI profiler Will Graham comes out of retirement to lend his talents to the case, but in doing so he must confront the specter of his past and meet with a jailed killer who nearly counted Graham amongst his victims. Dennis Farina co-stars as Jack Crawford, Graham's superior at the FBI, and serial killer Francis Dollarhyde—"The Tooth Fairy"—is portrayed by Tom Noonan.
Manhunter focuses on the forensic work carried out by the FBI to track down the killer and shows the long-term effects that cases like this have on Graham, highlighting the similarities between him and his quarry. The film features heavily stylized use of color to convey this sense of duality, and the nature of the characters' similarity has been explored in academic readings of the film. This was not the first adaptation of a Harris novel for the screen—the 1975 novel Black Sunday, a story of a terrorist attack on the Super Bowl, was made into a film in 1977—but it was the first film to feature serial killer Hannibal Lecter, who would later appear in The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Hannibal Rising, and the 2013 television series Hannibal.
Opening to mixed reviews, Manhunter fared poorly at the box office at the time of its release, making only $8.6 million in the United States. However, it has been reappraised in more recent reviews and now enjoys a more favorable reception, as both the acting and the stylized visuals have been appreciated better in later years. Its resurgent popularity, which may be due to later adaptations of Harris' books and Petersen's success in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, has seen it labelled as a cult film.


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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Pre-production
3.2 Filming
3.3 Post-production
4 Soundtrack
5 Themes
6 Release 6.1 Box office
6.2 Home media
7 Reception
8 Legacy
9 See also
10 External links
11 References

Plot[edit]
Will Graham (William Petersen) is a former FBI criminal profiler who has retired because of a breakdown after being attacked by a cannibalistic serial killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox). Graham is approached at his Florida home by his former FBI superior Jack Crawford (Dennis Farina), who is seeking help with a new serial killer case. Promising his wife (Kim Greist) that he will do nothing more than examine evidence and not risk physical harm, Graham agrees to visit the most recent crime scene in Atlanta, where he tries to enter the mindset of the killer, now dubbed the "Tooth Fairy" by the police for the bite-marks left on his victims.
Having found the killer's fingerprints, Graham meets with Crawford. They are accosted by tabloid journalist Freddy Lounds (Stephen Lang), with whom Graham has a bitter history. Lounds' paper had run photographs of Graham taken secretly while he was hospitalized. Graham pays a visit to Lecktor, a former psychiatrist, in his cell and asks for his insight into the killer's motivations. After a tense conversation, Lecktor agrees to look at the case file. Lecktor later contrives to obtain Graham's home address by deceit.
Graham travels to the first crime scene in Birmingham, Alabama, where he is contacted by Crawford, who tells him of Lounds' tabloid story on the case. Crawford also patches Graham through to Frederick Chilton (Benjamin Hendrickson), Lecktor's warden, who has found a note in Lecktor's personal effects. Reading it, they realize it is from the Tooth Fairy, expressing admiration for Lecktor—and an interest in Graham. Crawford brings Graham to the FBI Academy at Quantico, where a missing section of the note is analyzed to determine what Lecktor has removed. It is found to be an instruction to communicate through the personals section of the National Tattler, Lounds' newspaper.
The FBI intended to plant a fake advertisement to replace Lecktor's, but they realize that without the proper book code the Tooth Fairy will know it is fake. So they let the advertisement run as it is, and Graham organizes an interview with Lounds, during which he gives a false and derogatory profile of the Tooth Fairy to incite him. After a sting operation fails to catch the killer, Lounds is kidnapped by the Tooth Fairy (Tom Noonan). Waking in the killer's home, he is shown a slideshow of William Blake's The Great Red Dragon paintings, along with the Tooth Fairy's past victims and slides of a family the killer identifies as his next targets. Lounds is forced to tape-record a statement before being set on fire in a wheelchair and killed, his flaming body rolled into the parking garage of the National Tattler as a warning.
Graham is told by Crawford that they have cracked Lecktor's coded message to the Tooth Fairy—it is Graham's home address with an instruction to kill the family (ending with "Save yourself. Kill them all," revealing that Lecktor believes Graham would find the Tooth Fairy). Graham rushes home to find his family safe but terrified. After the FBI moves Graham's family to a safe house, he tries to explain to his son Kevin why he had retired previously. At his job in a St. Louis film lab, Francis Dollarhyde—The Tooth Fairy—approaches a blind co-worker, Reba McClane (Joan Allen), and ends up offering her a lift. They go to Dollarhyde's home, where Reba is oblivious to the fact that Dollarhyde is watching home-movie footage of his planned next victim. She kisses him and they make love. Dollarhyde is confused by this newfound relationship, though it helps suppress his bloodlust. Just as Graham comes to realize how much the Tooth Fairy's desire for acceptance factors into the murders, Dollarhyde watches as Reba is escorted home by another co-worker. Mistakenly believing them to be kissing, Dollarhyde murders the man and abducts Reba. When she calls him Francis, he tells her: "Francis is gone. Forever."
Desperately trying to figure out a connection between the murdered families, Graham realizes that someone must have seen their home movies. He and Crawford deduce where the films were processed. They identify the lab in St. Louis and fly there immediately. Dollarhyde has been casing the victims' homes through home movies, enabling him to prepare for the break-ins in extreme detail. Graham determines which employee has seen these films and obtains Dollarhyde's home address, to which he and Crawford travel with a police escort. At Dollarhyde's home Reba is terrified as he contemplates what to do with her. As he struggles to kill Reba with a piece of broken mirror glass, police teams assemble around the house. Seeing that Dollarhyde has someone inside with him, Graham lunges through a window. He is quickly subdued by Dollarhyde, who retrieves a shotgun and uses it to wound Crawford and kill two police officers. Wounded in the firefight, Dollarhyde returns to the kitchen to shoot Graham, but misses because of his injuries and is killed himself when Graham returns fire. Graham, Reba, and Crawford are tended to by paramedics before Graham returns home and retires permanently.
Cast[edit]
William Petersen as Will Graham. Richard Gere, Mel Gibson and Paul Newman were considered for the role, but Mann cast Petersen after seeing footage from To Live and Die in L.A.[3] Petersen spent time with officers of the Chicago Police Department researching for his role.[4]
Tom Noonan as Francis Dollarhyde. Noonan credits his ability to improvise during rehearsals for his casting.[3] He took up bodybuilding to prepare physically for the part.[5] He began preparation for his role by studying other serial killers, but quickly rejected this approach.[6] While shooting the film, Noonan remained in character at all times, keeping away from cast members playing his pursuers.[3][6]
Dennis Farina as Jack Crawford. Farina had already worked with Mann before, making his acting début in the 1981 film Thief[3] before starring in Crime Story[7] and in several episodes of Miami Vice.[8][9][10] Farina had already read the novel Red Dragon, and was called to audition at the same time as Brian Cox.[11]
Kim Greist as Molly Graham. Greist, who according to reviews was "wasted in a tiny role",[12] had previously worked with Mann on an episode of Miami Vice.[13]
Brian Cox as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor. Actors John Lithgow, Mandy Patinkin, and Brian Dennehy, and director William Friedkin were also considered for the part of Lecktor,[3] whose name was changed from the novel's "Lecter".[14] Cox based his performance on Scottish serial killer Peter Manuel.[6] Cox was asked to audition with his back turned to the casting agents, as they felt they needed to focus on the power of his voice when considering him for the part.[15]
Joan Allen as Reba McClane. In preparation for her role, Allen spent time with the New York Institute for the Blind, learning to walk through New York blindfolded.[6] She had previously worked with co-star William Petersen on stage, in the 1980 Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Balm in Gilead.[16]
Stephen Lang as Freddy Lounds. Lang had previously starred in Band of the Hand, on which Mann was executive producer. He went on to appear in the Mann-produced Crime Story with Farina[7] and in Mann's 2009 film Public Enemies.
Production[edit]
Pre-production[edit]
The film was originally going to be called Red Dragon, like the novel. Michael Mann, who called the new title "inferior", said that producer Dino De Laurentiis made the change after Michael Cimino's film Year of the Dragon, produced by De Laurentiis, bombed at the box office in 1985.[3] William Petersen has commented that another reason for the change was to avoid any suggestion that it might be a karate movie.[6][17] "At the time, Bruce Lee was knocking out Dragon movies, and Dino, in his wisdom, decided people would think it was a kung-fu movie", he later recalled.[3] Brian Cox, who played jailed killer Hannibal Lecktor, has also expressed disdain for the film's title, calling it "bland" and "cheesy".[6]
William Petersen worked with the Chicago Police Department Violent Crimes Unit and the FBI Violent Crimes Unit in preparation for the role of Will Graham, talking to the officers and reading some of their crime files.[4] He spoke to the investigators on the Richard Ramirez case about how they coped with the effects these disturbing cases had on them and how they learned to "compartmentalize" their working and personal lives. "Of course you don’t really turn it off", he recalled. "At the end of the day, even if you’re just a regular policeman, it takes a toll".[3] During the three years he spent working on the script,[18] Michael Mann also spent time with the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, where he claimed to have met people very like the character of Will Graham.[3] This level of research led Brent E. Turvey to describe the film as "one of the most competent blends of cutting-edge forensic science and criminal profiling at the time".[19] Mann also spent several years corresponding with imprisoned murderer Dennis Wayne Wallace. Wallace had been motivated by his obsession for a woman he barely knew, and believed that Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" was "their song". This connection inspired Mann to include the song in the film.[3]
Tom Noonan, who played killer Francis Dollarhyde, initially researched other serial killers to study for the role, but was repulsed by it. He then decided to play the character with the sense that he felt he was doing right by his victims, not harming them. "I wanted to feel this guy was doing the best he could", Noonan explained, "that he was doing this out of love".[6] Noonan credits his casting to improvisation during his audition, recalling that he was reading lines alongside a young woman. During a reading of the scene featuring the torture of Freddy Lounds, Noonan noticed that the woman began to seem frightened, and deliberately tried to scare her more. He believed that this is what secured the role for him.[3]
Joan Allen, who played Dollarhyde's blind love interest Reba McClane, recalls meeting with representatives of the New York Institute for the Blind in preparation for her role. She spent time walking around New York wearing a mask over her eyes to get accustomed to walking as though she were blind.[6]
John Lithgow, Mandy Patinkin, William Friedkin, and Brian Dennehy were all considered for the role of Hannibal Lecktor, but Brian Cox was cast after being recommended to Mann by Dennehy.[3] Cox based his portrayal on Scottish serial killer Peter Manuel, who (he said) "didn't have a sense of right and wrong".[6] Cox has also suggested that his selection was due to his nationality, claiming that characters who are "a little bit nasty" are best played by Europeans.[3] Mann kept the role of Lecktor very short, believing that it was "such a charismatic character that [he] wanted the audience almost not to get enough of him".[20] For the role of Will Graham, De Laurentiis had expressed interest in Richard Gere, Mel Gibson and Paul Newman, but Mann, having seen footage of William Petersen's role in To Live and Die in L.A., championed Petersen for the part.[3]
Filming[edit]
Petersen has claimed in an interview that one of the film's scenes forced the crew to adopt a guerrilla filmmaking approach. The scene in which Petersen's character Will Graham falls asleep while studying crime scene photographs during a flight required the use of an airplane during shooting. Michael Mann had been unable to gain permission to use a plane for the scene and booked tickets for the crew on a flight from Chicago to Florida. Once on board, the crew used their equipment, checked in as hand luggage, to shoot the scene quickly, while keeping the plane's passengers and crew mollified with Manhunter crew jackets.[3]
Cinematographer Dante Spinotti made strong use of colour tints in the film, using a cool "romantic blue" tone to denote the scenes featuring Will Graham and his wife, and a more subversive green hue, with elements of purple or magenta, as a cue for the unsettling scenes in the film, mostly involving Dollarhyde.[21] Petersen has stated that Mann wanted to create a visual aura to bring the audience into the film, so that the story would work on an interior and emotional level.[4] Mann also made use of multiple frame rates in filming the climactic shootout: different cameras recording the scene at 24, 36, 72 and 90 frames per second, giving the final scene what Spinotti has called an "off tempo", "staccato" feel.[21]



"I was really wound up. I was doing 50 push-ups between each take, and we were doing take after take."
–Noonan on filming his role as the Tooth Fairy.[3]
During principal photography, Noonan asked that no one playing his victims and pursuers be allowed to see him, while those he did speak to should address him by his character's name, Francis. The first time Noonan met Petersen was when Petersen jumped through a large window during the filming of the climactic fight scene.[6][22] Noonan admits that, because of his request, the atmosphere on set became so tense that people actually became afraid of him.[6] He had also begun body-building to prepare for the role and felt that his size intimidated the crew when filming began, as the first scene to be shot was his character's interrogation and murder of another.[5] Noonan claims that this led him to take separate flights and stay in separate hotels from the rest of the cast,[3] and while on the film's sets, he would remain in his trailer alone in the dark to prepare himself, sometimes joined by a silent Mann.[6]
Petersen recalled filming the climactic shoot-out scene at the end of principal photography, when most of the crew had already left the production because of time constraints. With no special effects crew to provide the blood spatter for the gunshots, Petersen described how the remaining crew would blow ketchup across the set through hoses when such effects were needed.[6] Joan Allen also related that Mann would simulate the impacts of bullets in Dollarhyde's kitchen by throwing glass jars across the surfaces so they would shatter where he needed them to; one of these broken jars left a shard of glass embedded in Petersen's thigh during filming.[6] The pool of blood forming around Noonan's character at the end of this scene was intended to allude to the "Red Dragon" tattoos worn by the character in the novel.[3] This shot left Noonan lying in the corn syrup stage blood for so long that he became stuck to the floor.[6]
Post-production[edit]
Spinotti has commented on how Mann's use of mise en scène when framing shots evokes "the emotional situation in the film at that particular time", noting the director's focus on the particular shape or color of elements of the set. He has also drawn attention to the scene in which Graham visits Lecktor in his cell, pointing out the constant position of the cell bars within the frame, even as the shots cut back and forth between the two characters. "There is nothing in Manhunter ... which is just a nice shot", says Spinotti. "[It] is all focused into conveying that particular atmosphere; whether it's happiness, or delusion, or disillusion".[21] This "manipulation of focus and editing" has become a visual hallmark of the film.[23]
Despite having initially filmed the scenes involving Francis Dollarhyde with an elaborate tattoo across Noonan's chest, Mann and Spinotti felt that the finished result seemed out of place and that it "trivialize[d] the struggle" the character faced.[3][21] Mann cut the scenes in which the character appeared bare-chested, and quickly re-shot additional footage to replace what had been removed. Spinotti noted that in doing so, scenes which he felt had been captured with a "beautiful" aesthetic were lost, as the production did not have the time to recreate the original lighting conditions.[21]
Petersen had difficulty ridding himself of the Will Graham character after principal photography wrapped. While rehearsing for a play in Chicago, he felt the old character "always coming out" instead of his new role. To try and rid himself of the character, Petersen went to a barbershop where he had them shave his beard, cut his hair and dye it blond so that he could look into the mirror and see a different person. At first he felt it was due to the rigorous shooting schedule for Manhunter, but later realized that the character "had creeped in".[6]
Soundtrack[edit]

Manhunter (Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Soundtrack album by various artists

Released
1986
Length
43:29
Label
MCA
Manhunter '​s soundtrack "dominates the film",[24] with music that is "explicitly diegetic the entire way".[25] Steve Rybin has commented that the music is not intended to correlate with the intensity of the action portrayed alongside it, but rather to signify when the viewer should react with a "degree of aesthetic distance" from the film, or be "suture[d] into the diegetic world" more closely.[26] The soundtrack album was released in limited quantities in 1986, on MCA Records (#6182). It was not, however, released on compact disc at the time, but only on cassette tape and vinyl record.[27] On 19 March 2007, a two-CD set titled Music from the Films of Michael Mann was released, featuring four tracks from Manhunter: The Prime Movers' "Strong As I Am", Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", Shriekback's "This Big Hush", and Red 7's "Heartbeat".[28] In March 2010, Intrada Records announced that they were releasing the Manhunter soundtrack on CD for the first time, with an extra track, "Jogger's Stakeout" by The Reds.[29]
The Reds were contacted about contributing to the film's soundtrack after submitting their music for possible use on Miami Vice. They recorded their score over a period of two months, in studios in New York and Los Angeles. They recorded a total of 28 minutes of music for the film; however, several cues were replaced later with music by Shriekback and Michel Rubini. "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd and "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" by The Electric Prunes have both been cited by The Reds' vocalist Rick Shaffer as influences on the film's soundtrack.[30] Mann selected "Strong as I Am" by The Prime Movers for the film and later funded the filming of a music video for the song's release as a single.[31]

No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length

1. "Strong as I Am"   The Prime Movers 4:37
2. "Coelocanth"   Shriekback 4:19
3. "This Big Hush"   Shriekback 6:13
4. "Graham's Theme"   Michel Rubini 4:00
5. "Evaporation"   Shriekback 3:18
6. "Heartbeat"   Red 7 3:52
7. "Lector's Cell"   The Reds 1:48
8. "Jogger's Stakeout"   The Reds 2:05
9. "Leed's House"   The Reds 4:32
10. "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"   Iron Butterfly 8:20
Total length:
 43:29 
Music in the film's screen credits which are not listed above included:

No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length

1. "Freeze"   Klaus Schulze 6:42
2. "Seiun + Hikari No Sono"   Kitarō 8:00
Total length:
 14:42 
Themes[edit]

Two still images from the film. One is a married couple lying in bed, the image heavily tinted blue. The other is a man sitting alone in a darkened room, with the image heavily tinted green

 The use of heavily tinted scenes was a deliberate technique to evoke different moods in the audience. Top: Will and Molly Graham are lit with Spinotti's "romantic blue". Bottom: Francis Dollarhyde sits in "subversive" green.[21]
Visually, Manhunter is driven by strong color cues and the use of tints,[32] including the hallmark blue of Mann's work.[33] Dante Spinotti has noted that these visual cues were meant to invoke different moods based on the tone of the scenes in which they were used: cool blue tones were used for the scenes shared between Will Graham and his wife Molly, and unsettling greens and magentas were used for the scenes with the killer Francis Dollarhyde.[21] Steven Rybin has observed that "blue is associated with Molly, sex, and the Graham family home", while green denotes "searching and discovery", pointing out the color of Graham's shirt when the investigation begins and the green tone of the interior shots in the Atlanta police station.[26] John Muir suggests that this helps identify the character of Graham with the "goodness" of the natural world, and Dollarhyde with the city, "where sickness thrives".[32] This strongly stylized approach drew criticism from reviewers at first,[34] but has since been seen as a hallmark of the film and viewed more positively.[3][35]
Academic studies of the film tend to draw attention to the relationship between the characters of Graham and Dollarhyde, noting, for example, that the film "chooses to emphasize the novel's symbiotic relationships between Graham, Lecter and Dolarhyde [sic] by visual techniques and screen acting where subtlety plays a key role".[36] In his book Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film, Tony Williams praises the depth of the film's characterizations, calling Dollarhyde a "victim of society" and his portrayal "undermining convenient barriers between monster and human".[37] Philip L. Simpson echoes this sentiment in his book Psycho Paths: Tracking the Serial Killer through Contemporary American Film, calling Manhunter a "profoundly ambiguous and destabilizing film" which creates "uncomfortable affinities between protagonist and antagonist".[38] Mark T. Conard's The Philosophy of Film Noir follows this same idea, claiming that the film presents the notion that "what it takes to catch a serial killer is tantamount to being one".[39]
Release[edit]
Box office[edit]
Manhunter was released in the United States on 15 August 1986. It opened in 779 theaters and grossed $2,204,400 in its opening weekend. The film eventually grossed a total of $8,620,929 in the US, making it the 76th highest-grossing film that year.[2] Because of internal problems at De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, the UK premiere was postponed for over a year.[3] It was screened in November 1987 as part of the London Film Festival[40] and saw wide release on 24 February 1989.[41] In France, Manhunter was screened on 9 April at the 1987 Cognac Festival du Film Policier, where it was awarded the Critics Prize.[42] It was also shown at the 2009 Camerimage Film Festival in Łódź, Poland.[43] On 19 March 2011, it was screened at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its release. Michael Mann was present for discussion at the event.[44]
Home media[edit]
Manhunter was released in a widescreen edition on laserdisc in 1986.[45] It was released on VHS several times, including by BMG on 10 October 1998[46] and by Universal Studios in 2001.[47] It has also been available on DVD in various versions. Anchor Bay released a two-DVD limited edition in 2000. A standard edition, an individual release of the first disc from the two-disc set, was also released at the same time. In 2003 Anchor Bay released the "Restored Director's Cut", which is very close to the "Director's Cut" on the 2000 disc but omits one scene. It does, however, feature a commentary track by Mann.[48]
MGM (current holders of the rights to The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal) released the theatrical cut of Manhunter on DVD in a pan-and-scan format in 2004.[49] In January 2007, the same version was released by MGM in a widescreen format, for the first time on DVD, as part of The Hannibal Lecter Collection, along with The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. Manhunter was also released by itself in September 2007.[49][50] The studio re-released The Hannibal Lecter Collection on Blu-ray in September 2009,[48][51] and Manhunter by itself on Blu-ray two years later.
Reception[edit]
On its release, Manhunter was met with widely mixed reviews. At first, it was seen as too stylish, owing largely to Mann's 1980s trademark use of pastel colors, art-deco architecture and glass brick.[12][34][52] A common criticism in the initial reviews was that the film overemphasized the music and stylistic visuals.[4] Petersen's skill as a lead actor was also called into question.[12][34][52] Particularly critical of the film's stylistic approach was the New York Times, which called attention to Mann's "taste for overkill", branding his stylized approach as "hokey" and little more than "gimmicks".[34] Chicago Tribune writer Dave Kehr remarked that Mann "believes in style so much that he has very little belief left over for the characters or situations of his film, which suffers accordingly", adding that the film's focus on style serves to "drain any notion of credibility" from its plot.[12] Sheila Benson of the Los Angeles Times was critical of the film's visuals and soundtrack, comparing it unfavourably with Miami Vice and describing it as a "chic, well-cast wasteland" that "delivers very little".[52][53] The film's stylistic similarity to Miami Vice was also pointed out by Film Threat's Dave Beuscher, who felt it was the chief reason for the film's poor box office results.[54] Writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, Steve Winn derided the film, claiming its lack of a strong lead role caused it to "fall apart like the shattered mirrors that figure in the crimes".[53] Time was more favorable in its review, praising the "intelligent camerabatics" and "bold, controlled color scheme".[55] Leonard Maltin gave the film three stars, calling it "gripping all the way through and surprisingly nonexploitive", although adding that "the holes start to show through" if looked for "too carefully".[56] Manhunter was, however, nominated for the 1987 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture.[57]
Modern appreciation of the film has seen its standing among critics improve. Salon.com called Mann's original the best of the Lecter series,[58] and Slate magazine described it as "mesmerizing", positing that it directly inspired television series such as Millennium and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, though calling attention to its "Miami-Vice-like overreliance on synthesized sludge".[59] The Independent called it "the most aestheticised film of the 1980s", and noted its "chilly integrity".[60] British television channel and production company Film4 called it "the most refined screen adaptation of Harris' books", although they found the film's contemporary soundtrack "dated".[61] Sky Movies echoed this sentiment, summing up their review by saying "although it still remains a classic, the film has dated slightly."[62] Retrospective reviews tend to be less critical of the stylized visuals: the BBC's Ali Barclay called the film "a truly suspenseful, stylish thriller", awarding it four out of five stars,[63] and Nathan Ditum described it in Total Film as "complex, disturbing and super-stylish", adding that the 2002 remake could not compete with it.[64] Empire editor Mark Dinning gave the film five stars out of five, praising the "subtlety" of the acting and the "neon angst" of the visuals.[35] Television channel Bravo named Dollarhyde's interrogation of Freddy Lounds as one of its 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments in 2007,[65] and Noonan's portrayal of Dollarhyde was praised by Simon Abrams of UGO Networks as "a highlight of his career".[66]
Despite the low gross on its initial release, Manhunter has grown in popularity in recent years and has been mentioned in several books and lists of cult films.[67][68][69] These reappraisals often cite the success of Silence of the Lambs and its sequels as the reason for the increased interest in Manhunter, while still favoring the earlier film over its successors.[68][69] Telling of this resurgence in appreciation are the film's ratings on review aggregation sites such as Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes. Compiled mostly from recent reviews for the film, Manhunter has a metascore of 78 on Metacritic, based on ten reviews,[70] and a 94% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, from 33 reviews.[71]
Legacy[edit]
Manhunter '​s focus on the use of forensic science in a criminal investigation has been cited as a major influence on several films and television series that have come after it[32][59]—most notably CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,[72] also featuring William Petersen, which was "inspired, or at least influenced" by the forensics scenes in Manhunter.[73] Petersen's sympathetic portrayal of profiler Will Graham has also been noted as helping to influence a "shift in the image of the pop-culture FBI agent" that would continue throughout the 1980s and 90s.[74] The film has also been noted as a thematic precursor to the series Millennium, John Doe, Profiler,[59] and The X-Files,[38] and to films such as Copycat, Switchback,[32] The Bone Collector, Seven and Fallen.[14]
The Silence of the Lambs, a film adaptation of Harris' next Lecter novel, was released in 1991. However, none of the cast of Manhunter reprise their roles in the later film, although characters such as Lecter and Chilton return with new actors. Actors Frankie Faison and Dan Butler appear in both films, but as different and unrelated characters. The Silence of the Lambs earned several awards and accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. It is one of only three films to have won the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Actress, and Best Screenplay.[75] The Silence of the Lambs was followed in turn by a sequel and two prequels: Hannibal, Red Dragon and Hannibal Rising, plus an NBC television series, Hannibal.
Of these later films, Red Dragon (2002), adapted from the same novel as Manhunter, was released to a generally positive critical reception and successful box office receipts, making $209,196,298 on a $78 million budget.[76] Based on recent reviews, Red Dragon currently has a 68% rating from 183 reviews at Rotten Tomatoes,[77] and a 60% rating based on 36 reviews on Metacritic.[78] Manhunter's cinematographer Dante Spinotti also served as the director of photography on this version.[79]
See also[edit]

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Manhunter
The film's poster. Petersen's face is in silhouette at the top, along with the tagline "It's just you and me now, sport". Below this is a silhouette of Noonan standing in a doorway with a flash-light. The film's title is along the bottom in orange lettering.
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Michael Mann
Produced by
Richard A. Roth
Written by
Michael Mann
Based on
Red Dragon
 by Thomas Harris
Starring
William Petersen
Kim Greist
Joan Allen
Brian Cox
Dennis Farina
Stephen Lang
Tom Noonan

Music by
Michel Rubini
The Reds

Cinematography
Dante Spinotti
Edited by
Dov Hoenig

Production
 company

De Laurentiis Entertainment Group
Red Dragon Productions

Distributed by
De Laurentiis Entertainment Group

Release dates

August 15, 1986


Running time
 124 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$15 million[1]
Box office
$8,620,929[2]
Manhunter is a 1986 American crime thriller film based on Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon. Written and directed by Michael Mann, it stars William Petersen as Will Graham and features Brian Cox as Hannibal Lecktor. When asked to investigate a killer known as "The Tooth Fairy", FBI profiler Will Graham comes out of retirement to lend his talents to the case, but in doing so he must confront the specter of his past and meet with a jailed killer who nearly counted Graham amongst his victims. Dennis Farina co-stars as Jack Crawford, Graham's superior at the FBI, and serial killer Francis Dollarhyde—"The Tooth Fairy"—is portrayed by Tom Noonan.
Manhunter focuses on the forensic work carried out by the FBI to track down the killer and shows the long-term effects that cases like this have on Graham, highlighting the similarities between him and his quarry. The film features heavily stylized use of color to convey this sense of duality, and the nature of the characters' similarity has been explored in academic readings of the film. This was not the first adaptation of a Harris novel for the screen—the 1975 novel Black Sunday, a story of a terrorist attack on the Super Bowl, was made into a film in 1977—but it was the first film to feature serial killer Hannibal Lecter, who would later appear in The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Hannibal Rising, and the 2013 television series Hannibal.
Opening to mixed reviews, Manhunter fared poorly at the box office at the time of its release, making only $8.6 million in the United States. However, it has been reappraised in more recent reviews and now enjoys a more favorable reception, as both the acting and the stylized visuals have been appreciated better in later years. Its resurgent popularity, which may be due to later adaptations of Harris' books and Petersen's success in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, has seen it labelled as a cult film.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Pre-production
3.2 Filming
3.3 Post-production
4 Soundtrack
5 Themes
6 Release 6.1 Box office
6.2 Home media
7 Reception
8 Legacy
9 See also
10 External links
11 References

Plot[edit]
Will Graham (William Petersen) is a former FBI criminal profiler who has retired because of a breakdown after being attacked by a cannibalistic serial killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox). Graham is approached at his Florida home by his former FBI superior Jack Crawford (Dennis Farina), who is seeking help with a new serial killer case. Promising his wife (Kim Greist) that he will do nothing more than examine evidence and not risk physical harm, Graham agrees to visit the most recent crime scene in Atlanta, where he tries to enter the mindset of the killer, now dubbed the "Tooth Fairy" by the police for the bite-marks left on his victims.
Having found the killer's fingerprints, Graham meets with Crawford. They are accosted by tabloid journalist Freddy Lounds (Stephen Lang), with whom Graham has a bitter history. Lounds' paper had run photographs of Graham taken secretly while he was hospitalized. Graham pays a visit to Lecktor, a former psychiatrist, in his cell and asks for his insight into the killer's motivations. After a tense conversation, Lecktor agrees to look at the case file. Lecktor later contrives to obtain Graham's home address by deceit.
Graham travels to the first crime scene in Birmingham, Alabama, where he is contacted by Crawford, who tells him of Lounds' tabloid story on the case. Crawford also patches Graham through to Frederick Chilton (Benjamin Hendrickson), Lecktor's warden, who has found a note in Lecktor's personal effects. Reading it, they realize it is from the Tooth Fairy, expressing admiration for Lecktor—and an interest in Graham. Crawford brings Graham to the FBI Academy at Quantico, where a missing section of the note is analyzed to determine what Lecktor has removed. It is found to be an instruction to communicate through the personals section of the National Tattler, Lounds' newspaper.
The FBI intended to plant a fake advertisement to replace Lecktor's, but they realize that without the proper book code the Tooth Fairy will know it is fake. So they let the advertisement run as it is, and Graham organizes an interview with Lounds, during which he gives a false and derogatory profile of the Tooth Fairy to incite him. After a sting operation fails to catch the killer, Lounds is kidnapped by the Tooth Fairy (Tom Noonan). Waking in the killer's home, he is shown a slideshow of William Blake's The Great Red Dragon paintings, along with the Tooth Fairy's past victims and slides of a family the killer identifies as his next targets. Lounds is forced to tape-record a statement before being set on fire in a wheelchair and killed, his flaming body rolled into the parking garage of the National Tattler as a warning.
Graham is told by Crawford that they have cracked Lecktor's coded message to the Tooth Fairy—it is Graham's home address with an instruction to kill the family (ending with "Save yourself. Kill them all," revealing that Lecktor believes Graham would find the Tooth Fairy). Graham rushes home to find his family safe but terrified. After the FBI moves Graham's family to a safe house, he tries to explain to his son Kevin why he had retired previously. At his job in a St. Louis film lab, Francis Dollarhyde—The Tooth Fairy—approaches a blind co-worker, Reba McClane (Joan Allen), and ends up offering her a lift. They go to Dollarhyde's home, where Reba is oblivious to the fact that Dollarhyde is watching home-movie footage of his planned next victim. She kisses him and they make love. Dollarhyde is confused by this newfound relationship, though it helps suppress his bloodlust. Just as Graham comes to realize how much the Tooth Fairy's desire for acceptance factors into the murders, Dollarhyde watches as Reba is escorted home by another co-worker. Mistakenly believing them to be kissing, Dollarhyde murders the man and abducts Reba. When she calls him Francis, he tells her: "Francis is gone. Forever."
Desperately trying to figure out a connection between the murdered families, Graham realizes that someone must have seen their home movies. He and Crawford deduce where the films were processed. They identify the lab in St. Louis and fly there immediately. Dollarhyde has been casing the victims' homes through home movies, enabling him to prepare for the break-ins in extreme detail. Graham determines which employee has seen these films and obtains Dollarhyde's home address, to which he and Crawford travel with a police escort. At Dollarhyde's home Reba is terrified as he contemplates what to do with her. As he struggles to kill Reba with a piece of broken mirror glass, police teams assemble around the house. Seeing that Dollarhyde has someone inside with him, Graham lunges through a window. He is quickly subdued by Dollarhyde, who retrieves a shotgun and uses it to wound Crawford and kill two police officers. Wounded in the firefight, Dollarhyde returns to the kitchen to shoot Graham, but misses because of his injuries and is killed himself when Graham returns fire. Graham, Reba, and Crawford are tended to by paramedics before Graham returns home and retires permanently.
Cast[edit]
William Petersen as Will Graham. Richard Gere, Mel Gibson and Paul Newman were considered for the role, but Mann cast Petersen after seeing footage from To Live and Die in L.A.[3] Petersen spent time with officers of the Chicago Police Department researching for his role.[4]
Tom Noonan as Francis Dollarhyde. Noonan credits his ability to improvise during rehearsals for his casting.[3] He took up bodybuilding to prepare physically for the part.[5] He began preparation for his role by studying other serial killers, but quickly rejected this approach.[6] While shooting the film, Noonan remained in character at all times, keeping away from cast members playing his pursuers.[3][6]
Dennis Farina as Jack Crawford. Farina had already worked with Mann before, making his acting début in the 1981 film Thief[3] before starring in Crime Story[7] and in several episodes of Miami Vice.[8][9][10] Farina had already read the novel Red Dragon, and was called to audition at the same time as Brian Cox.[11]
Kim Greist as Molly Graham. Greist, who according to reviews was "wasted in a tiny role",[12] had previously worked with Mann on an episode of Miami Vice.[13]
Brian Cox as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor. Actors John Lithgow, Mandy Patinkin, and Brian Dennehy, and director William Friedkin were also considered for the part of Lecktor,[3] whose name was changed from the novel's "Lecter".[14] Cox based his performance on Scottish serial killer Peter Manuel.[6] Cox was asked to audition with his back turned to the casting agents, as they felt they needed to focus on the power of his voice when considering him for the part.[15]
Joan Allen as Reba McClane. In preparation for her role, Allen spent time with the New York Institute for the Blind, learning to walk through New York blindfolded.[6] She had previously worked with co-star William Petersen on stage, in the 1980 Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Balm in Gilead.[16]
Stephen Lang as Freddy Lounds. Lang had previously starred in Band of the Hand, on which Mann was executive producer. He went on to appear in the Mann-produced Crime Story with Farina[7] and in Mann's 2009 film Public Enemies.
Production[edit]
Pre-production[edit]
The film was originally going to be called Red Dragon, like the novel. Michael Mann, who called the new title "inferior", said that producer Dino De Laurentiis made the change after Michael Cimino's film Year of the Dragon, produced by De Laurentiis, bombed at the box office in 1985.[3] William Petersen has commented that another reason for the change was to avoid any suggestion that it might be a karate movie.[6][17] "At the time, Bruce Lee was knocking out Dragon movies, and Dino, in his wisdom, decided people would think it was a kung-fu movie", he later recalled.[3] Brian Cox, who played jailed killer Hannibal Lecktor, has also expressed disdain for the film's title, calling it "bland" and "cheesy".[6]
William Petersen worked with the Chicago Police Department Violent Crimes Unit and the FBI Violent Crimes Unit in preparation for the role of Will Graham, talking to the officers and reading some of their crime files.[4] He spoke to the investigators on the Richard Ramirez case about how they coped with the effects these disturbing cases had on them and how they learned to "compartmentalize" their working and personal lives. "Of course you don’t really turn it off", he recalled. "At the end of the day, even if you’re just a regular policeman, it takes a toll".[3] During the three years he spent working on the script,[18] Michael Mann also spent time with the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, where he claimed to have met people very like the character of Will Graham.[3] This level of research led Brent E. Turvey to describe the film as "one of the most competent blends of cutting-edge forensic science and criminal profiling at the time".[19] Mann also spent several years corresponding with imprisoned murderer Dennis Wayne Wallace. Wallace had been motivated by his obsession for a woman he barely knew, and believed that Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" was "their song". This connection inspired Mann to include the song in the film.[3]
Tom Noonan, who played killer Francis Dollarhyde, initially researched other serial killers to study for the role, but was repulsed by it. He then decided to play the character with the sense that he felt he was doing right by his victims, not harming them. "I wanted to feel this guy was doing the best he could", Noonan explained, "that he was doing this out of love".[6] Noonan credits his casting to improvisation during his audition, recalling that he was reading lines alongside a young woman. During a reading of the scene featuring the torture of Freddy Lounds, Noonan noticed that the woman began to seem frightened, and deliberately tried to scare her more. He believed that this is what secured the role for him.[3]
Joan Allen, who played Dollarhyde's blind love interest Reba McClane, recalls meeting with representatives of the New York Institute for the Blind in preparation for her role. She spent time walking around New York wearing a mask over her eyes to get accustomed to walking as though she were blind.[6]
John Lithgow, Mandy Patinkin, William Friedkin, and Brian Dennehy were all considered for the role of Hannibal Lecktor, but Brian Cox was cast after being recommended to Mann by Dennehy.[3] Cox based his portrayal on Scottish serial killer Peter Manuel, who (he said) "didn't have a sense of right and wrong".[6] Cox has also suggested that his selection was due to his nationality, claiming that characters who are "a little bit nasty" are best played by Europeans.[3] Mann kept the role of Lecktor very short, believing that it was "such a charismatic character that [he] wanted the audience almost not to get enough of him".[20] For the role of Will Graham, De Laurentiis had expressed interest in Richard Gere, Mel Gibson and Paul Newman, but Mann, having seen footage of William Petersen's role in To Live and Die in L.A., championed Petersen for the part.[3]
Filming[edit]
Petersen has claimed in an interview that one of the film's scenes forced the crew to adopt a guerrilla filmmaking approach. The scene in which Petersen's character Will Graham falls asleep while studying crime scene photographs during a flight required the use of an airplane during shooting. Michael Mann had been unable to gain permission to use a plane for the scene and booked tickets for the crew on a flight from Chicago to Florida. Once on board, the crew used their equipment, checked in as hand luggage, to shoot the scene quickly, while keeping the plane's passengers and crew mollified with Manhunter crew jackets.[3]
Cinematographer Dante Spinotti made strong use of colour tints in the film, using a cool "romantic blue" tone to denote the scenes featuring Will Graham and his wife, and a more subversive green hue, with elements of purple or magenta, as a cue for the unsettling scenes in the film, mostly involving Dollarhyde.[21] Petersen has stated that Mann wanted to create a visual aura to bring the audience into the film, so that the story would work on an interior and emotional level.[4] Mann also made use of multiple frame rates in filming the climactic shootout: different cameras recording the scene at 24, 36, 72 and 90 frames per second, giving the final scene what Spinotti has called an "off tempo", "staccato" feel.[21]



"I was really wound up. I was doing 50 push-ups between each take, and we were doing take after take."
–Noonan on filming his role as the Tooth Fairy.[3]
During principal photography, Noonan asked that no one playing his victims and pursuers be allowed to see him, while those he did speak to should address him by his character's name, Francis. The first time Noonan met Petersen was when Petersen jumped through a large window during the filming of the climactic fight scene.[6][22] Noonan admits that, because of his request, the atmosphere on set became so tense that people actually became afraid of him.[6] He had also begun body-building to prepare for the role and felt that his size intimidated the crew when filming began, as the first scene to be shot was his character's interrogation and murder of another.[5] Noonan claims that this led him to take separate flights and stay in separate hotels from the rest of the cast,[3] and while on the film's sets, he would remain in his trailer alone in the dark to prepare himself, sometimes joined by a silent Mann.[6]
Petersen recalled filming the climactic shoot-out scene at the end of principal photography, when most of the crew had already left the production because of time constraints. With no special effects crew to provide the blood spatter for the gunshots, Petersen described how the remaining crew would blow ketchup across the set through hoses when such effects were needed.[6] Joan Allen also related that Mann would simulate the impacts of bullets in Dollarhyde's kitchen by throwing glass jars across the surfaces so they would shatter where he needed them to; one of these broken jars left a shard of glass embedded in Petersen's thigh during filming.[6] The pool of blood forming around Noonan's character at the end of this scene was intended to allude to the "Red Dragon" tattoos worn by the character in the novel.[3] This shot left Noonan lying in the corn syrup stage blood for so long that he became stuck to the floor.[6]
Post-production[edit]
Spinotti has commented on how Mann's use of mise en scène when framing shots evokes "the emotional situation in the film at that particular time", noting the director's focus on the particular shape or color of elements of the set. He has also drawn attention to the scene in which Graham visits Lecktor in his cell, pointing out the constant position of the cell bars within the frame, even as the shots cut back and forth between the two characters. "There is nothing in Manhunter ... which is just a nice shot", says Spinotti. "[It] is all focused into conveying that particular atmosphere; whether it's happiness, or delusion, or disillusion".[21] This "manipulation of focus and editing" has become a visual hallmark of the film.[23]
Despite having initially filmed the scenes involving Francis Dollarhyde with an elaborate tattoo across Noonan's chest, Mann and Spinotti felt that the finished result seemed out of place and that it "trivialize[d] the struggle" the character faced.[3][21] Mann cut the scenes in which the character appeared bare-chested, and quickly re-shot additional footage to replace what had been removed. Spinotti noted that in doing so, scenes which he felt had been captured with a "beautiful" aesthetic were lost, as the production did not have the time to recreate the original lighting conditions.[21]
Petersen had difficulty ridding himself of the Will Graham character after principal photography wrapped. While rehearsing for a play in Chicago, he felt the old character "always coming out" instead of his new role. To try and rid himself of the character, Petersen went to a barbershop where he had them shave his beard, cut his hair and dye it blond so that he could look into the mirror and see a different person. At first he felt it was due to the rigorous shooting schedule for Manhunter, but later realized that the character "had creeped in".[6]
Soundtrack[edit]

Manhunter (Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Soundtrack album by various artists

Released
1986
Length
43:29
Label
MCA
Manhunter '​s soundtrack "dominates the film",[24] with music that is "explicitly diegetic the entire way".[25] Steve Rybin has commented that the music is not intended to correlate with the intensity of the action portrayed alongside it, but rather to signify when the viewer should react with a "degree of aesthetic distance" from the film, or be "suture[d] into the diegetic world" more closely.[26] The soundtrack album was released in limited quantities in 1986, on MCA Records (#6182). It was not, however, released on compact disc at the time, but only on cassette tape and vinyl record.[27] On 19 March 2007, a two-CD set titled Music from the Films of Michael Mann was released, featuring four tracks from Manhunter: The Prime Movers' "Strong As I Am", Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", Shriekback's "This Big Hush", and Red 7's "Heartbeat".[28] In March 2010, Intrada Records announced that they were releasing the Manhunter soundtrack on CD for the first time, with an extra track, "Jogger's Stakeout" by The Reds.[29]
The Reds were contacted about contributing to the film's soundtrack after submitting their music for possible use on Miami Vice. They recorded their score over a period of two months, in studios in New York and Los Angeles. They recorded a total of 28 minutes of music for the film; however, several cues were replaced later with music by Shriekback and Michel Rubini. "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd and "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" by The Electric Prunes have both been cited by The Reds' vocalist Rick Shaffer as influences on the film's soundtrack.[30] Mann selected "Strong as I Am" by The Prime Movers for the film and later funded the filming of a music video for the song's release as a single.[31]

No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length

1. "Strong as I Am"   The Prime Movers 4:37
2. "Coelocanth"   Shriekback 4:19
3. "This Big Hush"   Shriekback 6:13
4. "Graham's Theme"   Michel Rubini 4:00
5. "Evaporation"   Shriekback 3:18
6. "Heartbeat"   Red 7 3:52
7. "Lector's Cell"   The Reds 1:48
8. "Jogger's Stakeout"   The Reds 2:05
9. "Leed's House"   The Reds 4:32
10. "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"   Iron Butterfly 8:20
Total length:
 43:29 
Music in the film's screen credits which are not listed above included:

No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length

1. "Freeze"   Klaus Schulze 6:42
2. "Seiun + Hikari No Sono"   Kitarō 8:00
Total length:
 14:42 
Themes[edit]

Two still images from the film. One is a married couple lying in bed, the image heavily tinted blue. The other is a man sitting alone in a darkened room, with the image heavily tinted green

 The use of heavily tinted scenes was a deliberate technique to evoke different moods in the audience. Top: Will and Molly Graham are lit with Spinotti's "romantic blue". Bottom: Francis Dollarhyde sits in "subversive" green.[21]
Visually, Manhunter is driven by strong color cues and the use of tints,[32] including the hallmark blue of Mann's work.[33] Dante Spinotti has noted that these visual cues were meant to invoke different moods based on the tone of the scenes in which they were used: cool blue tones were used for the scenes shared between Will Graham and his wife Molly, and unsettling greens and magentas were used for the scenes with the killer Francis Dollarhyde.[21] Steven Rybin has observed that "blue is associated with Molly, sex, and the Graham family home", while green denotes "searching and discovery", pointing out the color of Graham's shirt when the investigation begins and the green tone of the interior shots in the Atlanta police station.[26] John Muir suggests that this helps identify the character of Graham with the "goodness" of the natural world, and Dollarhyde with the city, "where sickness thrives".[32] This strongly stylized approach drew criticism from reviewers at first,[34] but has since been seen as a hallmark of the film and viewed more positively.[3][35]
Academic studies of the film tend to draw attention to the relationship between the characters of Graham and Dollarhyde, noting, for example, that the film "chooses to emphasize the novel's symbiotic relationships between Graham, Lecter and Dolarhyde [sic] by visual techniques and screen acting where subtlety plays a key role".[36] In his book Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film, Tony Williams praises the depth of the film's characterizations, calling Dollarhyde a "victim of society" and his portrayal "undermining convenient barriers between monster and human".[37] Philip L. Simpson echoes this sentiment in his book Psycho Paths: Tracking the Serial Killer through Contemporary American Film, calling Manhunter a "profoundly ambiguous and destabilizing film" which creates "uncomfortable affinities between protagonist and antagonist".[38] Mark T. Conard's The Philosophy of Film Noir follows this same idea, claiming that the film presents the notion that "what it takes to catch a serial killer is tantamount to being one".[39]
Release[edit]
Box office[edit]
Manhunter was released in the United States on 15 August 1986. It opened in 779 theaters and grossed $2,204,400 in its opening weekend. The film eventually grossed a total of $8,620,929 in the US, making it the 76th highest-grossing film that year.[2] Because of internal problems at De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, the UK premiere was postponed for over a year.[3] It was screened in November 1987 as part of the London Film Festival[40] and saw wide release on 24 February 1989.[41] In France, Manhunter was screened on 9 April at the 1987 Cognac Festival du Film Policier, where it was awarded the Critics Prize.[42] It was also shown at the 2009 Camerimage Film Festival in Łódź, Poland.[43] On 19 March 2011, it was screened at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its release. Michael Mann was present for discussion at the event.[44]
Home media[edit]
Manhunter was released in a widescreen edition on laserdisc in 1986.[45] It was released on VHS several times, including by BMG on 10 October 1998[46] and by Universal Studios in 2001.[47] It has also been available on DVD in various versions. Anchor Bay released a two-DVD limited edition in 2000. A standard edition, an individual release of the first disc from the two-disc set, was also released at the same time. In 2003 Anchor Bay released the "Restored Director's Cut", which is very close to the "Director's Cut" on the 2000 disc but omits one scene. It does, however, feature a commentary track by Mann.[48]
MGM (current holders of the rights to The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal) released the theatrical cut of Manhunter on DVD in a pan-and-scan format in 2004.[49] In January 2007, the same version was released by MGM in a widescreen format, for the first time on DVD, as part of The Hannibal Lecter Collection, along with The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. Manhunter was also released by itself in September 2007.[49][50] The studio re-released The Hannibal Lecter Collection on Blu-ray in September 2009,[48][51] and Manhunter by itself on Blu-ray two years later.
Reception[edit]
On its release, Manhunter was met with widely mixed reviews. At first, it was seen as too stylish, owing largely to Mann's 1980s trademark use of pastel colors, art-deco architecture and glass brick.[12][34][52] A common criticism in the initial reviews was that the film overemphasized the music and stylistic visuals.[4] Petersen's skill as a lead actor was also called into question.[12][34][52] Particularly critical of the film's stylistic approach was the New York Times, which called attention to Mann's "taste for overkill", branding his stylized approach as "hokey" and little more than "gimmicks".[34] Chicago Tribune writer Dave Kehr remarked that Mann "believes in style so much that he has very little belief left over for the characters or situations of his film, which suffers accordingly", adding that the film's focus on style serves to "drain any notion of credibility" from its plot.[12] Sheila Benson of the Los Angeles Times was critical of the film's visuals and soundtrack, comparing it unfavourably with Miami Vice and describing it as a "chic, well-cast wasteland" that "delivers very little".[52][53] The film's stylistic similarity to Miami Vice was also pointed out by Film Threat's Dave Beuscher, who felt it was the chief reason for the film's poor box office results.[54] Writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, Steve Winn derided the film, claiming its lack of a strong lead role caused it to "fall apart like the shattered mirrors that figure in the crimes".[53] Time was more favorable in its review, praising the "intelligent camerabatics" and "bold, controlled color scheme".[55] Leonard Maltin gave the film three stars, calling it "gripping all the way through and surprisingly nonexploitive", although adding that "the holes start to show through" if looked for "too carefully".[56] Manhunter was, however, nominated for the 1987 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture.[57]
Modern appreciation of the film has seen its standing among critics improve. Salon.com called Mann's original the best of the Lecter series,[58] and Slate magazine described it as "mesmerizing", positing that it directly inspired television series such as Millennium and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, though calling attention to its "Miami-Vice-like overreliance on synthesized sludge".[59] The Independent called it "the most aestheticised film of the 1980s", and noted its "chilly integrity".[60] British television channel and production company Film4 called it "the most refined screen adaptation of Harris' books", although they found the film's contemporary soundtrack "dated".[61] Sky Movies echoed this sentiment, summing up their review by saying "although it still remains a classic, the film has dated slightly."[62] Retrospective reviews tend to be less critical of the stylized visuals: the BBC's Ali Barclay called the film "a truly suspenseful, stylish thriller", awarding it four out of five stars,[63] and Nathan Ditum described it in Total Film as "complex, disturbing and super-stylish", adding that the 2002 remake could not compete with it.[64] Empire editor Mark Dinning gave the film five stars out of five, praising the "subtlety" of the acting and the "neon angst" of the visuals.[35] Television channel Bravo named Dollarhyde's interrogation of Freddy Lounds as one of its 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments in 2007,[65] and Noonan's portrayal of Dollarhyde was praised by Simon Abrams of UGO Networks as "a highlight of his career".[66]
Despite the low gross on its initial release, Manhunter has grown in popularity in recent years and has been mentioned in several books and lists of cult films.[67][68][69] These reappraisals often cite the success of Silence of the Lambs and its sequels as the reason for the increased interest in Manhunter, while still favoring the earlier film over its successors.[68][69] Telling of this resurgence in appreciation are the film's ratings on review aggregation sites such as Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes. Compiled mostly from recent reviews for the film, Manhunter has a metascore of 78 on Metacritic, based on ten reviews,[70] and a 94% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, from 33 reviews.[71]
Legacy[edit]
Manhunter '​s focus on the use of forensic science in a criminal investigation has been cited as a major influence on several films and television series that have come after it[32][59]—most notably CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,[72] also featuring William Petersen, which was "inspired, or at least influenced" by the forensics scenes in Manhunter.[73] Petersen's sympathetic portrayal of profiler Will Graham has also been noted as helping to influence a "shift in the image of the pop-culture FBI agent" that would continue throughout the 1980s and 90s.[74] The film has also been noted as a thematic precursor to the series Millennium, John Doe, Profiler,[59] and The X-Files,[38] and to films such as Copycat, Switchback,[32] The Bone Collector, Seven and Fallen.[14]
The Silence of the Lambs, a film adaptation of Harris' next Lecter novel, was released in 1991. However, none of the cast of Manhunter reprise their roles in the later film, although characters such as Lecter and Chilton return with new actors. Actors Frankie Faison and Dan Butler appear in both films, but as different and unrelated characters. The Silence of the Lambs earned several awards and accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. It is one of only three films to have won the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Actress, and Best Screenplay.[75] The Silence of the Lambs was followed in turn by a sequel and two prequels: Hannibal, Red Dragon and Hannibal Rising, plus an NBC television series, Hannibal.
Of these later films, Red Dragon (2002), adapted from the same novel as Manhunter, was released to a generally positive critical reception and successful box office receipts, making $209,196,298 on a $78 million budget.[76] Based on recent reviews, Red Dragon currently has a 68% rating from 183 reviews at Rotten Tomatoes,[77] and a 60% rating based on 36 reviews on Metacritic.[78] Manhunter's cinematographer Dante Spinotti also served as the director of photography on this version.[79]
See also[edit]

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For the television series, see Hannibal (TV series). For the historical film, see Hannibal (1959 film).

Hannibal
Hannibal movie poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Ridley Scott
Produced by
Ridley Scott
Dino De Laurentiis
Martha De Laurentiis

Screenplay by
David Mamet
Steven Zaillian
Based on
Hannibal
 by Thomas Harris
Starring
Anthony Hopkins
Julianne Moore
Music by
Hans Zimmer
Cinematography
John Mathieson
Edited by
Pietro Scalia

Production
 company

Scott Free Productions

Distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Universal Pictures

Release dates

February 9, 2001


Running time
 131 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
 Italian
Budget
$87 million[1]
Box office
$351,692,268[1]
Hannibal is a 2001 American crime thriller film directed by Ridley Scott, adapted from the novel of the same name by Thomas Harris. It is the sequel to the 1991 Academy Award-winning film The Silence of the Lambs in which Anthony Hopkins returns to his role as the iconic serial killer, Hannibal Lecter. Julianne Moore co-stars, in the role first held by Jodie Foster as the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Agent Clarice Starling.
Set ten years after The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal follows Starling's attempts to apprehend Lecter before his surviving victim, Mason Verger (Gary Oldman), captures him. It is set in Italy and the United States. Its development drew attention, with The Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme, screenwriter Ted Tally and actress Jodie Foster all eventually declining involvement.[2] Hannibal broke box office records in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom in February 2001.[3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Development 3.1 Background
3.2 Ridley Scott
3.3 Script development
3.4 Casting 3.4.1 Involvement of Jodie Foster
3.4.2 Julianne Moore as Clarice Starling
3.4.3 Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter
3.4.4 Gary Oldman as Mason Verger
3.4.5 Further casting
3.5 Key production crew
4 Production and post-production 4.1 Background
4.2 Filming locations
4.3 Special make-up effects
4.4 Title sequence
4.5 Music
5 Themes 5.1 Romance
5.2 Retribution and punishment
5.3 Corruption
6 Distribution 6.1 Promotion
6.2 Home media
7 Reception 7.1 Box office
7.2 Critical response
8 Differences from the novel
9 Legacy
10 Prequel
11 See also
12 References
13 External links

Plot[edit]
Ten years after tracking down serial killer Jame Gumb, FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling (Moore) is unjustly blamed for a bungled drug raid. Starling and her connection to Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins) come to the attention of Lecter's only surviving victim, Mason Verger (Gary Oldman), a wealthy child molester whom Lecter left paralyzed and horribly disfigured during a therapy session.
Verger uses his immense wealth and political influence to have Starling reassigned to Lecter's case and meets with her in his mansion. Verger is pursuing an elaborate scheme to capture, torture, and kill Lecter and hopes Starling's involvement will draw him out. Indeed, Lecter sends her a taunting letter after learning of her public disgrace. Though the letter contains no clue to Lecter's whereabouts, Starling detects a strange fragrance that a perfume expert later identifies as a skin cream whose ingredients are 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. One of the cities is Florence, where Chief Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi (Giancarlo Giannini) is investigating the disappearance of a library curator. Pazzi questions Lecter, who is masquerading as Dr. Fell, the assistant curator and now caretaker of the library.
Upon recognizing Dr. Fell in the surveillance tape, Pazzi accesses the ViCAP database of wanted fugitives. He learns of Verger's US$3 million reward to anyone turning Lecter over to him rather than to the FBI. Lured by Verger's bounty, Pazzi ignores Starling's warnings against trying to capture Lecter alone. He recruits a pickpocket to obtain a fingerprint of Lecter to show as proof of Lecter's whereabouts and thus collect the reward. Lecter mortally wounds the pickpocket, who nonetheless manages to get the print and provide it to Pazzi, who in turn contacts Verger. Lecter then baits Pazzi into an isolated room of the Palazzo Vecchio, ties him up with electrical cords, and publicly hangs and disembowels him, before escaping back to the United States.
Verger bribes Justice Department official Paul Krendler (Ray Liotta) to accuse Starling of withholding a note from Lecter, leading to her suspension. Lecter lures Starling to Union Station but Verger's men, who have followed Starling, capture Lecter and transport him to Verger. When her superiors refuse to act, Starling, on her own initiative, infiltrates Verger's estate. Verger means to feed Lecter alive to a herd of wild boars bred specifically for this purpose. Starling intervenes to free Lecter but is herself wounded, and Lecter rescues her. Verger orders his private physician Cordell (Željko Ivanek) to shoot Lecter, but Lecter persuades Cordell to throw his hated boss into the pen, where he is killed by the boars.
Lecter takes Starling to Krendler's secluded lake house and treats her wounds. When Krendler arrives for the Fourth of July, Lecter subdues and drugs him. Starling, disoriented by morphine and dressed in a black velvet evening gown, awakens to find Lecter cooking and Krendler in a wheelchair seated at the table set for an elegant dinner. Weakened by the drugs, she looks on in horror as Lecter removes the top of Krendler's skull, cuts out part of his prefrontal cortex, sautées it, and feeds it to Krendler.
After the meal, Starling tries to attack Lecter but he overpowers her. She manages to handcuff his wrist to hers, and with police incoming to the residence, Lecter brandishes a meat cleaver and severs his own hand to escape. Lecter is later seen on a flight with a boxed lunch on his pull-down table. As he prepares to eat his meal, including a small cooked portion of what is assumed to be Krendler's brain, a young boy seated next to him asks to try some of his food. Lecter lets the boy eat some of his lunch, telling him "it is important... to always try new things."
Cast[edit]
Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Julianne Moore as Clarice Starling
Gary Oldman as Mason Verger
Ray Liotta as Paul Krendler
Frankie Faison as Barney Matthews
Giancarlo Giannini as Chief Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi
Francesca Neri as Allegra Pazzi
Željko Ivanek as Dr. Cordell Doemling
Hazelle Goodman as Evelda Drumgo
Robert Rietti as Sogliato
David Andrews as FBI Agent Pearsall
Francis Guinan as FBI Asst. Director Noonan
James Opher as DEA Agent John Eldridge
Enrico Lo Verso as Gnocco
Ivano Marescotti as Carlo Deogracias
Danielle de Niese as Beatrice
Development[edit]
Background[edit]
In 1994, a Rolling Stone magazine interviewer asked The Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme about a possible sequel. Demme responded that Thomas Harris, author of The Silence of the Lambs, had been working on the follow-up for "seven or eight years". Demme had an idea even at that time that it would not be a straight follow-up. Harris had told Demme: "I imagine Doctor Lecter going somewhere in Europe... strolling round the streets of Florence or Munich, gazing in the windows of watchmakers..."[4] Demme stated his intention to be involved in the film adaptation of Hannibal in 1998, less than a year before the novel was published.[5]
Dino De Laurentiis produced Michael Mann's film Manhunter in 1986, based on Harris' 1981 novel Red Dragon, featuring the first appearance of Hannibal Lecter, played by Brian Cox. De Laurentiis did not like Mann's film: "Manhunter was no good... it was not Red Dragon," he said. De Laurentiis and his wife Martha (also his co-producer) had no direct involvement in The Silence of the Lambs, a decision De Laurentiis came to regret. They did, however, own the rights to the Lecter character and reportedly allowed Orion Pictures, which produced The Silence of the Lambs, to use the character of Lecter for free, not wishing to be "greedy". When The Silence of the Lambs became a commercial and critical success in 1991, winning five Academy Awards, both Dino and Martha De Laurentiis found themselves sitting on a valuable asset and eager for a follow-up novel they could adapt. After a lengthy wait, De Laurentiis finally received a call from Harris telling him he had finished the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs and De Laurentiis purchased the rights for a record $10 million.[6]
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 "$5 million to $19 million for director Jonathan Demme." The newspaper further reported: although The Silence of the Lambs cost only $22 million, this would not deter the studio from going ahead with Hannibal. Mort Janklow, Harris' 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.[7]
The book sold out of its initial 1.6 million print run in the summer of 1999.[8] Hannibal went on to sell millions of copies following its release.[9]
Demme informed the producers of Hannibal that he would pass on directing Hannibal.[5] It has been claimed Demme turned down the project because he found the material "lurid"[10] and was averse to the book's "gore".[11] 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."[6] He has since added that Demme felt he could not make a sequel as good as The Silence of the Lambs.[12]
Ridley Scott[edit]
De Laurentiis visited Ridley Scott on the set of Gladiator and suggested to Ridley he read the novel he had bought the rights to.[12] Scott was in the third week before principal photography was due to finish on Gladiator.[5] Gladiator became a commercial and critical success, earning 12 Academy Award nominations.[9] De Laurentiis asked Scott if he would like to direct the film version of Hannibal. Scott misunderstood which Hannibal he meant, thinking De Laurentiis was speaking of the general and historical figure from Carthage who nearly brought down the Roman Empire back around 200 B.C., so he replied: "Basically, Dino, I'm doing a Roman epic right now. I don't wanna do elephants coming over the Alps next, old boy."[5] Scott read the manuscript in four sittings within a week, believing it to be a "symphony", and expressed his desire to do it.[5] Scott further explains how he got involved: "I was shooting Gladiator in Malta and one day, for the hell of it, I went for a walk for half a mile down the road to the Malta Film Studio to see my old buddy Dino. I had not seen him since I'd worked on a version of Dune. This was pre-Blade Runner. Dino had pursued me to direct Dune and another film. He's always enthusiastic and aggressive and came after me when I did both Blade Runner and Alien, but I couldn't do the films. Anyway, we had an espresso together and a few days later, he called me to ask if he could visit the Gladiator set. He arrived with a manuscript of Hannibal, about a month before it was published in book form. He said: 'Let's make this one.' I haven't read anything so fast since The Godfather. It was so rich in all kind of ways."[8]
Although Scott had accepted the job Demme had rejected, he said: "My first question was: 'What about Jonathan?' and they said: 'The original team said it's too violent.' I said, 'Okay. I'll do it.'" Scott did, himself, have some uncertainty with the source material. He had difficulties with the ending of the novel in particular: "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." (In the novel, Lecter and Starling end up an actual couple on the run together.) He also "didn't buy the book from the opera scene onwards, which became like a vampire movie." He asked Harris if he was "married to his ending". Harris said he was not, so he changed it.[8]
Script development[edit]
Ted Tally, the screenwriter for The Silence of the Lambs, was another key member of the original team to decline involvement in Hannibal (he won an Academy Award for his Silence adaptation). Tally, like Demme, had problems with the novel's "excesses".[10]
Steven Zaillian (writer of Schindler's List) was offered the chance to write the adaptation after Tally passed, but he also declined. He explained that "I was busy. And I wasn’t sure I was interested. You can almost never win when you do a sequel."[6] David Mamet was the first screenwriter to produce a draft, which, according to Ridley Scott and the producers, needed major revisions.[6] Stacey Snider, co-chairman of Universal Pictures (a co-production deal was struck between Universal and MGM) said on the rejection of Mamet's screenplay: "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."[7] Mamet was preparing to direct his own film.[6] Zaillian, who had already passed, reconsidered and became involved in the project, saying: "It's hard to say no to Dino once and it's almost impossible to say no to him twice."[6] A script review at ScreenwritersUtopia.com describes the Mamet draft as "stunningly bad" but found Zaillian's rewrite to be "gripping entertainment".[13]
This question (regarding the script development) was put to Ridley Scott by Total Film magazine: "There were lots of rewrites on Hannibal – what was the main problem with the original material?" Scott replied: "That's inaccurate, because 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."[8] Asked if he had read Mamet's draft, he said: "Yes. He is very fast, very efficient, but he was off doing a film. 'Hannibal' was green lit and his first draft only took about a month. But I was scared that he would not be able to give me enough attention, because that draft needed a lot of work. So I moved on basically."[8] Scott has said there were writing and "structural problems" as to what they would do with parts of the film.[14] One of Zaillian's key objectives was to revise the script by David Mamet until it pleased all parties, meaning the "love" story would need to be done by suggestion instead of by "assault".[15] 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 suddenly 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."[5]
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/actor).[7] 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."[12]
Involvement of Jodie Foster[edit]
Regarding her involvement in a sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, Foster confirmed to Larry King in 1997 that she "would definitely be part of it".[8] She told Entertainment Weekly magazine in 1997 that "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?'"[16] De Laurentiis thought Foster would decline once she read the book, even believing the final film was better for it.[5] Hopkins also had doubts Foster would be involved, saying he had a "hunch" she would not be.[5] Foster did turn it down, confirming this in late December 1999.[17] This would cause problems for the studio, Universal and partner MGM.[6][16] "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.[6] 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?"[6] Foster said in December 1999 that the characterization of Starling in Hannibal had "negative attributes" and "betrayed" the original character.[17] Foster's spokeswoman said the actress declined because Claire Danes had become available for Foster's own project, Flora Plum.[18] Salary demands may also have played a part in Foster's non-participation. De Laurentiis said, "I call the agent of Judy [sic] Foster. He say to me 'I have instruction. She no want to read the script if you no give her an offer of $20m and 15% of the gross.' And I say, 'Give my love to Judy [sic] Foster, goodbye.'"[6] Entertainment Weekly magazine described the project as becoming "a bloody mess, hemorrhaging talent and money" despite Hopkins being on-board.[16] Foster talked about Hannibal in an interview with Total Film magazine in late 2005. She said: "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."[19]
Julianne Moore as Clarice Starling[edit]
When it became clear that Foster would skip Hannibal, the production team considered several different actresses,[5] including Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie, Gillian Anderson, Hilary Swank, Ashley Judd, Helen Hunt and Julianne Moore.[6] Hopkins asked his agent if he had any "power" over casting. He informed De Laurentiis that he knew Julianne Moore, with whom he had worked on Surviving Picasso, and thought her a "terrific actress".[5] Although Hopkins' agent told him he had no contractual influence on casting, Scott thought it correct to discuss who would be Hopkins' "leading lady".[5] Scott said he was "really surprised to find that I had five of the top actresses in Hollywood wanting it."[8] Moore would eventually secure the part. Scott said his decision was swayed in favor of Moore because: "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."[8] "Julianne Moore, once Jodie decided to pass, was always top of my list," said Scott on his female lead.[14] 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."[20]
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter[edit]
Hopkins was generally expected to reprise his Academy Award-winning role. Hopkins did say in June 1999 that he would only be interested if the script was "really good".[7] Hopkins says on the making-of feature on DVD that he couldn’t 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."[5] When the producers confirmed that they were going to film Harris' novel, Hopkins told them yes, but added: "It needs some condensing."[5] The Hollywood Reporter would confirm that Hopkins had agreed to reprise his role in late December 1999, saying he had approved the latest draft of the script by Steven Zaillian.[21] 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."[6] 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.[22] Hopkins explains why: "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."[22] In the film, Lecter is first seen in Florence "as the classical Lecter, lecturing and being smooth", according to Hopkins.[23] 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".[23]
“ He's still the sort of Robin Hood of killers. He kills the—what do they call them? The terminally rude. ”
— Anthony Hopkins on Hannibal Lecter.[23]

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 wheelchair-bound police officer 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.[24][25] 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".[6] 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)."[6] Oldman was apparently "out" of the film for a while, but then came back in, asking to go "unbilled".[6] 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."[6] Oldman said that having his name completely removed from the billing and credits allowed him to "do it anonymously" under the heavy make-up.[26] In home-release versions of the film, Oldman's name is included in the opening and closing credits.
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.
Key production crew[edit]
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.[27]
Production and post-production[edit]
Background[edit]
Hannibal was filmed in 83 working days over 16 weeks.[28] The film began production on May 8, 2000 in Florence.[28] The film visited key locations in Florence and various locations around the United States.[27] 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?"[27] 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.[29]
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."[27] 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.[27]
After leaving Italy on June 5, 2000, the production moved to Washington, D.C. Filming took place over six days at Union Station.[27] The unusual sight of a carousel would appear in the transportation hub and shopping plaza at Ridley Scott's request.[27]
Filming would last for seven weeks in Richmond, Virginia[27] for the shootout in a crowded fish market (shot at Richmond Farmer's Market) early in the film. Julianne Moore underwent Federal Bureau of Investigation training at the Bureau's headquarters before filming.[27]
A barn in Montpelier, Virginia, situated on the estate of President James Madison, was used to house 15 "performing hogs".[27] The fifteen Russian boars used in the shoot, were from a selection of around 6,000 of which the animal wranglers looked at.[27]
Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, the biggest privately owned estate in the U.S., was chosen to signify the huge personal wealth of Mason Verger.[5]
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".[5] 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".[5] 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.[5] 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.[5] Oldman would spend six hours a day in make-up to prepare for the role.[5]
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".[5]
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.[5] The studio thought it not "quite right", but it remained on Scott's mind and would eventually end up as the main title sequence.[5] 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.[5] 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."[5] The titles are said to have been influenced by the film Seven.[30]
Music[edit]
Ridley Scott worked very closely with composer Hans Zimmer, during post-production on Hannibal.[5] 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."[5] Zimmer and Scott sat in during the editing process with editor Pietro Scalia to discuss scenes in the film and "not music".[5] 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 Hannibal 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".[5] The character Mason Verger had his own "theme", which become more "perverted" as the film progressed, according to Zimmer.[5] Dante's sonnet was put to music by Zimmer and Patrick Cassidy for the opera scene in Florence.[31] 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."[13] In a poll by British Classic FM listeners to find the greatest film soundtrack of all time, Hannibal ranked at No. 59.[32] Strauss's The Blue Danube is also played at several points in the film.
Themes[edit]
Romance[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?[5] It is dark, because the story is of course essentially dark, but it's kind of romantic at the same time."[5] Scott openly admits to a "romantic thematic" running though the film.[5] 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."[9] 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.[14] The New York Times, in its review of the film, said Hannibal, "toys" with the idea of "love that dare not speak its name".[30] Composer Hans Zimmer believes there to be "many" messages and subtext in each scene of the film.[5] 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..."[5] 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.[5] During the film's post-production, Scott, Zimmer and the editor passionately argued about what a single shot meant, where a tear slides down Starling's cheek during a confrontation with Lecter. They could not agree if it was a tear of "anguish", "loneliness" or "disgust".[5] Scott told the New York Post that, the affair of the heart between Lecter and Starling is "metaphorical".[33] Rolling Stone magazine even said in their review, "Scott offers a sly parody of relationships – think "When Hannibal met Sally."[15]
Retribution and punishment[edit]
Ridley Scott has said that he believes Lecter, in his own way, to be "pure" – one of the key motivating factors for the character is the search for "retribution and punishment".[14]
"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."[14] Scott did say, however, "In our normal terms, he's truly evil."[14] Scott also brings up the notion of absolution in reference to Lecter towards the film's end.[14] Verger has one overriding objective in life: to capture Lecter and subject him to a slow, painful death.[34]
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 gypsy pickpocket, egged on by the desire to have the best for his much younger wife.[14] There is a moment in the film when Pazzi becomes corrupted, despite being what Scott describes as "very thoughtful".[14] Paul Krendler also succumbs to greed and corruption. Starling does not, however, and perseveres to the end, even refusing to release Lecter when she believes he is about to cut off her hand in order to free himself.
Distribution[edit]
Promotion[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 U.K. 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."[36]
Upon its release, Hannibal was met with significant media attention,[31][37] with the film's stars and director making several appearances on television, in newspapers and in magazines.[38] 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'."[38] Stars Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore made the covers of a number of magazines, including Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, Premiere[37] and Empire.
Home media[edit]
Hannibal is available as a one-disc and two-disc DVD. The two disc DVD contains an array of special features including: Commentary by director Ridley Scott, deleted and alternate scenes, five production featurettes and a "marketing gallery" which contains trailers, production stills and unused poster concepts.
A special "steel-book" edition of Hannibal was released in 2007. There are no significant changes made to the DVD itself; only the package artwork was changed.
The film was originally released as part of The Hannibal Lecter Collection on Blu-ray in 2009. It has most recently been re-released as a stand-alone release in 2011.
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
Hannibal grossed $58 million (U.S.) in its opening weekend (from 3,230 screens). At the time (February 2001), this was the third-biggest debut ever—only 1997'sThe Lost World: Jurassic Park and 1999's Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace grossed more in an opening weekend.[39] As of October, 2012, it ranks 90th all time. It was also, when it was released, the biggest-opening box office for an R-rated film ever.[39] Final domestic box office gross (U.S.) reached $165,092,268, with a worldwide gross of $351,692,268.[1] The film spent three weeks at number one in the U.S. box office chart, and four weeks at number one in the U.K.[40] Hannibal was the tenth highest-grossing film of the year worldwide,[41] in a year which also saw the blockbuster releases of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Hannibal also made over $87,000,000 in U.S. video rentals following release in August 2001.[42]
Critical response[edit]
The reviews for Hannibal were mixed.[20][39][43] 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." Empire magazine gave it two out of five stars, calling it "laughable to just plain boring, Hannibal is toothless to the end." 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."[43] Thomson does make clear, however, he is a great fan of director Ridley Scott's work.[43] 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."[43] 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."[44]
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."[45] Roger Ebert gave the film a "Thumbs down" rating on the television program At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper and gave the film a 2.5 out of 4 stars rating in his print review, which he began with the following: "Ridley Scott's Hannibal is a carnival geek show. We must give it credit for the courage of its depravity; if it proves nothing else, it proves that if a man cutting off his face and feeding it to his dogs doesn't get the NC-17 rating for violence, nothing ever will."[46] Hannibal has an overall Metacritic rating of 57 out of 100 from 36 reviews[47] and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 39 percent, with an average rating of 5.1 out of 10 from 163 reviews.[48]
Differences from the novel[edit]
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 intact, with the only surprise twists saved for its wake)."[44] 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."[49] 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."[50]
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. Also, in the novel, Verger literally has no face and has to be kept in a sterile room at all times to keep bacteria from affecting exposed muscle and tissues. 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...'."[51]
Legacy[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 the scene in Hannibal.[52]
Prequel[edit]
Main articles: Red Dragon (film) and Hannibal Rising (film)
See also[edit]

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For the television series, see Hannibal (TV series). For the historical film, see Hannibal (1959 film).

Hannibal
Hannibal movie poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Ridley Scott
Produced by
Ridley Scott
Dino De Laurentiis
Martha De Laurentiis

Screenplay by
David Mamet
Steven Zaillian
Based on
Hannibal
 by Thomas Harris
Starring
Anthony Hopkins
Julianne Moore
Music by
Hans Zimmer
Cinematography
John Mathieson
Edited by
Pietro Scalia

Production
 company

Scott Free Productions

Distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Universal Pictures

Release dates

February 9, 2001


Running time
 131 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
 Italian
Budget
$87 million[1]
Box office
$351,692,268[1]
Hannibal is a 2001 American crime thriller film directed by Ridley Scott, adapted from the novel of the same name by Thomas Harris. It is the sequel to the 1991 Academy Award-winning film The Silence of the Lambs in which Anthony Hopkins returns to his role as the iconic serial killer, Hannibal Lecter. Julianne Moore co-stars, in the role first held by Jodie Foster as the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Agent Clarice Starling.
Set ten years after The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal follows Starling's attempts to apprehend Lecter before his surviving victim, Mason Verger (Gary Oldman), captures him. It is set in Italy and the United States. Its development drew attention, with The Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme, screenwriter Ted Tally and actress Jodie Foster all eventually declining involvement.[2] Hannibal broke box office records in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom in February 2001.[3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Development 3.1 Background
3.2 Ridley Scott
3.3 Script development
3.4 Casting 3.4.1 Involvement of Jodie Foster
3.4.2 Julianne Moore as Clarice Starling
3.4.3 Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter
3.4.4 Gary Oldman as Mason Verger
3.4.5 Further casting
3.5 Key production crew
4 Production and post-production 4.1 Background
4.2 Filming locations
4.3 Special make-up effects
4.4 Title sequence
4.5 Music
5 Themes 5.1 Romance
5.2 Retribution and punishment
5.3 Corruption
6 Distribution 6.1 Promotion
6.2 Home media
7 Reception 7.1 Box office
7.2 Critical response
8 Differences from the novel
9 Legacy
10 Prequel
11 See also
12 References
13 External links

Plot[edit]
Ten years after tracking down serial killer Jame Gumb, FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling (Moore) is unjustly blamed for a bungled drug raid. Starling and her connection to Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins) come to the attention of Lecter's only surviving victim, Mason Verger (Gary Oldman), a wealthy child molester whom Lecter left paralyzed and horribly disfigured during a therapy session.
Verger uses his immense wealth and political influence to have Starling reassigned to Lecter's case and meets with her in his mansion. Verger is pursuing an elaborate scheme to capture, torture, and kill Lecter and hopes Starling's involvement will draw him out. Indeed, Lecter sends her a taunting letter after learning of her public disgrace. Though the letter contains no clue to Lecter's whereabouts, Starling detects a strange fragrance that a perfume expert later identifies as a skin cream whose ingredients are 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. One of the cities is Florence, where Chief Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi (Giancarlo Giannini) is investigating the disappearance of a library curator. Pazzi questions Lecter, who is masquerading as Dr. Fell, the assistant curator and now caretaker of the library.
Upon recognizing Dr. Fell in the surveillance tape, Pazzi accesses the ViCAP database of wanted fugitives. He learns of Verger's US$3 million reward to anyone turning Lecter over to him rather than to the FBI. Lured by Verger's bounty, Pazzi ignores Starling's warnings against trying to capture Lecter alone. He recruits a pickpocket to obtain a fingerprint of Lecter to show as proof of Lecter's whereabouts and thus collect the reward. Lecter mortally wounds the pickpocket, who nonetheless manages to get the print and provide it to Pazzi, who in turn contacts Verger. Lecter then baits Pazzi into an isolated room of the Palazzo Vecchio, ties him up with electrical cords, and publicly hangs and disembowels him, before escaping back to the United States.
Verger bribes Justice Department official Paul Krendler (Ray Liotta) to accuse Starling of withholding a note from Lecter, leading to her suspension. Lecter lures Starling to Union Station but Verger's men, who have followed Starling, capture Lecter and transport him to Verger. When her superiors refuse to act, Starling, on her own initiative, infiltrates Verger's estate. Verger means to feed Lecter alive to a herd of wild boars bred specifically for this purpose. Starling intervenes to free Lecter but is herself wounded, and Lecter rescues her. Verger orders his private physician Cordell (Željko Ivanek) to shoot Lecter, but Lecter persuades Cordell to throw his hated boss into the pen, where he is killed by the boars.
Lecter takes Starling to Krendler's secluded lake house and treats her wounds. When Krendler arrives for the Fourth of July, Lecter subdues and drugs him. Starling, disoriented by morphine and dressed in a black velvet evening gown, awakens to find Lecter cooking and Krendler in a wheelchair seated at the table set for an elegant dinner. Weakened by the drugs, she looks on in horror as Lecter removes the top of Krendler's skull, cuts out part of his prefrontal cortex, sautées it, and feeds it to Krendler.
After the meal, Starling tries to attack Lecter but he overpowers her. She manages to handcuff his wrist to hers, and with police incoming to the residence, Lecter brandishes a meat cleaver and severs his own hand to escape. Lecter is later seen on a flight with a boxed lunch on his pull-down table. As he prepares to eat his meal, including a small cooked portion of what is assumed to be Krendler's brain, a young boy seated next to him asks to try some of his food. Lecter lets the boy eat some of his lunch, telling him "it is important... to always try new things."
Cast[edit]
Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Julianne Moore as Clarice Starling
Gary Oldman as Mason Verger
Ray Liotta as Paul Krendler
Frankie Faison as Barney Matthews
Giancarlo Giannini as Chief Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi
Francesca Neri as Allegra Pazzi
Željko Ivanek as Dr. Cordell Doemling
Hazelle Goodman as Evelda Drumgo
Robert Rietti as Sogliato
David Andrews as FBI Agent Pearsall
Francis Guinan as FBI Asst. Director Noonan
James Opher as DEA Agent John Eldridge
Enrico Lo Verso as Gnocco
Ivano Marescotti as Carlo Deogracias
Danielle de Niese as Beatrice
Development[edit]
Background[edit]
In 1994, a Rolling Stone magazine interviewer asked The Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme about a possible sequel. Demme responded that Thomas Harris, author of The Silence of the Lambs, had been working on the follow-up for "seven or eight years". Demme had an idea even at that time that it would not be a straight follow-up. Harris had told Demme: "I imagine Doctor Lecter going somewhere in Europe... strolling round the streets of Florence or Munich, gazing in the windows of watchmakers..."[4] Demme stated his intention to be involved in the film adaptation of Hannibal in 1998, less than a year before the novel was published.[5]
Dino De Laurentiis produced Michael Mann's film Manhunter in 1986, based on Harris' 1981 novel Red Dragon, featuring the first appearance of Hannibal Lecter, played by Brian Cox. De Laurentiis did not like Mann's film: "Manhunter was no good... it was not Red Dragon," he said. De Laurentiis and his wife Martha (also his co-producer) had no direct involvement in The Silence of the Lambs, a decision De Laurentiis came to regret. They did, however, own the rights to the Lecter character and reportedly allowed Orion Pictures, which produced The Silence of the Lambs, to use the character of Lecter for free, not wishing to be "greedy". When The Silence of the Lambs became a commercial and critical success in 1991, winning five Academy Awards, both Dino and Martha De Laurentiis found themselves sitting on a valuable asset and eager for a follow-up novel they could adapt. After a lengthy wait, De Laurentiis finally received a call from Harris telling him he had finished the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs and De Laurentiis purchased the rights for a record $10 million.[6]
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 "$5 million to $19 million for director Jonathan Demme." The newspaper further reported: although The Silence of the Lambs cost only $22 million, this would not deter the studio from going ahead with Hannibal. Mort Janklow, Harris' 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.[7]
The book sold out of its initial 1.6 million print run in the summer of 1999.[8] Hannibal went on to sell millions of copies following its release.[9]
Demme informed the producers of Hannibal that he would pass on directing Hannibal.[5] It has been claimed Demme turned down the project because he found the material "lurid"[10] and was averse to the book's "gore".[11] 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."[6] He has since added that Demme felt he could not make a sequel as good as The Silence of the Lambs.[12]
Ridley Scott[edit]
De Laurentiis visited Ridley Scott on the set of Gladiator and suggested to Ridley he read the novel he had bought the rights to.[12] Scott was in the third week before principal photography was due to finish on Gladiator.[5] Gladiator became a commercial and critical success, earning 12 Academy Award nominations.[9] De Laurentiis asked Scott if he would like to direct the film version of Hannibal. Scott misunderstood which Hannibal he meant, thinking De Laurentiis was speaking of the general and historical figure from Carthage who nearly brought down the Roman Empire back around 200 B.C., so he replied: "Basically, Dino, I'm doing a Roman epic right now. I don't wanna do elephants coming over the Alps next, old boy."[5] Scott read the manuscript in four sittings within a week, believing it to be a "symphony", and expressed his desire to do it.[5] Scott further explains how he got involved: "I was shooting Gladiator in Malta and one day, for the hell of it, I went for a walk for half a mile down the road to the Malta Film Studio to see my old buddy Dino. I had not seen him since I'd worked on a version of Dune. This was pre-Blade Runner. Dino had pursued me to direct Dune and another film. He's always enthusiastic and aggressive and came after me when I did both Blade Runner and Alien, but I couldn't do the films. Anyway, we had an espresso together and a few days later, he called me to ask if he could visit the Gladiator set. He arrived with a manuscript of Hannibal, about a month before it was published in book form. He said: 'Let's make this one.' I haven't read anything so fast since The Godfather. It was so rich in all kind of ways."[8]
Although Scott had accepted the job Demme had rejected, he said: "My first question was: 'What about Jonathan?' and they said: 'The original team said it's too violent.' I said, 'Okay. I'll do it.'" Scott did, himself, have some uncertainty with the source material. He had difficulties with the ending of the novel in particular: "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." (In the novel, Lecter and Starling end up an actual couple on the run together.) He also "didn't buy the book from the opera scene onwards, which became like a vampire movie." He asked Harris if he was "married to his ending". Harris said he was not, so he changed it.[8]
Script development[edit]
Ted Tally, the screenwriter for The Silence of the Lambs, was another key member of the original team to decline involvement in Hannibal (he won an Academy Award for his Silence adaptation). Tally, like Demme, had problems with the novel's "excesses".[10]
Steven Zaillian (writer of Schindler's List) was offered the chance to write the adaptation after Tally passed, but he also declined. He explained that "I was busy. And I wasn’t sure I was interested. You can almost never win when you do a sequel."[6] David Mamet was the first screenwriter to produce a draft, which, according to Ridley Scott and the producers, needed major revisions.[6] Stacey Snider, co-chairman of Universal Pictures (a co-production deal was struck between Universal and MGM) said on the rejection of Mamet's screenplay: "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."[7] Mamet was preparing to direct his own film.[6] Zaillian, who had already passed, reconsidered and became involved in the project, saying: "It's hard to say no to Dino once and it's almost impossible to say no to him twice."[6] A script review at ScreenwritersUtopia.com describes the Mamet draft as "stunningly bad" but found Zaillian's rewrite to be "gripping entertainment".[13]
This question (regarding the script development) was put to Ridley Scott by Total Film magazine: "There were lots of rewrites on Hannibal – what was the main problem with the original material?" Scott replied: "That's inaccurate, because 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."[8] Asked if he had read Mamet's draft, he said: "Yes. He is very fast, very efficient, but he was off doing a film. 'Hannibal' was green lit and his first draft only took about a month. But I was scared that he would not be able to give me enough attention, because that draft needed a lot of work. So I moved on basically."[8] Scott has said there were writing and "structural problems" as to what they would do with parts of the film.[14] One of Zaillian's key objectives was to revise the script by David Mamet until it pleased all parties, meaning the "love" story would need to be done by suggestion instead of by "assault".[15] 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 suddenly 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."[5]
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/actor).[7] 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."[12]
Involvement of Jodie Foster[edit]
Regarding her involvement in a sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, Foster confirmed to Larry King in 1997 that she "would definitely be part of it".[8] She told Entertainment Weekly magazine in 1997 that "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?'"[16] De Laurentiis thought Foster would decline once she read the book, even believing the final film was better for it.[5] Hopkins also had doubts Foster would be involved, saying he had a "hunch" she would not be.[5] Foster did turn it down, confirming this in late December 1999.[17] This would cause problems for the studio, Universal and partner MGM.[6][16] "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.[6] 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?"[6] Foster said in December 1999 that the characterization of Starling in Hannibal had "negative attributes" and "betrayed" the original character.[17] Foster's spokeswoman said the actress declined because Claire Danes had become available for Foster's own project, Flora Plum.[18] Salary demands may also have played a part in Foster's non-participation. De Laurentiis said, "I call the agent of Judy [sic] Foster. He say to me 'I have instruction. She no want to read the script if you no give her an offer of $20m and 15% of the gross.' And I say, 'Give my love to Judy [sic] Foster, goodbye.'"[6] Entertainment Weekly magazine described the project as becoming "a bloody mess, hemorrhaging talent and money" despite Hopkins being on-board.[16] Foster talked about Hannibal in an interview with Total Film magazine in late 2005. She said: "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."[19]
Julianne Moore as Clarice Starling[edit]
When it became clear that Foster would skip Hannibal, the production team considered several different actresses,[5] including Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie, Gillian Anderson, Hilary Swank, Ashley Judd, Helen Hunt and Julianne Moore.[6] Hopkins asked his agent if he had any "power" over casting. He informed De Laurentiis that he knew Julianne Moore, with whom he had worked on Surviving Picasso, and thought her a "terrific actress".[5] Although Hopkins' agent told him he had no contractual influence on casting, Scott thought it correct to discuss who would be Hopkins' "leading lady".[5] Scott said he was "really surprised to find that I had five of the top actresses in Hollywood wanting it."[8] Moore would eventually secure the part. Scott said his decision was swayed in favor of Moore because: "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."[8] "Julianne Moore, once Jodie decided to pass, was always top of my list," said Scott on his female lead.[14] 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."[20]
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter[edit]
Hopkins was generally expected to reprise his Academy Award-winning role. Hopkins did say in June 1999 that he would only be interested if the script was "really good".[7] Hopkins says on the making-of feature on DVD that he couldn’t 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."[5] When the producers confirmed that they were going to film Harris' novel, Hopkins told them yes, but added: "It needs some condensing."[5] The Hollywood Reporter would confirm that Hopkins had agreed to reprise his role in late December 1999, saying he had approved the latest draft of the script by Steven Zaillian.[21] 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."[6] 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.[22] Hopkins explains why: "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."[22] In the film, Lecter is first seen in Florence "as the classical Lecter, lecturing and being smooth", according to Hopkins.[23] 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".[23]
“ He's still the sort of Robin Hood of killers. He kills the—what do they call them? The terminally rude. ”
— Anthony Hopkins on Hannibal Lecter.[23]

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 wheelchair-bound police officer 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.[24][25] 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".[6] 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)."[6] Oldman was apparently "out" of the film for a while, but then came back in, asking to go "unbilled".[6] 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."[6] Oldman said that having his name completely removed from the billing and credits allowed him to "do it anonymously" under the heavy make-up.[26] In home-release versions of the film, Oldman's name is included in the opening and closing credits.
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.
Key production crew[edit]
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.[27]
Production and post-production[edit]
Background[edit]
Hannibal was filmed in 83 working days over 16 weeks.[28] The film began production on May 8, 2000 in Florence.[28] The film visited key locations in Florence and various locations around the United States.[27] 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?"[27] 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.[29]
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."[27] 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.[27]
After leaving Italy on June 5, 2000, the production moved to Washington, D.C. Filming took place over six days at Union Station.[27] The unusual sight of a carousel would appear in the transportation hub and shopping plaza at Ridley Scott's request.[27]
Filming would last for seven weeks in Richmond, Virginia[27] for the shootout in a crowded fish market (shot at Richmond Farmer's Market) early in the film. Julianne Moore underwent Federal Bureau of Investigation training at the Bureau's headquarters before filming.[27]
A barn in Montpelier, Virginia, situated on the estate of President James Madison, was used to house 15 "performing hogs".[27] The fifteen Russian boars used in the shoot, were from a selection of around 6,000 of which the animal wranglers looked at.[27]
Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, the biggest privately owned estate in the U.S., was chosen to signify the huge personal wealth of Mason Verger.[5]
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".[5] 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".[5] 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.[5] 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.[5] Oldman would spend six hours a day in make-up to prepare for the role.[5]
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".[5]
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.[5] The studio thought it not "quite right", but it remained on Scott's mind and would eventually end up as the main title sequence.[5] 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.[5] 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."[5] The titles are said to have been influenced by the film Seven.[30]
Music[edit]
Ridley Scott worked very closely with composer Hans Zimmer, during post-production on Hannibal.[5] 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."[5] Zimmer and Scott sat in during the editing process with editor Pietro Scalia to discuss scenes in the film and "not music".[5] 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 Hannibal 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".[5] The character Mason Verger had his own "theme", which become more "perverted" as the film progressed, according to Zimmer.[5] Dante's sonnet was put to music by Zimmer and Patrick Cassidy for the opera scene in Florence.[31] 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."[13] In a poll by British Classic FM listeners to find the greatest film soundtrack of all time, Hannibal ranked at No. 59.[32] Strauss's The Blue Danube is also played at several points in the film.
Themes[edit]
Romance[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?[5] It is dark, because the story is of course essentially dark, but it's kind of romantic at the same time."[5] Scott openly admits to a "romantic thematic" running though the film.[5] 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."[9] 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.[14] The New York Times, in its review of the film, said Hannibal, "toys" with the idea of "love that dare not speak its name".[30] Composer Hans Zimmer believes there to be "many" messages and subtext in each scene of the film.[5] 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..."[5] 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.[5] During the film's post-production, Scott, Zimmer and the editor passionately argued about what a single shot meant, where a tear slides down Starling's cheek during a confrontation with Lecter. They could not agree if it was a tear of "anguish", "loneliness" or "disgust".[5] Scott told the New York Post that, the affair of the heart between Lecter and Starling is "metaphorical".[33] Rolling Stone magazine even said in their review, "Scott offers a sly parody of relationships – think "When Hannibal met Sally."[15]
Retribution and punishment[edit]
Ridley Scott has said that he believes Lecter, in his own way, to be "pure" – one of the key motivating factors for the character is the search for "retribution and punishment".[14]
"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."[14] Scott did say, however, "In our normal terms, he's truly evil."[14] Scott also brings up the notion of absolution in reference to Lecter towards the film's end.[14] Verger has one overriding objective in life: to capture Lecter and subject him to a slow, painful death.[34]
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 gypsy pickpocket, egged on by the desire to have the best for his much younger wife.[14] There is a moment in the film when Pazzi becomes corrupted, despite being what Scott describes as "very thoughtful".[14] Paul Krendler also succumbs to greed and corruption. Starling does not, however, and perseveres to the end, even refusing to release Lecter when she believes he is about to cut off her hand in order to free himself.
Distribution[edit]
Promotion[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 U.K. 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."[36]
Upon its release, Hannibal was met with significant media attention,[31][37] with the film's stars and director making several appearances on television, in newspapers and in magazines.[38] 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'."[38] Stars Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore made the covers of a number of magazines, including Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, Premiere[37] and Empire.
Home media[edit]
Hannibal is available as a one-disc and two-disc DVD. The two disc DVD contains an array of special features including: Commentary by director Ridley Scott, deleted and alternate scenes, five production featurettes and a "marketing gallery" which contains trailers, production stills and unused poster concepts.
A special "steel-book" edition of Hannibal was released in 2007. There are no significant changes made to the DVD itself; only the package artwork was changed.
The film was originally released as part of The Hannibal Lecter Collection on Blu-ray in 2009. It has most recently been re-released as a stand-alone release in 2011.
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
Hannibal grossed $58 million (U.S.) in its opening weekend (from 3,230 screens). At the time (February 2001), this was the third-biggest debut ever—only 1997'sThe Lost World: Jurassic Park and 1999's Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace grossed more in an opening weekend.[39] As of October, 2012, it ranks 90th all time. It was also, when it was released, the biggest-opening box office for an R-rated film ever.[39] Final domestic box office gross (U.S.) reached $165,092,268, with a worldwide gross of $351,692,268.[1] The film spent three weeks at number one in the U.S. box office chart, and four weeks at number one in the U.K.[40] Hannibal was the tenth highest-grossing film of the year worldwide,[41] in a year which also saw the blockbuster releases of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Hannibal also made over $87,000,000 in U.S. video rentals following release in August 2001.[42]
Critical response[edit]
The reviews for Hannibal were mixed.[20][39][43] 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." Empire magazine gave it two out of five stars, calling it "laughable to just plain boring, Hannibal is toothless to the end." 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."[43] Thomson does make clear, however, he is a great fan of director Ridley Scott's work.[43] 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."[43] 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."[44]
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."[45] Roger Ebert gave the film a "Thumbs down" rating on the television program At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper and gave the film a 2.5 out of 4 stars rating in his print review, which he began with the following: "Ridley Scott's Hannibal is a carnival geek show. We must give it credit for the courage of its depravity; if it proves nothing else, it proves that if a man cutting off his face and feeding it to his dogs doesn't get the NC-17 rating for violence, nothing ever will."[46] Hannibal has an overall Metacritic rating of 57 out of 100 from 36 reviews[47] and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 39 percent, with an average rating of 5.1 out of 10 from 163 reviews.[48]
Differences from the novel[edit]
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 intact, with the only surprise twists saved for its wake)."[44] 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."[49] 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."[50]
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. Also, in the novel, Verger literally has no face and has to be kept in a sterile room at all times to keep bacteria from affecting exposed muscle and tissues. 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...'."[51]
Legacy[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 the scene in Hannibal.[52]
Prequel[edit]
Main articles: Red Dragon (film) and Hannibal Rising (film)
See also[edit]

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The Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Lambs poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Jonathan Demme
Produced by
Kenneth Utt
Edward Saxon
Ron Bozman

Screenplay by
Ted Tally
Based on
The Silence of the Lambs
 by Thomas Harris
Starring
Jodie Foster
Anthony Hopkins
Scott Glenn
Ted Levine

Music by
Howard Shore
Cinematography
Tak Fujimoto
Edited by
Craig McKay
Distributed by
Orion Pictures

Release dates

February 14, 1991


Running time
 118 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$19 million[2]
Box office
$272.7 million[2]
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American thriller film that blends elements of the crime and horror genres.[3] Directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and Scott Glenn, the film is based on Thomas Harris' 1988 novel of the same name, his second to feature Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer.
In the film, Clarice Starling, a young U.S. FBI trainee, seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Lecter to apprehend another serial killer, known only as "Buffalo Bill".
The Silence of the Lambs was released on February 14, 1991, and grossed $272.7 million worldwide against its $19 million budget. It was only the third film, the other two being It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, to win Academy Awards in all the top five categories: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Adapted Screenplay. It is also the first Best Picture winner widely considered to be a horror film, and only the second such film to be nominated in the category, after The Exorcist in 1973.[4][5] The film is considered "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant by the U.S. Library of Congress and was selected to be preserved in the National Film Registry in 2011.[6]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Development
3.2 Casting
3.3 Filming
3.4 Music
4 Release 4.1 Critical reception
4.2 Accolades
5 Accusations of homophobia, transphobia and sexism
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Plot
Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is pulled from her training at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia by Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) of the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit. He assigns her to interview Hannibal Lecter, a former psychiatrist and incarcerated cannibalistic serial killer, whose insight might prove useful in the pursuit of a serial killer nicknamed "Buffalo Bill", who skins his female victims' corpses.
Starling travels to the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where she is led by Frederick Chilton (Anthony Heald) to Lecter's solitary quarters. Although initially pleasant and courteous, Lecter grows impatient with Starling's attempts at "dissecting" him and rebuffs her. As she is leaving, one of the prisoners flicks semen at her. Lecter, who considers this act "unspeakably ugly", calls Starling back and tells her to seek out an old patient of his. This leads her to a storage shed where she discovers a man's severed head with a sphinx moth lodged in its throat. She returns to Lecter, who tells her that the man is linked to Buffalo Bill. He offers to profile Buffalo Bill on the condition that he be transferred away from Chilton, whom he detests.
Buffalo Bill abducts a U.S. Senator's daughter, Catherine Martin (Brooke Smith). Crawford authorizes Starling to offer Lecter a fake deal promising a prison transfer if he provides information that helps them find Buffalo Bill and rescue Catherine. Instead, Lecter demands a quid pro quo from Starling, offering clues about Buffalo Bill in exchange for personal information. Starling tells Lecter about the murder of her father when she was ten years old. Chilton secretly records the conversation and reveals Starling's deceit before offering Lecter a deal of Chilton's own making. Lecter agrees and is flown to Memphis, Tennessee, where he verbally torments Senator Ruth Martin (Diane Baker) and gives her misleading information on Buffalo Bill including the name "Louis Friend".
Starling notices that "Louis Friend" is an anagram of "iron sulfide"—fool's gold. She visits Lecter, who is now being held in a cage-like cell in a Tennessee courthouse, and asks for the truth. Lecter tells her that all the information she needs is contained in the case file. Rather than give her the real name, he insists that they continue their quid pro quo and she recounts a traumatic childhood incident where she was woken by the sound of spring lambs being slaughtered on a relative's farm in Montana. Starling admits that she still sometimes wakes thinking she can hear lambs screaming, and Lecter speculates that she is motivated to save Catherine in the hope that it will end the nightmares. Lecter gives her back the case files on Buffalo Bill after their conversation is interrupted by Chilton and the police who escort her from the building. Later that evening, Lecter kills his guards, escapes from his cell and disappears.
Starling analyzes Lecter's annotations to the case files and realizes that Buffalo Bill knew his first victim personally. Starling travels to the victim's hometown and discovers that Buffalo Bill was a tailor, with dresses and dress patterns identical to the patches of skin removed from each of his victims. She telephones Crawford to inform him that Buffalo Bill is trying to fashion a "woman suit" of real skin, but Crawford is already en route to make an arrest, having cross-referenced Lecter's notes with hospital archives and finding a man named Jame Gumb, who once applied unsuccessfully for a sex-change operation. Starling continues interviewing friends of Buffalo Bill's first victim in Ohio while Crawford leads an F.B.I. tactical team to Gumb's address in Illinois. The house in Illinois is empty, and Starling is led to the house of "Jack Gordon", who she realizes is actually Jame Gumb, again by finding a sphinx moth. She pursues him into his multi-room basement, where she discovers that Catherine is still alive, but trapped in a dry well. After turning off the basement lights, Gumb stalks Starling in the dark with night-vision goggles but gives his position away when he cocks his revolver. Starling turns around just in time and kills him, firing the whole magazine of her pistol onto him.
Some time later at her FBI Academy graduation party, Starling receives a phone call from Lecter, who is at an airport in Bimini. He assures her that he does not plan to pursue her and asks her to return the favor, which she says she cannot do. Lecter then hangs up the phone, saying that he is "having an old friend for dinner" and starts following a newly arrived Chilton before disappearing into the crowd.
Cast
Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling Masha Skorobogatov as young Clarice
Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Scott Glenn as Jack Crawford
Ted Levine as Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb
Anthony Heald as Dr. Frederick Chilton
Brooke Smith as Catherine Martin
Diane Baker as U.S. Senator Ruth Martin
Kasi Lemmons as Ardelia Mapp
Frankie Faison as Barney Matthews
Tracey Walter as Lamar
Charles Napier as Lt. Boyle
Danny Darst as Sgt. Tate
Alex Coleman as Sgt. Jim Pembry
Dan Butler as Roden
Paul Lazar as Pilcher
Ron Vawter as Paul Krendler
Roger Corman as F.B.I. Director Hayden Burke
Chris Isaak as S.W.A.T. Commander
Harry Northup as Mr. Bimmel
Don Brockett as cellmate and "Pen Pal"
Production
Development
The Silence of the Lambs is based on Thomas Harris' 1988 novel of the same name and is the second film to feature the character Hannibal Lecter following the 1986 film Manhunter. Prior to the novel's release, Orion Pictures partnered with Gene Hackman to bring the novel to the big screen. With Hackman set to direct and possibly star in the role of Lecter, negotiations were made to split the $500,000 cost of rights between Hackman and the studio.[7] In addition to securing the rights to the novel, producers also had to acquire the rights to the name "Hannibal Lecter", which were owned by Manhunter producer Dino De Laurentiis. Owing to the financial failure of the earlier film, De Laurentiis lent the character rights to Orion Pictures for free.[8]
In November 1987, Ted Tally was brought on to write the adaptation;[9] Tally had previously crossed paths with Harris many times, with his interest in adapting The Silence of the Lambs originating from receiving an advanced copy of the book from Harris himself.[10] When Tally was about halfway through with the first draft, Hackman withdrew from the project and financing fell through. However, Orion Pictures co-founder Mike Medavoy assured Tally to keep writing as the studio itself took care of financing and searched for a replacement director.[11] As a result, Orion Pictures sought director Jonathan Demme to helm the project. With the screenplay not yet completed, Demme signed on after reading the novel.[12] From there, the project quickly took off, as Tally explained, "[Demme] read my first draft not long after it was finished, and we met, then I was just startled by the speed of things. We met in May 1989 and were shooting in November. I don't remember any big revisions."[13]
Casting
Jodie Foster was interested in playing the role of Clarice Starling immediately after reading the novel. However, despite Foster having just won an Academy Award for her performance in the 1988 film The Accused, Demme was not convinced that she was right for the part.[14][15] Having previously collaborated on Married to the Mob, Demme's first choice for the role of Starling was Michelle Pfeiffer, who turned it down, later saying, "It was a difficult decision, but I got nervous about the subject matter".[16] As a result, Foster was awarded the role due to her passion towards the character.[17]
For the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Demme originally approached Sean Connery. After the actor turned it down, Anthony Hopkins was then offered the part based on his performance in The Elephant Man.[18] Other actors considered for the role included Derek Jacobi and Daniel Day-Lewis.[19]
Scott Glenn was cast in the role of Jack Crawford, the Agent-in-Charge of the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI in Quantico, Virginia. To prepare for the role, Glenn met with John E. Douglas, whom the character is modeled after. Douglas gave Glenn a tour of the Quantico facility and also played for him an audio tape containing various recordings that serial killers Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris had made of themselves raping and torturing a 16-year-old girl.[20][21] According to Douglas, Glenn wept as he experienced the recordings and even changed his liberal stance on the death penalty.[22]
Filming
Principal photography for The Silence of the Lambs began on November 15, 1989 and concluded on March 1, 1990.[23] Filming primarily took place in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with some scenes shot in nearby northern West Virginia.[24] The exterior of the Western Center near Canonsburg, Pennsylvania served as the setting for Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.[25] In what was a rare act of cooperation at the time, the FBI allowed scenes to be filmed at the FBI Academy in Quantico; some FBI staff members even acted in bit parts.[26][27]
Music

The Silence of the Lambs: The Original Motion Picture Score

Film score by Howard Shore

Released
February 5, 1991
Recorded
August, 1990 in Munich
Length
57:09
Label
MCA Records
Producer
Howard Shore
Howard Shore chronology

Big
 (1988) The Silence of the Lambs
 (1991) Naked Lunch
 (1991)


Hannibal Lecter chronology

Manhunter
 (1986) The Silence of the Lambs
 (1991) Hannibal
 (2001)


Professional ratings

Review scores

Source
Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars
Filmtracks.com 3/5 stars
The musical score for The Silence of the Lambs was composed by Howard Shore, who would also go on to collaborate with Demme on Philadelphia. Recorded in Munich during the latter half of the summer of 1990, the score was performed by the Munich Symphony Orchestra.[28] "I tried to write in a way that goes right into the fabric of the movie," explained Shore on his approach. "I tried to make the music just fit in. When you watch the movie you are not aware of the music. You get your feelings from all elements simultaneously, lighting, cinematography, costumes, acting, music. Jonathan Demme was very specific about the music."[29]
The tune played by the music box which Starling finds in the bedroom of Buffalo Bill's first victim is taken from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. It is, ironically, the tune played by Papageno's magical bells, which charms his enemies and protects him from danger.
A soundtrack album was released by MCA Records on February 5, 1991.[30] Music from the film was later used in the trailers for its sequel, Hannibal.[31]

The Silence of the Lambs: The Original Motion Picture Score

No.
Title
Length

1. "Main Title"   5:04
2. "The Asylum"   3:53
3. "Clarice"   3:03
4. "Return to the Asylum"   2:35
5. "The Abduction"   3:01
6. "Quid Pro Quo"   4:41
7. "Lecter in Memphis"   5:41
8. "Lambs Screaming"   5:34
9. "Lecter Escapes"   5:06
10. "Belvedere, Ohio"   3:32
11. "The Moth"   2:20
12. "The Cellar"   7:02
13. "Finale"   4:50
Total length:
 57:09 
Release
The Silence of the Lambs was released on February 14, 1991, grossing $13,766,814 during its opening weekend. Surpassing its own budget after one week, the film proved to be a major box office success. At the time it closed on October 10, 1991, the film grossed $130,742,922 domestically with a total worldwide gross of $272,742,922.[32] The film was the fourth highest-grossing film of 1991.[33]
Critical reception
The Silence of the Lambs was a sleeper hit that gradually gained widespread success and critical acclaim.[34] Hopkins, Foster, and Levine garnered much acclaim for their performances. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 94% of 69 film critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 8.4 out of 10. The site's consensus reads: "Director Jonathan Demme's smart, taut thriller teeters on the edge between psychological study and all-out horror, and benefits greatly from stellar performances by Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster."[35] Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 84 out of 100, based on 17 reviews from mainstream critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[36]
Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun-Times, specifically mentioned the "terrifying qualities" of Hannibal Lecter.[37] Ebert later added the film to his "Great Movies" list, recognizing the film as a "horror masterpiece" alongside such classics as Nosferatu, Psycho, and Halloween.[38] However, the film is also notable for being one of two multi-Academy Award winners (the other being Unforgiven) disapproved of by Ebert's colleague, Gene Siskel. Writing for the Chicago Tribune, Siskel said, "Foster's character, who is appealing, is dwarfed by the monsters she is after. I'd rather see her work on another case."[39]
Accolades

Academy Awards record
Best Picture, Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ronald M. Bozman
Best Director, Jonathan Demme
Best Actor, Anthony Hopkins
Best Actress, Jodie Foster
Best Adapted Screenplay, Ted Tally
Golden Globe Awards record
Best Actress, Jodie Foster
British Academy Film Awards record
Best Actor, Anthony Hopkins
Best Actress, Jodie Foster
The film won the Big Five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director (Demme), Best Actor (Hopkins), Best Actress (Foster), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Ted Tally), making it only the third film in history to accomplish that feat.[40] It was also nominated for Best Sound Mixing (Tom Fleischman and Christopher Newman) and Best Film Editing, but lost to Terminator 2: Judgment Day and JFK, respectively.[41]
Other awards include being named Best Film by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, CHI Awards and PEO Awards. Demme won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival[42] and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. The film was nominated for the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association. It was also nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best Film. Screenwriter Ted Tally received an Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. The film was awarded Best Horror Film of the Year during the 2nd Horror Hall of Fame telecast, with Vincent Price presenting the award to the film's executive producer Gary Goetzman.[43]
In 1998, the film was listed as one of the 100 greatest films in the past 100 years by the American Film Institute.[44] In 2006, at the Key Art Awards, the original poster for The Silence of the Lambs was named best film poster "of the past 35 years".[45]
The Silence of the Lambs placed seventh on Bravo's The 100 Scariest Movie Moments for Lecter's escape scene. The American Film Institute named Hannibal Lecter (as portrayed by Hopkins) the number one film villain of all time[46] and Clarice Starling (as portrayed by Foster) the sixth greatest film hero of all time.[46]
In 2011, ABC aired a prime-time special, Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time, that counted down the best films chosen by fans based on results of a poll conducted by ABC and People magazine. The Silence of the Lambs was selected as the No. 1 Best Suspense/Thriller and Dr. Hannibal Lecter was selected as the No. 4 Greatest Film Character.
The film and its characters have appeared in the following AFI "100 Years" lists:
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies—#65
AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills—#5
AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains: Hannibal Lecter—#1 Villain
Clarice Starling—#6 Hero
"Buffalo Bill" (Jame Gumb)—Nominated Villain
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes: "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."—#21
"I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner."—Nominated
AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores—Nominated
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)—#74

Organization/Association
Award
Actor/Crew
Outcome
Remarks


64th Academy Awards
Best Actor Anthony Hopkins Won 
Best Actress Jodie Foster Won 
Best Adapted Screenplay Ted Tally Won Adapted from The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Best Director Jonathan Demme Won 
Best Picture Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman Won 
Best Film Editing Craig McKay Nominated 
Best Sound Mixing Tom Fleischman, Christopher Newman Nominated 
49th Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Jodie Foster Won 
Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Anthony Hopkins Nominated 
Best Director Jonathan Demme Nominated 
Best Motion Picture – Drama Kenneth Utt Nominated 
Best Screenplay Ted Tally Nominated 
45th British Academy Film Awards
Best Actor in a Leading Role Anthony Hopkins Won 
Best Actress in a Leading Role Jodie Foster Won 
Best Adapted Screenplay Ted Tally Nominated 
Best Cinematography Tak Fujimoto Nominated 
Best Direction Jonathan Demme Nominated 
Best Editing Craig McKay Nominated 
Best Film Ron Bozman, Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt Nominated 
Best Film Music Howard Shore Nominated 
Best Sound Skip Lievsay, Christopher Newman, Tom Fleischman Nominated 

Accusations of homophobia, transphobia and sexism
Upon its release, The Silence of the Lambs was criticized by members of the LGBT community for its portrayal of Buffalo Bill as bisexual and transsexual. In response to the critiques, Demme replied that Buffalo Bill "wasn't a gay character. He was a tormented man who hated himself and wished he was a woman because that would have made him as far away from himself as he possibly could be." Demme added that he "came to realize that there is a tremendous absence of positive gay characters in movies".[47]
In a 1992 interview with Playboy magazine, notable feminist and women's rights advocate Betty Friedan stated, "I thought it was absolutely outrageous that The Silence of the Lambs won four [sic] Oscars. [...] I'm not saying that the movie shouldn't have been shown. I'm not denying the movie was an artistic triumph, but it was about the evisceration, the skinning alive of women. That is what I find offensive. Not the Playboy centerfold."[48]
See also
List of films based on crime books
Silence! The Musical, an unauthorized parody musical adaptation of the film.


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The Silence of the Lambs
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Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Jonathan Demme
Produced by
Kenneth Utt
Edward Saxon
Ron Bozman

Screenplay by
Ted Tally
Based on
The Silence of the Lambs
 by Thomas Harris
Starring
Jodie Foster
Anthony Hopkins
Scott Glenn
Ted Levine

Music by
Howard Shore
Cinematography
Tak Fujimoto
Edited by
Craig McKay
Distributed by
Orion Pictures

Release dates

February 14, 1991


Running time
 118 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$19 million[2]
Box office
$272.7 million[2]
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American thriller film that blends elements of the crime and horror genres.[3] Directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and Scott Glenn, the film is based on Thomas Harris' 1988 novel of the same name, his second to feature Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer.
In the film, Clarice Starling, a young U.S. FBI trainee, seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Lecter to apprehend another serial killer, known only as "Buffalo Bill".
The Silence of the Lambs was released on February 14, 1991, and grossed $272.7 million worldwide against its $19 million budget. It was only the third film, the other two being It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, to win Academy Awards in all the top five categories: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Adapted Screenplay. It is also the first Best Picture winner widely considered to be a horror film, and only the second such film to be nominated in the category, after The Exorcist in 1973.[4][5] The film is considered "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant by the U.S. Library of Congress and was selected to be preserved in the National Film Registry in 2011.[6]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Development
3.2 Casting
3.3 Filming
3.4 Music
4 Release 4.1 Critical reception
4.2 Accolades
5 Accusations of homophobia, transphobia and sexism
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Plot
Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is pulled from her training at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia by Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) of the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit. He assigns her to interview Hannibal Lecter, a former psychiatrist and incarcerated cannibalistic serial killer, whose insight might prove useful in the pursuit of a serial killer nicknamed "Buffalo Bill", who skins his female victims' corpses.
Starling travels to the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where she is led by Frederick Chilton (Anthony Heald) to Lecter's solitary quarters. Although initially pleasant and courteous, Lecter grows impatient with Starling's attempts at "dissecting" him and rebuffs her. As she is leaving, one of the prisoners flicks semen at her. Lecter, who considers this act "unspeakably ugly", calls Starling back and tells her to seek out an old patient of his. This leads her to a storage shed where she discovers a man's severed head with a sphinx moth lodged in its throat. She returns to Lecter, who tells her that the man is linked to Buffalo Bill. He offers to profile Buffalo Bill on the condition that he be transferred away from Chilton, whom he detests.
Buffalo Bill abducts a U.S. Senator's daughter, Catherine Martin (Brooke Smith). Crawford authorizes Starling to offer Lecter a fake deal promising a prison transfer if he provides information that helps them find Buffalo Bill and rescue Catherine. Instead, Lecter demands a quid pro quo from Starling, offering clues about Buffalo Bill in exchange for personal information. Starling tells Lecter about the murder of her father when she was ten years old. Chilton secretly records the conversation and reveals Starling's deceit before offering Lecter a deal of Chilton's own making. Lecter agrees and is flown to Memphis, Tennessee, where he verbally torments Senator Ruth Martin (Diane Baker) and gives her misleading information on Buffalo Bill including the name "Louis Friend".
Starling notices that "Louis Friend" is an anagram of "iron sulfide"—fool's gold. She visits Lecter, who is now being held in a cage-like cell in a Tennessee courthouse, and asks for the truth. Lecter tells her that all the information she needs is contained in the case file. Rather than give her the real name, he insists that they continue their quid pro quo and she recounts a traumatic childhood incident where she was woken by the sound of spring lambs being slaughtered on a relative's farm in Montana. Starling admits that she still sometimes wakes thinking she can hear lambs screaming, and Lecter speculates that she is motivated to save Catherine in the hope that it will end the nightmares. Lecter gives her back the case files on Buffalo Bill after their conversation is interrupted by Chilton and the police who escort her from the building. Later that evening, Lecter kills his guards, escapes from his cell and disappears.
Starling analyzes Lecter's annotations to the case files and realizes that Buffalo Bill knew his first victim personally. Starling travels to the victim's hometown and discovers that Buffalo Bill was a tailor, with dresses and dress patterns identical to the patches of skin removed from each of his victims. She telephones Crawford to inform him that Buffalo Bill is trying to fashion a "woman suit" of real skin, but Crawford is already en route to make an arrest, having cross-referenced Lecter's notes with hospital archives and finding a man named Jame Gumb, who once applied unsuccessfully for a sex-change operation. Starling continues interviewing friends of Buffalo Bill's first victim in Ohio while Crawford leads an F.B.I. tactical team to Gumb's address in Illinois. The house in Illinois is empty, and Starling is led to the house of "Jack Gordon", who she realizes is actually Jame Gumb, again by finding a sphinx moth. She pursues him into his multi-room basement, where she discovers that Catherine is still alive, but trapped in a dry well. After turning off the basement lights, Gumb stalks Starling in the dark with night-vision goggles but gives his position away when he cocks his revolver. Starling turns around just in time and kills him, firing the whole magazine of her pistol onto him.
Some time later at her FBI Academy graduation party, Starling receives a phone call from Lecter, who is at an airport in Bimini. He assures her that he does not plan to pursue her and asks her to return the favor, which she says she cannot do. Lecter then hangs up the phone, saying that he is "having an old friend for dinner" and starts following a newly arrived Chilton before disappearing into the crowd.
Cast
Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling Masha Skorobogatov as young Clarice
Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Scott Glenn as Jack Crawford
Ted Levine as Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb
Anthony Heald as Dr. Frederick Chilton
Brooke Smith as Catherine Martin
Diane Baker as U.S. Senator Ruth Martin
Kasi Lemmons as Ardelia Mapp
Frankie Faison as Barney Matthews
Tracey Walter as Lamar
Charles Napier as Lt. Boyle
Danny Darst as Sgt. Tate
Alex Coleman as Sgt. Jim Pembry
Dan Butler as Roden
Paul Lazar as Pilcher
Ron Vawter as Paul Krendler
Roger Corman as F.B.I. Director Hayden Burke
Chris Isaak as S.W.A.T. Commander
Harry Northup as Mr. Bimmel
Don Brockett as cellmate and "Pen Pal"
Production
Development
The Silence of the Lambs is based on Thomas Harris' 1988 novel of the same name and is the second film to feature the character Hannibal Lecter following the 1986 film Manhunter. Prior to the novel's release, Orion Pictures partnered with Gene Hackman to bring the novel to the big screen. With Hackman set to direct and possibly star in the role of Lecter, negotiations were made to split the $500,000 cost of rights between Hackman and the studio.[7] In addition to securing the rights to the novel, producers also had to acquire the rights to the name "Hannibal Lecter", which were owned by Manhunter producer Dino De Laurentiis. Owing to the financial failure of the earlier film, De Laurentiis lent the character rights to Orion Pictures for free.[8]
In November 1987, Ted Tally was brought on to write the adaptation;[9] Tally had previously crossed paths with Harris many times, with his interest in adapting The Silence of the Lambs originating from receiving an advanced copy of the book from Harris himself.[10] When Tally was about halfway through with the first draft, Hackman withdrew from the project and financing fell through. However, Orion Pictures co-founder Mike Medavoy assured Tally to keep writing as the studio itself took care of financing and searched for a replacement director.[11] As a result, Orion Pictures sought director Jonathan Demme to helm the project. With the screenplay not yet completed, Demme signed on after reading the novel.[12] From there, the project quickly took off, as Tally explained, "[Demme] read my first draft not long after it was finished, and we met, then I was just startled by the speed of things. We met in May 1989 and were shooting in November. I don't remember any big revisions."[13]
Casting
Jodie Foster was interested in playing the role of Clarice Starling immediately after reading the novel. However, despite Foster having just won an Academy Award for her performance in the 1988 film The Accused, Demme was not convinced that she was right for the part.[14][15] Having previously collaborated on Married to the Mob, Demme's first choice for the role of Starling was Michelle Pfeiffer, who turned it down, later saying, "It was a difficult decision, but I got nervous about the subject matter".[16] As a result, Foster was awarded the role due to her passion towards the character.[17]
For the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Demme originally approached Sean Connery. After the actor turned it down, Anthony Hopkins was then offered the part based on his performance in The Elephant Man.[18] Other actors considered for the role included Derek Jacobi and Daniel Day-Lewis.[19]
Scott Glenn was cast in the role of Jack Crawford, the Agent-in-Charge of the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI in Quantico, Virginia. To prepare for the role, Glenn met with John E. Douglas, whom the character is modeled after. Douglas gave Glenn a tour of the Quantico facility and also played for him an audio tape containing various recordings that serial killers Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris had made of themselves raping and torturing a 16-year-old girl.[20][21] According to Douglas, Glenn wept as he experienced the recordings and even changed his liberal stance on the death penalty.[22]
Filming
Principal photography for The Silence of the Lambs began on November 15, 1989 and concluded on March 1, 1990.[23] Filming primarily took place in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with some scenes shot in nearby northern West Virginia.[24] The exterior of the Western Center near Canonsburg, Pennsylvania served as the setting for Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.[25] In what was a rare act of cooperation at the time, the FBI allowed scenes to be filmed at the FBI Academy in Quantico; some FBI staff members even acted in bit parts.[26][27]
Music

The Silence of the Lambs: The Original Motion Picture Score

Film score by Howard Shore

Released
February 5, 1991
Recorded
August, 1990 in Munich
Length
57:09
Label
MCA Records
Producer
Howard Shore
Howard Shore chronology

Big
 (1988) The Silence of the Lambs
 (1991) Naked Lunch
 (1991)


Hannibal Lecter chronology

Manhunter
 (1986) The Silence of the Lambs
 (1991) Hannibal
 (2001)


Professional ratings

Review scores

Source
Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars
Filmtracks.com 3/5 stars
The musical score for The Silence of the Lambs was composed by Howard Shore, who would also go on to collaborate with Demme on Philadelphia. Recorded in Munich during the latter half of the summer of 1990, the score was performed by the Munich Symphony Orchestra.[28] "I tried to write in a way that goes right into the fabric of the movie," explained Shore on his approach. "I tried to make the music just fit in. When you watch the movie you are not aware of the music. You get your feelings from all elements simultaneously, lighting, cinematography, costumes, acting, music. Jonathan Demme was very specific about the music."[29]
The tune played by the music box which Starling finds in the bedroom of Buffalo Bill's first victim is taken from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. It is, ironically, the tune played by Papageno's magical bells, which charms his enemies and protects him from danger.
A soundtrack album was released by MCA Records on February 5, 1991.[30] Music from the film was later used in the trailers for its sequel, Hannibal.[31]

The Silence of the Lambs: The Original Motion Picture Score

No.
Title
Length

1. "Main Title"   5:04
2. "The Asylum"   3:53
3. "Clarice"   3:03
4. "Return to the Asylum"   2:35
5. "The Abduction"   3:01
6. "Quid Pro Quo"   4:41
7. "Lecter in Memphis"   5:41
8. "Lambs Screaming"   5:34
9. "Lecter Escapes"   5:06
10. "Belvedere, Ohio"   3:32
11. "The Moth"   2:20
12. "The Cellar"   7:02
13. "Finale"   4:50
Total length:
 57:09 
Release
The Silence of the Lambs was released on February 14, 1991, grossing $13,766,814 during its opening weekend. Surpassing its own budget after one week, the film proved to be a major box office success. At the time it closed on October 10, 1991, the film grossed $130,742,922 domestically with a total worldwide gross of $272,742,922.[32] The film was the fourth highest-grossing film of 1991.[33]
Critical reception
The Silence of the Lambs was a sleeper hit that gradually gained widespread success and critical acclaim.[34] Hopkins, Foster, and Levine garnered much acclaim for their performances. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 94% of 69 film critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 8.4 out of 10. The site's consensus reads: "Director Jonathan Demme's smart, taut thriller teeters on the edge between psychological study and all-out horror, and benefits greatly from stellar performances by Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster."[35] Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 84 out of 100, based on 17 reviews from mainstream critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[36]
Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun-Times, specifically mentioned the "terrifying qualities" of Hannibal Lecter.[37] Ebert later added the film to his "Great Movies" list, recognizing the film as a "horror masterpiece" alongside such classics as Nosferatu, Psycho, and Halloween.[38] However, the film is also notable for being one of two multi-Academy Award winners (the other being Unforgiven) disapproved of by Ebert's colleague, Gene Siskel. Writing for the Chicago Tribune, Siskel said, "Foster's character, who is appealing, is dwarfed by the monsters she is after. I'd rather see her work on another case."[39]
Accolades

Academy Awards record
Best Picture, Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ronald M. Bozman
Best Director, Jonathan Demme
Best Actor, Anthony Hopkins
Best Actress, Jodie Foster
Best Adapted Screenplay, Ted Tally
Golden Globe Awards record
Best Actress, Jodie Foster
British Academy Film Awards record
Best Actor, Anthony Hopkins
Best Actress, Jodie Foster
The film won the Big Five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director (Demme), Best Actor (Hopkins), Best Actress (Foster), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Ted Tally), making it only the third film in history to accomplish that feat.[40] It was also nominated for Best Sound Mixing (Tom Fleischman and Christopher Newman) and Best Film Editing, but lost to Terminator 2: Judgment Day and JFK, respectively.[41]
Other awards include being named Best Film by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, CHI Awards and PEO Awards. Demme won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival[42] and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. The film was nominated for the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association. It was also nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best Film. Screenwriter Ted Tally received an Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. The film was awarded Best Horror Film of the Year during the 2nd Horror Hall of Fame telecast, with Vincent Price presenting the award to the film's executive producer Gary Goetzman.[43]
In 1998, the film was listed as one of the 100 greatest films in the past 100 years by the American Film Institute.[44] In 2006, at the Key Art Awards, the original poster for The Silence of the Lambs was named best film poster "of the past 35 years".[45]
The Silence of the Lambs placed seventh on Bravo's The 100 Scariest Movie Moments for Lecter's escape scene. The American Film Institute named Hannibal Lecter (as portrayed by Hopkins) the number one film villain of all time[46] and Clarice Starling (as portrayed by Foster) the sixth greatest film hero of all time.[46]
In 2011, ABC aired a prime-time special, Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time, that counted down the best films chosen by fans based on results of a poll conducted by ABC and People magazine. The Silence of the Lambs was selected as the No. 1 Best Suspense/Thriller and Dr. Hannibal Lecter was selected as the No. 4 Greatest Film Character.
The film and its characters have appeared in the following AFI "100 Years" lists:
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies—#65
AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills—#5
AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains: Hannibal Lecter—#1 Villain
Clarice Starling—#6 Hero
"Buffalo Bill" (Jame Gumb)—Nominated Villain
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes: "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."—#21
"I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner."—Nominated
AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores—Nominated
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)—#74

Organization/Association
Award
Actor/Crew
Outcome
Remarks


64th Academy Awards
Best Actor Anthony Hopkins Won 
Best Actress Jodie Foster Won 
Best Adapted Screenplay Ted Tally Won Adapted from The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Best Director Jonathan Demme Won 
Best Picture Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman Won 
Best Film Editing Craig McKay Nominated 
Best Sound Mixing Tom Fleischman, Christopher Newman Nominated 
49th Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Jodie Foster Won 
Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Anthony Hopkins Nominated 
Best Director Jonathan Demme Nominated 
Best Motion Picture – Drama Kenneth Utt Nominated 
Best Screenplay Ted Tally Nominated 
45th British Academy Film Awards
Best Actor in a Leading Role Anthony Hopkins Won 
Best Actress in a Leading Role Jodie Foster Won 
Best Adapted Screenplay Ted Tally Nominated 
Best Cinematography Tak Fujimoto Nominated 
Best Direction Jonathan Demme Nominated 
Best Editing Craig McKay Nominated 
Best Film Ron Bozman, Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt Nominated 
Best Film Music Howard Shore Nominated 
Best Sound Skip Lievsay, Christopher Newman, Tom Fleischman Nominated 

Accusations of homophobia, transphobia and sexism
Upon its release, The Silence of the Lambs was criticized by members of the LGBT community for its portrayal of Buffalo Bill as bisexual and transsexual. In response to the critiques, Demme replied that Buffalo Bill "wasn't a gay character. He was a tormented man who hated himself and wished he was a woman because that would have made him as far away from himself as he possibly could be." Demme added that he "came to realize that there is a tremendous absence of positive gay characters in movies".[47]
In a 1992 interview with Playboy magazine, notable feminist and women's rights advocate Betty Friedan stated, "I thought it was absolutely outrageous that The Silence of the Lambs won four [sic] Oscars. [...] I'm not saying that the movie shouldn't have been shown. I'm not denying the movie was an artistic triumph, but it was about the evisceration, the skinning alive of women. That is what I find offensive. Not the Playboy centerfold."[48]
See also
List of films based on crime books
Silence! The Musical, an unauthorized parody musical adaptation of the film.


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