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<\/a><\/p>\nIf you are one of the people that has stayed away from this film because of the bad reviews then please give it a try, even if it’s just out of curiosity of what happens, it is well worth a watch.<\/h4>\n
Miscellaneous facts about the film:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
\n- When\u00a0Jodie Foster\u00a0declined to reprise the role of Clarice Starling,\u00a0Julianne Moore\u00a0beat\u00a0Gillian Anderson,\u00a0Cate Blanchett,\u00a0Hilary Swank,\u00a0Julia Louis-Dreyfus,\u00a0Heather Locklear,\u00a0Angelina Jolie,\u00a0Jennifer Jason Leigh,\u00a0Drew Barrymore,\u00a0Winona Ryder,\u00a0Sarah Jessica Parker,\u00a0Brooke Shields,\u00a0Kristin Davis,\u00a0Bridget Fonda,\u00a0Calista Flockhart,\u00a0Helen Hunt,\u00a0Sandra Bullock,\u00a0Christina Applegate,\u00a0Jennifer Connelly,\u00a0Meg Ryan,\u00a0Shannen Doherty,\u00a0Jennifer Aniston,\u00a0Nicole Eggert\u00a0and\u00a0Teri Hatcher\u00a0for the role. Anderson fell out of the running early on when it was discovered her contract to\u00a0The X-Files\u00a0prohibited her from playing another FBI agent. Davis and Parker both turned down the part due to their contract to HBO’s\u00a0Sex and the City. Flockhart declined due to her contract to\u00a0Ally McBeal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- After\u00a0Thomas Harris\u00a0finished writing the novel, he sent copies to\u00a0The Silence of the Lambs\u00a0principals\u00a0Jonathan Demme,\u00a0Jodie Foster,\u00a0Ted Tally, and\u00a0Anthony Hopkins\u00a0for approval. The screenplay was rewritten no less than 15 times because of dissatisfaction by Demme and Foster over new character elements. In the end, neither Demme nor Foster remained with the production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- The outdoor opera, Dante’s “La Vita Nuova”, which Dr. Lecter and Mr. Pazzi see in Florence, was especially composed for the movie. Composer\u00a0Patrick Cassidy\u00a0did not stop at the three minute part as performed in the movie, but composed an entire aria, “Vide Cor Meum”.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Some of the places where the movie was filmed include places where filming hardly ever is allowed. Author\u00a0Thomas Harris, while doing research for his book, got in contact with the heir of the Palazzo Capponi. For the movie this same heir allowed\u00a0Ridley Scott\u00a0to film the Capponi Library.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- The first shot of Florence after the movie starts is the same scene as depicted in the drawing on Hannibal’s cell wall Hannibal describes to Clarice in\u00a0The Silence of the Lambs- the Duomo, as seen from the Belvedere, in Florence, Italy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Dr. Lecter’s Florentine alias, Dr. Fell, is taken from a rhyming epigram by 17th century English satirist Thomas Brown: “I do not love thee, Dr. Fell; The reason why I cannot tell. But this alone I know full well: I do not love thee, Dr. Fell.” The alias is also a reference to the “Silence of the Lambs” book where Jame Gumb, a.k.a. Buffalo Bill, lived in Fell Street.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- The music during the opening credits is “Aria da Capo” from\u00a0Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations, as being played by\u00a0Glenn Gould, a tape of which was playing while Lecter killed the two guards in Tennessee in\u00a0The Silence of the Lambs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- There is a vegetarian cookbook on top of the fridge in the “dinner scene” toward the end of the movie. It’s visible when Hannibal pushes Clarice against the fridge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- In Florence, where part of the movie was shot, it is possible to buy a tourist guide called: “Hannibal Lecter. Visit the places of the city where he was.”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- In the opening credits of the film you can make out the face of\u00a0Anthony Hopkins\u00a0being formed by pigeons until the end of the credits when you can clearly see his face.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Actual North Carolina State Troopers were used for the filming. They can be seen both in the search of the Verger home and driving their cruisers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Hannibal asks Pazzi about being demoted from the Il Mostro case. Il Mostro was a serial killer about whom Hannibal gives clues to Pazzi. This was a subplot that was filmed but never used as it was thought to be too complicated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- This film was publicized as having the highest body count in a movie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- According to the film’s cinematographer\u00a0John Mathieson, three separate endings were filmed. The filmmakers, unsure as to whether the ending of\u00a0Thomas Harris’ novel would work for the movie, filmed three versions: one for Harris, one for producer\u00a0Dino De Laurentiis, and one for director\u00a0Ridley Scott.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- After\u00a0Jodie Foster\u00a0and\u00a0Jonathan Demme\u00a0dropped out,\u00a0Anthony Hopkins\u00a0was very reluctant in returning to play Lecter, and producers considered ‘Tim Roth’ as a replacement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Mason Verger’s mansion is also seen in\u00a0Ri\u00a2hie Ri\u00a2h\u00a0as the Rich Mansion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- The Verger role was originally offered to\u00a0Christopher Reeve, who declined the part.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Several of the extras in the movie and some minor roles in the Florence scenes were recruited by\u00a0Anthony Hopkins. He also helped to secure some locales for shooting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- According to an interview with producer\u00a0Martha De Laurentiis\u00a0in The Guardian,\u00a0Gary Oldman\u00a0demanded to share star billing alongside\u00a0Anthony Hopkins\u00a0and\u00a0Julianne Moore. When the producers denied him this, he threatened to quit the film but later angrily demanded to have no billing at all. During pre-production, producer\u00a0Dino De Laurentiis\u00a0announced Oldman’s involvement at a press conference “just so we couldn’t deny that he was in the movie”. In the original theatrical release, Oldman is uncredited but in the VHS and DVD releases his name was added to the closing credits. However, in an interview with IGN Filmforce, Oldman told a different story stating: “We thought that as I’m unofficially the man of many faces, you know, of\u00a0Lee Harvey Oswald,\u00a0Dracula, Sid Vicious\u00a0and\u00a0Ludwig van Beethoven, we thought that I would be… I’m playing the man with no face. So we just had a bit of fun with it. We thought it would be great. The man with no face and no name, and sort of do it anonymously. It’s no secret that I’m in the film. We just had fun with it, really.”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- David Mamet’s adaptation of the novel was changed entirely by\u00a0Steven Zaillian. But Mamet still retained a co-writer credit, in accordance with WGA regulations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- The 500lb man-eating hogs featured in Hannibal were selected by\u00a0Ridley Scott\u00a0from an audition of over 6,000 other hogs. They were purchased from a farmer, Chaloem Pasak, who lives north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Originally, a teaser poster released in the UK had a picture of Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) with a “skin mask” covering the right side of his face, ala the infamous escape scene in\u00a0The Silence of the Lambs. The poster was quickly pulled from advertisement, as it was seen as being “too shocking and disturbing” for the public.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- David Fincher\u00a0was first slated to direct the film but dropped out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Margot Verger (Mason’s sister), Ardelia Mapp, and Dr. Doemling were all major characters removed from the film adaptation of Hannibal but some of Domeling’s and Margot’s dialogue ended up in the film spoken by Cordell and Mason.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Originally, it was hoped that this film would re-unite the principal players from\u00a0The Silence of the Lambs. It turned out that only\u00a0Anthony Hopkins\u00a0and\u00a0Frankie Faison\u00a0returned for this film. However, it turned out to be a reunion for Hopkins anyway, as he had previously worked with\u00a0Julianne Moore\u00a0in\u00a0Surviving Picasso\u00a0and\u00a0Gary Oldman\u00a0in\u00a0Dracula.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Though Hopkins had no official say in who would play Clarice,\u00a0Ridley Scott\u00a0consulted with him about the actresses he was considering. Hopkins recommended\u00a0Julianne Moore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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