Hannibal (film)

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Hannibal is a 2001 film, adapted from the Thomas Harris novel Hannibal. It is the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs. One of Hannibal Lecter's victims, Mason Verger, is seeking to capture, torture, and kill Dr. Lecter.

Directed by Ridley Scott. Written by Thomas Harris (novel), and David Mamet and Steven Zaillian (screenplay).
Break the silence taglines

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[edit] Hannibal Lecter

  • There are shallow rollers, and there are deep rollers. You can't breed two deep rollers... or their young, their offspring, will roll all the way down... hit and die. Agent Starling is a deep roller. Let us hope one of her parents was not.
  • What is worst about this humiliation, Clarice? Is it how your failure will reflect on your mommy and daddy? Is your worst fear that people will now and forever believe they were indeed just good old trailer-camp, tornado-bait white trash, and that perhaps you are too?
  • [in a letter to Clarice Starling] Your job is to craft my doom... so I'm not sure how well I should wish you... but I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun. Ta-ta. "H."
  • Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her, and find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him?
  • My life? What is there to say about mine? I have been in a state of hibernation for some time... a little inactive. But now I'm back home and I'm very happy, and very healthy. You though. It's you I'm worried about.
  • Do you have so much faith in your abilities that you honestly believe you can somehow simultaneously arrest me and them? It could get very messy, Clarice, like the fish market.
  • How does that word taste to you, Clarice? Cheap and metallic, like sucking on a greasy coin?
  • My freedom, just that. You'd take that from me. And if you did, would they have you back, do you think? The FBI? Those people you despise almost as much as they despise you? Will they give you a medal, Clarice, do you think? Would you have it professionally framed and hang it on your wall to look at and remind you of your courage and incorruptibility? All you would need for that, Clarice, is a mirror.
  • On a similar note I must confess to you, I'm giving very serious thought... to eating your wife.

[edit] Clarice Starling

  • [about Dr. Lecter] He's always with me. Like a bad habit.

[edit] Mason Verger

  • It's all right. I have immunity from the U.S. Attorney. And I have immunity... from the risen Jesus. And nobody beats the Riz.
  • [to Clarice] Isn't it funny? You can look at my face... but you shied when I said the name of God.
  • When the fox hears the rabbit scream he comes a-runnin'... but not to help.

[edit] Dialogue

[Mason Verger is recounting the day Lecter disfigured him.]
Mason Verger: The good doctor approached me with a piece of broken mirror and said...
[In the flashback, Lecter is holding a shard of broken glass.]
Hannibal Lecter: Try peeling off your face...
Mason Verger: "…and feeding it to the dogs." [In the flashback, Verger peels his face off.] Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Agent Pearsall: Of course you're right, Starling... but it doesn't change anything.
Clarice Starling: It changes everything. It changes me.
Paul Krendler: Jesus, Starling, what are you doing sitting in the dark?
Clarice Starling: Thinkin' about cannibalism.
Clarice Starling: Paul, what is it with you? I told you to go home to your wife, was that wrong?
Paul Krendler: Don't flatter yourself, Starling. That was a long time ago. Why would I hold that against you? Besides, this town is full of cornpone country pussy.
Mason Verger: So what do you think, Cordell? Does Lecter want to fuck her or kill her or eat?
Cordell Doemling: Probably all three, though I wouldn't want to predict in what order.
[Verger is preparing to feed Lecter to a pack of wild boars]
Mason Verger: I suppose now you wish that you had fed the rest of me to the dogs.
Hannibal Lecter: No, Mason. I much prefer you the way you are.
[Lecter has lobotomized Krendler and is feeding him his own brain]
Hannibal Lecter: Paul, would you like to say grace?
Paul Krendler: [in drugged, lobotomized stupor] God bless every one of us, even white trash like Starling.
Hannibal Lecter: I don't think the Apostle Paul could have put it any better. He hated women too.
Hannibal Lecter: I came half way around the world, to watch you run, Clarice. Let me run, hm?
[Clarice struggles against Lecter, he forces her against the refrigerator, opens the door and traps her hair, breaking away the handle.]
Hannibal Lecter: Tell me Clarice, would you ever say to me: Stop, if you loved me, you'd stop?
Clarice Starling: Not in a thousand years.
Hannibal Lecter: Not in a thousand years?
[Lecter lunges towards Clarice, baring his teeth. She does not flinch.]
Hannibal Lecter: That's my girl.
[Lecter kisses Starling, but she does not respond. The click of closing handcuffs is heard. Lecter stops, pulls away and lifts his wrist. The two are joined by the handcuffs.]
Hannibal Lecter: Now that's really interesting. But I'm really pressed for time. Where's the key?
[Clarice does not react. He repeats the line, sounding less calm and more infuriated. Still she does not respond.]
Hannibal Lecter: Okay...
[He takes a meat cleaver from the worktop and lays out Clarice's wrist.]
Hannibal Lecter: Above or below the wrist, Clarice?
[Clarice still does not respond and so he raises the cleaver.]
Hannibal Lecter: This is really going to hurt.

[edit] Taglines

  • Break The Silence
  • Never Forget Who He Is
  • How long can a man stay silent before he returns to the thing he does best?

[edit] Cast

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