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Hannibal
(2001)
In Ridley Scott's follow-up sequel to the original The
Silence of the Lambs (1991):
- the sequence in which horribly disfigured, paralyzed,
wheelchair-bound and wealthy Mason Verger (an uncredited and unrecognizable
Gary Oldman), one of Lecter's many former victims, met with FBI
agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) in his secluded estate
in Asheville, North Carolina, and told her (in flashback) how he
had pervertedly engaged in a S&M session, including sexual
asphyxiation (by hanging), drug use (under the influence of amyl
nitrite), and after Lecter's suggestion - peeled the skin off his
own face with a mirror shard ("It seemed like a good idea
at the time") after which Lecter fed the pieces of flesh to
the dogs
- the scene of Clarice Starling's calm viewing of a
security camera videotape of Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins)
escaping after assaulting an attendant at the Baltimore State Forensic
Hospital - with bloody face-eating
- the horrifying scene of the chloroforming capture
and murder of Florence Italy's Chief Police Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi
(Giancarlo Giannini) who was on Hannibal's trail (Lecter had disguised
himself as Dr. Fell) - Pazzi was gagged and pushed out of a palace
window while being hanged, after which Lecter cut his "bowels
out" and his entrails were visible hanging down and splashing
onto the cobblestone square
- the scene of Dr. Lecter rescuing Clarice from wild
ravenous boars that savagely attacked Verger's own men - and then
consumed the disfigured Verger himself after he was pushed into the
pit by Verger's own physician Dr. Cordell Doemling (Zeljko Ivanek),
where he suffered a gruesome, grisly bloody death by carnivorous
boars he had vengefully planned for Lecter (Verger told Lecter how
he planned to have Lecter slowly consumed by wild pigs with "three
pairs of incisors, one pair of elongated canines, three pairs of
molars, four pairs of pre-molars, upper and lower, for a total of
forty-four teeth")
- the excruciating gourmet meal 4th of July dinner scene
in which Justice Department representative Paul Krendler's (Ray Liotta)
brain was neatly sliced open and exposed - and served as sauteed
meat by sadistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal for the meal; Lecter
assured Clarice: "The brain itself feels no pain." Krendler
noted: "That smells great" and then ate his last meal --
a piece of his own brain when offered: ("It is good")
The Open Brain of Paul Krendler
(Ray Liotta)
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- after the meal, Clarice's handcuffing of Dr. Lecter's
left wrist to hers, as he threatened: "I'm really pressed
for time, so where's the key?" When she wouldn't answer, he
reached for a meat cleaver, raised it in the air, and said as he
grabbed her: "Above or below the wrist, Clarice. This is really
gonna hurt." She appeared to scream in agony as he hacked
with the cleaver, and the scene turned to black - in the next scene,
it was revealed that Lecter had hacked off his own hand!
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The Reason for Mason Verger's Disfiguration
Dr. Lecter's Cannibalism
Lecter's Murder of Chief Police Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi
Lecter's Rescue of Clarice and Verger's Consumption by
Wild Pigs
Clarice Handcuffed to Dr. Lecter
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