History Film / Hannibal

* DeathByAdaptation: Not a person, but a family line. In the books, Mason's sister Margot uses a cattle prod to harvest his sperm after killing him so her lover can be impregnated with a Verger child to keep the family fortune (Mason and Margot's father having disinherited her for being a lesbian and willing the fortune only to Mason and his potential heirs). As the film omits Margot, this does not happen and Mason's death appears to end the Verger line once and for all.

%%* LifeOrLimbDecision : [[spoiler:Lecter]] faces this at the end of the movie.

* DeathByAdaptation: Not a person, but a family line. In the books, Mason's sister Margot uses a cattle prod to harvest his sperm after killing him so she can conceive a child to keep the family fortune. As the film omits Margot, this does not happen and Mason's death appears to end the Verger line.

* AmbiguousSituation: A minor case, but Mason's father Molson Verger. In the book, it's mentioned that he had died earlier in the year, meaning he was still alive at the time of Mason's disfigurement and crippling. The film's only mention of Molson is that he founded the Christian summer camp whose campers were molested by Mason. As such it's unclear if he was already dead by the time his son met Lecter.

* DeathByAdaptation: Not a person, but a family line. In the books, Mason's sister Margot uses a cattle prod to harvest his sperm after killing him so she can conceive a child to keep the family fortune. As the film omits Margot, this does not happen and Mason's death appears to end the Verger line.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Lecter escapes yet again--meaning Starling was unable to catch him and may get the blame--and offers parts of a human brain to a young boy on the plane he's fleeing on too, potentially corrupting him. However, since Starling cuffed herself to him, Lecter's forced to lop off his own left hand in order to do so which will in some way or another effect his actions moving forward too, meaning Starling at least doesn't view him as anywhere near as big a threat as he was before and isn't so broken up about being unable to stop him after he's gone--and the hand being left behind is proof she did all she can too. Also, Verger and Krendler both pay for their crimes with their lives and word of their actions getting out will alone vindicate Starling as well.]] The alternate ending is almost the same [[spoiler:minus Lecter keeps both hands because Starling didn't cuff herself to him, she attempts to pursue him with her gun once freeing herself and Lecter indulges a bit more in interesting the boy on the plane in the pieces of Krendler's brain as well.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Lecter escapes yet again--meaning Starling was unable to catch him and may get the blame--and offers parts of a human brain to a young boy on the plane he's fleeing on too, potentially corrupting him. However, since Starling cuffed herself to him, Lecter's forced to lop off his own left hand in order to do so which will in some way or another effect his actions moving forward too, meaning Starling at least doesn't vieew him as anywhere near as big a threat as he was before and isn't so broken up about being unable to stop him after he's gone--and the hand being left behind is proof she did all she can too. Also, Verger and Krendler both pay for their crimes with their lives and word of their actions getting out will alone vindicate Starling as well.]] The alternate ending is almost the same [[spoiler:minus Lecter keeps both hands because Starling didn't cuff herself to him, she attempts to pursue him with her gun once freeing herself and Lecter indulges a bit more in interesting the boy on the plane in the pieces of Krendler's brain as well.]]

Ten years after Hannibal Lecter escaped FBI custody, disgraced FBI agent Clarice Starling is
contacted by Mason Verger (Creator/GaryOldman), a survivor of Lecter's attacks, who hopes that getting her involved in the hunt for Lecter will draw him out. In Florence, Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi (Creator/GiancarloGiannini) gets entangled with Lecter, leading to a climactic confrontation.

* BittersweetEnding: The ending. [[spoiler:Lecter escapes yet again--meaning Starling was unable to catch him and may get the blame--and offers parts of a human brain to a young boy on the plane he's fleeing on too, potentially corrupting him. However, since Starling cuffed herself to him, Lecter's forced to lop off his own left hand in order to do so which will in some way or another effect his actions moving forward too, meaning Starling at least doesn't vieew him as anywhere near as big a threat as he was before and isn't so broken up about being unable to stop him after he's gone--and the hand being left behind is proof she did all she can too. Also, Verger and Krendler both pay for their crimes with their lives and word of their actions getting out will alone vindicate Starling as well.]] The alternate ending is almost the same [[spoiler:minus Lecter keeps both hands because Starling didn't cuff herself to him, she attempts to pursue him with her gun once freeing herself and Lecter indulges a bit more in interesting the boy on the plane in the pieces of Krendler's brain as well.]]

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Ten years after Hannibal Lecter escaped FBI custody, disgraced FBI agent Clarice Starling is contacted by Mason Verger (Creator/GaryOldman), a survivor of Lecter's attacks, who hopes that getting her involved in the hunt for Lecter will draw him out.

[[redirect:Literature/{{Hannibal}}]]

''Hannibal'' is the 2001 {{sequel}} to ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' directed by RidleyScott and based on the bestselling ThomasHarris novel of the same name.

Ten years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter's escape from custody. Clarice Starling is now a fully-fledged FBI agent, but a bungled drugs raid leads to her [[TurnInYourBadge being suspended]]. Meanwhile, Lecter is living in UsefulNotes/{{Florence}}, pursued by Starling, a wealthy former victim and a disgraced Italian police detective.

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!!Shows examples of:

* AdaptedOut: Margot Verger was entirely omitted from the movie. As such the manner of [[spoiler:Mason's death]] is entirely different. Jack Crawford is also absent.
* AnimalMotifs: Pazzi washes the pickpocket's blood off his hands at a fountain shaped like a boar's head. The very next scene reveals Verger's intention to have Lecter FedToPigs.
* AntagonistTitle: ''Hannibal''.
* {{Autocannibalism}}: Lecter feeds Paul Krendler his own brain. Krendler [[ITasteDelicious enjoys it.]]
* BloodierAndGorier: And the reason why JodieFoster, Jonathan Demme and Ted Tally, respectively the lead actress, director and screenwriter of ''The Silence of the Lambs'', opted out of ''Hannibal''.
* BodyCountCompetition: Clarice receives a letter from the Guinness Book of Records congratulating her on being the female FBI agent who has shot and killed the most people.
* BrainFood: Krendler.
* CaliforniaDoubling:
** Richmond, Virginia stands in for Washington, D.C. in ''Hannibal''. Natives will recognize [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7jw3w0FEEVo/UOStrxHZxII/AAAAAAAAEkQ/V7wsAl3m6wY/s1600/FishMarket1_Hannibal.jpg Shockhoe Bottom]], [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e5AnJ5RlxG8/UOSxLrx0HrI/AAAAAAAAEqo/E1xVKV_QPoc/s400/KrendlersHouse_Hannibal.jpg the Fan District]], [[http://s.mcstatic.com/thumb/7759556/21034226/4/flash_player/0/1/hannibal_2001_letter_odor.jpg?v=4 Riverfront Plaza (and adjacent Omni Hotel)]], and [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WHiYnrQPjAM/UOSw_vN6KDI/AAAAAAAAEqQ/10hvC3pc7rA/s1600/BelleIsle1_Hannibal.jpg Belle Isle]].
** Averted for the Florence scenes.
* ChekhovsGun:
** Clarice's handcuffs.
** The floor polisher.
* ContinuityNod:
** In ''Silence of the Lambs'', Hannibal has sketched a view of Florence from the roof of the Duomo as part of his WickedCultured personality. One of the first establishing shots in ''Hannibal'' is that exact vista in real life.
** During the dinner scene with Krendler, Bach's Goldberg Variations is playing, the same piece Lecter was listening to when he killed his two guards in Tennessee and escaped.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Pazzi]] is hung from a window and disemboweled.
* DirtyCop: Rinaldo Pazzi and Paul Krendler.
* FedToPigs: Verger's intended fate for Lecter. [[spoiler: It happens to him instead]].
* FBIAgent: Starling.
* IronicEcho: [[spoiler:Pazzi]] dies the same way and in the same location as his ancestor 500 years earlier.
* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: Verger reflects that he thought this when he was slicing his own face up at Lecter's instigation.
* {{Jerkass}}: Verger and Krendler.
* LifeOrLimbDecision : [[spoiler:Lecter]] faces this at the end.
* MuggingTheMonster: Pazzi compels a pickpocket to mug Lecter, in order to acquire a fingerprint.
* PragmaticAdaptation: The novel's ending, in which [[spoiler:Lecter and Starling end up as lovers on the run together]], was very controversial. Scott asked Harris if he was "married to his ending", and when Harris replied that he was not, Scott changed it.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines:
** The FBI's most wanted list includes OsamaBinLaden, James Charles Kopp and James J. Bulger.
** Pazzi is said to have worked on the case of ''Il Mostro'', a RealLife SerialKiller active in Florence in the 1970s and 1980s.
* SceneryPorn: Well it is Florence.
* TheStinger: After the credits, Lecter’s signature rolls onscreen, and Hannibal says, ‘Ta-ta. H.’
* TouchOfTheMonster: After Clarice passes out from the gunshot wound in her shoulder, Lecter carries her bridal-style to safety (well, safer than a pen full of flesh-eating pigs, anyway).
* TurnInYourBadge: A subversion. Clarice is suspended after the botched drugs raid, despite following procedures correctly, because she refuses to sleep with a superior.

* TurnInYourBadge: A subversion. Clarice is suspended after the botched drugs raid, despite following procedures correctly, because she refuses to sleep with a superior.
* WickedCultured: Lecter

''Hannibal'' is the 2001 {{sequel}} to TheSilenceOfTheLambs directed by RidleyScott and based on the bestselling ThomasHarris novel of the same name.

Ten years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter's escape from custody. He is now living in Florence, and finds himself pursued by Clarice Starling, a former victim and a disgraced Italian police detective.

* ChekhovsGun: Clarice's handcuffs.

* AdaptedOut: Margot Verger was entirely omitted from the movie. As such the manner of [[spoiler:Mason's death]] is entirely different.

* ContinuityNod: In ''Silence of the Lambs'', Hannibal has sketched a view of Florence from the roof of the Duomo as part of his WickedCultured personality. One of the first establishing shots in ''Hannibal'' is that exact vista in real life.

* Jerkass: Verger and Krendler.

* BloodierAndGorier: And the reason why Jodie Foster, Jonathan Demme and Ted Tally, respectively the lead actress, director and screenwriter of ''The Silence of the Lambs'', opted out of ''Hannibal''.

[[redirect:Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs]]