Hannibal (film)

Hannibal is a 2001 film, directed by Ridley Scott about Hannibal Lecter's time in Italy following his escape from imprisonment. It is based on a novel (the last in the trilogy) by Thomas Harris. Set ten years after The Silence of the Lambs, we find that a surviving victim of Dr. Lecter's named Mason Verger is out to torture and kill him.

Plot

FBI Agent Clarice Starling is in disgrace after killing five people in a botched drug raid. Following a hearing on her conduct she is sent to interview Mr. Verger, having learned that he has information regarding Dr. Lecter.

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Mason Verger tells his story - he was under a court order to have therapy sessions with Lecter after being arrested on child sex abuse charges. During a social call, Dr. Lecter requested Mr. Verger to inhale amyl nitrite fumes ("poppers") and instructed him to peel off his face and feed it to the dogs. After the incident, Verger is left hideously disfigured and paralysed.

Related Topics:
Therapy - Child sex abuse - Amyl nitrite - Paralysed

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Meanwhile in Florence, Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi is investigating the disappearance of a library curator. Here he meets Dr. Fell, the interim curator, whom he discovers is none other than Dr. Lecter. Inspector Pazzi turns this information over to Verger for a reward, who prepares his revenge. After a discussion at the library, Dr. Lecter murders Pazzi by hanging and disemboweling him, a fate that Pazzi's ancestor Francesco Di Pazzi suffered 500 years before. Lecter escapes to America.

Related Topics:
Florence - Pazzi - Revenge - Hanging - Disemboweling

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At the FBI, Agent Paul Krendler is also working with Verger, using Starling as bait to lure Dr. Lecter out of hiding. Lecter is captured by Verger's henchmen and is taken to a barn, where he is anxiously awaited by several large, man eating boars. Agent Starling attempts to rescue Lecter while Verger finds himself a victim of his own vengeance.

Related Topics:
FBI - Paul Krendler - Boars

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In a particularly horrifying scene, Lecter captures Krendler at his home and lobotomises him while still awake. Krendler is fed parts of his own brain. Lecter again escapes and leaves the country.

Related Topics:
Lobotomises - Brain

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Starring Anthony Hopkins in his famous role, Julianne Moore taking over for Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, Ray Liotta as Krendler and an uncredited Gary Oldman as Verger.

Related Topics:
Anthony Hopkins - Julianne Moore - Jodie Foster - Ray Liotta - Gary Oldman

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