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.

Trivia

• The movie's ending is markedly different from that of the novel, in which Lecter and Starling become lovers. The ending was changed for the movie because of the blistering reviews it earned the novel.
• The scenes set in Starling's apartment were filmed in a house on Grove Ave. in Richmond, VA. Also, some scenes were set at Biltmore House.
• In the brain eating scene near the end of the film, the piece of brain Ray Liotta eats is actually a piece of cooked chicken.
• An Animatronic robot of Ray Liotta was used for the brain eating sequence, and according to Liotta, he can barely see the difference in film (of who is who). Animatronics were also used for the baby that Starling washes after the fish market shootout scene.

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