This movie came out the same year as The Borrowers which was unfortunate because it got overshadowed and this movie was by far the superior. So funny. Why aren't these kind of movies still being made.
The book was so detailed and involved...with the success of SOTL, they could've made the movie in two parts and detailed it as Mr. Harris did the book.
Julie Ann Moore was great in Hannibal. One of the few recastings that didn't take anything away from the film. I like the original film ending better. Shows how much he cared for Starling. He'd rather hurt himself before hurting her. He also made her enemies eat their own brains which was shocking when you first saw it.
This was a better ending. I would have preferred something closer to the book but the whole cutting off his hand just doesn't vibe when we all know he know he's smart enough to know how to escape handcuffs. Also as a surgeon and an artist, he would do everything in his power to not lose a hand. Also Clarice pretty much allowing him to escape shows the tit for tat. She saved him. He saves her.
I always took the boy on the plane scene to be Dr. Lecter and the "us" the audience. Lecter brings with him a bite of horror and evilness, and we the audience know we shouldn't be wanting to sample his world, but mother is asleep ( conscience), so he asks us if we want another bite, so we say yes, people will always want to see more of Lecter.
Ironic in The 1984 film The Bounty When set adrift Anthony Hopkins who played Captain Bligh would not retreat into cannibalism stating we are gentlemen.
One of my favorite recent Westerns. Unlike a lot of deleted scenes, these would all have enriched the theatrical release. I would have loved to have heard the dialogue of Herod and Cantrell bonding.
The mention of Botticelli's painting in the second scene here is a reference to the true hypothesis posed by one of the investigators in the real Mostro di Firenze case - he believed that the killer had posed the 1974 victim in a manner resembling the position of a nymph in Botticelli's "Primavera". Another investigator thought that the nymphs represented all the victims. In reality, the painting was almost certainly unrelated to the case in any manner, but its story became a quite notorious aspect of the entire famed (or, more accurately, infamous) case. Those scenes were excised because il Mostro case has really nothing to do with the film's plot, and very little to do with the book's plot, either - it is just a part of Pazzi's background. (Of course, the true victim and the crime scene did not resemble the photograph shown in this scene in any way). The man encountered by Starling in the abandoned hospital in the first scene is, in fact, Sammie, as the words he utters show - he speaks of "going with Jesus", just as he had written in his scratched letter to Lecter in the book ("GO WIV JEEZA"). Sammie was the patient in Lecter's wing, the one who one day had placed his mother's head in his church's collection plate, because, as Lecter explained, "it was the nicest thing he had at home". By the way, it is most likely a coincidence, but Lecter's dark van in the alternate ending does very much resemble Dolarhyde's van, as depicted in both "Red Dragon" and its true adaptation "Manhunter".
I have to write down my opinion after all these years. 1. The movie's ending is more real and logical than the book's ending, highlighting the complex, multilayered paradox these characters share. 2. Hannibal Lecter DID NOT cut off his whole hand... 3. Lecter left the handcuffs upstairs as a TEST and Clarice, rightly so - according to her character, uses it to catch Lecter. 4. The tear is a symbol of their relationship's romantic aspect and her inner struggle with all of it. 5. Thanks for the mirror/window breaking alternative scene, we know that she breaks it due to what Lecter said to her minutes ago about a medal, the FBI and a mirror. Think about it.
Who said he cut off his whole hand? Everyone is attacking this point, but in my opinion, he only cut off his small finger. Plus, using the handcuffs, it really adds to Clarice's character, as Lecter left those handcuffs upstairs as a test. NOONE ever mentions it. Think about it!
"When I say Elmer, you say-?" "Fudd." "That's right, Glue." Also, they should've kept that group photo part at the end. Like, as a scene in the credits. It looked really wholesome. I honestly didn't know that one of my favorite childhood movies had deleted scenes! May 29th, 2024
I would leave the scene with Christopher Walken's dance. It is very funny. The ending of the film was re-shot most likely due to the death of William Hickey
``The quick and the dead 1995'' is a movie that I really like. It was interesting to learn things I didn't know. Thank you very much. I realized one thing. Why was Ellen so cold to the cold Cort? Maybe he wasn't her type of man.
The film ending, even from the dinner scene totally changes the focus of the book and where Harris goes with his story. It was never about Clarice standing up to Hannibal and proving he is the monster like every other villain. It's like they were afraid to end it the way the book ends and went for a more usual/not disrupting ending. The way the original story ends completes an entirely different story that the one being told in the films.
I must confess the people saying they prefer ending the book interest me. I have no idea what is seen in Clarice’s character to make it seem like something she would even do. To me, the book ending comes off as random, from out of nowhere and then it's just over. Just to be clear, I'm not being critical of people who like that ending, I'm more interested in what they are seeing in the ending that I am missing.
This ending is not as good as the book... BUT is MUCH BETTER than the film... because this ending RESPECT what truly is Hannibal Lecter...Very good ending.
Julianne Moore SHOULD have been been the original "Clarice." Better actress and more pleasant to the eyes. She's better suited for the role of Clarice, more believable.
