Hannibal

Hannibal is a film that was released in the year 2001 and was directed by the famous American director Ridley Scott. The film is an adaptation of the novel Hannibal written by Thomas Harris. The story is about the psychiatrist turned cannibalistic murderer Hannibal Lecter who was portrayed in the academy award winning 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs.

The story of the film Hannibal is set seven years after the incident of the film ‘The Silence of the Lambs’. In this film wealthy Mason Verger, one of the survivors who was victimized by Hannibal Lecter set out to take revenge from him. The locations of the films are in Italy and United States. The final scene of the film has shocked the viewers and the critics at the same time. The name Hannibal Lecter has been a household name after the release of the movie ‘The Silence of the Lambs’. At first the film gained publicity as neither the director nor Jodie Foster agreed to do the film but when the film was released it was seen that the film broke all the box-office records in United States and UK. In this film Anthony Hopkins played the role of Hannibal Lecter, the role of Clarice Starling was played by Julianne Moore and Gary Oldman played the role of Mason Verger. Though the film is a great success commercially, it got a mixed review from the audience and as well as from the critics.

In this movie Dr. Hannibal Lecter was taken to Florence Italy and was known as Dr. Fell. Mason Verger who is paralyzed called the FBI agent Clarice Starling and tells her how Dr. Lecter had tortured him. He also declares a three million dollar reward for Lecter. When Starling received a scented letter from Lecter she asks inspector Pazzi of Florence to get the surveillance tape. Meanwhile Pazzi met Dr. Lecter who is known to him as Dr. Fell who is the curator of a library. When Pazzi saw the surveillance tape he found out who Dr. Fell actually was and began to hope that he would get the reward. But as soon as Lecter came to know his plan he killed Pazzi and heads to the US to meet Starling. Here Verger’s Men captured him and he was to be eaten by the giant forest hogs but Starling saved him on time and wounded herself. When she was senseless Lecter operated her wound and when she woke up she saw that Lecter cooked the brain of a person. After that Lecter fled and later the police arrives at the place of occurrence. The film had a wide spread impact on the viewers. Wikipedia

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