Product Description
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DVD Special Features:
Five Featurettes--Breaking the Silence: The Making of "Hannibal"
1. Development--A look at the initial set-up of the feature
2. Production--On the set during filming
3. Special Make-up Effects--Watch Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins
and Ray Liotta get transformed to on-screen monsters
4. Music--A look at the creation of the score
5. Premiere & Conclusion--Live footage from the premiere with
the stars, cast and crew
Three Multi-Angle Featurettes:
1. Anatomy of a Shoot-Out--"The Fish-Market" action scene
2. Ridleygrams--The art of storyboarding with Ridley Scott
exclusive interview
3. Opening Title Design Exploration
13 Deleted Scenes
Never-Before-Seen Alternate Ending
Theatrical Trailer
Teaser Trailer
TV Spots (11 x 30 seconds; 8 x 15 seconds)
Marketing Gallery--Photo gallery (rare production stills, 700
pages approx); never-before-seen s
Animated Menus
5.1 Audio
From .co.uk
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Yes, he's back ... and he's still hungry. Hannibal is set 10
years after The Silence of the Lambs, as Dr Hannibal "the
Cannibal" Lecter (Anthony Hopkins, reprising his O-winning
role) is living the good life in Italy, studying art and sipping
espresso. FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore, replacing
Jodie Foster), on the other hand, hasn't had it so good--an
outsider from the start, she's now a quiet, moody loner who
doesn't play bureaucratic games and suffers for it. A botched
drug raid results in her demotion--and a request from Lecter's
only living victim, Mason Verger (Gary Oldman, uncredited), for a
little Q and A. Little does Clarice realise that the hideously
deformed Verger--who, upon suggestion from Dr Lecter, peeled off
his own face--is using her as bait to lure Dr Lecter out of
hiding, quite certain he'll capture the good doctor.
Taking the basic plot contraptions from Thomas Harris's baroque
novel, Hannibal is so stylistically different from its
predecessor that it forces you to take it on its own terms.
Director Ridley Scott gives the film a sleek, almost European
look that lets you know that, unlike the first film (which was
about the quintessentially American Clarice), this movie is all
Hannibal. Does it work? Yes--but only up to a point. Scott
adeptly sets up an atmosphere of foreboding, but it's all a
build-up to the anticlimax, as Verger's plot for abducting
Hannibal (and feeding him to man-eating wild boars) doesn't
really deliver the requisite visceral thrills, and the
much-ballyhooed climatic dinner sequence between Clarice, Dr
Lecter and a third, unlucky guest wobbles between parody and
horror. Hopkins and Moore are both first-rate, but the film
contrives to keep them as far apart as possible, when what made
Silence of the Lambs so amazing was their interaction. When they
do connect it's quite thrilling but it's unfortunately too little
too late. --Mark Englehart, .com
On the DVD: The good-looking widescreen (1.85:1) anamorphic print
is accompanied by a directorial commentary on the first disc.
Ridley Scott is no stranger to DVD commentaries by now, and keeps
up a pretty constant flow of enjoyable story exposition, although
provides few specifics about the actual filmmaking process. He's
obviously more than happy to talk about this movie, since on the
second disc there are also "Ridleygram" interviews with Scott
about the process of storyboarding and a huge chunk of deleted or
alternate scenes (including the alternate ending) with optional
directorial commentary. There's a wealth of other extras to dip
into, including five "making-of" featurettes (73 minutes in all),
plus two multi-angle "vignettes" of the film's opening sequences
(the fish-market shoot-out and opening titles), and a marketing
gallery of trailers, stills and artwork. Surround-sound
enthusiasts can select either Dolby 5.1 or DTS soundtracks for
the main feature. --Mark Walker
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From the Back Cover
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Ten years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony
Hopkins) excaped form custody, ten years since FBI Agent Clarice
Starling (Julianne Moore) interviewed him in a maximum-security
hospital for the criminally insane.
The doctor is now at learge in Europe, pursuing his own
interests, savouring the scents, the essences of an unguarded
world. But Starling has never forgotten her encounters with Dr.
Lecter and the metallic rasp of his seldom-used voice still
haunts her dreams.
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