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On the set of “The silence of the lambs”

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passage from wikipedia that made me unexpectedly laugh out loud the other night

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bringing it up again for the millionth time but I'm still obsessed with the way that hannibal lecter is canonically aware of the narrative not because its ever explicitly stated but because the author who created him genuinely believes this to be true and stopped writing the book series because he's afraid of him

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(trying to give relationship advice) from a narrative perspective i think both of you dying together would be the most emotionally satisfying resolution but i’m guessing that’s not what you want to hear

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your good friend just had a successful and complication-free amputation, and has invited you to come cook and taste the amputated limb at an impromptu shindig

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has anyone edited the twin peaks score into scenes from hannibal yet. i'm already imagining my ideal placements for various iconic tracks

(alternatively: has anyone edited the hannibal score into twin peaks scenes yet)

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on the subject of hannibal (2001): who do we think they would have cast as margot verger if she'd been allowed to be in the movie...would they have gone the show's route of making her palatably femme and conventionally attractive, or would they have looked for an actress of the right physique but left out any references to her sexuality, or found some kind of medium

the only other speculations i've seen on the subject were suggesting like, female pro wrestlers of the time, but i feel like that kind of casting might have gone against the tone they were going for

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finding out that the novel hannibal, while not as contractual as hannibal rising, was still written at the request of the de laurentiises and not because thomas harris was just that compelled to continue the story of his own volition, makes a whole lot of sense. still i have to wonder if this means he was sitting there writing that ending like oh fuck i have to wrap this up soon because dino's expecting a manuscript any day now. (hence why it feels a bit rushed). or if it was more like ohohoho good luck filming THIS, assholes

i imagine he wasn't too attached to it because he approved them changing it for the movie, or at least knew there was no way that was getting into a mainstream film production advertised as the sequel to a blockbuster oscar-winning hit. but i also feel like you wouldn't write something like that unless you really believed in it as the best ending for your story. at least the brain-eating (which really seemed to put audiences off, as if this wasn't always a series about a cannibal serial killer who does fucked-up things to people's minds and bodies) made it in.

probably also helped that most of the cast and crew from silence they were hoping to get back - director jonathan demme, screenwriter ted tally, lead actress jodie foster - were so turned off by the book's ending that they declined to return. honestly i don't blame them. i do find de laurentiis' statement on demme turning it down to be amusing, though: "when the pope dies, we create a new pope. good luck to jonathan demme. good-bye." ridley scott won the conclave i guess

i'm gearing up to rewatch the hannibal movies so i can give my thoughts on them the same way i did the books a while back. i've been planning to do it ever since i just haven't had the time. i think this one would get a solid 2.5 out of 5 man-eating boars from me

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happy 11th anniversary of this scene to those who celebrate! 🥳🎉

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fucked up hurt/comfort. the person who stabbed you tends to your wound. the person who killed your loved one helps you grieve.

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something i find interesting about the hannibal books is that, despite being built up as a loathsome figure who hannibal is absolutely going to kill unpleasantly at some point, we never find out frederick chilton's fate. by the novel hannibal he's disappeared, and he does have people he knew asking after him, but no one ever found out what happened to him in the intervening 7 years after hannibal's escape. everyone presumed he tracked down chilton and killed him but you'd think we'd see that, or at least describe it in flashback.

hannibal does say/think at some point that they're going to find chilton with "feeding instructions tattooed on his forehead" which implies he didn't plan to kill him, because he really wanted to make him suffer instead. or he could have just been brainstorming ideas at that point, he was still in prison. that does sound like foreshadowing for what we would find out he'd done to mason verger, and i have a semi-formed theory that verger's fate was originally intended for chilton before harris decided to give it to a new character who would be more deserving, or something.

something similar might be behind the fate of paul krendler, who is even characterized in the novel hannibal similarly to how chilton was in silence, albeit more petty and immature about it while also being more specifically vindictive against clarice. i'm used to rights issues being the reason for any given character not appearing, but that's obviously not the case for the books so who knows. the show at least more than made up for the lack of comeuppance for book chilton by putting him through the absolute wringer every season

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lecter said "hell,

if i am guilty then god is as well"

but god was acquitted, and lecter committed, before he could hang

still he sang--

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i don’t endorse him or anything but like. what else are you supposed to do if you’re named hannibal

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i don’t endorse him or anything but like. what else are you supposed to do if you’re named hannibal

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i have ideas