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| Year: | 1991 |
| Rating: | 8.7(244053) |
| Listed in: | Crime, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Jonathan Demme |
| Actors: | Scott Glenn Anthony Hopkins Ted Levine Anthony Heald Jodie Foster Brooke Smith |
| "Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Brilliant. Cunning. Psychotic. In his mind lies the clue to a ruthless killer. - Clarice Starling, FBI. Brilliant. Vulnerable. Alone. She must trust him to stop the killer." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
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| Jonathan Demme | |
| Actors | |
| Scott Glenn | as Jack Crawford |
| Anthony Hopkins | as Dr. Hannibal Lecter |
| Ted Levine | as Jame 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb |
| Anthony Heald | as Dr. Frederick Chilton |
| Frankie Faison | as Barney Matthews |
| Dan Butler | as Roden |
| Lawrence T. Wrentz | as Agent Burroughs |
| Don Brockett | as Friendly Psychopath in Cell |
| Frank Seals Jr. | as Brooding Psychopath in Cell |
| Stuart Rudin | as Miggs |
| Jeffrie Lane | as Clarice's Father |
| Leib Lensky | as Mr. Lang, Storage Manager |
| George 'Red' Schwartz | as Mr. Lang's Driver |
| Jim Roche | as TV Evangelist |
| James B. Howard | as Boxing Instructor |
| Bill Miller | as Mr. Brigham |
| Chuck Aber | as Agent Terry |
| Gene Borkan | as Oscar |
| Pat McNamara | as Sheriff Perkins |
| Tracey Walter | as Lamar |
| Kenneth Utt | as Dr. Akin |
| Obba Babatundé | as TV Anchorman |
| George Michael | as TV Sportscaster |
| Paul Lazar | as Pilcher |
| Roger Corman | as FBI Director Hayden Burke |
| Ron Vawter | as Paul Krendler |
| Charles Napier | as Lt. Bill Boyle |
| Jim Dratfield | as Sen. Martin's Aide |
| D. Stanton Miranda | as Reporter #1 |
| Danny Darst | as Sgt. Tate |
| Brent Hinkley | as Officer Murray |
| Steve Wyatt | as Airport Flirt |
| Alex Coleman | as Sgt. Jim Pembry |
| David Early | as Spooked Memphis Cop |
| Andre B. Blake | as Tall Memphis Cop |
| Bill Dalzell | as Distraught Memphis Cop |
| Chris Isaak | as SWAT Commander |
| Daniel von Bargen | as SWAT Communicator |
| Tommy Lafitte | as SWAT Shooter |
| Josh Broder | as EMS Attendant |
| Buzz Kilman | as EMS Driver |
| Harry Northup | as Mr. Bimmel |
| Lamont Arnold | as Flower Delivery Man |
| Lawrence A. Bonney | as FBI Instructor |
| Jeff Busch | as EMS Attendant |
| John Hall | as State Trooper |
| John W. Iwanonkiw | as Orderly |
| Ted Monte | as FBI Agent |
| George A. Romero | as FBI Agent in Memphis |
| Mike Schaeffer | as Prison Guard |
| Actresses | |
| Jodie Foster | as Clarice Starling |
| Brooke Smith | as Catherine Martin |
| Kasi Lemmons | as Ardelia Mapp |
| Diane Baker | as Sen. Ruth Martin |
| Maria Skorobogatov | as Young Clarice Starling |
| Adelle Lutz | as TV Anchorwoman |
| Rebecca Saxon | as Reporter #2 |
| Cynthia Ettinger | as Officer Jacobs |
| Lauren Roselli | as Stacy Hubka |
| Darla | as Precious |
| Lynette Jenkins | as Nurse |
| Chris McGinn | as Autopsy Victim |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 15 November 1989 - 1 March 1990 |
| Budget: | USD 19,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 94,425,327 USD (7 April 1991) UK - 8,203,453 GBP (20 June 1991) Worldwide - 142,000,000 USD (2004) (except USA) Argentina - 9,983,488 ARS (3 June 1992) Australia - 3,735,383 AUD (16 May 1991) Germany - 9,089,825 DEM (9 May 1991) |
| Plot: | A psychopath known as Buffalo Bill is kidnapping and murdering young women across the Midwest. Believing it takes one to know one, the F.B.I. sends Agent Clarice Starling to interview a demented prisoner who may provide psychological insight and clues to the killer's actions. The prisoner is psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lector, a brilliant, murderous cannibal who will only help Starling if she feeds his morbid curiosity with details about her own complicated life. This twisted relationship forces Starling not only to confront her psychological demons, but leads her to face with a demented, heinous killer, an incarceration of evil so powerful, that she may not have the courage -- or strength -- to stop him! |
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"American Girl" Performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Written by Tom Petty Courtesy of Gone Gator Records "Alone" Performed by Colin Newman Written by Colin Newman (as C. Newman), G. Lewis Courtesy of Beggars Banquet Records Limited "Sunny Day" Performed by Book of Love Written by T. Ottaviano Courtesy of Sire Records By Arrangement with Warner Special Products "Real Men" Performed by Savage Republic Written by B. Licher, M. Erskine, J. Long Courtesy of Independent Project Records "Goldberg Variations" Performed by Jerry Zimmerman Written by Johann Sebastian Bach "Goodbye Horses" Performed by Q. Lazzarus Written by W. Garvey "Hip Priest" Performed by The Fall Written by M.E. Smith, M. Riley, S. Hanley, C. Scanlon, P. Hanley Courtesy of Situation Two / Beggars Banquet Records Limited "Lanmò Nan Zile A" Performed and Written by Les Freres Parent |
Goofs
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GEOG: Nearly all the vehicles used in the film have inspection stickers in their windshield indicating registration in Pittsburgh, PA, where none of the action in the film takes place. Continuity: Jack Crawford's collar pops in and out of his vest during a conversation with Clarice Starling. Fact errors: The killer looks right into the headlights of Catherine Martin's car with his night-vision goggles on when she drives into the parking area and is not blinded. In fact, goggles at the timeframe of this movie might have been permanently damaged. Newer goggles do have automatic protection mechanisms. FAIR: U.S. Customs has a record of Buffalo Bill bringing the moths, found only in Asia, from Suriname, in South America. But he may have used a re-shipper to disguise the origins of the shipment. FAIR: SPOILER: Gumb's basement, while larger than the "red herring" house in Illinois, is proportional to his house in Ohio. Continuity: SPOILER: As Hannibal escapes, he kicks the cell door onto the guard, causing the door to be in between Hannibal and the guard. Yet in the very next shot, the guard is right in front of Hannibal so he can bite him. Continuity: When the cop holding the flowers is at the front door of the house in Illinois, shadows change direction on the doorframe between shots. GEOG: SPOILER: The red herring house is supposed to be in Calumet City, Illinois, and in the background, mountains can be seen. There are no mountains near Calumet City. Crew: SPOILER: At the end of the film when Hannibal is telling Clarice about having "an old friend for dinner" a camera crew can is reflected in Hannibal's sunglasses. Revealing mistakes: When Clarice is talking to Buffalo Bill in his back room, a moth is filmed landing on a cotton reel. After the moth has settled, a thread is visible attached to it. Presumably the shot was filmed in reverse, and the moth 'yanked' off the reel. Revealing mistakes: When Clarice is researching Lecter in Quantico by reading old newspaper articles on microfilm, the same text regarding developments at some vague governmental conference appears over and over again surrounding the Lecter articles in all four separate newspapers she views. GEOG: The plane carrying agents to Calumet City banks over mountainous terrain, resembling nothing in the vicinity of northern Indiana Continuity: When the FBI team is preparing to deliver the flowers, the ribbon is on both the upper and lower sections of the box. In the next shot, the ribbon appears only on the upper section of the box. Revealing mistakes: When Clarice is interviewing Lecter, one of the padlocks on his cell door goes from locked to unlocked between scenes. Continuity: SPOILER: At the end of the movie, when Clarice Starling is searching Buffalo Bill's basement, she approaches a door with the doorknob on her right, indicating it would open to her left. When we see the door open from the opposite side, it opens to her right. CHAR: When introducing himself and his partner to Clarice, Lt. Boyle says the other man's name is "Petrie." In all other references in the book and movie his name is Pembry. Fact errors: SPOILER: While standing in the first victim's sewing room, Clarice recalls the diamond shaped pieces of skin removed from the girl found in the river, which she realizes resemble darts that are commonly used to reduce fabric bulk in the waistline, making a garment more fitted. The problem is, the dart shapes cut from the skin resemble the part of the fabric that is wasted, the unwanted pieces. It is a 'negative' of what this killer would have wanted to keep, if he were making himself a garment. The killer would never have wanted those skin items. Later it shows him sewing on one end, single thickness. He's not sewing anything to anything else, and he's using a piece that is typically cut off and discarded in the process of real garment construction. Although a human skin garment is implied, most of the examples of sewing are factually erroneous as viewed by anyone experienced in tailoring. Fact errors: The night vision goggles that Bill uses are of the old infra-red variety, which require an infra-red light to illuminate the scene. That's why these kind of goggles were eventually phased out by the military, because the enemy could use their own infra-red equipment to zero in on the light and shoot it out - and/or the person holding it! Bill's use of the goggles in the basement scene is therefore impossible, as he's not holding an infra-red light of any kind, just a gun. The implication made by the the film makers is that Bill was using more modern light-enhancing night vision equipment, but again, this would not have worked in the basement. This type of equipment needs some kind of light source, moonlight or even starlight, to function. In a basement it's pitch black. The same error, with the villains wearing light enhancing goggles, was made in Patriot Games (1992). Continuity: The ring of sweat on Clarice's sweatshirt as she is running on the Quantico course in the beginning of the movie covers her body almost from shoulder to shoulder. When she gets called into Crawford's office, it is significantly smaller. Revealing mistakes: As the forensics come to take photos of the victim's body, the "corpse" visibly blinks as the hands touch its face. SYNC: SPOILER: In the final phone call, as Lecter says "I have no plans to call on you, Clarice. The world's more interesting with you in it", his facial movements don't match the spoken words. Revealing mistakes: When Sgt. Pembry is preparing to handcuff Dr. Lecter to the bars of his cell while bringing in his requested second supper, he has him sit with his back to the bars and his arms thrust behind him in order secure the shackles. In this scene it is apparent that Dr Lecter has been waiting for a fair amount of time between his first meal and his second serving because we see his drawings and magazines spread over the entire desktop surface. A closeup of the Drs arms, however, reveal that the cuffing procedure must have been repeated several time during the filming process in order to get a good take as there are already red, discolored areas on actor Anthony Hopkins' wrists from the multiple donning and shedding of the handcuffs before they are even applied in film. Fact errors: West Virginia State Police uniforms are not brown as shown in the movie. The uniforms are Forest Green and have been that way since the early 1900's. Also the WV State Police vehicles are not Grey as shown in the movie, they are Blue with Old Gold and the State Seal is the emblem on the door. The WV DPS (State Police) were originally asked by the director to have some of the Troopers in the movie, but he did not like the colors of their uniforms and when he requested they change to the Brown uniforms, the Troopers rightfully refused and left the movie set with their cruisers and proper uniforms. Fact errors: The moth found "behind the soft palate of a murder victim" is identified by the biologist as Acherontia styx, the deaths-head moth, however the moth used in the poster is actually Acherontia atropos, also known as the deaths-head moth. (There is a third deaths-head moth called Acherontia lachesis.) While A. styx is native to Asia, as identified by the biologist, A. atropos is native to the Middle East and Mediterranean. Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: After Hannibal escapes from his temporary cell in Memphis, the police have who they believe to be Dr Lecter, cornered, injured and unconscious, on the top of an elevator. When the officer is told to shoot him, non-lethally, in order to determine whether he is alive or not, he wounds him with his police issued 9MM handgun in the back of the knee. Since the body showed no reaction to the shot, this person was ultimately determined to be dead. However, this shot was also revealing in that it showed that the movie makers used a dummy or a very low-yield explosive "squib" when filming this scene. If a person was hit with a bullet of such caliber, even if he is deceased, there would be some movement of the limb away from the direction of the shot. Continuity: During the autopsy scene, they remove the bug cocoon from the victim and insert it into a small jar with the bug antenna pointing to the bottom of the jar. The next next shot shows Clarice pouring fluid into the jar with the antenna pointing up. Continuity: As Clarice is looking through the microfilm, the pen in her mouth switches places several times. FAIR: During Clarice's first visit to see Hannibal, she wore a skirt with belt on waist when she was in Dr. Chilton's office and before entering the final corridor leading to Hannibal's cell. The belt was gone when she was entering the corridor, however, entering a prison (especially the maximum security part), she would have probably had to remove her belt before entering particularly if it had a metal buckle. FAIR: Lecter correctly refers to the moth pupa as a "chrysalis". Many moths, including the one in the film, pupate inside a chrysalis. "Cocoon" simply refers to a type of silky case spun my many types of insects, not just moths. Fact errors: An Acherontia styx pupa is found behind the soft palate of Bill's 6th victim, however, the actual species depicted is Acherontia atropos. CHAR: Clarice claims to have double-majored in criminology and psychology at the University of Virginia. Criminology has never been a major offered at UVa. CHAR: A forensics expert's opinion of the autopsy scene: over 8 errors were made. Among them: the body was fingerprinted without collecting evidence under the victims fingernails, and the ink would have destroyed the evidence. You cannot get fingerprints off a body if it is in that condition. CHAR: Sgt Tate tells an officer to call in the SWAT team. Memphis has no SWAT team, it has a related unit called the TACT team. CHAR: Jack Crawford says that Clarice graduated "magna" (magna cum laude) from UVA, but this is impossible because UVA does not award such a distinction to psychology majors GEOG: When Hannibal is imprisoned in Memphis, the sign outside of the Shelby county courthouse is shown in dim light to be a museum. SYNC: When Clarice opens the music box, it plays and winds down. As it winds down, the musical pitch lowers. Actually, the pitch should stay the same - the music should just slow down. GEOG: SPOILER: In the cut to the scene outside the supposed Memphis Police headquarters, after Lecter has escaped by "stealing" the face of a police officer, an ambulance roars across the screen and stops. The ambulance has Hamilton County tags. Memphis is in Shelby County; Hamilton County is Chattanooga - 400 miles east. GEOG: The military aircraft heading toward Calument City has California Air Guard on the side. Not very likely considering they were coming from Virginia. Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: As Jodie Foster indicates on the commentary track of the Criterion DVD version of the film, there is a mistake in the most dramatic moment of the entire film: when Buffalo Bill cocks his gun and Clarice turns around and shoots him. You can clearly see the shadow of Bill's hand holding the gun on Clarice's back as he raises it to shoot her. However, the basement is supposed to be pitch black, so there shouldn't have been any shadows whatsoever. Continuity: In flashbacks, young Clarice Starling has brown eyes. However, when she is older, Agent Starling's eyes are pale blue. CHAR: Crawford tells Clarice that Miggs died by swallowing his tongue. Contrary to widely spread urban legend, swallowing one's tongue is impossible. GEOG: Regarding the sweat stains on Clarice's sweatshirt from the course to Crawford's office. The course she was running is located on a Marine Corps Base in Quantico, which is also home to the FBI Academy. The course (Endurance Course) is about 5 miles long throughout the Quantico highlands, on the Marine part, not the FBI part. At the Cargo net obstacle, she was nearly at the end of the course, about 2-3 miles from the FBI academy. There is a road to the left on the screen, and nothing but miles of woods on her right, which is where the FBI agent came out and told her that Crawford wanted to speak to her. Geographically, it would have been faster and more logical for her to finish the course, than run back toward where she just came from, which is about a 3-4 mile run back through the woods, to the FBI academy. CHAR: When Clarice visits the entomologists to identify the moth pupa, while examining the chrysalis they indicate that it must have been specially raised from imported eggs and fed "honey and nightshade". Deaths head moth larva, like most caterpillars, eat only vegetation. It is the adult moths that eat honey. Crew: The moth landing on the red roll of string at Buffalo Bills house has a black string attached to its back. This was probably not an issue during the low resolution days, but it's clearly visible in high definition. GEOG: When Clarice is shown in Belvedere, Ohio she on a bridge. This would have been Steubenville, Ohio as Belvedere does not have a river. |
Quotes
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Hannibal Lecter: First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek? Clarice Starling: He kills women... Hannibal Lecter: No. That is incidental. What is the first and principal thing he does? What needs does he serve by killing? Clarice Starling: Anger, um, social acceptance, and, huh, sexual frustrations, sir... Hannibal Lecter: No! He covets. That is his nature. And how do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet? Make an effort to answer now. Clarice Starling: No. We just... Hannibal Lecter: No. We begin by coveting what we see every day. Don't you feel eyes moving over your body, Clarice? And don't your eyes seek out the things you want? Miggs: I can smell your cunt. Hannibal Lecter: Now then, tell me. What did Miggs say to you? Multiple Miggs in the next cell. He hissed at you. What did he say? Clarice Starling: He said, "I can smell your cunt." Hannibal Lecter: I see. I myself cannot. You use Evian skin cream, and sometimes you wear L'Air du Temps, but not today. Hannibal Lecter: "Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center." Sounds charming. Clarice Starling: That's only a part of the island. There's a very, very nice beach. Terns nest there. There's beautiful... Hannibal Lecter: [cuts her off] Terns? Mmh. If I help you, Clarice, it will be "turns" with us too. Quid pro quo. I tell you things, you tell me things. Not about this case, though. About yourself. Quid pro quo. Yes or no? [pause] Hannibal Lecter: Yes or no, Clarice? Poor little Catherine is waiting. Clarice Starling: Go, doctor. Murray: Is it true what they're sayin', he's some kinda vampire? Clarice Starling: They don't have a name for what he is. Ardelia Mapp: Is this Lecter's handwriting? "Clarice, doesn't this random scattering of sites seem desperately random - like the elaborations of a bad liar? Ta, Hannibal Lecter." Clarice Starling: "Desperately random." What does he mean? Ardelia Mapp: Not random at all, maybe. Like there's some pattern here...? Clarice Starling: But there is no pattern or the computers would've nailed it. They're even found in random order. Ardelia Mapp: Random because of the one girl. The one he weighted down. Clarice Starling: Oh, Fredrica Bimmel, from... Belvedere, Ohio. First girl taken, third body found. Why? Ardelia Mapp: 'Cause she didn't drift. He weighted her down. Clarice Starling: What did Lecter say about...?First principles"? Ardelia Mapp: Simplicity... Clarice Starling: What does this guy do, he "covets". How do we first start to covet? Ardelia Mapp: "We covet what we see -" Clarice Starling: " - every day." Ardelia Mapp: Hot damn, Clarice. Clarice Starling: He knew her. Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told. Catherine Martin: Mister... my family will pay cash. Whatever ransom you're askin' for, they pay it. Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. [to his dog, Precious] Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: Yes, it will, Precious, won't it? It will get the hose! Catherine Martin: Okay... okay... okay. Mister, if you let me go, I won't - I won't press charges I promise. See, my mom is a real important woman... I guess you already know that. Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: Now it places the lotion in the basket. Catherine Martin: Please! Please I wanna go home! I wanna go home please! Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: It places the lotion in the basket. Catherine Martin: I wanna see my mommy! Please I wanna see my... Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: Put the fucking lotion in the basket! Clarice Starling: Your name is? Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: Oh, uh Jack Gordon. Clarice Starling: Mr. Gordon, good, uh... well Frederica used to work for Mrs. Lippman. Did you know her? Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: No, nuh-uh. Oh wait... was she a great big fat person? Clarice Starling: Yeah she was a big girl, sir. Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: Yeah, I may've... no I read about her in the newspaper. Um, Mrs. Lippman had a son though, maybe he could help you. I got his card in here someplace. Do you wanna come in while I look for it? Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: Are you close to catching somebody you think? Clarice Starling: Yes. We may be. Did you... take over this place after Mrs. Lippman died, is that right? Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: Yeah I - I bought this house... two years ago. Clarice Starling: [looking around] Did she leave any records? Any business records, tax forms, lists of employees? Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: No, nothin' like that at all. Say, does the FBI learn somethin? The police around here don't seem to have the first clue. [Clarice notices a moth]... I mean have you got like a description, fingerprints, anything like that? Clarice Starling: No. No I don't. [Clarice unbuttons her gun holster] Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: Oh, here's that number! Clarice Starling: Very good Mr. Gordon. May I use your phone please? Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: [Gumb starts laughing] Sure you can use me phone. Clarice Starling: [draws her gun] Freeze! Put your hands over your head and turn around! Spread your legs! Spread your legs! Put your hands in the back... thumbs up - FREEZE! [Gumb runs off] Clarice Starling: If you didn't kill him, then who did, sir? Hannibal Lecter: Who can say. Best thing for him, really. His therapy was going nowhere. Jack Crawford: Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head. Hannibal Lecter: You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed: pure West Virginia. What is your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you... all those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars... while you could only dream of getting out... getting anywhere... getting all the way to the FBI. Clarice Starling: You see a lot, Doctor. But are you strong enough to point that high-powered perception at yourself? What about it? Why don't you - why don't you look at yourself and write down what you see? Or maybe you're afraid to. Jack Crawford: Look at it, Starling. Tell me what you see. Hannibal Lecter: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. [last lines] Hannibal Lecter: [on telephone] I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye. Clarice Starling: Dr. Lecter?... Dr. Lecter?... Dr. Lecter?... Dr. Lecter?... Hannibal Lecter: Jack Crawford is helping your career isn't he? Apparently he likes you and you like him too. Clarice Starling: I never thought about it. Hannibal Lecter: Do you think that Jack Crawford wants you sexually? True, he is much older but do you think he visualizes scenarios, exchanges, fucking you? Clarice Starling: That doesn't interest me Doctor and frankly, it's, it's the sort of thing that Miggs would say. Hannibal Lecter: Not anymore. Hannibal Lecter: Tell me, Senator: did you nurse Catherine yourself? Senator Ruth Martin: What? Hannibal Lecter: Did you breast-feed her? Paul Krendler: Now wait a minute... Senator Ruth Martin: Yes, I did. Hannibal Lecter: Toughened your nipples, didn't it? Paul Krendler: You son of a bitch! Hannibal Lecter: Amputate a man's leg and he can still feel it tickling. Tell me, mum, when your little girl is on the slab, where will it tickle you? Senator Ruth Martin: Take this... *thing* back to Baltimore! Hannibal Lecter: Five foot ten, strongly built, about a hundred and eighty pounds; hair blonde, eyes pale blue. He'd be about thirty-five now. He said he lived in Philadelphia, but he may have lied. That's all I can remember, mum, but if I think of any more, I will let you know. Oh, and Senator, just one more thing: love your suit! Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it's told. Catherine Martin: Please mister, let me go! My family will give you anything you want! Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: [to a mirror] Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard. Hannibal Lecter: [shouts] No! [normal voice] I will listen now. After your father's murder, you were orphaned. You were ten years old. You went to live with cousins on a sheep and horse ranch in Montana. And...? Clarice Starling: [tears begin forming in her eyes] And one morning, I just ran away. Hannibal Lecter: No "just", Clarice. What set you off? You started at what time? Clarice Starling: Early, still dark. Hannibal Lecter: Then something woke you, didn't it? Was it a dream? What was it? Clarice Starling: I heard a strange noise. Hannibal Lecter: What was it? Clarice Starling: It was... screaming. Some kind of screaming, like a child's voice. Hannibal Lecter: What did you do? Clarice Starling: I went downstairs, outside. I crept up into the barn. I was so scared to look inside, but I had to. Hannibal Lecter: And what did you see, Clarice? What did you see? Clarice Starling: Lambs. The lambs were screaming. Hannibal Lecter: They were slaughtering the spring lambs? Clarice Starling: And they were screaming. Hannibal Lecter: And you ran away? Clarice Starling: No. First I tried to free them. I... I opened the gate to their pen, but they wouldn't run. They just stood there, confused. They wouldn't run. Hannibal Lecter: But you could and you did, didn't you? Clarice Starling: Yes. I took one lamb, and I ran away as fast as I could. Hannibal Lecter: Where were you going, Clarice? Clarice Starling: I don't know. I didn't have any food, any water and it was very cold, very cold. I thought, I thought if I could save just one, but... he was so heavy. So heavy. I didn't get more than a few miles when the sheriff's car picked me up. The rancher was so angry he sent me to live at the Lutheran orphanage in Bozeman. I never saw the ranch again. Hannibal Lecter: What became of your lamb, Clarice? Clarice Starling: They killed him. Hannibal Lecter: Well, Clarice - have the lambs stopped screaming? Hannibal Lecter: You still wake up sometimes, don't you? You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs. Clarice Starling: Yes. Hannibal Lecter: And you think if you save poor Catherine, you could make them stop, don't you? You think if Catherine lives, you won't wake up in the dark ever again to that awful screaming of the lambs. Clarice Starling: I don't know. I don't know. Hannibal Lecter: Thank you, Clarice. Thank you. Clarice Starling: Tell me his name, Doctor. Hannibal Lecter: Dr. Chilton, I presume. I think you know each other. Dr. Frederick Chilton: Okay. Let's go. Clarice Starling: It's your turn, Doctor. Dr. Frederick Chilton: Out! Clarice Starling: Tell me his name! Boyle: I'm sorry, ma'am. We've got orders. We have to put you on a plane. Come on, now. [Chilton and the guards start leading Clarice out] Hannibal Lecter: Brave Clarice. You will let me know when those lambs stop screaming, won't you? Clarice Starling: Tell me his name, Doctor! Hannibal Lecter: Clarice, your case file. Goodbye, Clarice. Dr. Frederick Chilton: What you are doing, Miss Starling is coming into my hospital to conduct an interview, and refusing to share information with me, for the third time. Clarice Starling: Sir, I told you, this is just a routine follow-up on the Raspail case. Dr. Frederick Chilton: He is my patient. I have rights. Clarice Starling: I understand that, Sir. Dr. Frederick Chilton: Look, I am not just some turn-key, Miss Starling. Dr. Frederick Chilton: I am going to show you why we insist on such precautions. On the evening of July 8th, 1981, he complained of chest pains and was taken to the dispensary. His mouthpiece and restraints were removed for an EKG. When the nurse leaned over him, he did this to her. [pulls out photo] The doctors managed to reset her jaw more or less. Saved one of her eyes. His pulse never got above 85, even when he ate her tongue. Hannibal Lecter: Why do you think he removes their skins, Agent Starling? [sarcastically] Hannibal Lecter: Enthrall me with your acumen. Clarice Starling: It excites him. Most serial killers keep some sort of trophies from their victims. Hannibal Lecter: I didn't. Clarice Starling: No. No, you ate yours. Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT PAIN IS! Murray: [assessing the mutilated Sergeant Pembry] He's alive. Sergeant Tate, he's alive ! Sergeant Tate: Get a hold of him more and feel his hand son, talk to him. Murray: What do I say? Sergeant Tate: It's Jim Pembry now talk to him dammit! Hannibal Lecter: Good evening, Clarice. Jack Crawford: I remember you from my seminar at UVA. You grilled me pretty hard, as I recall, on the bureau's civil rights record in the Hoover years. I gave you an A. Clarice Starling: A-minus, Sir. Hannibal Lecter: All good things to those who wait. Jack Crawford: Just do your job, but never forget what he is. Clarice Starling: And what is that? [cut to Clarice's first trip to the psychiatric prison] Dr. Frederick Chilton: Oh, he's a monster. Pure psychopath. So rare to capture one alive. From a research point of view, Lecter is our most prized asset. Dr. Frederick Chilton: Oh my, does he hate us. Thinks I'm his nemesis. [referring to Clarice's deal] Dr. Frederick Chilton: You still think you're going to walk on some beach and see the birdies? I don't think so. I called Senator Ruth Martin. She never heard of any deal with you. They scammed you, Hannibal. Dr. Frederick Chilton: Crawford is very clever, isn't he, using you? Clarice Starling: What do you mean, sir? Dr. Frederick Chilton: A pretty young woman to turn him on. I don't believe Lecter's even seen a woman in eight years. And oh, are you ever his taste. So to speak. Hannibal Lecter: People will say we're in love. [to Clarice] Dr. Frederick Chilton: You know, we get a lot of detectives here, but I must say I can't ever remember one as attractive. Dr. Frederick Chilton: We've tried to study him, of course, but he's much too sophisticated for the standard tests. Hannibal Lecter: You fly back to school, now, little Starling. Fly, fly, fly... [Pembry can be heard moaning in the background] Hannibal Lecter: Ready when you are, Sergeant Pembry. Dr. Frederick Chilton: Do not touch the glass. Do not approach the glass. You pass him nothing but soft paper - no pencils or pens. No staples or paperclips in his paper. Use the sliding food carrier, no exceptions. If he attempts to pass you anything, do not accept it. Do you understand me? Clarice Starling: Did you do all these drawings, Doctor? Hannibal Lecter: Ah. That is the Duomo seen from the Belvedere. Do you know Florence? Clarice Starling: All that detail just from memory, sir? Hannibal Lecter: Memory, Agent Starling, is what I have instead of a view. Clarice Starling: But I thought the "yourself" reference was too hokey for Lecter, so I figured he's from Baltimore, and I looked in the phone book, and there's a "Your Self Storage" facility, right outside of downtown Baltimore, sir. Hannibal Lecter: Advancement, of course. Listen carefully. Look deep within yourself, Clarice Starling. Go seek out Miss Mofet, an old patient of mine. M-o-f-e-t. Go now, I don't think Miggs could manage again quite so soon, even though he is crazy. [shouting] Go now! Clarice Starling: Hester Mofet. It's an anagram, isn't it, Doctor? Hester Mofet, "The rest of me". "Miss the rest of me," meaning that you rented that garage? Roden: Sphingid ceratonia, maybe. [cuts open cocoon] Roden: Agent Starling, meet Mr. Acherontia styx. Pilcher: Weird. Roden: Better known to his friends as the Death's-head moth. Hannibal Lecter: There are three major centers for transsexual surgery - Johns Hopkins, University of Minnesota, and Columbus Medical Center. Clarice Starling: [to Hannibal Lecter] Your anagrams are showing, Doctor. Louis Friend? Iron sulfide, also known as fool's gold. [first lines] FBI instructor: Starling! Starling! Crawford wants to see you in his office. Clarice Starling: Thank you, sir. Clarice Starling: [Hannibal Lecter has escaped] He won't come after me. Ardelia Mapp: Oh really? Clarice Starling: He won't. I can't explain it... He - he would consider that rude. Clarice Starling: Where are you, Dr. Lecter? Hannibal Lecter: I've no plans to call on you, Clarice. The world is more interesting with you in it. Hannibal Lecter: Look for severe childhood disturbances associated with violence. Our Billy wasn't born a criminal, Clarice. He was made one through years of systematic abuse. Billy hates his own identity, you see, and he thinks that makes him a transsexual. But his pathology is a thousand times more savage and more terrifying. Boyle: [greeting Lecter in Memphis] Welcome to Memphis Dr. Lecter, I'm Lieutenant Boyle, this is Sergeant Patrick. Now we'll treat you as good as you treat us, you be a gentleman and you'll get three hots and a cot. Hannibal Lecter: Closer, please. Clo-ser... Clarice Starling: I graduated from UVa, Captain; it's not exactly a charm school. Hannibal Lecter: You're very frank, Clarice. I think it would be quite something to know you in private life. Roden: [Upon learning where the Death's-Head Moth came from] You mean this is like a clue from a real murder case? Cool! Pilcher: [to Clarice] Just ignore him, he's not a PhD. Pilcher: What do you do when you're not detecting, Agent Starling? Clarice Starling: I try to be a student, Dr. Pilcher. Pilcher: Ever go out for cheeseburgers and beer? The amusing house wine? Clarice Starling: Are you hitting on me, doctor? Pilcher: Yes. |
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