![]() Thomas Harris did not base Hannibal Lecter on any one person The line that most people think was a quote is actually, “Good evening, Clarice.” Hannibal Lecter never said “Hello, Clarice” (David Niven in Separate Tables had about 15 and a half minutes.) At 16 minutes of screen time, Hopkins gave the second-shortest performance to ever win a Best Actor Oscar. It’s even more remarkable that Hannibal Lecter looms so large over this movie considering he’s hardly ever on the screen. ![]() Shockingly… Hopkins only has about 16 minutes of screen time “Stillness has an economy and it has a power about it.” It’s true! Hopkins barely blinks in the film, and the actor later explained that he did it to “keep the audience mesmerized.” “It’s not so much not blinking, it’s just being still,” he said. Hannibal Lector almost never blinks in the film His theory was that people already had a fear of doctors and dentists who traditionally wear white on the job. It was actually Hopkins’ idea for Hannibal Lecter to wear all white throughout the film. He also used our fear of doctors and dentists to ramp up the scares They were: Truman Capote, Katharine Hepburn, and HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, respectively. Hopkins eventually won the role and found inspiration for his portrayal of the character in an author, an actress, and a computer. However, Connery read the script and found it “revolting.” Daniel Day-Lewis and Derek Jacobi were also considered to the role of the brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer.Īnthony Hopkins found inspiration in unlikely places Sean Connery was the first choice to play Hannibal Lecter Demme didn’t like Foster’s Boston accent in her movie The Accused, even though it won her an Oscar. Rather reluctantly, Demme finally agreed to hire Foster after meeting with her twice. Laura Dern was Demme’s third choice, but the production company didn’t think she would bring in money at the box office. She then settled for fighting for the role of FBI agent Clarice Starling.ĭirector Jonathan Demme actually wanted Pfeiffer, but like a lot of other actors, Pfeiffer was “concerned about the darkness of the piece.” Meg Ryan also turned it down for being too gruesome. Jodie Foster initially wanted to buy the film rights to Thomas’s book herself, but Gene Hackman beat her to it. Michelle Pfeiffer was the first choice to play Clarice Hackman decided that he didn’t want to follow up a dark role with an even more unlikable character. Hackman and Orion Pictures split the $500,000 needed to purchase the movie rights to the book… But, Hackman dropped out days after he watched clips of himself at the 1989 Oscars as FBI Agent Rupert Anderson in Alan Parker’s Mississippi Burning. Gene Hackman was originally set to direct and star in the film The Silence Of The Lambs grossed a successful $272 million at the worldwide box office, making it one of the most profitable horror movies of all time. It is also the only Best Picture winner widely considered a horror filmĪnd, one of only six horror films to have been nominated in the category in history. It was the third film in history to win the “big five” (the other two were It Happened One Night in 1935, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1976) and no other film has done it since. By the time the final category was announced, however, Silence of the Lambs achieved the rare feat of winning all of the “big five” Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay), Best Actor, and Best Actress. Heading into the 64th Academy Awards on Mathe film had seven nominations, trailing behind Bugsy with 10 and JFK with eight. More than a year after it was released, The Silence Of The Lambs swept all five top Oscar categories in 1992. It is the third film in history to win the “big five” Oscars On the occasion of the film’s 30th anniversary (yes 30th!), here are a few things you might not have known about Demme’s classic film, The Silence of the Lambs. ![]() Hannibal Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins. Written by Ted Tally, the shocking thriller was adapted from Thomas Harris’ 1988 novel and starred Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee who is hunting a serial killer and seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Jonathan Demme’s psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs was released on Valentine’s Day in 1991. ![]()
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