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Hannibal (2001) - 30 corrections

Directed by Ridley Scott, starring Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore, Ray Liotta (add more)

Genres: Crime, Thriller

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Gary Oldman originally wanted to share top billing with Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore. When the producers denied his request, he declined to have any billing at all and, in the original theatrical release, remained uncredited at the film's opening and closing credits. However, he is credited in the VHS & DVD releases. [That isn't true at all. Gary Oldman wanted the audience to 'watch' and 'listen' to the character and not be distracted by his stardom. Furthermore Oldman is well known for cameo roles and isn't a prima donna as your comment suggests.]
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In Hannibal, Clarice says that in Memphis, Lecter killed 3 police officers during his escape. However, in The Silence Of The Lambs, he is seen murdering 2 police officers, and is later mentioned killing 2 paramedics and a tourist. [Just because he is only 'seen' killing two police officers, he may very well have killed a third, off-screen, during his escape.]
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In the scene where Clarice is asking Barney where all of Dr. Lecter's belongings from the hospital are, Clarice mentions that Dr. Lecter's drawings are missing. The drawings are not missing. Clarice gave them back to Dr. Lecter at their final face-to-face in "The Silence of the Lambs." [Lecter didn't take his drawings with him when he broke out, so they were left with his other possessions, which would have been stored away somewhere. Presumably they are no longer there, implying that somebody, probably Barney, has removed them from the storage facility and sold them.]
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When the thief Lecter stabbed is lying dead in the street, you would think that in a street full of people that someone would notice a dead man. [The inspector is with the thief entire scene, covering him in the corner. There is no reason why somebody wouldn't have noticed him right after.]
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When Inspector Pazzi visits Hannibal to pick up the previous librarian's belongings, Hannibal steps into another room and dons a pair of gloves on the excuse that the building is very cold. At least two shots during the scene, however, he is walking barefoot on the stone floor. [Lecter has to give some excuse for putting on the gloves - he can hardly say "I'm a wanted psychopath and I don't want you to get my fingerprints". Given that he's barefoot, the excuse isn't particularly good, but he doesn't have the time to come up with anything better. Pazzi may not pick up on it, or, if he does, he doesn't say anything, but that's a character mistake, not a movie mistake.]
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When Lecter is in the hospital stealing the autopsy equpiment, he closes the door after a man walks through rolling a corpse. Most people probably didn't notice or realise, but when he closed the door, he was actually locking the man in the freezer - that is why the orange light began to flash, as an alarm. The man would have frozen or sufficated soon if not retrieved. Just another murder or at the very least attempted murder of Lecter's that went unnoticed. [The freezer door had a latch on the inside that is clearly visible before he closes it. These interior latches cannot be locked, even if the outside latch is locked, to prevent this exact occurrence.]
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When Clarice is talking with the other agents about Mason they say he was upset when the FBI took Hannibal off of the 10 most wanted list, but when the Italian inspector accesses the FBI's most wanted list Hannibal is still on it. [In his phone conversation with Clarice, Lecter comments that he has been elevated to the ten most wanted list - obviously they decided to put him back again.]
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In the scene just after Starling's visit with Barney, she is listening to a tape of a late night conversation between Barney and Dr. Lecter (where the good doc was comparing Starling's behaviour to that of a Roller Pigeon). This tape shouldn't even exist given that Dr. Chilton was supposedly only taping Lecter's conversations with Starling. Even the empty tape case is labelled "Lecter and Starling", yet only Lecter and Barney are on the tape. [They key word here is "supposedly". The good doctor Chilton was taping other conversations Hannibal had, and lied about it afterwards. The reason being that Lecter was his most famous inmate, and any new information from him would be worth gold. And then, in a feeble attempt to cover up, he labelled the tape as a legit recording.]
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In the scene where Drumgo's henchmen shoot it out with the FBI, the thug carrying the diaper bag has no weapon crossing the street. Right before he pulls the shotgun out to shoot at Bolton, it's obvious that it was too large to have been hidden in the bag the entire time. [Watch the "Anatomy of a Shootout" on the special features part on the DVD. It shows him pull the gun out of the bag.]
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In the scene where the woman and Mason match the fingerprint to Dr.Lecter they use a computer. In no part of the fingerprinting process do you use a computer, even for a match. [Fingerprints can and are scanned into computers all the time and digitized for matching purposes.]
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In the movie "Red Dragon", the police do not have a clue that Lecter is a serial killer until he attacks Will Graham. In "Hannibal", it is stated that Mason Verger was Lecter's 4th victim, the only one to survive. Wouldn't Verger recognise Lecter if he was a famous psychiatrist? [Being that Verger was most likely close to death, and seeing the amount of damage that was done to his face, It is reasonable to think that Verger was incapacitated when found by the authorities.]
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When Hannibal has Pazzi duct-taped to the carrier, Pazzi can clearly still move his head around, so why in the world does Hannibal instruct him to answer 'yes' or 'no' by blinking, instead of simply nodding his head? [So that Pazzi becomes confused. He later asks him "was that a yes or a no?" He has imposed the blinking rule because Pazzi is panicking and he almost wants him to make a mistake. It's part of his mind games and torture.]
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While Julianne Moore and Anthony Hopkins are talking in the mall, Anthony Hopkins's hair is plainly grey. Later, at the gruesome dinner party, his hair is a great deal darker, almost black. [He has dyed it, wishing to look his best because he is going to a dinner party with a lady.]
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In the scene where Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi is talking to Gnocco (the pickpocket) about how to get Hannibal's fingerprint on the bracelet, he tells Gnocco to "wash his filthy hands". Gnocco is holding an orange in his right hand, yet a split second later, when Gnocco is holding his hand under the fountain to clean it, the orange has disappeared. This all happened way too quickly for Gnocco to have had the time to simply drop the orange. [You can see him put the orange down. Look carefully.]
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It wouldn't have taken a crack FBI handwriting expert to see that the fake postcard masterminded by Mason Verger looked nothing like Dr. Lecter's very dramatic penmanship. They already had a 3 page letter to compare with. [It's a set up. Clarice even mentions that they should have a handwriting expert look at it, but her suggestion falls on deaf ears, because the other agents want her off the case.]
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When the Italian Police Inspector is on the pay phone in the middle of the street and he gets the recording that tells him how to go about collecting the reward money for Hannibal's "capture" there is a message at the end of the info that lets the caller know that they could press 1 for instructions in French, 2 for German, 3 for Italian, etc... However these instructions are in English! If you speak a different language you wouldn't understand it. And anyone who has ever called a machine like that will tell you that the instructions for each different language are in that language... [I actually had this happen to me once. I was making a call and it said "To hear these instructions in Spanish, press..." I don't speak Spanish, but if I heard someone say "Ingleis", I would know what they were talking about. It is weird, but obviously not impossible.]
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At the restaurant when Inspector Pazzi is watching Dr.Lecter drinking his wine, Hannibal gets up and leaves without paying for his drink. [In Italy it is possible to pay immediately when getting the drink or just to leave the money on the table if you know how much it costs.]
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When Agent Starling was reading the letter from Dr. Lecter, she is in the lab which is lit in florescent light. As she finishes the letter and the camera focuses back on Clarice, the room is lit in a sort of candle or fire light. [She turns off the light and then the lights to the building are then turned off for whatever reason. She does turn off the light.]
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In the scene where Francesco Pazzi calls the Credit Suisse bank in Switzerland he uses an impossible number: 004122xxx instead of 0041800xxxxxx which would be a toll free Swiss number. [Probably done intentionally to avoid crank calls, much in the way they use 555 for American numbers.]
Edit Corrected by J I Cohen Time
In the scene where Clarice has to give up her gun and badge before she goes home, her earrings change from studs to hoops. [She has changed from her work clothes before heading up to her lake house. It is not out of the question that she would have changed earrings as well.]
Edit Corrected by AFosteROTC

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