From cameos featuring crooners and B-movie directors to missed moments and details that are finally coming to light, fans are sharing tidbits and trivia about the Oscar-winning horror classic The Silence of the Lambs. Vote up the most interesting and tasty tidbits.Â
To prepare for his role as Buffalo Bill, Ted Levine worked with the FBI, who allowed him to review tapes of a man who would abduct women and kept them in a hole in his basement.
In The Silence Of The Lambs, the hissing noise Hannibal Lecter makes at Clarice Starling after delivering the famous, "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti" line was improvised on the spot by Anthony Hopkins.
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Hannibal Unveils The Location Of Buffalo Bill In His First Meeting With Clarice
In The Silence of the Lambs, when Clarice first meets him, Hannibal has sketched "a view of the Duomo from the roof of the Belvedere." Wild Bill is ultimately found in Belvedere, Ohio.
"That is the Duomo as seen from the Belvedere." More wordplay from Hannibal Lecter.
At the beginning of the movie Jack Crawford sends Clarice to interview Lecter. One of the instructions he gives her is to look at what he's sketching. In that interview he tells her his most recent sketch is "The Duomo as seen from the Belvedere". Before he starts asking Clarice about Buffalo Bill he's already name dropped where Bill lives. Bill's home is in Belvedere, Ohio.
In The Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Chilton explains to Clarice that when Hannibal attacked the nurse, his pulse never got above 85. Later when Hannibal is in the ambulance, after [he attacks] the guards prior to killing the crew, his pulse is relayed to the hospital as being 84.
