百年50部英文烧脑电影赏析:[15]Hannibal 汉尼拔

Seven years after tracking down serial killer Jame Gumb, FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling(Julianne Moore)is unjustly blamed for a bungled drug raid. Starling and her connection to Hannibal Lecter(Anthony Hopkins)come to the attention of Lecter's only surviving victim, Mason Verger(Gary Oldman), a wealthy child molester whom Lecter left horribly disfigured and paralyzed after having been assigned as Verger's court-appointed therapist.

Verger uses his immense wealth and political influence to have Starling reassigned to Lecter's case and meets with her in his mansion. Verger is pursuing an elaborate scheme to capture, torture and kill Lecter, and hopes Starling's involvement will draw him out. Indeed, Lecter sends her a taunting letter after learning of her public disgrace. Though the letter contains no clue to Lecter's whereabouts, Starling detects a strange fragrance that a perfume expert later identifies as a bespoke skin cream whose ingredients are only available to a few shops in the world. She contacts the police departments of the cities where the shops are located, requesting surveillance tapes. One of the cities is Florence, Italy, where Chief Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi(Giancarlo Giannini)is investigating the disappearance of a library curator. Pazzi questions Lecter, who is masquerading as “Dr. Fell”, the assistant curator and now caretaker of the library.

Upon recognizing Dr. Fell in the surveillance tape, Pazzi accesses the FBI's ViCAP database of wanted fugitives. He learns of Verger's US$3 million reward to anyone turning Lecter over to him rather than to the FBI, Lured by Verger's bounty, Pazzi ignores Starling's warnings against trying to capture Lecter alone. He recruits a pickpocket to obtain a fingerprint of Lecter to show as proof of his whereabouts and thus collect the reward The pickpocket is mortally wounded by Lecter, but manages to get the print and provides them to Pazzi, who in turn contacts Verger. Lecter then baits Pazzi into an isolated room of the library, ties him up with electrical cords, and hangs and disembowels him, before escaping back to the United States.

Verger bribes Justice Department official Paul Krendler(Ray Uotta)to accuse Starling of withholding a note from Lecter, leading to her suspension. Lecter lures Starling to Union Station but Verger's men, who have followed Starling, capture Lecter and transport him to Verger. When her superiors refuse to act, Starling, on her own initiative, infiltrates Verger's estate. Verger means to have Lecter eaten alive by a herd of wild boars bred specifically for this purpose. Starling intervenes to free Lecter but is herself wounded, and Lecter rescues her from the voracious animals. Verger furiously orders his private physician Cordell(Željko Ivanek)to shoot Lecter, but instead Lecter persuades Cordell to throw his hated employer into the pen, whers he is eaten alive by the boars.

Lecter takes a sedated Starling to Krendler's secluded lake house and treats her wounds. When Krendler arrives for the Fourth of July break, he is subdued and drugged by Lecter. Starling, disoriented by morphine and dressed in a slinky black velvet cocktail dress, wakes to find Lecter cooking and Krendler in a wheelchair seated at the table set for an elegant dinner. Weakened by the drugs, she looks on in confusion and horror as Lecter removes the top of Krendler's skull, cuts out part of his prefrontal cortex, sautees it and feeds Krendler his own brain before finally killing him.

After the meal, Starling tries to attack Lecter but is quickly overpowered. She manages to handcuff his wrist to hers, and with police incoming to the residence, Lecter brandishes a meat cleaver and severs his left hand to escape. Lecter is later seen on a flight with boxed lunch on his pull-down table. As he prepares to eat his meal, including a small cooked portion of what is assumed to be Krendler's brain, a young boy seated next to him asks to try some of his food. Lecter lets the boy eat some of his lunch, telling him that “it is important... always to try new things.”

追查连环杀手詹姆·甘姆七年后，FBI高级特工克拉里斯·斯坦林(朱丽安·摩尔饰)被不公正地指责为是她搞砸了扫毒行动。斯坦林和汉尼拔·莱克特(安东尼·霍普金斯饰)的联系引起了马森·威尔格(加里·奥德曼饰)的注意。他是汉尼拔犯罪的少数幸存者，一个富有的恋童癖者，在被任命为威尔格的法庭指定的心理医生后，汉尼拔造成了他的严重毁容和瘫痪。

威尔格利用他的巨大财富和政治影响力使斯坦林被重新分配到负责莱克特的案子，并和她在他的住所见面。威尔格正在进行精心的谋划，以捕获、折磨并杀死莱克特，并希望斯坦林的参与能把莱克特引出来。事实上，在她名誉扫地之后，莱克特给她寄了一封嘲讽的信。虽然这封信没有莱克特下落的线索，但斯坦林却从中发现了一种奇怪的香味。香料专家后来鉴定为一种定制的护肤霜，其成分仅属于世界上少有的几家店铺。她联系了店铺所属城市的辖区警察，索要监控录像。其中一个城市是意大利的佛罗伦萨，总探长里那尔多·帕兹(吉安卡罗·吉安尼尼饰)正在调查图书馆馆长的失踪案。帕兹怀疑这是伪装成费尔博士——图书馆助理馆长的莱克特干的，现在他接管了图书馆。

帕兹认出了监控录像中的费尔博士，访问了FBI通缉的暴行逮捕办的逃亡者数据库。他了解到威尔格悬赏300万美元，作为把莱克特交给他而不是FBI的酬金。受到威尔格赏金的引诱，帕兹无视斯坦林让其不要独自抓捕莱克特的警告。他雇用了一个扒手，以获取莱克特的指纹，证明他的下落，从而赢得奖金。扒手受到了莱克特的致命伤害，但还是设法获取了指纹，并把他们交给了帕兹，帕兹继而联系威尔格。莱克特逃回美国前，把帕兹引诱到图书馆的一个独立房间，用电源线把他捆住，吊起来，掏出了他的肠子。

威尔格贿赂司法部官员保尔·克伦德勒(雷·里奥塔饰)，指责斯坦林隐瞒了莱克特的纸条，导致她的停职。莱克特引诱斯坦林来到联合车站，但威尔格的人跟踪斯坦林，抓住了莱克特，把他交给了威尔格。斯坦林的上级拒绝采取行动，她自发袭击了威尔格的房子。威尔格想让莱克特被一群他为此目的专门饲养的野猪生吃。斯坦林干预，莱克特重获自由，但她自己却受了伤。莱克特从贪婪的动物那里救下她。威尔格恼怒地命令他的私人医生考德尔(扎尔科·伊万尼克饰)向莱克特开枪。但莱克特成功地劝说考德尔把他憎恨的雇主扔下了围栏，威尔格被野猪吃掉了。

莱克特带着平静的斯坦林来到了克伦德勒隐蔽的湖边小屋为她疗伤。7月4日天亮的时候克伦德勒来了，他被莱克特制服并下了药。斯坦林被吗啡弄得迷迷糊糊，穿着时髦的黑色天鹅绒礼服，醒过来发现莱克特在做饭，克伦德勒坐在轮椅里，靠近一张预备了优雅晚餐的桌子。药物作用使她很虚弱，她惊恐地看到莱克特把克伦德勒的头骨顶部剃除，切下了克伦德勒前额皮质的一部分。在最后杀死他之前，莱克特蘸了调料，喂克伦德勒吃下了他自己的大脑。

饭后，斯坦林试图攻击莱克特，但很快就被制服了。她设法把他的手腕和她铐在一起。警方进入了这所住宅，莱克特挥舞菜刀，牺牲了他的左手逃脱。之后的画面是莱克特在飞机上拉开的小桌上吃盒装午餐。午餐有一部分看上去应该是由克伦德勒的大脑烹制而成。在他准备吃饭时，坐在他旁边的一个小男孩请求尝尝他的食物。莱克特让孩子吃了一些他的午餐，告诉他“不断尝试新事物……很重要。”

molester[mə'lestə]n. 猥亵者;性骚扰者

torture['tɔ:tʃə]vt. 折磨;拷问;歪曲

disgrace[dis'greis]n. 耻辱;丢脸的人或事;失宠

surveillance[sə'veiləns]n. 监督;监视

curator[kjuə'reitə]n. 馆长;监护人;管理者

fugitive['fju:ʤitiv]n. 逃亡者;难捕捉之物

pickpocket['pikpɔkit]n. 扒手

suspension[sə'spenʃən]n. 悬浮;暂停;停职

morphine['mɔ:fi:n]n. 吗啡

重点掌握

■ ...ties him up with electrical cords,...

tie up是英语中一个很常用的固定搭配，如果某人ties another person up, they fasten ropes around them so that they cannot move or escape. 也就是“捆绑(某人)”的意思，比如：Masked robbers broke in, tied him up, and made off with $8,000. 蒙面劫匪破门而入，将他绑了起来，并抢走了8000美元。

tie up还常用于口语中，是“完成，结束(安排等)”“安排好(常用被动语态)”的意思，比如：I'm sorry we could not tie up the agreement. 很遗憾，我们未能达成协议。

Anthony Hopkins Interviewed by James Mottram

Did you ever think a sequel would happen to The Silence of the Lambs?

I didn't think about a sequel because sequels don't often work, and Thomas Harris takes a long time to write. So I let it go. Then two years ago, the book was written and here we are. As you know, Jonathan Demme and Jodie Foster dropped out, and I was mildly disappointed, but I certainly didn't go out of my way to persuade him. I thought maybe that was the way it was meant to be.

Are you scared to play Hannibal Lecter?

Am I scared of him? No, I just play him. It's a funny thing. It's like I don't belong to him at all. He came out of Thomas Harris, then through me, and onto the screen. I talk about him as if he's him. Which is maybe a psychological projection.

In the book, Hannibal has had plastic surgery. Why not in the film?

Ridley and I agreed to leave the face alone. It's as if he's making a statement — “catch me if you can”. With his big hat, he's so obvious that nobody thinks he's Hannibal Lecter. I've always thought he's a very elegant man, a Renaissance Man.

Are you hungry enough to play Hannibal again?

I would like to do one more, which is being discussed with Dino De Laurentiis, and Ridley, and hopefully that will be fairly soon — maybe next year.

你有没有想过拍《沉默的羔羊》的续集?

我没想过拍续集，因为续集通常效果不好，而且汤姆斯·哈里斯花了很长时间去写。所以就让它去吧。两年前，这本书写出来了，所以我们就这样做了。你知道，乔那森·德米和朱迪·福斯特退出，我有点失望，但我绝对不会去说服他们。我认为这也许是天意。

你害怕扮演汉尼拔·莱克特吗?

我害怕他吗?不，我只是扮演他。这是一件有趣的事。就像我根本就不属于他。汤姆斯·哈里斯塑造了他，然后通过我，出现在屏幕上。我谈到他，就像汤姆斯就是他。这也许是一种心理投射。

在书中，汉尼拔做过整形手术。为什么电影中没有?

雷德利和我都同意保留这张脸。就好像他在发表声明：“如果你们可以，就抓住我。”带着他的大帽子，显然没人认为他是汉尼拔·莱克特。我一直认为他是一个非常优雅的人，一个文艺复兴时期的人。

你很渴望再次扮演汉尼拔吗?

我想再演一次，目前正在与迪诺·德·劳伦蒂斯和雷德利讨论，并希望能很快——也许是明年。

当朱迪·福斯特决定不再继续扮演克拉里斯之后，吉莲·安德森、凯特·布兰切特、希拉里·斯万克、安吉丽娜·朱莉和海伦·亨特都曾希望扮演这个角色，最先放弃的是吉莲·安德森，因为在她签署的电视剧《X档案》的合同中，已经写明不允许她再扮演联邦调查局特工。

片中马森的住所是在北卡罗莱纳州阿什维尔的比尔特莫庄园拍摄的。

影片开头出现的佛罗伦萨画面与1991年《沉默的羔羊》中汉尼拔在监狱墙上绘出的景象相同。

在佛罗伦萨，可以买到一种名为《汉尼拔·莱克特，拜访他的足迹》的导游手册。