For a long time, I had admired the art and the beauty of the opening scene of Hannibal. The most impressive thing about the now famous sequence, is the amazing number of cameras used complemented with the fast-cut editing. Even after many years of wondering I wasn’t able to say for sure how many cameras were used in this important sequence in which Ridley Scott had to not only introduce Julianne Moore as the new Clarice Sterling but also take away any resides off the viewer of Jodie Foster from the earlier movie.. After many years of sporadic efforts to find out about the cameras, I finally found the video that gave an approximate idea of the number of cameras used for the sequence. It’s amazing when you think they have to built up this set, that gets destroyed but capture it all at one go from various angles. It emphasise how important is to have an overview – where to place the cameras and what to cut/stick in the room to add to the narrative. And as you see the result is fabulous if done with a bit of imagination.
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Yes, God bless the internet!
Hannibal- Opening scene – Our edit
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