Friday, August 28, 2009
Oscar Trivia #2
Anthony Hopkins was inspired by the voices of Katharine Hepburn and Truman Capote in his choice of the eerie cadence for Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.
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2 comments:
I heard that Hopkins also used HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey as well.
I think you're right. He said of Lecter's personality: "He is a dispassionate, brilliant machine, superb at logic, deficient in emotions."
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