Hannibal

The background music is very low at the start. The screen is blank but there is dialogue.
The picture finally shows but is very small and is to the right of the screen. As it gets bigger the picture gradually moves to the centre of the screen, until it is finally filling the screen.
The house has very dark lighting - thus making the audience feel the intensity of the scene, it is a dark scene.
There is a close-up on the character that has been asking all the questions - this (asking the questions) shows that he is the dominant character. His face is completely scared and messed up.
The sight of his face makes the audience very un-easy.
As a box is opened the camera zooms-in on the mask inside and the music gets louder while the title fades-in to the middle of the screen in red italic. The writing gets bigger and the writing, first goes out of focus, and then fades out. As the writing gets bigger you are able to see that the text is very uneven - it is not the usual smooth text. It resembles very much like blood - as if someone wrote it in blood and it has only just begun to drip.
Music sounds like a piano - high notes - but there is one constant low beat from another instrument.
All of a sudden there is a sound like a lion's roar and - at the same time - a picture flicks on of what looks like a hand holding a heart. The whole picture is red.
The piano carries on but there are voices over the top that sound like radio calls.
The picture is videos - camera footage. Sometime rewinding and/or zooming, focusing on a specific person. Credits fading-in and out over the top but in corners, the corner they are in always changing. Sounds like lots of moving around - possibly struggling - and then all sound stops - apart from the piano in the background and church bells that start to chime as well as birds flapping. There are birds on screen, in a town square. The birds have made an aerial view picture of a face. The face appears male and confident.
After the screen had faded-out, it is a girl - agent Starling - who fades-on. This shows that she will be a main character in the thriller.

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Males rated Hannibal a 6.5 on average, with 47, 335 votes.
Females rated Hannibal a 6.4 on average, with 664 votes.