Originally posted by afsaneh77: [quote]Originally posted by goombah: [b] Not going to give it away if you haven't seen it, but it's stomach-turning. The dvd I had had an alternate ending in the deleted scenes that was pretty cool.
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What was the alternate ending? The one I saw, Lecter cut off his own hand to get away of handcuffs and escaped. [/b][/quote]SPOILER ALERT***************
Lecter wasn't handcuffed in the alternate, thus no hands were chopped off. Starling just kind of lets him go. Her hair is still caught in the refrigerator like the theatrical version. We see Lecter driving away also and the scene with the kid on the airplane to close the movie is a bit lengthier. And if I recall, the "dinner" scene in which Krenzler is fed his own brain is a bit longer also.
According to the dvd, 3 endings were written, but only 2 were filmed.
