6. Well, I guess we dont have to go to Montana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd7e1fXYIuM Additional scenes were planned to be shot over Clarice unfolding of the origins behind the screaming lambs, which would see a younger Clarice stealing the lambs. This would certainly fit with the style of the movie as she has a flashback to her younger self seeing her father after her first meeting with Lecter. However, Jonathan Demme was so impressed with the acting by Foster and Hopkins in that scene that he decided to abandon the shoot, saying right there and then, Well, I guess we dont have to go to Montana (where the flashback was scheduled to be shot). In my view this was the right choice, as while I have no doubt the flashbacks would have been superbly intercut with the eerily lit, close ups of Foster and Hopkins, the emotions they convey on their faces are so strong that to cut them short would have been a crime of cinema.
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