The silence of the lambs

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Read more Though a promising student – and, it should be said, clever and cunning enough to attract Lecter’s interest – Clarice has already been cast as the rube before Lecter gets a look at her. Her superior in the bureau’s Behavioral Science Unit, Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn), has sent her to Lecter with a questionnaire that might help the FBI in its pursuit of Buffalo Bill, a serial killer who has been targeting young women and removing their skin. Crawford privately has no expectation that he will get a questionnaire back, but he suspects that Clarice will provoke him, which is exactly what happens. The back-and-forth between Lecter and Clarice in their first meeting is the most famous scene in The Silence of the Lambs, with its impeccable stagecraft and memorable lines, and the electric chemistry between the actors. But Clarice is utterly leveled by their exchange, brought low by how easily Lecter picked up on her clothing and accent and strained professional affect, and correctly discerned that she was “not more than one generation removed from poor white trash”. After the meeting – which ends, cruelly, in an additional trauma unrelated to Lecter – she can barely stagger back to her old Ford Pinto. She has succeeded as Crawford hoped, but she feels in every way defeated. Much of the force of The Silence of the Lambs comes from this conception of Clarice as a woman of intense vulnerability and deep resolve. There is a duller version of the character who is merely stron...

The popularity of Jonathan Demme's movie is likely to last as long as there is a market for being scared. Like “ They share so much. Both are ostracized by the worlds they want to inhabit--Lecter, by the human race because he is a serial killer and a cannibal, and Clarice, by the law enforcement profession because she is a woman. Both feel powerless--Lecter because he is locked in a maximum security prison (and bound and gagged like King Kong when he is moved), and Clarice because she is surrounded by men who tower over her and fondle her with their eyes. Both use their powers of persuasion to escape from their traps--Lecter is able to rid himself of the pest in the next cell by talking him into choking on his own tongue, and Clarice is able to persuade Lecter to aid her in the search for the serial killer named Buffalo Bill. And both share similar childhood wounds. Lecter is touched when he learns that Clarice lost both her parents at an early age, was shipped off to relatives, was essentially an unloved orphan. And Lecter himself was a victim of child abuse (on the DVD commentary track, Demme says he regrets not underlining this more). These parallel themes are mirrored by patterns in the visual strategy. Note that both Lecter in his prison cell and Buffalo Bill in his basement are arrived at by Starling after descending several flights of stairs and passing through several doors; they live in underworlds. Note the way the movie always seems to be looking at Clarice: The...

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You never know what’s going to happen with an audition,” actor Ted Levine remembers of the first time he portrayed Jame Gumb, “I read with the three final guys who were going to be Buffalo Bill,” says Brooke Smith, who played Catherine Martin, the U.S. senator’s daughter whom Gumb abducts in the movie. “When Ted walked in, it was so crazily obvious. I asked him, ‘What the hell did you do in that audition? You were so amazing.’ He was like, ‘Well, you know, I wasn’t sure what I was gonna do, so I just drank a lot of coffee.’ He was amazing.” Three decades have passed since the film first graced silver screens on Valentine’s Day in 1991. While critics and film buffs have rightly parsed every eerie eye twitch “I read the script, and the script was great,” Levine recalls of why he wanted the role. “I read the book, and the book was better. I re-read the script, and realized it was pretty damn good. I met Jonathan and everything fell into place.” In his 1988 book, The Silence of the Lambs– which revolved around his Red Dragon character Hannibal Lecter, who coyly assists Starling in finding Gumb, a man whose identity he knows – author Thomas Harris introduces Gumb with a police-like description: “white male, 34, six feet one inch, 205 pounds, brown and blue, no distinguishing marks.” He had a deep voice, thinning hair and budding breasts, the latter due to hormones. The naturally baritone Levine, who would later play Captain Stottlemeyer on Monk and appear in American Gangster a...

The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling classic, now with a note by author Thomas Harris revealing his inspiration for Hannibal Lecter. An ingenious, masterfully written novel, The Silence of the Lambs is a classic of suspense and storytelling and the basis for the Oscar award-winning horror film starring Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter. A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname—Buffalo Bill—is stalking particular women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the F.B.I. Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, Chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and grisly killer now kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Lecter's insight into the minds of murderers could help track and capture Buffalo Bill. Smart and attractive, Starling is shaken to find herself in a strange, intense relationship with the acutely perceptive Lecter. His cryptic clues—about Buffalo Bill and about her—launch Clarice on a search that every reader will find startling, harrowing, and totally compelling. Read an Excerpt CHAPTER 1 Behavioral Science, the FBI section that deals with serial murder, is on the bottom floor of the Academy building at Quantico, half-buried in the earth. Cla...

The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling classic, now with a note by author Thomas Harris revealing his inspiration for Hannibal Lecter. An ingenious, masterfully written novel, The Silence of the Lambs is a classic of suspense and storytelling and the basis for the Oscar award-winning horror film starring Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter. A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname—Buffalo Bill—is stalking particular women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the F.B.I. Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, Chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and grisly killer now kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Lecter's insight into the minds of murderers could help track and capture Buffalo Bill. Smart and attractive, Starling is shaken to find herself in a strange, intense relationship with the acutely perceptive Lecter. His cryptic clues—about Buffalo Bill and about her—launch Clarice on a search that every reader will find startling, harrowing, and totally compelling. Read an Excerpt CHAPTER 1 Behavioral Science, the FBI section that deals with serial murder, is on the bottom floor of the Academy building at Quantico, half-buried in the earth. Cla...

You never know what’s going to happen with an audition,” actor Ted Levine remembers of the first time he portrayed Jame Gumb, “I read with the three final guys who were going to be Buffalo Bill,” says Brooke Smith, who played Catherine Martin, the U.S. senator’s daughter whom Gumb abducts in the movie. “When Ted walked in, it was so crazily obvious. I asked him, ‘What the hell did you do in that audition? You were so amazing.’ He was like, ‘Well, you know, I wasn’t sure what I was gonna do, so I just drank a lot of coffee.’ He was amazing.” Three decades have passed since the film first graced silver screens on Valentine’s Day in 1991. While critics and film buffs have rightly parsed every eerie eye twitch “I read the script, and the script was great,” Levine recalls of why he wanted the role. “I read the book, and the book was better. I re-read the script, and realized it was pretty damn good. I met Jonathan and everything fell into place.” In his 1988 book, The Silence of the Lambs– which revolved around his Red Dragon character Hannibal Lecter, who coyly assists Starling in finding Gumb, a man whose identity he knows – author Thomas Harris introduces Gumb with a police-like description: “white male, 34, six feet one inch, 205 pounds, brown and blue, no distinguishing marks.” He had a deep voice, thinning hair and budding breasts, the latter due to hormones. The naturally baritone Levine, who would later play Captain Stottlemeyer on Monk and appear in American Gangster a...

Read more Though a promising student – and, it should be said, clever and cunning enough to attract Lecter’s interest – Clarice has already been cast as the rube before Lecter gets a look at her. Her superior in the bureau’s Behavioral Science Unit, Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn), has sent her to Lecter with a questionnaire that might help the FBI in its pursuit of Buffalo Bill, a serial killer who has been targeting young women and removing their skin. Crawford privately has no expectation that he will get a questionnaire back, but he suspects that Clarice will provoke him, which is exactly what happens. The back-and-forth between Lecter and Clarice in their first meeting is the most famous scene in The Silence of the Lambs, with its impeccable stagecraft and memorable lines, and the electric chemistry between the actors. But Clarice is utterly leveled by their exchange, brought low by how easily Lecter picked up on her clothing and accent and strained professional affect, and correctly discerned that she was “not more than one generation removed from poor white trash”. After the meeting – which ends, cruelly, in an additional trauma unrelated to Lecter – she can barely stagger back to her old Ford Pinto. She has succeeded as Crawford hoped, but she feels in every way defeated. Much of the force of The Silence of the Lambs comes from this conception of Clarice as a woman of intense vulnerability and deep resolve. There is a duller version of the character who is merely stron...

The popularity of Jonathan Demme's movie is likely to last as long as there is a market for being scared. Like “ They share so much. Both are ostracized by the worlds they want to inhabit--Lecter, by the human race because he is a serial killer and a cannibal, and Clarice, by the law enforcement profession because she is a woman. Both feel powerless--Lecter because he is locked in a maximum security prison (and bound and gagged like King Kong when he is moved), and Clarice because she is surrounded by men who tower over her and fondle her with their eyes. Both use their powers of persuasion to escape from their traps--Lecter is able to rid himself of the pest in the next cell by talking him into choking on his own tongue, and Clarice is able to persuade Lecter to aid her in the search for the serial killer named Buffalo Bill. And both share similar childhood wounds. Lecter is touched when he learns that Clarice lost both her parents at an early age, was shipped off to relatives, was essentially an unloved orphan. And Lecter himself was a victim of child abuse (on the DVD commentary track, Demme says he regrets not underlining this more). These parallel themes are mirrored by patterns in the visual strategy. Note that both Lecter in his prison cell and Buffalo Bill in his basement are arrived at by Starling after descending several flights of stairs and passing through several doors; they live in underworlds. Note the way the movie always seems to be looking at Clarice: The...