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Feb 12, 2021 · February 12, 2021. 'Silence of the Lambs' actors Ted Levine and Brooke Smith reflect on how they made a murderer Photofest. Y ou never know what’s going to happen with an audition,”...
Bill's M.O. is to kidnap a plus-size woman, keep her in a pit for three days, starve her to loosen her skin, skin her, and dump her in a river. While the women are in the pit, he yells at them and taunts them, "It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again."
In honor of Vulture’s unofficial Horror Month, I called up Smith to talk about what it’s like to forever be the “girl in the pit,” her memories of rubbing lotion on her skin, screaming at Jodie...
Jun 1, 2021 · Although Ted Levine didn't have a problem with Jame Gumb's nature in the script, the actor felt that it didn't quite capture everything about the character in the way that Thomas Harris'...
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- Moth and Metamorphosis
- Clarice and Catherine
- Predators
In Jonathan Demme’s adaptation of Thomas Harris’s novel, The Silence of the Lambs, Clarice Starling navigates a twisted world of male ambition. But she’s so often the toy of both cops and killers it’s hard to know which are her greater enemies. Starling is one of a handful of women in her FBI training cohort. Her superiors, including boss Crawford,...
Things are no better outside the academy, where Starling is sent from one male dominated world to another. Dr Chilton runs Baltimore State Hospital with all the bitter creepiness of Great Expectation’s jilted bride, Miss Haversham. His domain is a man’s world, staffed by and for men. We get the measure of this when Miggs throws semen at Starling, c...
Starling and Lecter are examples of a common pairing in storytelling. They’re mirrored but opposite character types: 1. woman / man 2. young / old 3. cop / criminal 4. student / old master It’s worth noting that most of these pairingsalso apply to Starling and Crawford… In any case, these characters come as a set. Together, their differences comple...
The killer isn’t the only character desperately seeking metamorphosis. As Lecter quickly intuits, Starling is faking it. Her clothes, shoes, bag and perfume are a kind of costume: This is like Gumb’s performance. He too convinces others he’s like them, masking the truth about his intentions and deeds. Starling’s transformation is about leaving behi...
Thirty years after its release, the film’s portrayal of women’s precariousness in public, private and professional spaces remains relevant. Clarice and Catherine occupy opposite ends of a spectrum (free / incarcerated, poor / privileged), yet there are similarities between them: 1. Both become the toy of a serial killer 2. Each is forced into a dar...
The film’s metaphors boil down to this: men are beasts, women are bait (see also Split). This is most apparent at the psychiatric hospital, which keeps its male prisoners in cages. Chilton even describes Lecter as a prized animal: “so rare to capture one alive”. Yet while Lecter is an unsettling mix of psychopath and genius, Gumb is a monstrosity. ...
Mar 30, 2022 · Orion Pictures. By Steven Ward / March 30, 2022 12:14 pm EST. There are plenty of unsettling scenes in "Silence of the Lambs" — though it's probably to be expected that a film containing...
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Read Full Story. Ted Levine is well-known for his performance as Buffalo Bill in Silence Of The Lambs; find out which scene wasn’t originally scripted.
