The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 suspense film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. It is based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Harris, his second to feature Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. In the film, Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee, seeks the advice of the imprisoned Lecter on catching serial killer Buffalo Bill. The film won the top five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Actress. ^[2][3][4] Image File history File links The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_poster. ... Jonathan Demme (born February 22, 1944, in Baldwin, New York) is an American film director, producer and writer. ... Edward Saxon is an Academy Award-winning film producer. ... Ted Tally is an American playwright and screenwriter, best known for the play Terra Nova and the screenplay for the film The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. ... Alicia Christian Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. ... For the composer, see Antony Hopkins. ... Theodore Scott Glenn (born January 26, 1941) is an American actor known for appearing in supporting roles. ... Ted Levine (born May 29, 1957 in Parma, Ohio) is an American actor best known for playing the serial killer Buffalo Bill in the 1991 blockbuster thriller The Silence of the Lambs. ... Anthony Heald is an American actor best known for portraying Hannibal Lecters smarmy psychiatrist, Frederick Chilton, in The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, and as deputy principal Scott Guber in Boston Public. ... Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is an Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy Award-winning Canadian composer, best known for composing the scores to The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and films of David Cronenberg. ... Tak Fujimoto is a celebrated cinematographer who has contributed to many important and influential motion pictures. ... Craig McKay is an Emmy-winning American film editor, probably best known for having edited The Silence of the Lambs, for which he received his second Academy Award nomination. ... Orion Pictures Corporation was an American movie production company, formed in 1978 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. ... is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar. ... is the 129th day of the year (130th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar. ... is the 151st day of the year (152nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Manhunter is a 1986 thriller film based on Thomas Harriss novel Red Dragon. ... Hannibal (aka The Silence of the Lambs 2) is a 2001 film directed by Ridley Scott, adapted from the Thomas Harris novel of the same name. ... The year 1991 in film involved some significant events. ... Thriller films are movies that primarily use action and suspense to engage the audience. ... Jonathan Demme (born February 22, 1944, in Baldwin, New York) is an American film director, producer and writer. ... Alicia Christian Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. ... For the composer, see Antony Hopkins. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the author Thomas Harris. ... Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character in a series of novels by author Thomas Harris. ... For other uses, see Psychiatrist (disambiguation). ... Cannibal redirects here. ... Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ... Clarice M. Starling is a fictional character in the novels The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal by Thomas Harris. ... F.B.I. and FBI redirect here. ... Buffalo Bill is the main antagonist in the 1988 novel The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, and its 1991 film adaptation, in which he was played by Ted Levine. ...

Plot

Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) faces Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins)

Promising FBI Academy student Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is pulled from her training at the FBI Training Facility at Quantico, Virginia by Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, who asks her to present a VICAP questionnaire to the notorious Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), brilliant forensic psychiatrist and incarcerated cannibalistic serial murderer. After learning the assignment relates to the pursuit of vicious serial killer Buffalo Bill, Starling travels to the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and is led by Dr. Frederick Chilton to Hannibal Lecter, the sophisticated and cultured man restrained behind thick glass panels and windowless stone walls. Initially pleasant and courteous, Lecter grows impatient with Starling's attempts at "dissecting" him and viciously rebuffs her. As she departs, another patient flings fresh semen onto her face, enraging Lecter who calls Starling back and suggests she checks up on one of his former patients. The name he gives turns out to be a riddle which leads Starling to a rent-a-storage lot where she discovers the severed head of a man. Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins Promotional image of the movie The Silence of the Lambs This work is copyrighted. ... Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins Promotional image of the movie The Silence of the Lambs This work is copyrighted. ... The FBI Academy is located in Quantico, Virginia. ... Alicia Christian Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... Quantico, Virginia is in Prince William County, 23 miles north-northeast of Fredericksburg, Virginia, near Dumfries and Stafford along Highway 619. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Jack Crawford. ... Theodore Scott Glenn (born January 26, 1941) is an American actor known for appearing in supporting roles. ... Vi-CAP (Violent Criminal Apprehension Program) is a nationwide computerized system implemented in 1985 by the FBI out of Quantico, Virginia. ... Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character in a series of novels by author Thomas Harris. ... For the composer, see Antony Hopkins. ... Cannibal redirects here. ... Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ... Buffalo Bill is the main antagonist in the 1988 novel The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, and its 1991 film adaptation, in which he was played by Ted Levine. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Monument City, Charm City, Mob Town, B-more Motto: Get In On It (formerly The City That Reads and The Greatest City in America; BELIEVE is not the official motto but rather a specific campaign) Location Location of Baltimore in Maryland Coordinates , Government Country State County United... Chilton taunts Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. ... Dissection is usually the process of disassembling something to determine its internal structure and as an aid to discerning the function and relationships of its components. ... Horse semen being collected for breeding purposes. ...

Starling returns to Lecter who offers her a towel to dry her rain-soaked hair; she uses it, though she was told that "if he attempts to pass you anything, do not accept it". Lecter claims that the man is Benjamin Raspail, a former patient. He states that he did not kill Raspail, but hints to a connection with Buffalo Bill and offers to profile the killer if he is transferred to a facility away from the venomous careerist, Dr. Chilton.

Miles away, Buffalo Bill abducts Catherine Martin, daughter of United States Senator Ruth Martin. Starling accompanies Crawford to West Virginia and attends the autopsy being conducted on the body of another of Bill's recently-discovered victims. She observes something in the victim's throat, and a chrysalis of a Death's-head Hawkmoth is extracted. When news of Catherine Martin's abduction sweeps the country, Crawford authorizes Starling to offer Hannibal Lecter a fake deal promising a prison transfer if he provides information that helps profile Buffalo Bill and rescue Catherine Martin. Once a year Lecter will even be allowed to stay for a week at a secluded location — Plum Island, where animal diseases are tested. Type Upper House President of the Senate Richard B. Cheney, R since January 20, 2001 President pro tempore Robert C. Byrd, D since January 4, 2007 Members 100 Political groups Democratic Party Republican Party Last elections November 7, 2006 Meeting place Senate Chamber United States Capitol Washington, DC United States... Cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha) pupa A pupa (Latin pupa for doll, pl: pupae or pupas) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation. ... Species Acherontia atropos Acherontia styx Acherontia lachesis Variations in the Deaths head pattern The name Deaths-head Hawkmoth usually refers to one of the three species (, and ) of moth in the Acherontia genus. ... Aerial view of Plum Island Animal Disease Center. ...

Instead, Lecter begins a game of quid pro quo with Starling, offering comprehensive clues and insights about Buffalo Bill in exchange for events from Starling's traumatic childhood, specifically those following the death of her father, a small-town policeman killed when she was ten, leaving her an orphan. Starling thus breaks more of the rules: don't "let Hannibal Lecter inside your head" Quid pro quo (Latin for something for something [1]) indicates a more-or-less equal exchange or substitution of goods or services. ...

Unbeknownst to both Starling and Lecter, Dr. Frederick Chilton tapes the conversation and, after revealing Starling's deal as a sham, offers to transfer Lecter in exchange for a deal of his own making. Lecter agrees and following a flight to Tennessee meets Senator Martin and her entourage of FBI agents and Justice Department officials. He goads her over her relationship with her daughter but also claims that Buffalo Bill is the late Raspail's gay lover Louis Friend, who Lecter met after Friend had killed a vagrant and "done things with the skin". (Raspail was the man whose head Starling found in the warehouse.) This article is about the U.S. state of Tennessee. ... The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is a Cabinet department in the United States government designed to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans. ... GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ...

Meanwhile, Catherine Martin is held prisoner in a dry well with Buffalo Bill and his Bichon Frisé "Precious" looking down on her. Bill orders her to rub herself with oil, contemptuously referring to Catherine as "it".: "It rubs the lotion on its skin, it does this whenever it's told". The terrified Catherine begs to go home and see her mother, telling her captor that her family will pay any ransom he demands. He tells her to put the lotion in the basket, pulls it up and walks away. A Bichon Frisé (French, literally meaning Curly lap dog; often spelled Bichon Frise in English) is a small breed of dog. ...

Starling travels to Lecter's special cell located on the third floor of the Shelby County Courthouse in Memphis, Tennessee, where she confronts him about the false information he gave the Senator: "Louis Friend" is an anagram for iron sulfide also known as fool's gold, to which Lecter simply says "Oh, Clarice, your problem is you need to get more fun out of life." He mocks the false offer she and Crawford made, especially since it is costing Catherine valuable time. Lecter refuses Starling's pleas for Buffalo Bill's real name and demands she finish her story surrounding her worst childhood memory. She recounts her arrival at a relative's farm, the horror of discovering their lamb slaughterhouse and her fruitless attempts at rescuing the lambs. Lecter rebuffs her pleas for a name, simply giving a few pointers and claiming that everything she needs to find Bill is in the case files. He hands them back, and touches her finger, before she is escorted out of the building by security guards. Shelby County is a county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. ... For other uses, see Memphis (disambiguation). ... The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, is iron disulfide, FeS2. ...

Hours later, Lecter escapes from his cell, attacking his two guards. Police storm the room and discover one guard barely alive and the other disemboweled and strung up on the walls. Paramedics transport the survivor to an ambulance and speed off while a SWAT team searches the building for Lecter. As the team discover a body in the elevator shaft, the survivor in the ambulance peels off a mask of skin covering his face (carved off the second guard whose body was found in the elevator shaft), revealing Lecter in disguise. It is later revealed that he kills the paramedics and murders a tourist before disappearing. Disembowelment is evisceration, or the removing of some or all of vital organs, usually from the abdomen. ... The Star of Life, a globally recognized symbol for Emergency medical services. ... This article is about Special Weapons And Tactics. ... For other uses, see Ambulance (disambiguation). ...

Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter

After being notified of Lecter's escape, Starling pores over the case files, analyzing Lecter's annotations and realizes that the first victim, Frederica Bimmel, knew Bill in real life before he killed her. Starling travels to Bimmel's hometown, meets her father and searches her room. She discovers that Bimmel was a tailor and had dresses with templates identical to the patches of skin removed from Buffalo Bill's victims. Starling concludes that Buffalo Bill is a tailor fashioning a "woman suit" of real skin — Lecter had suggested that Bill had applied for sex change operations and had been turned down. Download high resolution version (960x512, 132 KB)Hannibal Lecter as portrayed by Anthony Hopkins. ... Download high resolution version (960x512, 132 KB)Hannibal Lecter as portrayed by Anthony Hopkins. ... A tailor attending to a customer in Hong Kong. ... For specialized articles on surgical procedures, see Sex reassignment surgery male-to-female and Sex reassignment surgery female-to-male. ...

Starling telephones Crawford, who is already on the way to make an arrest, having cross-referenced Lecter's notes with Johns Hopkins Hospital, where Buffalo Bill may have applied for a sex change operation, and finding a man named Jame Gumb, who also had a passion for the sort of moths found in the throat of the victim he and Starling examined together. Crawford instructs Starling to continue interviewing Bimmel's friends while he leads a SWAT team to Gumb's business address in Calumet City, Illinois. The Dome of the Johns Hopkins Hospital as seen from Broadway. ... Calumet City is a city located in Cook County, Illinois. ...

The raid proves to be a dead-end, however, when the cops break into what turns out to be an empty house.

Starling's interviews lead to the house of "Jack Gordon", who Starling soon realizes is actually Jame Gumb, and draws her weapon just as Gumb disappears into his basement. Starling pursues him, discovering a screaming Catherine Martin in the dry well just before the lights in the basement go out, leaving her in complete darkness. Gumb stalks Starling in the dark with night vision goggles and a Smith & Wesson Model 686 .357 Magnum. In preparation to shoot her, he cocks the revolver and Starling, upon hearing the clicking mechanism of the gun, swivels around and shoots Gumb, killing him. Experimental night vision goggles. ... The Smith & Wesson (S & W) Model 686, is a six or seven shot double action revolver chambered for the . ... “.357” redirects here. ...

Days later at the FBI Academy graduation party, Starling receives a phone call from Hannibal Lecter, now in the Bahamas. Lecter assures Starling that he has no plans to pursue her, and asks her to "extend me the same courtesy". He then excuses himself from the phone call, remarking that he's "having an old friend for dinner", before hanging up and following his former jailer Dr. Frederick Chilton through the streets of the village. The FBI Academy is located in Quantico, Virginia. ... [--168. ... Chilton taunts Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. ...

Cast

• Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling
• Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
• Scott Glenn as Jack Crawford
• Anthony Heald as Frederick Chilton
• Ted Levine as Jame Gumb/Buffalo Bill
• Frankie Faison as Barney Matthews
• Brooke Smith as Catherine Martin
• Kasi Lemmons as Ardelia Mapp
• Charles Napier as Lt. Boyle
• Danny Darst as Sgt. Tate
• Alex Coleman as Sgt. Jim Pembry
• Dan Butler as Roden
• Diane Baker as Sen. Ruth Martin
• Roger Corman as FBI Director Hayden Burke
• Chris Isaak as SWAT Commander
• Masha Skorobogatov as Young Clarice Starling

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Pre-production

Michelle Pfeiffer was initially offered the role of Clarice Starling, but turned it down. She has said about her rejection of the part, "that was a difficult decision, but I got nervous about the subject matter."^[5] Kim Basinger, Emma Thompson, and Meg Ryan were also considered for the part before it went to Jodie Foster.-1... Kimila Ann Basinger (born December 8, 1953) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model. ... Emma Thompson (born April 15, 1959) is an English actress, comedian, and screenwriter. ... Meg Ryan (born November 19, 1961) is an American actress who specializes in romantic comedies but has also worked in other film genres. ...

Sean Connery was initially offered the role of Hannibal Lecter, but turned it down. Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930) is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, and BAFTA Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films. ...

Actor Gene Hackman was originally slated to direct the film, but changed his mind after reading the first screenplay draft done by Ted Tally, supposedly due to the level of violence the script contained. Eugene Allen Gene Hackman[1] (born January 30, 1930) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. ... Ted Tally is an American playwright and screenwriter, best known for the play Terra Nova and the screenplay for the film The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. ...

Production

An alternate poster with Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter.

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The majority of the film was shot in Pittsburgh because it has highly variable landscapes and architecture. This variety made it easier to depict many different parts of the country. City nickname: The Steel City Location in the state of Pennsylvania Founded 1758 Mayor Tom Murphy (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 151. ...

Both the scene of Lecter in his cage at the "Memphis Court House" and the Baltimore jail scene were filmed at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in Pittsburgh. Soldiers and Sailors National Military Museum and Memorial located in Pittsburgh is the largest memorial in the United States dedicated solely to honoring all branches of military veterans and service personel. ...

None of the action of the film is set by the storyline as being in Pennsylvania, even though the registration stickers on the windshields of all of the vehicles indicate a Pennsylvania residency.

Response

Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster gained huge acclaim with their portrayals of Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling, even though Hopkins' screen time in the entire film is just over 16 minutes. Their respective portrayals won both of them Academy Awards in 1992, and Hopkins' portrayal as of 2008 remains the shortest lead role ever to win an Oscar. For the composer, see Antony Hopkins. ... Alicia Christian Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. ...

The film received widespread critical acclaim; Rotten Tomatoes, a website that collects film reviews, records that Silence of the Lambs received a 96% positive response from critics. Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster also received praise for their performances. Roger Ebert specifically mentioned the "terrifying qualities" of Hannibal Lecter. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ...

Box office

Domestic summary:

• Opening Weekend: $13,766,814 (1,497 theaters)^[6]
•  % of total gross: 10.5%
• Close date: October 10, 1991
• Total U.S. gross: $130,742,922

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Awards

Jonathan Demme won an Academy Award for Best Director. Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins both won Oscars for their roles as Clarice Starling and Dr. Hannibal Lecter, respectively. The film won additional Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture. The Silence of the Lambs is only the third (and most recent) film to win the five most prestigious Academy Awards (after It Happened One Night, 1934 and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975). For the composer, see Antony Hopkins. ... Alicia Christian Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. ... Jonathan Demme (born February 22, 1944, in Baldwin, New York) is an American film director, producer and writer. ... Edward Saxon is an Academy Award-winning film producer. ... Ted Tally is an American playwright and screenwriter, best known for the play Terra Nova and the screenplay for the film The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. ... Jonathan Demme (born February 22, 1944, in Baldwin, New York) is an American film director, producer and writer. ... The Academy Award for Directing is one of the awards given to directors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. ... Alicia Christian Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. ... For the composer, see Antony Hopkins. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. ... ©A.M.P.A.S.® The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to artists working in the motion picture industry. ... It Happened One Night is a 1934 Screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her fathers thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable). ... One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is a 1975 film directed by Miloš Forman. ...

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Other awards include "best picture" from CHI Awards, the "best film" from PEO Awards, and won Best Film from National Board of Review, all in 1991. In 1991, Jonathan Demme was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for best director. In 1992, Ted Tally received an Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. In 1991 it was nominated for "best film" at the BAFTA Awards (British Academy of Film and Television Arts). In 1998, it was listed as one of the 100 greatest movies in the past 100 years by the American Film Institute.^[7] The National Board of Review Award for Best Film is one of the awards given to either the director or producer of a film by the American National Board of Review. ... The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. ... The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ... BAFTA Award The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ... The first of the AFI 100 Years. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

In 2006 at the Key Art Awards, the original poster for The Silence of the Lambs was named best film poster "of the past 35 years".^[8]

The Silence of the Lambs placed 7th on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments. The American Film Institute named Hannibal Lecter as portrayed by Hopkins the number one film villain of all time^[9] and Clarice Starling as portrayed by Foster the seventh greatest film hero of all time.^[10] This article is about the U.S. cable network. ... The 100 Scariest Movie Moments was a TV mini series first shown in late October of 2004 on Bravo TV. It was a countdown for the 100 most shocking moments in the history of movies, with interviews from horror experts or other celebrities who experienced the films on the list. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... AFIs 100 Years. ... AFIs 100 Years. ...

Homophobia allegations

Upon its release, The Silence of the Lambs was criticized by members of the gay community for being what they perceived as another in a long line of negative on-screen portrayals of LGBT characters in the absence of any positive portrayals.^{[11] [12]} Following the announcement of the film's many nominations, rumors began circulating almost immediately that gay rights groups like Queer Nation were planning to disrupt the live Oscar telecast should the film win any awards.^[13] While ultimately no such protests materialized, the rumors did lead to media discussion of Hollywood's attitudes toward sexual minorities and an overview linking the rumored protests to other Academy Awards controversies, in media outlets ranging from the CBS Evening News to The National Enquirer. In the years following The Silence of the Lambs an increased number of gay-themed films and gay characters were created by Hollywood. Indeed, Lambs director Jonathan Demme's next project was the AIDS-related drama Philadelphia.^[14] GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ... LGBT (also GLBT) is an acronym referring collectively to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender/transsexual people. ... LGBT rights Around the world By country History · Groups · Activists Declaration of Montreal Same-sex relationships Marriage · Adoption Opposition · Discrimination Violence This box:      Queer Nation was founded in March 1990 in New York City, USA by activists from ACT-UP. The four founders were outraged at the escalation of anti... CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963. ... For the technology tabloid website, see The Inquirer. ... Philadelphia is an Academy Award-winning 1993 drama film revolving around the HIV/AIDS epidemic, written by Ron Nyswaner and directed by Jonathan Demme. ...

Marketing

Marketing for the film included images of Hopkins and Foster with Death's-head Hawkmoths covering their mouths. This is an homage to Luis Buñuel's and Salvador Dalí's surrealist film Un Chien Andalou,^{[citation needed]} which contains a Death's-head Hawkmoth, and also features a man whose mouth disappears and is replaced by armpit hair. The image may also be a reference to a line in Richard le Gallienne's The Worshipper of the Image: "The eyes of Silencieux were wide open, and from her lips hung a dark moth with the face of death between his wings."^{[citation needed]} This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Salvador Dalí as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí Domènech (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) was an important Catalan-Spanish painter, best known for his surrealist works. ... Un Chien Andalou (English: An Andalusian Dog) is a 16-minute[1] surrealist film made in France in 1928 by Spanish writer/directors Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, and released in 1929 in Paris. ... Richard Le Gallienne, in an illustration from his book Prose Fancies Richard Thomas Le Gallienne (1866 - 1947) was an English man of letters, very much associated with the literary world of London in the 1890s; after that he resided in the USA, without altering his period style. ...

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Parodies

The Silence of the Lambs has been parodied multiple times in the media: A parody (pronounced ), in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, or author, by means of humorous or satiric imitation. ...

• In 2005, an award-winning Off-Off-Broadway parody was produced called "Silence! The Musical".^[15]
• Ezio Greggio created The Silence of the Hams where rookie FBI agent Jo Dee Foster (Billy Zane) goes to Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza (Dom DeLuise) to track a serial killer.
• In Aqua Teen Hunger Force (The Shaving), Buffalo Bill is referenced (the body suit) when coaching the monster in the attic.
• At the 1992 Academy Awards, Billy Crystal made his initial appearance on stage wearing the same straitjacket and mask that Hannibal Lecter wore in the movie, making the comment that he felt he looked like the "goalie for the SAG (Screen Actors Guild) hockey team".
• In The Simpsons episode A Star Is Burns, the character of Hannibal Lecter auditions for the role of Mr. Burns for a movie that Mr. Burns is making about himself, in order to win at the town film festival. In his dangerous prisoner restraints & mask, Lecter recites Mr. Burns's famous quote "Excellent", followed by his infamous hiss (from his own famous quote, "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti"). In another episode, recurring villain Sideshow Bob is held by restraints similar to Lecter's - but including restraints on Bob's individual locks of hair. In yet another episode, Marge vs. the Monorail, Burns himself is put in the familiar retraints during a hearing on his illegal dumping of toxic waste drums in the Springfield park.
• In the film Clerks 2, the character of Jay (played by actor Jason Mewes) performs the entire Buffalo Bill dance sequence, from imitating Bill putting on make-up right up to standing naked with his genitals tucked back.
• In one scene of the film Joe Dirt, the main character, played by David Spade, is held captive by a killer named "Buffalo Bob" in a scenario very similar to the captivity of Catherine by Buffalo Bill. Bob even imitates the famous line "It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again."
• In one scene of the film Austin Powers in Goldmember, Dr. Evil is imprisoned in an all glass cell resembling several of the scenes from Silence of the Lambs. Upon being asked about Goldmember Dr. Evil replies: "Quid pro quo, Mr. Powers" asking to be transferred to another facility.
• In "South Park" episode Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society, Eric Cartman is shown playing 'Lambs' in his basement. Cartman lowers a basket to a doll at the bottom of a hole in the floor, and quotes lines from the movie, including the "it rubs the lotion on its skin" line. He also refers to a toy dog next to him as 'Precious'.
• In another South Park episode, Toilet Paper, while investigating a toilet papering incident, Officer Barbrady visits Josh, an extremely prolific toilet paperer, in juvenile hall. Josh is a parody of Hannibal Lecter, right down to his distinctive hairstyle and voice (which Josh only speaks in when dealing with strangers and police), but most especially his psychological mind games and manipulation. Josh repeatedly makes outlandish claims about other's pasts, and gets Barbrady to open up extensively about his abusive childhood, with little to no provocation. When a policeman is referred to as "Policeman Brown," he instantly questions Brown why he never made "officer". Josh is last seen in a spoof of the end of the film, phoning Officer Barbrady to mock him and approaching the White House with a toilet paper roll over the credits.
• The film has been referenced a bit in the show Mystery Science Theater 3000. For example, in one episode the crew watches the film I Was a Teenage Werewolf. At one point when Michael Landon's character is being questioned by a psychologist/mad scientist, Mike riffs "The lambs, Clarice. Tell me about the lambs."
• Radio host Phil Hendrie often had his character Margaret Gray use Lecter's lines to Starling about being a rube from West Virginia to unsuspecting callers who thought they were speaking to a real person on his radio show.
• In the "Family Guy" episode Stuck Together, Torn Apart, Stewie and Brian are stuck together with industrial glue and Brian wants to save a little girl from inside a well because a man with incredibly long arms is tickling a midget up in a tree. Stewie pops his head over the well and the girl screams "Help me!" to which he responds, "It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again."
• In the "Fairly Odd Parents" episode The Gland Plan Cosmo has to get a donor organ from Anti-Cosmo: a brilliant criminal locked behind a plexiglass wall in a prison within Fairy World. When the three main characters approach the cell, Anti-Cosmo appears from the dark and says Hello Clarice! ...Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't have my monocle in!
• In the "House" episode Son of Coma Guy House wakes up a Coma patient in order to ask him questions about his family medical history, and they wind up playing a similar game of question-for-question as Clarice and Hannibal. At one point House directly imitates Hannibal, creepily saying to the patient "Quid pro quo, Clarice!"
• In the movie Loaded Weapon (which also parodies several other sources), Sgt Jack Colt (Emilio Estevez) and Sgt Wes Luger (Samuel L. Jackson) interview a character called Dr Harold Leacher (F. Murray Abraham), a direct parody of Lecter. He tells Colt "Quid pro quo", and when asked what it means, he replies "It means I'm pretentious." Before departing, Colt asks him what human flesh tastes like, to which Leacher replies: "Chicken."

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External links

• The Silence of the Lambs at Allmovie
• The Silence of the Lambs at the Internet Movie Database
• The Silence of the Lambs at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Hannibal Lecter Studiolo
• Criterion Collection essay by Amy Taubin