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    instance where this occurs is Clarice Starling’s point of view is used when she enters a new area, which depicts her being in unfamiliar territory and creates an uneasy feeling. Another type of shot used is the close-up, which shows the character’s emotions. One excellent example of the use of close-ups is when Starling is going to see Hannibal Lecter for the first time and she is shown a picture of a nurse he attacked. In this case, the picture is not shown, but the audience can still understand the horrid nature of what she sees because of her expressions that have been magnified with the camera angle. Another case where camera angle emphasizes the suspenseful nature of the film is when Starling starts to share some of her personal information and break other rules with Lecter: as she is talking, the shot shows her with Lecter’s reflection close to her, depicting that he is getting into her…

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    Hannibal Lecter is a caucasian male who is up in age but not elderly. He used to be a physiatrist until he started eating human flesh. Since he was formerly a physiatrist it explains his skill to read people. Dr. Lecter using his psychological ways to get into a person’s head which allow him to use their thoughts or feelings against them. If a person were to spend a week alone with Dr. Lecter (chained up and unable to attack of course) he would ruin their mental state. For instance, when Clarice…

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    The popularity of Jonathan Demme's movie is likely to last as long as there is a market for being scared. Like “Nosferatu,” “Psycho” and “Halloween,” it illustrates that the best thrillers don't age. Fear is a universal emotion and a timeless one. But “Silence of the Lambs” is not merely a thrill show. It is also about two of the most memorable characters in movie history, Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter, and their strange, strained relationship (“people will say we're in love,” Lecter…

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    Silence Of Lambs

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    The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991) is a story of a young agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) crack the Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine) case to cure her childhood trauma and calm down the lamb in her soul. In order to solve the criminal case, she meets Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in the cell and want to find some useful clues. At the end of the film, Buffalo Bill was killed by Clarice, and the hostage is out of danger, but Hannibal escaped and is following his next target……

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    The novel "The Silence of the Lambs" will have you on the edge of your seat the entire way through. It includes a strong female lead, by the name of Clarice Starling. Clarice is brave, determined, and hard working. She works in a male dominated job, therefore she faces unjust treatment. However, she proves herself to her coworkers when she is assigned to gather information about a serial killer on the loose. She is told to ask a cannibalistic serial killer named Dr. Hannibal Lecter questions and…

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    There is no pattern to how the fitful, abominable man known as Buffalo Bill, chooses his victims. But one thing is clear, all his victims, women, are found dead with their skin peeled off their bodies. Clarice Starling, who is just a behavioral science trainee now has to track down this awful man, but not without having to ask for the help of the renowned Doctor Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter who ate nine of his physcology patients before being arrested . Both versions of The Silence of Lambs…

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    to cross or to cross. They are put up for protection or as a challenge. The movie The Silence of the Lambs explores the first of these two reasons. The movie features Agent Clarice Starling, an FBI agent in training who is given a difficult case that will either make or break her future reputation, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a psychologist that has become a psychopathic and cannibalistic serial killer, and Buffalo Bill, a man that is convinced that he is a transexual woman and becomes a serial killer…

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    Hannibal Psychopath

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    Summary Clarice Starling is a student with hopes of becoming an FBI agent. She is picked by Jack Crawford of the Behavior Sciences Unit of the FBI to give a VICAP questionnaire to the notorious Dr. Hannibal Lecter who was once a renowned psychiatrist, and is now housed in a maximum-security mental institution for his cannibalistic style murders. The FBI have been trying to catch a serial killer who is kidnapping young girls and skinning them nicknamed Buffalo Bill, they hope that speaking to…

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    The film Silence of the Lambs, is a very unique film in so many different aspects such great acting, music, costumes, background, plot, historical content, and more. The film was based of the book series, which the film director Jonathan Demme brought the book itself to new heights when the film was created. Proof that the film was great was all its achievements such as the film cast won best actress, director, picture, actor, and adapted screenplay all in the same day at the Academy Awards;…

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    Claudine Movie Essay

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    Claudine (1974), directed by John Berry is a movie about a hardworking single mother and her six children who are living on welfare. Between being a working woman, a mother, and a lover all at the same time, Claudine is torn. When she begins seeing a man, Rupert, whom she has to hide from the government, Claudine falls for this man and they both need to make decisions about each other based on finances and welfare. This movie really opened my eyes to all the struggles and true reality that…

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