The Silence of the Lambs

D.W. Griffith was a storyteller, who dreamed to become a writer and was well known for inventing the conventions of editing and continuity. Such as, the 180-degree rule, intercutting, eye match shots and establishing shots. He was the first to cut in to the shots and also play around with the different shot sizes. With all the editing techniques combined, he directed the first blockbuster film in 1915, which is known as ‘The Birth if a Nation’. In this film, Griffith was the first to cut into…

In Silence of the Lambs, viewers witnessed a trustworthy government apprehend a heinous criminal via the use of psychological profiling. In this instance, the government leveraged power to uphold and protect the civil liberty of the citizens. In Enemy of the State…

The story that I chose to do is ‘The Chosen Vessel’ by Barbara Baynton. The story, originally regarded as a female gothic genre, is transformed into a psychological horror. The genre of psychological horror is a subgenre of the literary horror. It’s different from that of a horror as it doesn’t rely upon archetypal techniques such as jump scares and the use of ghostly entity to reinforce horror; albeit, it heavily relies upon the character’s fears and emotional instability to establish tension…

The chosen character intended for describing the personality in terms of these two psychological conception is Clarice Starling. Clarice Starling’s character from the movie, (The Silence of the Lambs), demonstrates a personality that can be observed with these theories. Clarice, an inexperienced although capable female FBI trainee, is used to interview and collect information from a brilliant captive serial murderer, Dr. Lecter. She is…

considered a “sane decision”. Sanity and insanity circled around each other never giving a real definition, or at least one that satisfied me. The ending of my narrative came from this research. The idea that insanity cannot really be defined. Silence of The Lambs was a large influence on my writing. The film dictated how I would create the image of insanity. I wanted to keep the same ominous feeling that Hannibal Lecter gave off. However, due to the movies graphic nature I ended up having a…

Norman Bates in Psycho, Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs, and Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre were all horror movie characters inspired by one man. According to A.K. (2007), that man was Ed Gein. Born August 27, 1906, Edward Theodore Gein was raised on a farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin. Gein suffered through a traumatic childhood, considering he had a violent drunk as a father and a fanatical Lutheran as a mother. Since his mother was devoutly religious, he was taught by her…

Much of the general public’s knowledge concerning serial homicide is a product of sensationalized and stereotypical depictions of it in the news and entertainment media. Colorful story lines are written to pique the interest of audiences, not to paint an accurate picture of serial murder. By focusing on the larger-than-life media images of socially constructed “celebrity monsters,” the public becomes captivated by the stylized presentation of the criminals rather than the reality of their…

Through a close inspection of the role of silence in faith, I will provide the interpretation that one cannot speak when acting in faith because in faith the ethical is bypassed. This will then be connected with the broader interpretation that since most experience faith through the ethical, the ethical bypass cannot be articulated, not by Abraham, nor de Silentio. This paper will consist of three parts,…

Even though technology has changed the way people can view fear and horrors, the storyline of them will always be the same. In an excerpt from the movie The Silence of the Lambs, one of the characters exclaims, “The doctors managed to re-set her jaw, more or less, and save one of her eyes. His pulse got over eighty-five, even when he ate her tongue. (pauses, he smiles) I keep him in here. (He turns, pushes a button…

a deal instead they were quick to attempt to kill Stern and Rosalind. This is a characteristic of ignorance because strategic thieves would’ve have tried to search for more of what they initially had planned to steal by approaching the victim in silence. With this approach the amount of witnesses would decrease dramatically since people might…