"to present a questionnaire to the brilliant forensic psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer, Hannibal Lecter. Lecter is serving nine consecutive life sentences in a Maryland mental institution for a series of murders. Crawford's real intention, however, is to try to solicit Lecter's assistance in the hunt for a serial killer dubbed ""Buffalo Bill"", whose modus operandi involves kidnapping overweight women, starving them for up to two weeks, killing and skinning them, and dumping the remains in nearby rivers. The nickname was started by Kansas City Homicide, as a sick joke that ""he likes to skin his humps."" Throughout the investigation,"
"The Silence of the Lambs (novel) The Silence of the Lambs is a novel by Thomas Harris. First published in 1988, it is the sequel to Harris' 1981 novel ""Red Dragon"". Both novels feature the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter, this time pitted against FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. Its film adaptation directed by Jonathan Demme was released in 1991 to box office success and critical acclaim. Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee, is asked to carry out an errand by Jack Crawford, the head of the FBI division that draws up psychological profiles of serial killers. Starling is"
"Hannibal (film) Hannibal is a 2001 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Ridley Scott, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1999 novel of the same name. It is the sequel to the 1991 Academy Award–winning film ""The Silence of the Lambs"" in which Anthony Hopkins returns to his role as the serial killer, Hannibal Lecter. Julianne Moore co-stars, in the role first held by Jodie Foster, as FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. The film had a difficult and occasionally troubling pre-production history. When the novel was published in 1999, ""The Silence of the Lambs"" director Jonathan Demme, screenwriter Ted Tally, and"
"on novels by Thomas Harris. Hannibal (film) Hannibal is a 2001 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Ridley Scott, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1999 novel of the same name. It is the sequel to the 1991 Academy Award–winning film ""The Silence of the Lambs"" in which Anthony Hopkins returns to his role as the serial killer, Hannibal Lecter. Julianne Moore co-stars, in the role first held by Jodie Foster, as FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. The film had a difficult and occasionally troubling pre-production history. When the novel was published in 1999, ""The Silence of the Lambs"" director Jonathan"
"of ""Jack Gordon"", who she realizes is actually Jame Gumb, again by finding a sphinx moth. She pursues him into his multi-room basement, where she discovers that Catherine is still alive, but trapped in a dry well. After turning off the basement lights, Gumb stalks Starling in the dark with night-vision goggles, but gives his position away when he cocks his revolver. Starling reacts just in time and fires all of her rounds at Gumb, killing him. Sometime later, at the FBI Academy graduation party, Starling receives a phone call from Lecter, who is at an airport in Bimini. He"
"in Italy and the United States. The novel ""Hannibal"" drew attention for its violence. ""Hannibal"" broke box office records in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom in February 2001, but was met with a mixed critical reception. Ten years after tracking down serial killer Jame Gumb, FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling is unjustly blamed for a botched drug raid. She is later contacted by Mason Verger, the only surviving victim of the serial killer Hannibal Lecter. A wealthy child molester, Verger was paralyzed and brutally disfigured by Lecter during a therapy session. He has been pursuing an"
"American Film Institute named Hannibal Lecter (as portrayed by Hopkins) the number one film villain of all time and Clarice Starling (as portrayed by Foster) the sixth-greatest film hero of all time. In 2011, ABC aired a prime-time special, """", that counted down the best films chosen by fans based on results of a poll conducted by ABC and ""People"" magazine. ""The Silence of the Lambs"" was selected as the 1 Best Suspense/Thriller and Dr. Hannibal Lecter was selected as the 4 Greatest Film Character. The film and its characters have appeared in the following AFI ""100 Years"" lists: In"
"assures her that he does not plan to pursue her and asks her to return the favor, which she says she cannot do. Lecter then hangs up the phone, saying that he is ""having an old friend for dinner"", and starts following a newly arrived Chilton before disappearing into the crowd. ""The Silence of the Lambs"" is based on Thomas Harris' 1988 novel of the same name and is the second film to feature the character Hannibal Lecter following the 1986 film ""Manhunter"". Prior to the novel's release, Orion Pictures partnered with Gene Hackman to bring the novel to the"
"a tabloid newspaper; a cleaning crew finds one of Dolarhyde's letters, hidden within Lecter's toilet paper spool. Chilton informs Graham and his superior, Jack Crawford, of the discovery. Lecter's reply is intercepted and revealed to contain Graham's home address, which Dolarhyde uses to track down Graham in the novel's climax. In ""The Silence of the Lambs"", Chilton allows Crawford to send an FBI trainee, Clarice Starling, to interview Lecter about another serial killer, Buffalo Bill. He makes a clumsy pass at Starling on their first meeting and she quickly rejects him. Chilton gradually grows jealous of Starling's success, where he"
"is living under the alias ""Jack Gordon"". When she sees a Death's Head moth, the same rare kind that Buffalo Bill stuffs in the throats of each of his victims, flutter through the house, she knows that she has found her man and tries to arrest him. Gumb flees, and Starling follows him into his basement, where his latest victim is alive and screaming for help. Gumb turns off the electricity in the basement, and stalks Starling through the rooms wearing night vision goggles. As Gumb readies to shoot Starling, Starling hears him cock the hammer of his revolver and"
"eventually solves the case, but Dolarhyde disfigures him before Graham's wife kills him. Crawford feels responsible for Graham's misfortune, and resents Lecter for the rest of his life. Jack Crawford appears again in the novel ""The Silence of the Lambs"", again investigating a serial killer. This time, the serial killer is called ""Buffalo Bill"", and his killing signature involves killing and skinning women. Crawford is stumped in trying to determine who Buffalo Bill is, and is forced to once again call upon Lecter for assistance. This time, however, Crawford sends an FBI trainee, Clarice Starling, to interview him. By way"
"Starling tries to apprehend Lecter, but he overpowers her and she handcuffs both of them to the refrigerator in an attempt to keep him in the house before the imminent arrival of the police. Lecter then cuts off his own hand and escapes, leaving Starling to explain the situation to the police. He is later seen on a plane, apparently fleeing the country again. Although she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Starling in ""The Silence of the Lambs"", Jodie Foster decided not to reprise her role in ""Hannibal"". Julianne Moore portrayed the character in the sequel,"
"Hannibal Lecter Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a character in a series of suspense novels by Thomas Harris. Lecter was introduced in the 1981 thriller novel ""Red Dragon"" as a forensic psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. The novel and its sequel, ""The Silence of the Lambs"", feature Lecter as one of the primary antagonists after the two serial killers in both novels. In the third novel, ""Hannibal"", Lecter becomes a protagonist. His role as the antihero occurs in the fourth novel, ""Hannibal Rising"", which explores his childhood and development into a serial killer. The first film adapted from the Harris novels"
"said of Harris, ""All he is is a talent of the first rank."" Thomas Harris William Thomas Harris III (born September 22, 1940) is an American writer, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter. All of his works have been made into films, the most notable being ""The Silence of the Lambs"", which became only the third film in Academy Award history to sweep the Oscars in major categories. Harris was born in Jackson, Tennessee, but moved as a child with his family to Rich, Mississippi. He was introverted and bookish in"
"In the case of Gumb's first victim, Fredrica Bimmel, he weighed down her body, so she ends up being the third victim found. In the case of the fourth victim, he shoots her instead of strangling her, then inserts a moth into her throat and dumps the body. At the start of the novel, Gumb has already murdered five women. Behavioral Science Unit Chief Jack Crawford assigns gifted trainee Clarice Starling to question incarcerated serial killer Hannibal Lecter about the case. (Lecter had met Gumb while treating Raspail.) When Gumb kidnaps Catherine Martin, the daughter of U.S. Senator Ruth Martin,"
"expresses skepticism at the genuineness of the offer. After Starling leaves, Lecter reminisces on the past, recalling a conversation with Benjamin Raspail, a former patient whom he had eventually murdered. During therapy sessions, Raspail told Lecter about a former lover, Jame Gumb: after Raspail left Gumb and began dating a sailor named Klaus, Gumb became jealous and murdered Klaus, using his skin to make an apron. Raspail also revealed that Gumb had an epiphany upon watching a moth hatch. Lecter's ruminations are interrupted when Dr. Frederick Chilton – the asylum's administrator and Lecter's self-styled nemesis – steps in. A listening"
"episode's title is a semi-joking reference to the 1991 horror thriller ""The Silence of the Lambs"" and the 1988 novel of the same name on which the film was based. The film, the novel, and the episode all deal with serial killers and the brave female detectives who hunt them down (in the case of ""The Silence of the Lambs"", this character is Clarice Starling). Among this episode's guest stars include Tina Majorino, who makes her second appearance on the show (after ""Like a Virgin"") and Aaron Paul, who would later receive three Primetime Emmy Award wins for his performance"
"highest bestselling novel in 1999. Hannibal (Harris novel) Hannibal is a novel by American author Thomas Harris, published in 1999. It is the third in his series featuring Dr. Hannibal Lecter and the second to feature FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. The novel takes place seven years after the events of ""The Silence of the Lambs"" and deals with the intended revenge of one of Lecter's victims. It was adapted as a film of the same name in 2001, directed by Ridley Scott. Elements of the novel were incorporated into the second season of the NBC television series ""Hannibal"", while"
"has found; however, Gumb escapes into his basement. Starling, armed only with a revolver but aware that calling for backup will result in Catherine's death, follows him down, and kills him after a protracted chase. Catherine is returned to her family unharmed. Starling receives a congratulatory telegram from Lecter, who hopes that ""the lambs have stopped screaming"" and indicates that he has no plans to pursue her. He also predicts correctly that saving Catherine Martin may have granted Clarice some relief, but that the silence will never become eternal, heralding her motives for a continued career at the FBI. Clarice"
"in film and literature, sometimes incorporating a hybrid of traditional psychopaths from early film and late-19th century literature with the high-functioning behaviors detected in some serial killers. The psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter, most notably portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the Academy Award-winning 1991 film ""The Silence of the Lambs"", is perhaps the most infamous fictional psychopath of the 20th century. Lecter is intelligent and sophisticated (whereas psychopathy is generally associated with lower than average verbal intelligence), and his disarming charisma and wit disguise his true nature as a serial killer. He spends most of the film"
"following years. Rob Reiner's ""Misery"" (1990), based on a book by Stephen King, featured Kathy Bates as an unbalanced fan who terrorizes an incapacitated author (James Caan) who is in her care. Other films include Curtis Hanson's ""The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"" (1992) and ""Unlawful Entry"" (1992), starring Ray Liotta. Detectives/FBI agents hunting down a serial killer was another popular motif in the 1990s. A famous example is Jonathan Demme's Best Picture–winning crime thriller ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991)—in which young FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) engages in a psychological conflict with a cannibalistic psychiatrist named Hannibal"
"Candice DeLong Candice DeLong (born July 16, 1950) is a former FBI criminal profiler and criminologist. DeLong was the lead profiler in San Francisco, California, and worked on the Unabomber case. Currently, she hosts the Investigation Discovery programs ""Deadly Women"" and ""Facing Evil with Candice DeLong"". She has often been compared to the protagonist of the movie ""The Silence of the Lambs"", Clarice Starling. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, DeLong is the daughter of a building contractor father and a homemaker mother. Growing up, DeLong stated that her father had told her to choose a practical career. Before entering"
"Hannibal (Harris novel) Hannibal is a novel by American author Thomas Harris, published in 1999. It is the third in his series featuring Dr. Hannibal Lecter and the second to feature FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. The novel takes place seven years after the events of ""The Silence of the Lambs"" and deals with the intended revenge of one of Lecter's victims. It was adapted as a film of the same name in 2001, directed by Ridley Scott. Elements of the novel were incorporated into the second season of the NBC television series ""Hannibal"", while the show's third season adapted"
"Clarice Starling Clarice M. Starling is a fictional character who appears in the novels ""The Silence of the Lambs"" and ""Hannibal"" by Thomas Harris. In the film adaptation of ""The Silence of the Lambs"", she was played by Jodie Foster, while in the film adaptation of ""Hannibal"", she was played by Julianne Moore. Clarice Starling, as portrayed by Foster, was ranked the sixth greatest protagonist in film history on AFI's ""100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains"", making her the highest-ranking heroine. In 1991, for her portrayal of Starling she also received the Academy Award for Best Actress. In ""The Silence of"
"Marlowe family. In this continuity, Dolarhyde and Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) communicate directly by telephone, and Dolarhyde's inner discussions with the Dragon are instead depicted as therapy sessions with Lecter. In the series finale, ""The Wrath of the Lamb"", Lecter and Graham (Hugh Dancy) kill Dolarhyde together; Graham stabs him, while Lecter bites his throat out. Harris loosely based Francis Dolarhyde on the then-unidentified serial killer known as ""BTK"" (Bind, Torture, Kill), who at the time of the book's publication was terrorizing Kansas with a series of murders, beginning with the murder of an entire family in their own home. Like"
"as Robert Ford in the HBO sci-fi series ""Westworld"". Hopkins played Autobot ally Sir Edmund Burton in """", which was released in June 2017. Perhaps Hopkins' most famous role is as the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in ""The Silence of the Lambs"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1991, with Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, who also won for Best Actress. The film won Best Picture, Best Director and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and Hopkins also picked up his first BAFTA for Best Actor. Hopkins reprised his role as Lecter twice; in"
"not exhibit any other of the criteria traditionally associated with sociopathy; Graham explains that psychiatrists refer to Lecter as a sociopath because ""they don't know what else to call him"". In the film adaptation of ""The Silence of the Lambs"", protagonist Clarice Starling says of Lecter, ""They don't have a name for what he is."" Lecter's pathology is explored in greater detail in ""Hannibal"" and ""Hannibal Rising"", which explains that he was traumatized as a child in Lithuania in 1944 when he witnessed the murder and cannibalism of his beloved sister, Mischa, by a group of deserting Lithuanian Hilfswillige, one"
"was ""Manhunter"" (based on ""Red Dragon"") which features Brian Cox as Lecter, spelled ""Lecktor"". In 1991, Anthony Hopkins won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the character in ""The Silence of the Lambs"". He would reprise the role in ""Hannibal"" in 2001 and in a second adaptation of ""Red Dragon"" made in 2002 under the original title. The NBC television series ""Hannibal"" debuted in 2013, and focuses on the development of the relationship between Lecter and Will Graham, an FBI profiler. In the series, Lecter is portrayed by Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, who won a Saturn Award for his"
"According to James Fox, filmmaker Donald Cammell ""...looked upon violence as an artist might look on paint. [He asked:] What are its components? What's its nature? Its glamour?"" Thomas Harris created a fictional character called Hannibal Lecter, a cannibal and aesthete killer. In the films adapted from his work, ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991) and ""Hannibal"" (2001), directors Jonathan Demme and Ridley Scott, respectively intentionally generate excitement and anticipation when Lecter is about to kill (and eat) a victim. Lecter was portrayed by Anthony Hopkins. In David Lynch's ""Blue Velvet"" (1986), the villain of the film, Frank Booth, is"
"Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. It stars Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter. In 2005, comedian-musicians Jon and Al Kaplan parodied the story, especially the film, in ""Silence! The Musical"". It premiered Off-Off-Broadway and has since had productions in London and Los Angeles. In 2012, the Los Angeles production won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle awards for Score, Lead Performance, and Choreography. The Silence of the Lambs (novel) The Silence of the Lambs is a novel by Thomas Harris. First published in 1988, it is the sequel to Harris' 1981 novel ""Red Dragon""."
"Hannibal Lecter (franchise) The ""Hannibal Lecter"" franchise is an American media franchise that features the titular character, Hannibal Lecter, who originally appeared in a series of novels (starting with ""Red Dragon"" in 1981) by Thomas Harris. The series has since expanded into film and television. The first adaptation was the 1986 film ""Manhunter"", which was an adaptation of ""Red Dragon"", directed by Michael Mann. The next adaptation was 1991's ""The Silence of the Lambs"", which was directed by Jonathan Demme and was the first film to feature Anthony Hopkins in the role of Hannibal Lecter. ""Silence"" was a success, both"
"whom Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel ""The Jungle"" chronicles the life of the Lithuanian community in Chicago and the treatment of workers in the Chicago Stockyards. The second, Hannibal Lecter, the villain of ""The Silence of the Lambs"" and ""Hannibal"", was born in Lithuania but later moved to the United States and took U.S. citizenship. Marko Ramius, the Soviet submarine captain in ""The Hunt for Red October"", is also described as ""Lithuanian by birth"" and as the ""Vilnius Schoolmaster"". Chicago, Illinois, is home to the second largest population of Lithuanians in the world, and the old ""Lithuanian Downtown"" in Bridgeport was"
"persists, and in ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991), Agent Starling (Jodie Foster) meets Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) for the first time and passes the cell of ""Multiple Miggs"", who says to Starling: ""I can smell your cunt."" In versions of the film edited for television the word is dubbed with the word scent. The 2010 film ""Kick-Ass"" caused a controversy when the word was used by Hit-Girl because the actress playing the part, Chloë Grace Moretz, was 11 years old at the time of filming. In Britain, use of the word ""cunt"" may result in an ""18"" rating"