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    Unlike a lot of viewers, I first saw The Silence of the Lambs at five years old. So, for me, The Silence of the Lambs is a childhood favorite. Some would say I had an unusual childhood, in this age where some people actually avoid R-rated movies like the plague. The fact that I saw Something Wild, which Jonathan Demme directed five years before The Silence of the Lambs, as well as the original Alien (alone at that), at the same age probably indicates that they were okay with me watching pretty much

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    ART 105: Film as Art Critique One Silence of the Lambs: Eating Other Movies with Fava Beans and a Nice Chianti Silence of the Lambs is viewed as one of the greatest horror-thriller films, as it has won Academy Awards in all the top five categories: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Adapted Screenplay. Some of the people in our ART 105 class might not even want to see this movie due to its realism of such a dark and painful story, as well as some of the graphic material

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    ways into a conniving and irrational person. In the story “Lamb to the Slaughter” Mary Maloney is going about her day and comes home from the grocery store and “claiming” she had no idea what had happened to her poor husband. Even if someone acts normal like nothing has happened they might just be guilty under that facade. In the case of Mary Maloney, after she retrieves bad news from her husband she goes and retrieves a frozen leg of lamb, and sneaks up behind her husband and hits him on the head

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    The short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, is about a pregnant wife whose husband comes home, and shares shocking news with Mary Maloney, his wife. Mary grabs a leg of lamb from the freezer and comes back and kills her husband, Patrick. The police come to investigate, but they eat the lamb that was used to kill Patrick. Dahl uses dramatic irony and symbolism to reveal common sense goes out the window when it comes to illegal matter. Dahl’s use of dramatic irony reveals that common

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    ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ is about the pursuit of a serial killer who skins and kills his victims. To help catch this serial killer, a young FBI trainee is sent to confide in Hannibal Lecter, another psychopath who eats and kills his victims. The reviews that I have chosen to discuss commend the film, and talk about different aspects. Vincent Canby praises the performance of the actors, and the dialogue. Desmond Ryan praises the film for having a unique storyline, setting it apart from other films

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    The story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl has many strong examples of literary elements and writer’s craft, most prominently dramatic irony, images, and symbolism. The author’s writing style focuses on many descriptive images. An excellent example of this is in the first paragraph of the story when the author describes the main character and setting. “The room was warm, and clean, the curtains drawn, the two lamps alight - hers and the one by the empty chair opposite… Mary Maloney was waiting

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    Demme’s 1991 blockbuster, The Silence of the Lambs commanded movie theatres, proving a popular film with vast audiences from around the world. The horror narrative unstitches at the complex notions of gender and sexuality with skin becoming the signpost for these topics. ‘Skin … becomes a kind of metonym for the human and its colour, its pallor, its shape mean everything within a semiotic of monstrosity.’ (Halberstam, 1995, p6) The Silence of the Lambs is a tale of the young, female, FBI agent Clarice

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    Silence of the lambs is about an FBI agent trainee Clarice Starling. She is called in for a job to interview a psychopathic killer Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal the cannibal) in his psychiatric jail cell. Hannibal Lecter is defined by the president of Baltimore State forensic Hospital as a “monster.” The movie consists of regular meetings between Clarice and Hannibal to solve the case of Buffalo Bill who has killed multiple young women. I think what Jonathan Demme was trying to tell us is about the

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    The Silence of the Lambs is a film starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, and Ted Levine. The setting takes place at an FBI training academy in Quantico. The genre of the movie is horror. The movie begins with Clarice Sterling being pulled out from her FBI training by Jack Crawford for a new assignment; interviewing Hannibal Lector, a former psychiatrist who has been in solitude for multiple years due to his cannibalistic serial killing. Crawford believes gaining insight on Lector’s

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    The Silence of the lambs (1991) is in doubt a film which demonstrates a well-constructed horror film. The film, ranging with scenes, shots, and frames that were well constructed to be identified as horrific. The films cinematography shifts the films narrative and impacts the film, especially the film’s frames. It seems reasonable to suppose that from the film’s frames and of those of the characters expressions, they shape the film’s genre to be horrifying, psychological, and thrilling and they guide

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