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    That Help a Film Portray a Suspenseful Mood I believe that Silence of the Lambs was the most suspenseful movie we have watched. There were many things in the movie that messed with one's mind and made them see or believe things that weren’t there. Camera angles, lighting, and the tone of a character's voice can help add suspense to a film. Also, the amount of irony that was in the film made the viewer be on their toes the whole time. The Silence of the Lambs could possibly make one have nightmares or

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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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    the first film, The Silence of the Lambs. Despite the comparison, the director, Brett Ratner, does a brilliant job of piecing the Red

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    The Silence of The Lambs      Clarice Starling, a student preparing for a life in the FBI, hunts a serial killer by use of vague information given to her by an incarcerated psychologist. Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter relays information to Clarice in exchange for information about herself. The killer, known only as "Buffalo Bill", kidnaps large women, keeps them alive for a few days, and finally skins them. Clarice works against time as Buffalo Bill takes his newest victim, a U.S. Senator's

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    The Silence of the Lambs is a suspenseful movie about a serial killer nicknamed “Buffalo Bill” and the lengths a student FBI agent will go to catch him. Clarice Starling, played by Jodi Foster, is a rising star in the FBI academy given the task of interviewing Dr. Hannibal Lector, played by Sir Anthony Hopkins. Dr. Lector is a once prominent forensic psychologist turned serial killer. Quickly, the articulate Lector gains the trust of Starling and sees through to her past. Eager to get ahead and

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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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    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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    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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    if you like a faithful adaptation, Silence of the Lambs is a great film that follows the novel most of the time and is a great production in itself. That’s also one of the reasons why it won the Big Five academy awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. The novel was written in 1988 by Thomas Harris and is a sequel to the novel Red Dragon. Its film adaptation was directed by John Demme and was released in 1991. The screenplay was done by Ted Tally. Silence of the Lambs is about Clarice Starling

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    The “Silence of the Lambs” directed by Jonathan Demme based on the story by Ted Tally, is a psychological thriller film that involves the main character(s) Clarice Starling, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, and Jamie Gumb. Most of the story in the film takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1989-90s. In the film, Jodie Foster played the female protagonist Clarice Starling, an F.B.I agent who worked in the behavioral science unit; which was assigned to confide and interrogate an incarcerated killer to receive

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