<h1>The Silence of the Lambs is a crime thriller film directed by Jonathan Demi and starring Judy Foster, Anthony Hopkins and Brooke Smith, released in the United States on February 14, 1991. </h1>
<h1>Adapted from Thomas Harris's novel of the same name, the film tells the story of intern agent Clarice, who travels to a prison to visit Dr. Hannibal, a psychiatrist, in order to follow the clues of the murderous wild bison Bill, and finally finds the bison Bill and kills him. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture and the French César Award for Best Foreign Film. </h1>
Behind the scenes of The Silence of the Lambs.
The film's story is inspired by the real-life experiences of Keppel, a criminal expert at the University of Washington, and serial killer Ted Bundy. Bundy was helping Professor Keppel investigate the Green River serial killer. In January 1989, Bundy was executed. The real Green River killers were only captured in 2001.
When the screenwriter of this film wrote the script, he originally expected Judy Foster to play the heroine of the play. In addition, Emma Thompson was also one of the candidates to play the heroine, but when Jonathan Demi took over the film, he thought Foster was not suitable and wanted to be played by Michelle Pfeiffer. But Michelle Pfeiffer refused to perform because the film was too bloody, and then reintroduced Judy Foster.
The film is based on three real-life serial killers, Ed Gaine, who loves to skin people, Ted Bundy, who lures the murdered women into a van, and Gary Heidenick, who imprisons the kidnapped women in the cellar, gene Hackman bought the filming rights, not only to direct himself, but also to play the role of Jack Crawford, and after "Mississippi is Burning", he was deeply worried about his own violent role, so he gave up filming.
A skeleton appears on the butterfly in the film's poster. If you look closely, you can see that the skulls are actually three, seven in another version, which is very similar to Philip Halsman's photographs taken in 1951 inspired by Dalí paintings.
Most of the FBI agents and criminals in the film are taken from life prototypes. Before filming, all the main creators went to the FBI to experience life. The heroine is played by Judy Foster there to meet his grievances. Federal Agent Mary Klaus's film is a classic that profoundly reflects the problem of crime in American society.
The story of the film inherits the tradition of Hollywood horror films, but the narrative method breaks through the mode of horror films, using Hitchcock-style suspense and the psychological analysis method of modern horror films, making the plot of the whole film confusing. Introduces the viewer into a world of the symbolic human subconscious.
Anthony Hopkins, who plays Hannibal Lecter in the film, appears in the film for only sixteen minutes. But with this sixteen-minute wonderful performance, it became the shortest performance to win the Oscar for Best Actor. And Hannibal in the film once had a "check the same temptation to me, I am a silkworm pupae and wine to eat his dry." This line ranks 21st in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 lines.
The film was originally scheduled to be released in the fall of 1990, but the distributors postponed the release date of the film to 1991 in order to support "Dance with Wolves" for the Oscars. The film's distribution company later declared bankruptcy, but still spent $200,000 on the film to be selected for the Oscars. The film lived up to expectations and won four Oscars: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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