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| Title: | Harris, Thomas: The Silence of the Lambs | |
| Description: | The bestseller by Thomas Harris was adapted to film by Jonathan Demme in 1991. | |
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| Author: | Harald Krapfenbauer | |
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The Silence of the Lambs / Thomas Harris
Vocabulary:
to mutilate - verstümmeln
moth - Nachtfalter, Motte
chrysalis - Puppe, Kokon
investigation - Ermittlung
urbane - weltmännisch
savage - unzivilisiert, gefährlich
# MAIN
CHARACTERS:
Clarice Starling: A potential
FBI agent who is about to complete her training.
Hannibal Lecter: He once has
been a brilliant psychiatrist and is now imprisoned because of a fetish for
cannibalism.
Jame Gumb: criminal
psychopath who murders young women to sew clothes made of their skin. He is
named Buffalo Bill by the FBI as long as they don’t know his real
identity.
Special Agent Jack Crawford:
Section Chief, Starling’s boss. He is the most successful tracker of serial
killers at the FBI.
# PLOT:
A serial killer
named Buffalo Bill has killed and mutilated six young women who were found in
rivers. Clarice Starling is a young, ambitious FBI trainee who is pulled out of
school by her boss Jack Crawford to go on a special assignment: She has to
interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a very dangerous psychopathic killer, whose
nickname is "The Cannibal" because he likes to eat parts of his victims. Buffalo
Bill once had been Lecter’s patient and so the FBI hopes to find the criminal
through Lecter’s knowledge about him.
Lecter plays an
enigmatic game with Starling: While he provides her with snippets of data that
can lead her to the criminal, he systematically uncovers and enjoys her personal
fears.
During official
trips to the places where the victims were found, Starling and Crawford discover
moth’s chrysalises placed in the throats of the victims after they had been
killed and skinned.
Starling, who gets
an ID-Card and a speedloader for her work for the FBI, is running out of time
when Catherine Martin, the daughter of Senator Ruth Martin, is kidnapped and
Buffalo Bill is suspected for it.
Because the
Senator wants to speak personally to Hannibal Lecter, he is brought into another
prison by plane, but unfortunately he is able to escape in an ambulance car and
not imprisoned again.
While Jame Gumb
plans to skin Catherine, the analyze of a moth from a victim’s throat cannot
help the FBI to pick up the right trail. In spite of the risk getting recycled
at school, Clarice Starling visits the victim’s homes, because it’s the only
chance to find the killer. Without knowledge, she knocks on Buffalo Bill’s door
a few days later. She identifies him only when she notices a moth on his
pullover.
In the following
Clarice and Buffalo Bill chase each other around his basement, with all lights
out, but then she outwarts Bill and kills him by a shot in his lungs.
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