Name: 沉默的羔羊--有什麼不同？ (The Silence of the Lambs - What's the Difference?)
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all you weirdos having fava beans and a nice Chianti on your Thanksgiving tables.

It's time to get into Jonathan Demme's 1991 masterpiece,

we'll also be talking about Thomas Harris' 1988 novel of the same name.

I say Amarone because that's a difference between the two.

The most iconic line from the movie changed the wine Lecter chose to

pair with fava beans and some dude's liver.

because apparently Amarone is a way better option to go with liver than a Chianti.

But we're getting way ahead of ourselves.

>> And without further ado, and no restraint on spoilers, its time to ask-

>> No, no, that's weird, we'll just start by asking, what's the difference?

Silence of the Lambs is the second of four Hannibal Lecter books.

Following Red Dragon from 1981 and preceding Hannibal in 1999 and

And a small superficial difference is that Silence of the Lambs refers to

What happened to special agent Will Graham, in particular.

>> And while Michael Mann's Manhunter was an adaptation of Red Dragon released in

1986, five years prior to Jonathan Demme's film.

Silence of the Lambs makes no reference to Will Graham, or the events of Red Dragon.

Other than that, Silence of the Lambs is a remarkably faithful adaptation.

The story of FBI trainee Clarice Starling and the murdering genius, Dr.

Hannibal the Cannibal Lecter follows many of the same beats.

the film opens with Jodi Foster's Clarice running through an FBI training course.

An instructor interrupts her routine, sending her to meet with Jack Crawford,

head of the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Division.

>> It's not a job really, more of an interesting errand.

>> And the movie continues to do this for all of the key scenes.

>> Do you know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes?

>> Do you ever go out for cheese burgers and beer or the amusing house wine?

>> I'm ready when you are, Sergeant Pembry.

>> Even the tucking thing is pulled verbatim from the book.

Just one way, one seemingly minor, but significant way.

Well, two ways, the character back stories and the timing is a little different.

And even those two things are kind of connected, so you know what?

In both the book and the movie, she's a young female trainee thrust into the male

dominated world of a major FBI investigation.

In the book, we have access to her inner monologue.

All the anger and resentment at the men around her,

>> In the movie, though, her struggle is set up with a brilliant visual scheme.

The movie literally starts with her struggling to run uphill,

and gives way immediately to direct address.

Men looking directly to camera making us feel as uncomfortable under the male gaze

It's a through line through the entire film that sets up a terrifying climax

in a way that, frankly, deserves its own video.

Let me know in the comments, by the way, if you want to see that.

Jonathan Demme's camera work adapts Starling's inner monologue perfectly.

The real difference with Starling is her back story.

Movie Starling, as part of her prid pro quo agreement with Dr. Lecter.

Reveals that she was orphaned when her father, a town Marshall,

And after being sent to her mother's cousin's sheep and horse ranch,

she ran away with a lamb trying to save it from slaughter.

>> They were slaughtering these spring lambs.

>> The rancher was furious with her after she returned, so

>> Book Starling's story is the roughly the same, but for a few key elements.

First, her father was more of a nighttime security guard and

He pumped his shotgun incorrectly allowing the burglars to get the drop on him.

couldn't make ends meet enough to support all of her children.

So that's why she sent Clarice to live on the ranch.

Thirdly, Clarice was still haunted by the crying of the lambs.

But she ran away with a blind horse instead,

saving the horse from becoming either glue or dog food.

Half riding it, half leading it through the wilderness,

eventually, she wound up in an orphanage.

And instead of being returned to the ranch,

she was allowed to just stay there with her blind horse.

The horse actually ended up living a long and comfortable life, and

it let little orphans ride it, and it tilled a small garden.

It was just a year prior to the events of the book that it ended up dying in its

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