Talk:The Silence of the Lambs

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• Hannibal - the third of the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, made into the film of the same name by Ridley Scott. (should the link be Hannibal (novel) or Hannibal (film)?)

I've expanded a great deal on the plot summary, although I think I got carried away and virtually wrote the book! Feel free to cut it down anyone, if you think it's a bit too detailed.

Contents 1 Category "Films directed by Jonathan Demme" really needed? 2 Is the reference to Kansas City in Kansas? or Missouri? 3 Comparison to the Source 4 Filming Locations 5 Music in the Movie 6 Novel references removed 7 Cheap Seats 8 Influences Section

[edit] Category "Films directed by Jonathan Demme" really needed?

This article has too many categories . Shouldn't we stop at 3 or so? Why is the category "Films directed by Jonathan Demme" needed if we can click the name of the director in the main text and get a nice list of all his films there as well? Sounds like doing the same things twice to me. Peter S. 11:17, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

I can see your point -- but it seems odd to deliberatly leave his most famous film out of the Films directed by Jonathan Demme category. I think a better solution would be to split the article, with one focusing on the book and one focusing on the movie. (That's how Beloved is treated.) -- Scarequotes 01:38, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

No, you got me wrong there: I was suggesting that generally, we don't need categories like "Films directed by X" or "Films starring Y". We should remove them all to remove clutter. No info is lost, because the article pages of X or Y already contain that very same information as part of their filmography. Peter S. 19:08, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Is the reference to Kansas City in Kansas? or Missouri?

I believe it is in Missouri. A movie review gives the state as Missouri.

In the screenplay, we see this line of dialog:

CAMPBELL (contd.):   Blue square for Belvedere, Ohio, where the Bimmel girl was abducted. Blue triangle where her body was found - down here in Missouri. Same marks for the other four girls, in different colors. This new one, today... washed up here.

(He marks with a Flair pen)

Elk River, in West Virginia, about six miles below U.S. 79. Real boonies.

There are only two instances of the word "Kansas" in the entire screenplay. One is about how the Kansas City police named Buffalo Bill, and the other is Clarice saying "We're not in Kansas any more". So the only reference to either of these states in which a murder took place (and so you would expect the police force to investigate) was Kansas City, Missouri. So I'll go ahead and disambiguate the link to Missouri.
--GraemeMcRae^talk 05:44, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Comparison to the Source

I changed "Differences in the film version" to Comparison to the Source because I feel that it better depicts the topic of the section. --Sfox1125 15:39, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Filming Locations

In the locations of filming it gives Ohio as the primary location. However other sources I have consulted give many locations as Pittsburgh. This is certainly close to Ohio, and there were many locations filmed in Ohio. I'm not attacking the veracity of the statement; however the Soldiers and Sailors Museum is located in Pittsburgh. I believe the original author confused this with the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial (much smaller, more of a victory column), which is located in Ohio. Also I believe the building that stands in for Chesapeake Mental Hospital is also in Pittsburgh. My sole point, in so many words is that this article needs its facts checked and then edited accordingly.

• I changed the location listed in the article to Pittsburgh. Prospective students of the University of Pittsburgh are told by tour guides that parts of the movie were filmed at that particular memorial hall (which is on the university's campus), and I recognized the exterior of the building in the film- it is the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial in Pittsburgh.

[edit] Music in the Movie

The song Goodbye Horses by Q Lazzarus is playing while "Buffalo Bill" is trying on his skin suit.

[edit] Novel references removed

I removed all references to things from the novel that were not in the movie and changed some accordingly. Moved the previous plot to the novel article —☆ CieloEstrellado 22:02, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cheap Seats

There were some references to it in an episode of Cheap Seats.

[edit] Influences Section

While Buffalo Bill may share some characteristics of a few serial killers, he is only based on three: Ted Bundy, Gary Heidnik, and Ed Gein. The references to Chikatilo and Kemper, while interesting are irrelevant in regards to this film. I propose that the Influences section be cleaned up, and steamlined.