It is later revealed, however, that Crawford's real motive in sending Starling was to see if the always astute Lecter could shed light on the serial killer known as Buffalo Bill, whose sixth victim had recently been discovered, skinned in places like the others, but also, as Starling later discovers, containing a Death's Head moth cocoon lodged in her throat, a rare species that would have been imported from Asia. Hannibal Lecter and persuade him to fill out a questionnaire. The aforementioned Starling, a particularly bright student at Quantico with aspirations of joining Behavioral Sciences, is selected by the department chief Jack Crawford to interview Dr. If you're a fan of the film and you've never read the book, I would highly recommend doing so-it will reshape your understanding of Clarice as a character. Most of you probably know the plot to SOTL by this point, but just in case you don't, here's a brief summary: Now, with all that out of the way, let's jump right in.

But as the TV show never formally adapted SOTL (yet.), we'll leave behind any further discussion of resemblances between Hannibal and the novel. That being said, it should be noted that many elements (and in some cases, verbatim exchanges of dialogue) from Harris's novel were borrowed by Bryan Fuller and company in Hannibal, including a subplot concerning Jack Crawford's wife Bella and her battle with cancer, as well as the character Miriam Lass (Anna Chlumsky), who in many ways echoes Starling-both are FBI trainees, tasked with 'interesting errands' by Jack Crawford, both of which involve interviewing Hannibal Lecter.

This time around, we'll be dealing with only one adaptation, the 1991 Oscar darling written for the screen by Ted Tally and directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Jodie Foster as protagonist Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins in his first appearance as Hannibal Lecter, a role for which he is perhaps most recognized. Now, with 2015 nearing an end-the year in which the aforementioned television show said goodbye (for now)-we're ready to move ahead into Thomas Harris's sequel to Red Dragon, perhaps the most famous and revered of all Lecter properties, The Silence of the Lambs (or SOTL). Last month, I took a look at the first of four novels featuring the character Hannibal Lecter, Red Dragon, as it related to its two screen adaptations, Manhunter and the Brett Ratner film of the same name, as well as the TV series Hannibal, which I felt handled the material the best.

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