Character Analysis of Buffalo Bill in the Film Silence of the Lambs Essay

The silence of the lambs is an American thriller that blends crime and horror genre. It was produced in 1991 with the help of its director Jonathan Demme. The stars of the movie are Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glen and Ted Levine. The movie was based on the novel that had been written by Thomas Harris which he had featured Dr. Hannibal Lecter a famous psychiatrist and a cannibal serial killer(Harris, 1991).Clarice sterling (Jodie Foster), according to the movie is a young FBI trainee. Jack Crawford pulls her from the FBI Academy training. This academy was in Quantico, Virginia. Jack (Glenn), was from the Bureau Behavioral Scientist Unit. Therefore, she was given a task to interview Hannibal Lecter who was a serial killer, to ensure that the information that she is given according to where about of another serial killer known as Buffalo Bill (Levine) will be of help to apprehend him(Harris, 1991). This Buffalo bill was accused of skinning his female victims' corpse. The movie became very famous making it acquire five major academy awards. It was offered best picture, best actor (Foster), best actor (Hopkins) best director (Demme) and the best-adapted screen play (Ted Tally). Characterization of Buffalo Bill (Jame Gumb)According to Demme 1991, Buffalo Bill is portrayed to be a great skimmer who in his capacity is capable of disguising his identity through skinning women. He makes FBI get a lot of problem in tracing him. Furthermore, in his pursuit to disguise himself, he is seen to be a tailor making women dresses that show him as a transsexual. In his tailoring project, he makes suits of his female victims' skins. This ensures that he in untraceable making the FBI personnel use his serial killer and cannibal counterpart Lecter.He does anything to ensure that he kills. Through his disguising aspects, he is capable of dodging around the FBI personnel who had all the resources to ensure that he is...

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