The Influence Of Hannibal Lecter In The Silence Of The Lambs

While The Silence of the Lambs focuses mainly on Hannibal Lecter, the cannibalistic prisoner who offers to help FBI agent Clarice Starling on a serial-killer case, I want to first talk about Jame Gumb, aka Buffalo Bill. Although the movie is fictitious, Buffalo Bill’s method of kidnapping and murdering women was clearly influenced by many different serial killers, but not everyone realizes that the strange movie characters were based on real life serial murderer. Thomas Harris got the motivation to write the novel that would inspire this film after meeting FBI agent John E. Douglas, who is known as one of the godfathers of criminal profiling. While attending Douglas’ lecture, Harris learned about three infamous serial killers: Ted Bundy, Gary M. Heidnik and Ed Gein. These three men all played significant

He did however exhibit part of the Mc’Donalds triad with his cruelty to animals, but it is said that he did not portray any other condition associated with psychopathy, Clairice states in the movie that “there’s no word for what he is.” Lecter would be labeled as an organized killer, He is portrayed as being intellectually brilliant, cultured and sophisticated, with refined tastes in art, and music. He is obviously well-educated and speaks several languages, and he does not like people with bad attitudes, they are the ones most likely to end up being his victims. We talked about how the serial killer is more mad than bad, or that he is simply evil. I think this is portrayed in his character where as he was a successful intelligent doctor who really had no reason to kill other than simply enjoying it. He was not a mission killer because there was not a specific type or group of people that he targeted. Nor was he a vision killer because he was not deemed insane, and he was also not a hedonistic killer seeing as he was never sexually involved with his