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Note that both Lecter in his prison cell and Buffalo Bill in his basement are arrived at by Starling after descending several flights of stairs and passing through several doors they live in underworlds. These parallel themes are mirrored by patterns in the visual strategy. And Lecter himself was a victim of child abuse (on the DVD commentary track, Demme says he regrets not underlining this more). Lecter is touched when he learns that Clarice lost both her parents at an early age, was shipped off to relatives, was essentially an unloved orphan.
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Both use their powers of persuasion to escape from their traps-Lecter is able to rid himself of the pest in the next cell by talking him into choking on his own tongue, and Clarice is able to persuade Lecter to aid her in the search for the serial killer named Buffalo Bill. Both feel powerless-Lecter because he is locked in a maximum security prison (and bound and gagged like King Kong when he is moved), and Clarice because she is surrounded by men who tower over her and fondle her with their eyes. Both are ostracized by the worlds they want to inhabit-Lecter, by the human race because he is a serial killer and a cannibal, and Clarice, by the law enforcement profession because she is a woman.
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It is also about two of the most memorable characters in movie history, Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter, and their strange, strained relationship (“people will say we're in love,” Lecter cackles). But “Silence of the Lambs” is not merely a thrill show. Fear is a universal emotion and a timeless one. Like “ Nosferatu,” “Psycho” and “ Halloween,” it illustrates that the best thrillers don't age.
"Session Man" won for best live-action short subject.The popularity of Jonathan Demme's movie is likely to last as long as there is a market for being scared. "In the Shadow of the Stars" won best documentary the story of chorus members at the San Francisco Opera, it's slated to be shown at the Baltimore Film Festival Friday at 9 p.m. Life is better," said the director, an irony since the award was presented by Sylvester Stallone, who has appeared in some of the most violent (and most profitable) war movies ever made. Roach started in silent films."Īn Italian film, "Mediterraneo," won the Oscar as the best foreign film. Then he presented the award to Robert Richardson, for "JFK." It also won for Best Editing.īut the best ad lib of the night went to Crystal who watched helplessly as 100-year-old Hal Roach, the legendary producer of the Our Gang and Laurel & Hardy comedies, spoke to the audience for a few seconds without a microphone. Politics interrupted the ceremony once when Richard Gere, presenting the Best Cinematography award, stepped briefly into the pulpit when he called for defense funds to be diverted into AIDS research and urged viewers to write their congressmen. "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," Hollywood's 1991 box office champion, won four technical awards - for sound, sound effects editing, makeup and visual effects. She also thanked, among others, the late New York producer Joseph Papp, for "nudging her into the light."Ĭallie Khouri, a first-time screenwriter, won the best original screenplay award for "Thelma & Louise." Miss Ruehl performed no one-handed push-ups but pointed out that the doleful memories of her struggle to become an actress had been magically transformed into charming anecdotes. Miss Ruehl, a first-time nominee, won for her role as Jeff Bridges' lover in "The Fisher King."
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He thus became the subject of a series of running gags from Crystal, who reported over the course of the evening that he had been sighted bungee jumping off the Hollywood sign in the Hollywood hills, or that he had won the New York state primary.
Palance had been nominated before for "Shane" and "Sudden Fear." Palance chided awards' host Billy Crystal, who starred in "City Slickers," "I crap better than him." Then, in one of the strangest acceptance performances of all time, the 72-year old actor performed a brace of one-handed push-ups on stage to show that he was still strong compared push-ups to sex and then told a story about a producer who had preĭicted he would win an Oscar - 42 years ago.
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