After an encounter with Hannibal Lecter at his cell, Clarice Starling takes a hint from him and goes to a place called "Your-Self" storage facility and searches one of the storage places. It happens to be the one designated for Benjamin Raspail, a former patient of Hannibal Lecter. It was prepaid for ten years and after searching, Clarice finds the patient's head, decapitated, in a large glass jar with makeup on it. She then goes back to Lecter's cell and proceeds to ask him who killed him. Lecter says, "Who can say," but in reality it was Lecter himself who did it and served his organs, (sweetbreads), to the symphony board - running true to form to his cannibalistic nature. As their conversation carries on we see a relationship beginning to develop between Clarice and Hannibal.
As the movie progresses, more bodies turn up due to the pathology of the killer known as "Buffalo Bill." Clarice has to go down to West Virginia where a body has turned up in Elk River with pieces of skin missing. Jack Crawford goes with her and the girls body is examined by Clarice as part of her training. After much work it is noticed that a pupa or pod is found inserted in the mouth of the girl. Clarice takes this back to Lecter and he says that this is a symbol of change which is exactly what Buffalo Bill is trying to do - change from man to woman.
By the way we should note that Buffalo Bill's real name is Jamie Gumm. Also all of the victims have had an Asian pupa inserted in their mouths. Buffalo Bill had probably applied for a sex change in the three hospitals that do this type of thing. Johns Hopkins, University of Minnesota and Columbus Medical Center. This type of personality has a pathology much more savage than what meets the eye.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Silence of the Lambs - Zodiac
Before we get any further into Silence of the Lambs I should mention that we're getting close to one of the murder dates of the Zodiac. One should be very careful when sleuthing around these sites because we can't be sure that the Zodiac might be alive and well and lurking around these places. One must remember that one of these murders occurred in daylight and that tends to lessen the fear. I myself don't own a gun but I would feel safer if I had one and had it on me when walking at these locations.
Also I feel I should thank Doctor "G" in Vallejo for this blog site and Noreen B. for the interview some months ago over the air.
Back to the Lambs. Hannibal Lecter was being interviewed by Clarice Starling and seemed to take a liking to her in doing so. He was more interested in her past history especially that of her late father. She offered him a fake offering to go to Lake Oneida which rang a bell with me because this lake is about 100 miles west of where I live and just about in the center of Upstate New York.
Also I feel I should thank Doctor "G" in Vallejo for this blog site and Noreen B. for the interview some months ago over the air.
Back to the Lambs. Hannibal Lecter was being interviewed by Clarice Starling and seemed to take a liking to her in doing so. He was more interested in her past history especially that of her late father. She offered him a fake offering to go to Lake Oneida which rang a bell with me because this lake is about 100 miles west of where I live and just about in the center of Upstate New York.
Monday, September 23, 2013
Zodiac & Silence of the Lambs
Two websites should be mentioned as a reminder pertaining to the Zodiac case and related subjects:
1. mk-zodiac.com
2. zodiaccodesolved.blogspot.com
3. Number one is for Ricardo Gomez and number two is for Daryll Lathers
It should be mentioned that Psycho, Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal can be compared to Zodiac in that the motivation for killing is quite similar. As I start with The Silence of the Lambs I'll try to interweave parts of it with the Zodiac. In the last story, Red Dragon, as Francis Dolarhyde was killing his victims not only was he becoming more and more psychotic and powerful like the Red Dragon but every time he was killing his grandmother in a symbolic way. He had a lot of strikes against him, especially his face and the way he looked.
Silence of the Lambs - 1991
The following note is taken from the MGM Hannibal Lecter Two - Pack.
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins deliver sensational, Oscar winning performances in this powerful "stunning" (Los Angeles Times) and "spellbinding" (The Hollywood Reporter) five time Academy Award Winner, when FBI agent Clarice Starling (Foster) is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins), whose fascination with the young woman is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling must confront her demons. and an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to stop it!
The serial killer, played by Ted Levine, is so convincing that he has you on the edge of your seat especially as the movie draws to the shocking finish.
As the movie starts Clarice Starling is in FBI training when her boss, Jack Crawford, takes her off an obstacle course and tells her that she is to interview Hannibal Lecter pertaining to a murder case involving a killer only known as "Buffalo Bill."
1. mk-zodiac.com
2. zodiaccodesolved.blogspot.com
3. Number one is for Ricardo Gomez and number two is for Daryll Lathers
It should be mentioned that Psycho, Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal can be compared to Zodiac in that the motivation for killing is quite similar. As I start with The Silence of the Lambs I'll try to interweave parts of it with the Zodiac. In the last story, Red Dragon, as Francis Dolarhyde was killing his victims not only was he becoming more and more psychotic and powerful like the Red Dragon but every time he was killing his grandmother in a symbolic way. He had a lot of strikes against him, especially his face and the way he looked.
Silence of the Lambs - 1991
The following note is taken from the MGM Hannibal Lecter Two - Pack.
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins deliver sensational, Oscar winning performances in this powerful "stunning" (Los Angeles Times) and "spellbinding" (The Hollywood Reporter) five time Academy Award Winner, when FBI agent Clarice Starling (Foster) is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins), whose fascination with the young woman is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling must confront her demons. and an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to stop it!
The serial killer, played by Ted Levine, is so convincing that he has you on the edge of your seat especially as the movie draws to the shocking finish.
As the movie starts Clarice Starling is in FBI training when her boss, Jack Crawford, takes her off an obstacle course and tells her that she is to interview Hannibal Lecter pertaining to a murder case involving a killer only known as "Buffalo Bill."
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Silence Of The Lambs
Before I start talking about Silence Of The Lambs you might remember how they trap serial killers by the coveting method. Well - Red Dragon is a good example. Where could you view different women at pool parties than at a color film processing company. Francis Dolarhyde had the perfect job for this type of perversion. As a matter of fact there are similar types going about this criminal type of activity right now. I believe the Hippa laws would apply.
By the way, It's quite possible that a dozen or more people in the City of Vallejo, California actually know who the Zodiac is or was. We've talked about this a few times before but it bears repeating. Just the mere mentioning of the Hippa laws. I repeat, just the fact that one mentions this type of activity almost assures us that it is occurring at the present time. People usually mention, one way or another, what's going on in their minds. We are not too far from the truth most of the time
By the way, It's quite possible that a dozen or more people in the City of Vallejo, California actually know who the Zodiac is or was. We've talked about this a few times before but it bears repeating. Just the mere mentioning of the Hippa laws. I repeat, just the fact that one mentions this type of activity almost assures us that it is occurring at the present time. People usually mention, one way or another, what's going on in their minds. We are not too far from the truth most of the time
Red Dragon - Hannibal
The next scene is the Graham's house in Marathon, Florida. Will and his wife and Josh are roasting marshmallows when Josh wants more and goes back to the house to get some. He's gone for a long time so Will goes to check. At the same time Jack Crawford calls and says Dolarhyde shot Mandy in the head and escaped from the fire himself. Since Hannibal gave Francis D. their address, it's likely that he's headed for Marathon to kill the family. When Will goes in the house, he finds the mirrors broken and Francis holding Josh with a knife to his throat. Will drops his gun and intimidates Josh by using the same phrases that Francis' grandmother used on Francis. This works and Francis lets Josh go and goes after Will. They fight and Will stabs Francis in the leg. Will's wife comes up the stairs and Will says to her, "Get down," and he shoots Francis. Will is wounded and so is Francis but Will tells his wife to kill him. She does and that's the end of the story.
Monday, September 16, 2013
Red Dragon - Hannibal
After forcing Freddie Lounds to read a long paragraph on tape Dolarhyde then proceeds to bite Freddie's toung off while he screams and then he soaks him with gasoline and lights him afire and rolls him down the parking lot of the Tattler much to the alarm of those standing in the parking lot.
After Will's last visit, Hannibal proceeds to get the telephone number of Will's boss and coerces the lady to give him the home address of the Graham family in Marathon, Florida. He pretends to be a publishing company executive which seems to work very well. Hannibal then communicates with Francis Dolarhyde by means of the personal section of the National Tattler and after much hard work the FBI manages to get the cipher message which says, blah, blah, "kill them all." Jack Crawford calls Will on the phone and alerts him which results in the FBI going into action and they move Molly and Will's small son to Jack Crawford's farmhouse far away from Marathon, Fla. This shows the changing of an insane mind from one emotion to another. When will left Hannibal in his cell Hannibal said, "My best to Molly and Josh" and almost in the same breath he said in his cipher in the Tattler, " Kill them all."
It should be noted that the acting of Anthony Hopkins throughout this story is nothing less than superior. Finnes and Norton also are also great. If one were to watch the movie it would be worth watching it just for their acting!
Will Graham and Jack Crawford now go to the Chromalux Company to talk to the head manager and after applying pressure all of a sudden all facts point to Francis Dollarhyde as the serial killer. The next thing is to catch him. The night before Emily Watson wandered around in the house and Francis thinks she discovered something. In the movie Francis hears voices which he thinks is the dragon and he imagines the dragon is going to steal her away from him. He says, "No, you can't have her."
But we're getting ahead of ourselves. While entertaining Miss Watson he puts on a film of another family. Emily says, "Is this a corporate promo? Francis says, "No, it's just some people I'm going to meet." The film shows a swimming pool scene of a mother and daughter playing. The woman is well endowed and then we are sure of the motivation of Francis' killings. Sex.
Back to Emily's apartment and we see Emily's friend Mandy kissing Emily after an evening out for dinner. Francis sees this and feels betrayed and shoots Mandy in the forehead on the front porch he then drugs Emily and takes both of them out to the old Dolarhyde mansion in his van.
Will and Jack have narrowed it down to the Dolarhyde Nursing Home. They are on the way when they see a large fire. It's the nursing home. Francis has set fire to it and has shot Mandy again with a twelve gage shotgun. When they get there Emily is out in front saying Francis shot himself but she is wrong. He's still alive. Mandy's corpse is burning inside when the house explodes.
After Will's last visit, Hannibal proceeds to get the telephone number of Will's boss and coerces the lady to give him the home address of the Graham family in Marathon, Florida. He pretends to be a publishing company executive which seems to work very well. Hannibal then communicates with Francis Dolarhyde by means of the personal section of the National Tattler and after much hard work the FBI manages to get the cipher message which says, blah, blah, "kill them all." Jack Crawford calls Will on the phone and alerts him which results in the FBI going into action and they move Molly and Will's small son to Jack Crawford's farmhouse far away from Marathon, Fla. This shows the changing of an insane mind from one emotion to another. When will left Hannibal in his cell Hannibal said, "My best to Molly and Josh" and almost in the same breath he said in his cipher in the Tattler, " Kill them all."
It should be noted that the acting of Anthony Hopkins throughout this story is nothing less than superior. Finnes and Norton also are also great. If one were to watch the movie it would be worth watching it just for their acting!
Will Graham and Jack Crawford now go to the Chromalux Company to talk to the head manager and after applying pressure all of a sudden all facts point to Francis Dollarhyde as the serial killer. The next thing is to catch him. The night before Emily Watson wandered around in the house and Francis thinks she discovered something. In the movie Francis hears voices which he thinks is the dragon and he imagines the dragon is going to steal her away from him. He says, "No, you can't have her."
But we're getting ahead of ourselves. While entertaining Miss Watson he puts on a film of another family. Emily says, "Is this a corporate promo? Francis says, "No, it's just some people I'm going to meet." The film shows a swimming pool scene of a mother and daughter playing. The woman is well endowed and then we are sure of the motivation of Francis' killings. Sex.
Back to Emily's apartment and we see Emily's friend Mandy kissing Emily after an evening out for dinner. Francis sees this and feels betrayed and shoots Mandy in the forehead on the front porch he then drugs Emily and takes both of them out to the old Dolarhyde mansion in his van.
Will and Jack have narrowed it down to the Dolarhyde Nursing Home. They are on the way when they see a large fire. It's the nursing home. Francis has set fire to it and has shot Mandy again with a twelve gage shotgun. When they get there Emily is out in front saying Francis shot himself but she is wrong. He's still alive. Mandy's corpse is burning inside when the house explodes.
Friday, September 13, 2013
Red Dragon - Hannibal
The reporter for the Tattler is Freddie Lounds played by Seymore Hoffman. After the incriminating article that Crawford and Will Graham put in the paper Dolarhyde captures Lounds and takes him to the nursing home where he super glues him to a wheelchair and forces him to recant all the bad things he has written about him in the Tattler.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Red Dragon - Hannibal Lecter
Will Graham, (Edward Norton), retired after his messy experience with Lecter and lived in Marathon, Florida with his wife played by Mary-Louise Parker and small son. Jack Crawford of the FBI came to visit one afternoon and at first Will didn't want anything to do with the Red Dragon Case, but then agreed to examine the Leeds' house and the Jacobi's house in Atlanta and Birmingham respectively.
When Will went back to Atlanta to the Leeds house he started looking through the drawers where the video tape was stored and he came upon a video called "The Deeds of the Leeds" showing Mrs. Leeds coming back after shopping with the kids. I immediately noticed that Mrs. Leeds was a very attractive woman and I thought that might have something to do with why he chose that family. I was right. Francis Dolarhyde was a body builder and was attracted to women who were of that persuasion, but were getting ahead of ourselves.
Francis Dolarhyde becomes acquainted with a young blind girl who works in the dark room with all types of film. He invites her to his home, the old nursing home of his grandmothers, and they become friends - more than friends. The girl is played by Emily Watson.
In the meantime Francis wants to look at the real painting of the Red Dragon and so he contacts the Brooklyn Art Museum. Finally he goes to the museum and a woman takes him to the room where the book is that holds the original painting by Robert Blake painted in 1809. He hits the woman over the head and tears strips off the original and begins to eat the painting thinking that if he eats it, in his demented mind it will make him stronger and he will become more and more like the Red Dragon.
In the meantime Jack Crawford and Will Graham are trying to get a handle on who Francis is so they take out an incriminating ad in the "National Tattler" which is a cheap tabloid paper hoping that Francis will come after Will instead of his family.
When Will went back to Atlanta to the Leeds house he started looking through the drawers where the video tape was stored and he came upon a video called "The Deeds of the Leeds" showing Mrs. Leeds coming back after shopping with the kids. I immediately noticed that Mrs. Leeds was a very attractive woman and I thought that might have something to do with why he chose that family. I was right. Francis Dolarhyde was a body builder and was attracted to women who were of that persuasion, but were getting ahead of ourselves.
Francis Dolarhyde becomes acquainted with a young blind girl who works in the dark room with all types of film. He invites her to his home, the old nursing home of his grandmothers, and they become friends - more than friends. The girl is played by Emily Watson.
In the meantime Francis wants to look at the real painting of the Red Dragon and so he contacts the Brooklyn Art Museum. Finally he goes to the museum and a woman takes him to the room where the book is that holds the original painting by Robert Blake painted in 1809. He hits the woman over the head and tears strips off the original and begins to eat the painting thinking that if he eats it, in his demented mind it will make him stronger and he will become more and more like the Red Dragon.
In the meantime Jack Crawford and Will Graham are trying to get a handle on who Francis is so they take out an incriminating ad in the "National Tattler" which is a cheap tabloid paper hoping that Francis will come after Will instead of his family.
Monday, September 9, 2013
Hanibal Lecter - Red Dragon
In the movie Red Dragon there are two serial killings. The Leeds family in Atlanta, Georgia and the Jacobi family in Birmingham, Alabama. Jack Crawford played by Harvey Keitel and Will Graham played by Ed Norton are the FBI agents on the case.
At the beginning Hanibal is being used as a consultant by Will Graham when Will suspects the killer of a case he's working on is eating the sweetbreads of his victim. He's getting too close to Hanibal when Hanibal stabs him with a knife saying "Every game must have an ending." Will recovers and Hanibal goes to prison serving nine concurrent life sentences. Hanibal was found to have killed and canabalized many victims.
Jack Crawford is stuck on the Leeds - Jacobi case so he goes to Marathon, Fla. to talk to Will Graham. He is able to get Will to help him with his God given intuition and Will visits the Leeds and Jacobi homes in Georgia and Alabama respectively. The Leeds home is a split level house with a large back yard. The upstairs bedrooms are all blood covered and all of the mirrors in the house are broken and small mirror pieces are inserted into the orbital sockets of all of the victims. We can begin to profile the killer as having a very low self esteem.
The actual killer is a man named Francis Dolarhyde played by R. Finnes who in character has been abused for many years by his grandmother who ran a nursinghome. The home is a run down large white rambling home with a all around porch. To make things worse he has an ugly scar on his upper lip. He is obsessed with the Red Dragon image in the book of Revelations in the Bible. In his sick mind the more victims he kills the more powerful like the Red dragon he becomes.
Will Graham discovers the Red Dragon image cut into a tree in the back yard of one of the victims houses. Jacobi's I think. He takes this to Hanibal in his prison cell and Hanibal says this boy begins to interest me. The big problem is how is Francis Dolarhyde choosing his victims?
At the beginning Hanibal is being used as a consultant by Will Graham when Will suspects the killer of a case he's working on is eating the sweetbreads of his victim. He's getting too close to Hanibal when Hanibal stabs him with a knife saying "Every game must have an ending." Will recovers and Hanibal goes to prison serving nine concurrent life sentences. Hanibal was found to have killed and canabalized many victims.
Jack Crawford is stuck on the Leeds - Jacobi case so he goes to Marathon, Fla. to talk to Will Graham. He is able to get Will to help him with his God given intuition and Will visits the Leeds and Jacobi homes in Georgia and Alabama respectively. The Leeds home is a split level house with a large back yard. The upstairs bedrooms are all blood covered and all of the mirrors in the house are broken and small mirror pieces are inserted into the orbital sockets of all of the victims. We can begin to profile the killer as having a very low self esteem.
The actual killer is a man named Francis Dolarhyde played by R. Finnes who in character has been abused for many years by his grandmother who ran a nursinghome. The home is a run down large white rambling home with a all around porch. To make things worse he has an ugly scar on his upper lip. He is obsessed with the Red Dragon image in the book of Revelations in the Bible. In his sick mind the more victims he kills the more powerful like the Red dragon he becomes.
Will Graham discovers the Red Dragon image cut into a tree in the back yard of one of the victims houses. Jacobi's I think. He takes this to Hanibal in his prison cell and Hanibal says this boy begins to interest me. The big problem is how is Francis Dolarhyde choosing his victims?
Friday, September 6, 2013
Hannibal Lecter
We're going to talk about Hannibal Lecter, the cannibalistic psychiatrist. The four stories are The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon and Hannibal Rising. He was played by Anthony Hopkins who is a top rate actor and did a fine job in his character.
Hannibal Lecter was born in Lithuania January 20, 1938. He was 5' 10'' and 178 pounds. He was an American citizen. He was considered to be extremely dangerous.
Lecter's interests: Fine Art, History, Symphonic Music, Psychology, Anthropology, Fine Cusine and Mathematics. He was an avid reader and a connoisseur of fine wines and a world travler.
His father was a Count in Lithuania and his mother was high bred Italian Tuscan Guillano Beyisangue and from Machiavelli and Visconti bloodlines.
During the Second World War the Nazis pushed into Russia but got caught up in the bitter cold winter of 1940-41. Starving and cold they retreated back through Lithuania and took refuge in Lecter's father's estate. They killed all members of the estate except Hannibal and his sister Mischa. As they were hold up in the estate they ran out of food and began to starve. They took Mischa and cannibalized her for food. Hannibal was too thin and frail so they didn't bother him. This trauma was probably the reason for Hannibal's cannibalism. From 1944 to 1970 he came to the United States and became a citizen. From 1970 to 1975 he had a psychiatric practice in Maryland. Hannibal's I. Q. was obviously in the genius range. It had to be extremely high. The same goes for Anthony Hopkins.
I started with Silence of the Lambs which was made, or came out in 1991. Jodie Foster plays the major role along with Hopkins.
To start this right you have to start with the prequel - Red Dragon which was made I believe around 2003. At this time Hannibal still hadn't been captured for his crimes yet and he had a good psychiatric practice going.
We are studying all of this for two reasons
1) To fill up my website
2) To study the ways of a serial killer.
Hannibal Lecter was born in Lithuania January 20, 1938. He was 5' 10'' and 178 pounds. He was an American citizen. He was considered to be extremely dangerous.
Lecter's interests: Fine Art, History, Symphonic Music, Psychology, Anthropology, Fine Cusine and Mathematics. He was an avid reader and a connoisseur of fine wines and a world travler.
His father was a Count in Lithuania and his mother was high bred Italian Tuscan Guillano Beyisangue and from Machiavelli and Visconti bloodlines.
During the Second World War the Nazis pushed into Russia but got caught up in the bitter cold winter of 1940-41. Starving and cold they retreated back through Lithuania and took refuge in Lecter's father's estate. They killed all members of the estate except Hannibal and his sister Mischa. As they were hold up in the estate they ran out of food and began to starve. They took Mischa and cannibalized her for food. Hannibal was too thin and frail so they didn't bother him. This trauma was probably the reason for Hannibal's cannibalism. From 1944 to 1970 he came to the United States and became a citizen. From 1970 to 1975 he had a psychiatric practice in Maryland. Hannibal's I. Q. was obviously in the genius range. It had to be extremely high. The same goes for Anthony Hopkins.
I started with Silence of the Lambs which was made, or came out in 1991. Jodie Foster plays the major role along with Hopkins.
To start this right you have to start with the prequel - Red Dragon which was made I believe around 2003. At this time Hannibal still hadn't been captured for his crimes yet and he had a good psychiatric practice going.
We are studying all of this for two reasons
1) To fill up my website
2) To study the ways of a serial killer.
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