Silence of the Lambs

         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.

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.

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."

        



        

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

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.

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.

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.