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Understanding Silence of the Lambs’ complicated cultural legacy
30 years after its debut, the classic horror film’s influence is so much bigger than Hannibal Lecter.
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Silence of the Lambs.
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The Silence of the Lambs just turned 30 years old, and even setting aside all the fava beans and chianti jokes, it’s not a stretch to call the 1991 horror movie about an epicurean cannibal and the young FBI agent he mentors in the hunt for a serial killer one of the most important films ever made.
On one level,
Silence of the Lambs’ critical accolades speak for themselves. It remains the only horror movie in history to win the Oscar for Best Picture. It is one of the few films ever to deliver lead acting Oscars to both of its leads: Jodie Foster as the troubled agent Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as psychopath-cum-psychologist Hannibal Lecter though Hopkins appeared in the movie for less than half an hour. And it’s on