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A 5 page paper which examines the differences between Thomas Harris’ 1988 novel and Jonathan Demme’s 1991 film to illustrate how the text could be successfully translated onto celluloid. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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a serial killer, known simply as Buffalo Bill (later as Jame Gumb and Jack Gordon), was so brutally realistic, many readers assumed it was a true story, and not a
work of fiction. Its graphically detailed violence is not for the faint of heart or stomach. The elusive Buffalo Bill kills women and then skins them
alive, and the FBIs Behavioral Science Chief Jack Crawford believes that the only way to catch him is to get inside the head of the serial killer. The clock
is ticking as the female body count mounts, and the only person who can provide the FBI with the information they desperately need is Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, himself
a psychiatrist, expert on human behavior and also a cold-blooded murderer. When approached to film Harris chilling novel, director Jonathan Demme balked at first, explaining, "I was repelled by
the idea of doing a film about a serial killer... [Then] I started reading the book... I leapt at the chance to get involved with characters of such dimension, and
a story with so many complicated and interesting themes" (Bliss and Banks 109). Although Demme remained amazingly faithful to the book, in his
commitment to retaining its essence, there were some changes that needed to be made in its transition from the page to celluloid. First and foremost, the novels story is
framed by a dispassionate third-person narrator, who explains the unfolding of the action to the reader in almost a documentary style fashion. Naturally, on film, the characters, not the
narrator, texture the story, with their actions filling in all the gaps that are accomplished through the books narration. Demme changes the story dramatically by telling it not through
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