Chapter 094: The Silence of the Lambs
"The Silence of the Lambs!?"
Jodie Foster was surprised,
"It's true that Dr. Hannibal is very confusing and intimidating as an ogre, but he didn't do anything like painting skin in the movie!"
"I'm not talking about Dr. Hannibal. ”
"Not Hannibal?"
Jodie Foster's fierce spirit,
"You mean—Bison Bill!?"
Although "The Silence of the Lambs" has achieved the image of the cannibal doctor Hannibal in film history, in fact, this character played by Anthony Hopkins is not the real villain boss in the movie at all.
The real villain is this buffalo Bill.
In fact, "The Silence of the Lambs" is based on the investigation process of FBI agent Clarice investigating the serial killer "Bison Bill" who will kill women and then skin them.
And Hannibal, the cannibal doctor, was essentially the one who helped the FBI — even if he escaped in the end.
This is also the reason why Anthony Hopkins can win the Oscar for Best Actor for the antagonist role of Doctor Hannibal - to a certain extent, he can indeed be said to be the leading actor of the film.
However, even if the male protagonist is more like a villain than a villain, according to the story of the movie, Bison Bill is the real boss after all.
Although this is completely inferior to Dr. Hannibal, who has raised cannibalism to a philosophical height in terms of aura, he is indeed better from a purely perverted point of view-
"If you want to become a woman, you will peel off the skin that killed women, sew them into clothes and put them on your body......"
In front of Jodie Foster, Charlotte lists the criminal characteristics of Bison Bill in "The Silence of the Lambs" one by one,
"While it sounds like the opposite of many of the characteristics of the painted skin, it's probably the cause of the painted skin, and—"
"It's also about draping clothes made of a woman's skin over your body and dressing yourself up as a woman, and that's where Bison Bill has the most connection with painted skin, right?"
Judy understood what Charlotte meant, and when she recalled the movie she starred in, she couldn't help but feel creepy,
"Bison Bill's garment, sewn from a woman's skin, is indeed very much like what you call painted skin. But just because it's similar, would it lead to the creation of a monster like Painted Skin?"
"Not really!"
Charlotte shook her head, he didn't mean to deceive Judy,
"To be precise, there are other reasons that gave birth to such a thing as painted skin. But what made them look like painted skins after they were born was indeed the movie "The Silence of the Lambs". ”
"What does that mean?"
"Let's deduce!"
Charlotte looked at Judy and asked her own question,
"If in the movie, Bison Bill had been committing crimes and never getting caught, would he have finished his dress sewn from women's skin?"
"Perhaps...... Yes!"
Jodie Foster nodded with difficulty.
"And if he wore that dress to the bar, would he think he was a woman?"
"Maybe!"
"What would he do when he faced the man at the bar?"
"This ......"
"Look, you get the idea!"
Charlotte laughed,
"Bison Bill can be said to be the prototype of man before the formation of this monster like Painted Skin. ”
"But even so, why did those skinned monsters turn into me?"
Jodie Foster still doesn't understand.
"I don't understand this yet!?"
Charlotte asked a question very directly,
"Who do you think is the most beautiful woman in the whole "Silence of the Lambs"?"
"Me!?"
Judy pointed to her nose, and in this regard, she was still very confident.
"Whether it's a woman, or a pervert who wants to be a woman, there are few who want to be ugly. ”
Charlotte shrugged,
"So ......"
"It's ......"
For the first time, Judy found out that making a classic movie could bring so much trouble, but on the other hand, she still didn't understand,
"The Silence of the Lambs was released in 1991, and even if Anthony and I won an award for this film, it was only in 1992, why did this painted skin monster appear now?"
"Because the birth of a ghost like Painted Skin, it still needs a special opportunity!"
Charlotte further explained,
"The Silence of the Lambs", a movie that everyone is familiar with, has essentially accumulated enough magic because of the fear in the hearts of the audience. As soon as you encounter the right opportunity, you can trigger the birth of the corresponding ghost!"
"By opportunity—"
"An event that inspires that magic!"
Charlotte scratched her head in annoyance,
"This must be a very occasional situation! Otherwise, Hollywood would have been full of ghosts!"
- But because of this, it's hard to tell what the incident is!
It was this question that puzzled Charlotte, but instead of saying it explicitly, he continued,
However, judging from the fact that it was a monster between a man and a woman that was born in the end, rather than an ogre like Dr. Hannibal, there may have been more than pure fear in this opportunity. ”
"And what else?"
Charlize was also curious about this - she had seen all kinds of ghosts, and she knew that ghosts needed to be afraid, but she didn't know what Charlotte said about other things.
Charlotte's answer was very simple,
"And jealousy and psychopaths! Only when these emotions and fears are combined can they form the magic that can give birth to a monster like Painted Skin. ”
"In other words, as long as the influence of 'The Silence of the Lambs' still exists, the magic that can give birth to monsters will continue to flow!?"
Seeing Charlotte nodding in approval of her guess, Jodie Foster couldn't help but feel a little desperate,
"Then what should I do if I change it? It's impossible to erase the movie "The Silence of the Lambs" from the audience's memory, right!?"
"Of course not!"
Charlotte smiled slightly,
"But there's another way, which is to find the opportunity to transform the magic power directly - after all, without it, the magic will just stay there quietly, waiting for it to dissipate. ”
"But how do you find that opportunity?"
Jodie Foster looked like I was also helpless,
"Didn't you say it was a very occasional situation?"
"It's not hard to find occasional cases!"
Charlotte wasn't completely out of the question.
"Actually, I'm going to take a clue right now—"
As he spoke, he looked at Jodie Foster with a very formal look,
"Judy, when you first touched the painted skin in my hand, you screamed in fright - does this mean that you not only recognized it as not rubber, latex or silicone, but also recognized its essence at once, human skin!?"
As soon as these words came out, Judy's face turned white all of a sudden. Her eyes were a little evasive, but Charlotte didn't let her go,
"Have you ever touched anything made of human skin before!?"