If you are 18 years or older or are comfortable with graphic material, you are free to view this page. Otherwise, you should close this page and view another page. Clarice M. Starling is the main protagonist of the novels The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal by Thomas Harris as well as its film and tv adaptations.
Starling is a student at the FBI Academy. She hopes to work at the Behavioral Science Unit, tracking down serial killers and ultimately apprehending them. Hannibal Lecter , a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer.
He is housed in a Baltimore mental institution. Upon arriving at the asylum for her first interview with Lecter, the asylum manager Frederick Chilton makes a crude pass at her, which she rebuffs; this helps her bond with Lecter, who also despises Chilton.
As time passes, Lecter gives Starling information about Buffalo Bill , a currently active serial killer being hunted by the FBI, but only in exchange for personal information, which Crawford has specifically warned her to keep secret from Lecter. She tells Lecter that she was raised in a small town in West Virginia with her father, a police officer.
When she was about 10 years old, her father was shot when responding to a robbery; he died a month after the incident. Starling was sent to live with her uncle on a Montana sheep and horse farm, from which she briefly ran away in horror when she witnessed the lambs being slaughtered the title of the book refers to her being haunted by the screaming she heard from the lambs.
She spent the rest of her childhood in a Lutheran orphanage. According to the novel, Starling attended the University of Virginia] as a double major in psychology and criminology. During that time, she spent two summers working as a counselor in a mental health center.
His criminology seminars were a factor in her decision to join the FBI. During the investigation, Starling is assigned to coax Lecter into revealing Buffalo Bill's identity; Lecter gives her clues in the form of cryptic, riddling information designed to help Starling figure it out for herself. The two grow to respect each other, so when Lecter escapes during a transfer engineered by Chilton to a state prison in Tennessee, Starling feels that he "would consider it rude" to attack her by surprise and kill her without talking to her first.
Starling deduces from Lecter's hints that Buffalo Bill's first victim had a personal relationship with him, and so goes to the victim's home in Belvedere, Ohio, to interview people who knew her. She unknowingly stumbles onto the killer himself, Jame Gumb he is living under the alias "Jack Gordon" when they meet. When she sees a Death's Head moth, the same rare kind that Bill stuffs in the throats of each of his victims, flutter through the house, she knows that she has found her man and tries to arrest him.
Gumb flees, and Starling follows him into his basement, where his latest victim is alive and screaming for help. The tragedy left Clarice orphaned - "My mother died when I was very young," she told Hannibal - and the year-old Starling was sent to live with her aunt in Montana before she spent the rest of her childhood in a Lutheran orphanage.
Clarice changed her established backstory: Now, Starling not only had a younger brother but her mother was also alive when her father was shot. In one of Clarice 's flashbacks , Starling remembers her mother in the kitchen washing her father's blood off his shirt, and she told Clarice to look after her brother and sister.
Not only is this a major shift in Clarice's history, but it also opens up all-new questions: What happened to the rest of Clarice's family? Why was she sent to Montana if her mother was alive?
Was Clarice sent to Montana alone or did her siblings go with her? And how will Clarice no longer being an only child alter her character moving forward? On one hand, it's understandable why Clarice changed Starling's backstory; the series is planning to tell a long-form tale and the producers feel there are better opportunities to delve into Clarice's character if she wasn't an only child. Moments later, Starling—the lone woman in an elevator with eight much larger men—gazes nervously up at the ceiling.
Repeatedly, Demme has the men Starling interacts with look directly at the camera, forcing the audience into the role of object. In a canny act of inversion, we, the ones watching, are winked at and ogled alongside her. I love Clarice Starling, and I especially love the way Foster plays her, swallowing the anger Harris makes explicit in the novel and refusing to be rocked. After Silence came out, Hannibal received a sequel, a prequel both adapted into movies , and a television show.
In the seven years that pass for Starling between The Silence of the Lambs and its sequel, Hannibal , something bleak and unanticipated happens to her: She molders.
Starling is stuck: too honorable to play games and ascend, too brilliant to be relegated to the basement. The new CBS drama Clarice is set in the period when things went wrong—between the two novels and shortly after the collaring of Gumb.
Starling is an agent; Clarice is a target. The concept, by itself, represents a change of direction for CBS, whose recent reputation has been defined by sexual-harassment allegations and rote crime dramas—sometimes both at the same time. Clarice is billed as a psychological procedural and horror thriller.
Before it even begins, Clarice gets tangled up in two cumbersome obligations: its need to explain who Starling is and what happened to her in The Silence of the Lambs , and its legal inability to say the name Hannibal Lecter. In the opening scene, Starling played subtly by the Australian actor Rebecca Breeds talks with her condescending male therapist.
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