Ellison’s thrillers always feature highly entertaining plots, compelling characters, and the kind of just-one-more-page pacing that will genuinely keep you up reading all night.
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And she's a very, very smart woman, very, very talented musician, very well-educated, very worldly, and she looked at me and goes, "You mean like Buffalo Bill?" Her only point of reference was this disgusting, psychotic serial killer who hunts women in order to kill them and skin them, in order to wear their bodies - to literally appropriate the female form, which is exactly the feminist argument against the existence of trans women.If you’ve been around Crime by the Book for a little bit, you probably already know how much I love J.T. I was about to go through transition, and I worked up the courage to tell one of my colleagues. Transgender writer, actress, producer, and activist Jen Richards painfully recounted the impact of Buffalo Bill in the Netflix documentary "Disclosure": I never met or even saw her, but there was never a shortage of jokes and references made towards 'shim' (as she was referred to) that I only fully understood after seeing 'Silence of the Lambs' in my teens. I was first exposed to the infamy of Buffalo Bill by my parents and our neighbors as they made jokes about a trans woman who lived down the street when I was little. Playwright and activist Larry Kramer wrote a harsh op-ed after the film's release, going as far as to say, "After these two films, I wish he'd just go away and leave us alone." It was one of the first mainstream Hollywood pictures to mention AIDS, and while Demme has claimed the backlash to "Silence" was unrelated to his decision to make "Philadelphia," many of his critics view the film as a half-baked apology. Demme's following film, "Philadelphia" starred Tom Hanks as a gay lawyer living with AIDS. Hannibal Lecter has to say about the matter, and in 1991, the film was released against a backdrop of heightened anti-Gay violence.
The problem with that statement, however, is that Jame Gumb is transgender, regardless of what Jonathan Demme or Dr. is someone who is so completely, completely horrified by who he is that his desperation to become someone completely other is manifested in his ill-guided attempts at transvestism, and behavior and mannerisms that can be interpreted as gay. That would be a complete betrayal of the themes of the movie.
We knew it was tremendously important to not have Gumb misinterpreted by the audience as being homosexual. Since it's debut, "The Silence of the Lambs" has been a polarizing film for the LGBTQ+ community, and as our language evolved surrounding gender identity and the transgender experience, so too have our discussions surrounding Demme's masterpiece.
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In addition to its pop culture influence inspiring parodies everywhere from "Clerks 2" to "Family Guy," the film has also been turned into a spoof musical, spawned a successful franchise of films, and there surely would be no "Hannibal" TV series if it had not been for the success of this film, no matter how good Thomas Harris' books are. To say "The Silence of the Lambs" is a beloved film is an understatement. Hollywood A-Listers wore red AIDS ribbons on their gowns and suits throughout the night, and as Demme accepted his statue for Best Director, he was visibly shaken by the outrage surrounding the building. Organizations like Queer Nation and ACT-UP had long spoken out about the problematic representation of the film, and felt awarding the film would have dire consequences. The demonstration outside of the Academy Awards was the culmination of non-stop protests throughout the year outside theaters across the country screening the film.
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