Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins): "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti...slurp, slurp, slurp!
Later in Silence of the Lambs...Lecter breaks out of his cell and kills his two guards, turning one into what looked like a figurehead...an iconic moment in the history of aestheticized violence in film, done to the tune of Bach's Goldberg Variations.
"For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy
Daniel Shaw
Professor of Philosophy and Film
Lock Haven University
Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy
website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw
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