Silence of the Lambs - a remake of this film?
Wouldn't you say that Silence of the Lambs was an "updated" remake of this film, with the violence increased, and with a rah-rah feminist ending?
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Perhaps "The Collector" was also influenced by the story of Ed Gein and the "third guy who kept girls in a pit in his basement before killing them," just as Silence of the Lambs was. I don't know when the third fellow committed his crimes, but the Ed Gein thing happened in the 1950s - before The Collector was made.
shareyou are absolutely correct but i cant help but feeling that demme remembered this film and incorporated the death's head moth into the killers hobby.Whatta you think I think the pay channels hbo, etc should have movie themes and air films that are similar in style and script. The few films ican reall reg. kidnapping or entrapment are misery, the collector, silence of the lambs, and possibly whatever happened to baby jane. im sure there are many more like in thematics and style.in lieu of the amalgamation of the aforementioned seral killers used to develop a terribly sick man he might have remembered the butterfly collector.
shareIt's highly unlike that Demme remembered it, seeing as Silence of the Lambs is a movie of a book and in the book Jame Gumb has the same hobby. Were you by any chance aware that the Collector was a book before it was a film as well?
However, it may well be possible Thomas Harris - who wrote Silence of the Lambs - remembered the similarity of the butterflies and moths, but there is a difference.
Clegg catches them and kills them. Jame Gumb keeps his moths alive, they're like pets to him, he raises them from catapillars into moths, where as Clegg merely catches butterflies he finds and stores them.
The thing is though as well, Harris didn't just rip off The Collector, he doesn't just make Gumb breed moths for the sake of it, there is a genuine reason as a plot device and as an insight into the character. He might have read The Collector as research, I've heard of at least one serial killer (Christopher Wilder) who was a huge fan of the book, he might have been doing research and looked into the subject and had an idea that was suggested by Fowles's novel. But the story line isn't directly similar at all I didn't think, Jame Gumb is a factor of Silence of the Lambs, but when I watched the film I thought of him as secondary character, Hannibal and Starling are the main focus.
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This film reminds me more of "¡Átame!" ("Tie me up, tie me down") by Almodóvar.
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