She certainly doesn’t have a tender or fatherly relationship with Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn), the FBI mentor who uses her as bait to get Lecter talking.
Her most tender relationships are with her friend/roommate Ardelia (played by Kasi Lemmons, who we’ll also discuss in November in her role in Candyman, and who is a film director as well), her dead father, and her perverse new father figure Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins). She’s frequently hit on by men, especially men in positions of power, and she has zero interest in them. Clarice is altogether asexual in the film. She’s not boyish, but she’s completely dedicated to her training as an FBI agent. There are several criteria for being a final girl-for one thing, she’s almost always either a virgin (or at least less interested in guys and sex than she is in her hobbies and studies) or a tomboy or both.
#Who played the girl in silence of the lambs series#
Even the current Ryan Murphy series American Horror Story and his horror-sex-comedy-college-soap-opera-whatever-it-is Scream Queens riff on Clover’s insights. This book shook up academic film, literature, and gender studies, and the pop culture effects of it can be seen soon after in Wes Craven’s self-aware, postmodern slasher masterpiece Scream (1996). Clover in her 1992 opus Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. She’s not a superhero like Xena or Buffy-she’s very human. This vulnerability is a key to her believability and likability. She’s resilient and clever under pressure, yet she’s vulnerable, much like the ever-lauded Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in Alien, which we’ll watch at SHRIEK on the Tuesday after Halloween.
Jodie Foster is a flawless Final Girl as Clarice Starling. Writers: Ted Tally (screenplay), Thomas Harris (novel)Īwards: Best Picture Oscar, Best Director Oscar to Jonathan Demme, Best Actress Oscar and Golden Globe to Jodie Foster, Best Actor Oscar to Anthony Hopkins, Best Adapted Screenplay to Ted Tally Major actors: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine Villains/Antagonists: mostly male, with one genderqueer villain This week, we’ll watch The Silence of the Lambs, a classic police procedural thriller with an amazing final girl-but is it a slasher film, or something else?īody count: six on screen, more off screenĭoes it pass the Bechdel-Wallace test: Yes. Tuesday will be the third night of SHRIEK: A Women of Horror Film and Discussion Class, located in the Scarecrow Video screening room.
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