Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Silence of the Lambs analysis - part 25: Reality check (cont'd)

CATEGORY: MOVIES

Continuing with the reality check, one thing that needs to be considered is whether either of Hannibal Lecter's prisoner numbers, 'B5160' and 'B1329', could be references to some other literary work(s) in addition to the bible and Augustine's Confessions, respectively. Certain Greek classics checked so far have not turned up anything that corresponds to either alphanumeric clue (authors checked include: Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, and Thucydides). This is not to say that the possibility is being ruled out, that themes or some other facet(s) of these works apply to the movie; here, it is just being checked to see if the two alphanumeric clues mentioned, themselves refer to these works.

The reality check will be continued later.


      





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