Silence of the Peanuts
03.28.2008 - 10:17 AMJonathan Demme is the prize-winning director of one of the most terrifying horror movies of all time. Although it has been getting virtually no attention, Demme has a new film out that, if anything, is even more frightening, and more appalling, than Silence of the Lambs.
Set hauntingly in rural Georgia, but with action unfolding across the United States and in the Middle East, The Return of Hannibal Lecter is not its title. Rather it is Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains:
Embarking on a national publicity tour to promote his new book, “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid,” former US president Jimmy Carter ignites an international firestorm of controversy when he argues that only Israel’s complete withdrawal from the occupied territories can bring lasting peace to the Middle East. Intimate, informative, and altogether engrossing, Jimmy Carter; Man From Plains is a candid portrait of a Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian and statesman whose compassion and steadfast sense of justice remains undiminished by time.
Silence of the Lambs ended with Hannibal Lecter on a beach in the Bahamas, preparing “to have an old friend for dinner.” Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains has a similarly sinister ending. The villain lives on to continue pursuing his peculiar passions.
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March 28th, 2008 at 4:51 PM
Sop Making Sense seems like another Demme product ripe for parodic comparisons here. Swimming to Gaza, anyone?
March 28th, 2008 at 4:52 PM
STop Making Sense…
Sigh
April 4th, 2008 at 12:51 AM
The original name for the movie was “He Comes In Peace” (see http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/12/11/061211ta_talk_paumgarten). I suppose that title may have been dropped because of the similarity to the name of the movie “I Come In Peace,” with Dolph Lungren about an alien who tends to say “I Come In Peace” before killing earthlings–overdosing them with heroin so he can extract endorphins.
As far as I can tell, the only similarity is that both the alien and Carter have white hair.
Just saying…