Posted on 02/16/2026 10:20:40 AM PST by Morgana
Classic movies resonate because they reflect what we understand in our guts to be true. Silence of the Lambs featured Buffalo Bill, a transgender serial killer who skinned women so he could wear their skin. Driven by the liberal establishment’s promotion of LGBTism, the rapidly expanding Transsexual Violence Hall of Horrors has confirmed the movie’s underlying insight. Yet now Hollyweird apologizes for it.
Via Hollywood Reporter:
Silence of the Lambs surprised the industry as an Oscar-winning, generation-defining smash. But over the years, the characterization of Buffalo Bill (whose sexual orientation is not explicitly stated) has been viewed as gender nonconforming and identifying as trans. For his part, Ted Levine — having played the character who is also known as Jame Gumb — has conflicting feelings about the movie, despite its success. …
Levine did not have concerns while making the movie but has developed a fuller understanding of the trans experience in the ensuing decades. “[It’s] just over time and having gotten aware and worked with trans folks, and understanding a bit more about the culture and the reality of the meaning of gender,” says the actor… “It’s unfortunate that the film vilified that, and it’s f[*]cking wrong.”
They never should have cast Buffalo Bill in a bad light. Transphobia is thoughtcrime. It is “f*cking wrong.”
Silence of the Lambs came out 35 years ago this month.
It became the year’s fifth-highest-grossing title, collecting $272 million globally ($659 million today), and was just the third feature in history to win the “big five” Oscars: best picture, director, actor, actress and screenplay.
But you couldn’t make Silence of the Lambs today. It rings too true.
Hollywood apologizing for something in the past?
Reminds me a bit of how Disney refuses to show their classic movie “Song of the South”.
Also, reminds me a bit of how some cable TV movie channel was going to have a Charlie Chan movie festival, but then decided to cancel it, because of pressure brought to bear by various people.
And so now we see Hollywood apologizing for a movie about some kind of mentally ill transgender serial killer. Since transgender people are special nowadays, it apparently offends the sensibilities of certain people, to depict such a character.
I did not realize that the Buffalo Bill character was inspired by an actual serial killer. In that case, this movie was not just completely fiction.
But even so, it still would offend the sensibilities of some people to have a fictionalized version of a deranged mind, if the deranged mind happens to be a member of a recognized grievance group such as transsexuals.
Well, high time then to expand the apology to the transsexual women-skinner community, duh.
HOLLYWEIRD: We need a “Gone with the Wind” and “Peter Pan” disclaimer prior to movie viewing by anyone.
I always got David Lee Roth vibes.
Okay. Give the Oscar’s back!
No apologizes for Charlie Kirk though.
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And they tried to slander Dahmer by accusing him of eating that Lao kid. Later proved to be pure gobbledegook!
Stop with the facts, already! Don’t you know this is about people’s FEELINGS...
I have an old movie “Unconquered” (1947)with Gary Cooper from TCM. It has a disclaimer on the way the American Indians are portrayed. Actually the movie is very accurate but modern theater goers don’t want the truth. They want the tribes to be innocent of all wrong doing.
A murder mystery where the "trans" twist was the surprise ending.
Less famous now than Silence of the Lambs but much more plausible.
Also, remember The Crying Game with the terrorist tranny connection?
I have a vague impression there were others, but that's as far I can go off the top of my head.
I apologize constantly for Hollywood’s crappy movies. So I just don’t watch a lot of them.
One of my favorite LGBT movies.
So, no serial killers are LGBT, they are all straight.
These school shooters are Buffalo Bills. Trust your gut. Don’t push those instincts away.
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