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Some of our stars are the same, Clarice...

The Joy of Pun.

Harris was fully aware, little doubt, of the implications of writting an almost unfilmable journal of a killer's deeds as is Hannible. So successful a novel brought to screen as the 'Silence' begs a sequel from the tinsle.

There are many more books with a greater load of violence but there are few so successful films that have been followed by a book with a plot that culminates in a victory of amorality over a hollywood heroine. Moguls and multitudes of movie-goers alike have trained themselves for banaltiy by expecting only wholesome goodness from a protagonist, especially a female. She would have to be a righteous victim never a fully resolved wife to darkness. That the end of the book would have to be changed for a movie was inevitable whilst such an unreflective state exists. Harris would suspect this even before he pened his lines. We could all expect nothing less.

This is doubly true when the probabilty of gathering the complete former cast for a movie, even if it is the sequel to a great movie, is low. The tastes and predilections of performers themselves are challenged by the ideas canvased in this plot. The likelihood of a thinking actor acting out the unthinkable is not a sure thing.

So it is with mirth perhaps that Harris anticipates his book travelling off to the scriptwriters, directors and importantly casting-agents, presaged as it is in 'Silence' with a possible reflection on it's own cinematic fate.

"Some of our stars are the same....."