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Silence of the Lambs, The Easter Egg - Cover Art

If you look closely at the picture of the death'shead moth on the cover of the movie box (or laserdisc case) the skull is actually made up of naked women, symbolically representing the antagonist's victims.

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Contributed By:	jrwillkill on 08-26-1999
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this is the paiting by salvador dali. this is what the skull on the moth looks like on the movie cover.

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mcgee writes:

The configuration of women's bodies is taken from the Salvador Dali work, "In Voluptate Mors."

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Tim writes:

Pictures of the cover can be seen at this web site: http://www.verjeen.com/silence/lambs/art.html

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Christian White writes:

If you look on the butterfly that is covering her mouth--the head of the butterfly is a small skull. Look closely--the skull is made up of 3 naked women al holding hands in a circle....

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LvScience writes:

The two females on the bottom on sitting down, facing away from the viewer, holding their arms above their heads, which are being held by the third female at the top. The link to www.scene360 shows it really well. I believe that is a Dali painting...

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B Man writes:

I see seven women.

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nenebien writes:

You can check it here: http://www.scene360.com/EDITroom_silenceLambs.html

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k�ndred writes:

you can also find more of Dal�'s work here: http://www.mmlab.ktu.lt/Dali/pictures.html and in particular, a similar work to the one spoken about here is "Visage of War": http://www.mmlab.ktu.lt/Dali/page17.html

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CELLULOIDBOY/ B - LARGE writes:

It places the lotion in the basket.........it does this whenever it's told..... "He said I can smell your c**t."

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marmaladeskies writes:

I don't see it. Can somebody describe it

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kitten172001 writes:

Actually that's William Blake's painting the Red Dragon, which is a reference to the killer from the book of the same name, the prequel to Silence of the Lambs.

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