I would be shocked if there was misinformation on Wikipedia.

Dude, it isn't exactly a documentary. Nobody gives a shit of he's held in a courthouse, a precinct, a museum, or a goddamn FroYo stand.

i would be concerned as to what is in the froyo if he is there

I think it was a "former" courthouse and jail building.

The movie script calls out the location as:

"EXT. SHELBY COUNTY COURTHOUSE - DAY

The old courthouse is a massive Gothic stronghold, with an armada of police cruisers parked at the curb."

https://imsdb.com/scripts/Silence-of-the-Lambs.html

However the movie locations website calls it:

"'Memphis Town Hall’, where Lecter escapes from the holding cell and borrows the face of his guard, is the Allegheny County Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum, 4141 Fifth Avenue, a military museum, part of the University of Pittsburgh."

http://movie-locations.com/movies/s/Silence-Of-The-Lambs.php

Shelby County Tennessee is where Memphis is.

It literally says in onscreen text earlier:

> Shelby County Courthouse

https://i.imgur.com/CAfs3B4.jpg

It's a large courthouse with a war museum also inside, hence the War Museum sign.

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I'd wager what happened is that even though the script and original book call for a courtroom the war museum was chosen instead because it was both convenient to film in and quite visually striking (the room his cell is in particularly) and all dialogue that references what the building actually is were taken out. It's weird that they just left the war museum sign in either way, though.

Shocked, I say!

It says in onscreen text earlier:

> Shelby County Courthouse

https://i.imgur.com/CAfs3B4.jpg

Right? That would be just as shocking as finding out that this Mona Lisa painting I bought on Wish is a counterfeit! After all, I paid $25 for it, so it had better be the real deal!!!

it’s one of the most important films of all time?did you ever watch a movie or studied the matter?

Isn't Wikipedia constantly evolving/changing though? Misinformation seems a little harsh but I don't know specifically which topic you're referring to.

I mean, if there is factually proven misinformation on Wikipedia I must ask what's stopping you or others from correcting it?

In general, the more popular a page/topic is, the less likely that the information on the page will be wrong.

It's very easy to introduce wrong info on dinky pages that nobody really looks at.

I certainly hope my previous comment didn't give the impression I was disputing that. I felt their remark was a little disingenuous.

Huh, hadn't noticed that. Good eye.

Oh yeah, my words weren't really directed at your comments. I guess I never know where to place random asides around here.

Everything is correct, just not the actual history of the building being a courthouse before it turned into a museum.

For sure - you know what Reddit is like! I felt it best to err on the side of caution and clarify lol.

I don't know about " all time" or whatever but it's pretty important for American pop culture of the last 30 years, a very strong influence on pretty much the entire procedural genre as well as the X-files. Perhaps more influential in TV than in film but even in film, Demme's visual language and use closeups is an explicitly stated reference point for many directors that followed. And that's all without even getting intonthenthr intentional ripoffs, riffs and parodies. So in reference to your own question...have you?

I have watched movies with actual artistic value instead of your pop culture and tv shows, but I guess to me movies are art and to you entertaining which is ok :)

Jonathan Demme's Silence of the Lambs is certainly a work of art. Good luck with the rest of sophomore year. I'm sure high school is weird in the pandemic.

I’m pretty sure movies are weird when you have no culture

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Have you seen the film?

yes and I even like it, but it’s so far from being innovative or in any way having any artistic value; only a value for pop culture.

I’d call it both innovative and containing artistic value. It’s ok that you disagree since these things are completely subjective to the point they have little meaning.

its not subjective the fact that there was already a genre for that kind of movies, and that it hasn’t changed the way movies are perceived or made in any way, since the movie itself is full of references.

It’s completely subjective.

"it's fine that we have differing opinions"
"no it's not"

this made me chuckle

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Wikipedia is an interesting item.

The free editing is a lesser problem compared to plagiarism (folks copying and pasting whole passages into wiki entries from other sites).

Because of this, there is a high rate of accuracy on Wikipedia as a whole: https://library.canisius.edu/wikipedia/accuracy but it should be used as a tertiary source rather than a primary or secondary one due to the plagiarism, etc. Wikipedia acknowledges a preference that it be used as a tertiary source rather than a primary or secondary one, too, for formal research purposes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academic_use. I think it’s awesome that the site editors take the time to discuss that. :)

> That’s pretty interesting because from a “theory of film” point of view, the added text, or even the script, does it have the same weight of truth as the actual shots?

It has more weight than the actual shots. They used a real building to depict a fictional location. Due to an editing oversight, the real building's name appears in one shot. The fictional character in the fictional story was held in the fictional location, as indicated by the script and the supertext.

For sure, I certainly wouldn't want to suggest Wikipedia is infallible, I just felt the original commenters remarks a little unfair. Totally agree with you!

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ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FILMS OF ALL TIME

Totally agree. :) Context matters a lot