The Silence of the Lambs

I feel like a person who watched Episode I of Star Wars before the original trilogy, but I'm doing this whole thing in a pretty weird order... first I watched the Hannibal TV show, then read Red Dragon, then read this, and still haven't seen any of the movies?

That said, from reading the book I can definitely see why the movie has become so iconic. And given Harris's strong plot and characters but.. less strong overall writing... I can definitely see how the movie might be better than the book. I should probably watch that sometime.