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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
On today’s adventure, Adolfo and Mark sit down with some fava beans and a nice chianti as they discuss Jonathan Demme’s horror classic THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
On this week’s show:
- The Polar Vortex
- Mark’s mother subjects him to the horrors of Hannibal Lecter
- Brian Cox: always a bad guy
- Gene Hackman… director?
- RIP Jonathan Demme
- Original casting choices including Michelle Pfeiffer and Sean Connery
- The “real life” Jack Crawford: John Douglas
- Buffalo Bill is Captain Stottlemeyer???
- Demme puts us in Clarice’s shoes with characters directly addressing camera
- How Lecter’s plexiglass cage was conceived
- Lecter never says “HELLO CLARICE”
- Lecter has super powers
- The Courtship of Clarice and Hannibal
- The hidden joke of the “fava beans” quote
- Why does Bill even need night vision goggles?
- The 3 serial killers that inspired Buffalo Bill
- The unsung real life actress, Chris McGinn, who was the autopsy victim
- BOB THE GOON!
- Addressing the controversy over LGBT representation (or misrepresentation) in the film
- “Where will it tickle you?” “Get this THING out of here”
- The beauty of the cinematography and direction of the final meeting between Clarice and Lecter.
- The terrifying sequence of Hannibal Lecter’s “face off” escape
- The masterful suspense of the climax
- Hopkins wins a Best Actor Oscar for only being on camera for 16 minutes
FILMS REFERENCED:
- PSYCHO (1960)
- THE EXORCIST (1973)
- THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)
- JAWS (1975)
- THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980)
- STOP MAKING SENSE (1984)
- CONAN THE DESTROYER (1984)
- MANHUNTER (1986)
- SOMETHING WILD (1986)
- MARRIED TO THE MOB (1988)
- THE ACCUSED (1988)
- BATMAN (1989)
- TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991)
- PHILADELPHIA (1993)
- MATILDA (1996)
- INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996)
- THE SIXTH SENSE (1999)
- HANNIBAL (2001)
- RED DRAGON (2002)
- MONK (TV Series, 2002-2009)
- HANNIBAL RISING (2007)
- BLACK SWAN (2010)
- HANNIBAL (TV Series, 2013-2015)
- GET OUT (2017)
- CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: THE TED BUNDY TAPES (TV Series, 2019)
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