The Essential Films Podcast - Episode #029: THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)

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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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