Episode #029: THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)

The Essential Films Podcast

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:

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  The Polar Vortex
  
  


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  Mark’s mother subjects him to the horrors of Hannibal Lecter
  
  


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  Brian Cox: always a bad guy
  
  


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  Gene Hackman… director?
  
  


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  RIP Jonathan Demme
  
  


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  Original casting choices including Michelle Pfeiffer and Sean Connery
  
  


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  The “real life” Jack Crawford: John Douglas
  
  


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  Buffalo Bill is Captain Stottlemeyer???
  
  


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  Demme puts us in Clarice’s shoes with characters directly addressing camera
  
  


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  How Lecter’s plexiglass cage was conceived
  
  


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  Lecter never says “HELLO CLARICE”
  
  


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  Lecter has super powers
  
  


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  The Courtship of Clarice and Hannibal
  
  


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  The hidden joke of the “fava beans” quote
  
  


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  Why does Bill even need night vision goggles?
  
  


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  The 3 serial killers that inspired Buffalo Bill
  
  


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  The unsung real life actress, Chris McGinn, who was the autopsy victim
  
  


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  BOB THE GOON!
  
  


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  Addressing the controversy over LGBT representation (or misrepresentation) in the film
  
  


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  “Where will it tickle you?” “Get this THING out of here”
  
  


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  The beauty of the cinematography and direction of the final meeting between Clarice and Lecter.
  
  


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  The terrifying sequence of Hannibal Lecter’s “face off” escape
  
  


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  The masterful suspense of the climax
  
  


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  Hopkins wins a Best Actor Oscar for only being on camera for 16 minutes
  
  

FILMS REFERENCED:

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  PSYCHO (1960)
  
  


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  THE EXORCIST (1973)
  
  


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  THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)
  
  


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  JAWS (1975)
  
  


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  THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980)
  
  


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  STOP MAKING SENSE (1984)
  
  


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  CONAN THE DESTROYER (1984)
  
  


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  MANHUNTER (1986)
  
  


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  SOMETHING WILD (1986)
  
  


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  MARRIED TO THE MOB (1988)
  
  


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  THE ACCUSED (1988)
  
  


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  BATMAN (1989)
  
  


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  TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991)
  
  


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  PHILADELPHIA (1993)
  
  


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  MATILDA (1996)
  
  


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  INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996)
  
  


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  THE SIXTH SENSE (1999)
  
  


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  HANNIBAL (2001)
  
  


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  RED DRAGON (2002)
  
  


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  MONK (TV Series, 2002-2009)
  
  


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  HANNIBAL RISING (2007)
  
  


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  BLACK SWAN (2010)
  
  


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  HANNIBAL (TV Series, 2013-2015)
  
  


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  GET OUT (2017)
  
  


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  CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: THE TED BUNDY TAPES (TV Series, 2019)
  
  

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