Jodi Foster was definitely a child actor. She was in the original Freaky Friday (I think a lot of people who like the Lindsay Lohan version don't know it was a remake), and another Disney film called Candleshoe in the 70's, but the biggest film of that era for her was Taxi Driver with Robert Deniro.
Red Dragon should be next on your list! It’s a pretty good follow up. It is a prequel. And just as chilling. A lot of the characters from this film are in the Hannibal tv show. There is also a Hannibal origin story which I felt is an overlooked movie. I really enjoyed that film and it does follow a young Hannibal through Europe. I highly recommend these two films. There was the sequel simply called Hannibal. Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise) directed that one. It was okay. But it starred Julian Moore taking over the reigns as Clarice. I think Julian Moore is a great actress. But, I definitely felt Jodi Foster’s absence. Anthony Hopkins returns as Hannibal. Jodi Foster opted not to return to the role due to script issues with the film. But as I tell everyone, I’ll leave it up to you to decide because a lot of people did like it. Anyway, so glad you watched this one!! Hope you select one of the others I just mentioned.
Despite feeling like a dominating presence throughout the film, Anthony Hopkins is only onscreen as Hannibal Lecter for about 16 minutes. It's such a captivating performance!
@@neonlightsuk3864 Judy Dench was only in about 4 minutes of Shakespeare In Love and won the Oscar... Us Brits really know how to steal the limelight!😂😉
Foster and Hopkins always get all the recognition in this film (deservedly so), but a shout out to Buffalo Bill actor Ted Levine. He was truly disturbing and perfectly played.
Ted also played Captain Stottlemeyer, ironically a police detective, in the TV series "Monk." He is great in that role and shows his skills as an actor to go from the horror of "Silence of the Lambs" to the comedy/drama of "Monk."
Ted Levine and Brooke Smith (Catherine Martin) became the best of friends. They were left alone on their own set and chatted and joked around a lot between takes.
It's such a bummer in the book because they know WAY sooner. Like, I think by the end of her first visit with Lecter, they already know he's trying to make a woman suit, basically. She doesn't realize he's such a skilled tailor until the moment in Bimmel's room, but that moment has a lot less power when she's know basically the whole time about the woman suit thing. But yeah, the book overall is amazing though. And the movie is *incredibly* accurate down to even tiny details you don't even really notice in the film (like, the fish tanks in Buffalo Bill's basement, those are tanks with solution that he soaks the skin in, like tanning leather or whatever), so I was glad it's so true to the source material. And the only things they did change are somewhat minor, but in my opinion, they're improvements. Like, there's a difference between how the storage unit thing plays out between the movie and book, but I actually like the movie's version a bit better. Just, about as close to a perfect film as can be.
@@ilcineangolodialex5224 And it was for Best Actor rather than Supporting Actor, despite Lecter not really having that much screentime. Just goes to show how much the spectre of Hopkins' performance dominates the film.
It was shot in light. Jodie foster herself says in a video on TH-cam that she finds it funny that people actually think it was shot in darkness and that the shadows prove it was shot in light.
@Trevor Rogert Superman? What fighting did I miss in either of these movies? What disbelief is required for anything he does physically? His character's a doctor, not an action hero.
As is 'Manhunter" which was made before any of these (or Silience of the Lambs). "Red Dragon" is in fact a re-make of the superior version "Manhunter".
@Trevor Rogert well, SPOILER... first off. ANd 2nd, watch the movie again. He had everything prepared for it hours beforehand. Like any good surgeon would.
This is how you do a horror movie. The more realistic the scarier it is. Not one jump scare. Love it and loved your reaction to it. Best 40 minutes I’ve had in a while.
@@TBRSchmitt Fun Fact: Director Jonathan Demme has a walk-on cameo on the tropical island at the end. He’s the broadly smiling white guy in a blue cap. :) Btw another Jonathan Demme movie worth checking out is Philadelphia (1993). Lots of actors from SotL make appearances there!
Two fun facts: 1. You did well picking up on all the shots with people looking directly into the camera. It was a choice by the director to create a certain uneasy feeling, to put us in Clarice's perspective as a young, female cadet in a male-dominated environment. 2. Throughout the entire movie, Anthony Hopkins almost never blinks, he is only seen with a constant stare, again to create an uneasy feeling within the viewer, and make him all the more chilling to behold.
Jodie Foster was a young teenager in the classic Taxi Driver. Years later her performance "inspired" someone to shoot the President of the United States, Ronald Reagen. She contemplated quitting acting after that.
@@TBRSchmitt I am 40 years old, I saw Silence of the Lambs, Jacob's Ladder, and Candyman around 9-10 years old. I really don't watch any scary movies anymore haha.
One fun little detail: Clarice's one friend at the FBI academy is Kasi Lemmons, who also played the friend of the protagonist in Candyman. She has gone on to be a director, doing Eve's Bayou, and more recently, Harriet.
I remember the first thing i saw her in was Spike Lee's School Daze. She is in the scene where Half Pint (Lee) is actively searching for girls to go out with, because of his frats hazing requirements. Every time she pops up in things I notice her, and I have incidentally scene most of the films she has directed. All of them were really good films.
One of my favorite behind the scenes facts is that Ted Levine (Buffalo Bill) and Brooke Smith (Catherine/Survivor) became each other’s best buddies on set and are still friends to this day. Which makes me so happy. lol It makes sense too when you hear them explain it in interviews. 90% of their work on the movie was in scenes exclusively between the two of them.
@@TBRSchmitt If you like Brooke Smith, you should check out "Series 7 - The Contenders". It's a movie parody of reality TV shows that she starred in in 1999. Reality shows were a very new idea at the time, and it takes the concept to its logical extreme - the contestants have to kill each other off to win. She plays a pregnant woman, the toughest of the chosen group. She is AWESOME. :)
I had read this and it actually helped me because I found the Buffalo Bill character to be incredibly terrifying and in a way that left me unnerved for a long time.
Since there is a Law of conservation of Relationships, A. Hopkins lost his girlfriend to the film - he seemed too scary for her after having seen the film.
The Silence Of The Lambs is my second favorite movie of all time, but I did not like the show at all. Mads as Hannibal was probably the only thing I did like about the show. I stopped watching one episode into season three.
@@thefilmeffect6089 Bryan Fuller went too far into his fanfiction. Where is the genius in Hannibal impersonating a real person, and an AUTHOR at that. AUTHORS had PHOTOS on their books. It was a miracle only the hater fan guy noticed.
Let that sink in...Anthony Hopkins won best actor at the Oscar for playing Hannibal Lector 16 minutes in that movie...That tells you the level of acting we are dealing here !!! The scene where Clarice pass in front of Hannibal and he is just standing there...that is pure improvisation ! Makes complete sense too for the character...What a great movie !!!
@@wedgeantilles4712 Yes they both won Oscars for the film, as did Demme for Best Director and the film won Best Picture. Only movie to win the big 4 Academy Awards that I can remember.
@@scrptar129 I could have sworn it happened at least once before, and I looked it up. Turns out it's happened three times: 1934 (It Happened One Night), 1975 (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), and 1991 with Silence. All three movies won Best Screenplay, too!
@@Melancthon7332 Good going for the research! Three very deserving films. I think the reason Silence sticks with me is because it seemed to be an underdog going in because “horror films don’t win Oscar awards, much less Best Picture” was the prevailing sentiment. Needless to say I was pretty happy when it did.
One of my favorite takes on this movie is that Hannibal has one of the greatest entrances in Film History and he doesn’t actually walk into the scene. He’s standing in the middle of the room like a creep as the camera’s panning reveals him. It’s chillingly effective. I freaking love this movie! So glad you guys are watching it. Condolences on it being your first viewing ♥️, that is always a little rough. lol
It’s the build up to him as well. Crawford starts out warning clarice, then chilton does the same as they’re walking through all this super security. Then as you go down the hallway, each of the crazy people is progressively more nuts before you get to lecter.
When Anthony Hopkins was rehearsing for the role of Hanibal Lector, he trained himself to stare for long periods of time. This means that Hanibal hardly ever blinks during the whole film. When you notice, those staring eyes are just creepy as hell.
As others have said Red Dragon with Edward Norton is a prequel. Hannibal the TV show is also quite good. The rest are a disappointment. If you haven't seen it David Fincher's Se7en and Netflix show Mindhunter are other excellent serial killer centric stories. Prisoners is another excellent movie.
Se7en is a MUST-SEE, if you are still lucky enough to not know anything about the plot you need to watch it. An Prisoners is also excellent, Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman give spectacular performances.
The psychological dynamic between Starling and Lector is really interesting, he manipulates her to escape, while simultaneously counselling and advancing her FBI career
This won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor - not a jump scare movie, Jodie Foster is much older than you think, she was almost 20 years into her career when this was released, and this was released 30 years ago
Yeah it's a great movie. You two should definitely react to Hereditary as well. It's one of the best horror films in years. Some other really good ones are The Babadook and Midsommar.
@@BigMateo24 I was ready to turn off the DVR, but "Hereditary" finally ended. I thought "A Quiet Place" was better movie, done with a small cast and a smaller budget.
@@BigMateo24 as someone who has watched horror movies since my childhood in the 1970's, if I judged how good a horror film is on whether or not it scared me, the list of horror I like would be vanishingly small. The last horror film to actually scare me was 2018's "Unsane", with Claire Foy, where I learned I have a deep-seated fear of involuntary commitment to a psychiatric facility. The way in which is was filmed made the first half of the film incredibly disturbing for me, and it was the first film that truly left me shaken in 30+ years. Greatly enjoyed "The Babadook" and "Hereditary".
If you look closely Anthony Hopkins did one thing on purpose to make his character even more frightening and creepy. He never blinks once throughout the entire movie!
Funnily enough, as scary and bone chilling as his performance was here. Anthony Hopkins is one the most real, sweetest people in film history. It's only a testament to his amazing, amazing work as an actor.
This is such a well-done movie. You guys should've seen this in the theater back in 1991. The end scene in the basement with the night vision was absolutely terrifying on the big screen. I don't think one person in that theater was able to take a breath during that whole scene. It does lose a bit of it's effect on the smaller screen, but it's still great.
I saw this in the theater on the big screen and it was terrifying. I was only 20 (and fairly sheltered) and I was paralyzed by the intensity of the movie.
You guys are lucky to have seen it on the big screen back then. What was the reaction like in the theater during the scene when Officer Boyle's corpse was found displayed like a butterfly?
@@GuitaristDog87 I don't recall the reaction to that specific scene, but I do remember the whole movie being pretty shocking to most in the audience. Gotta remember that this was 30 years ago, and this movie was not part of the usual slasher genre (like Friday the 13th) that was so prevalent in the 80s. This was a mainstream movie (with A-List actors) that was billed mostly as a crime drama, so the scenes in the movie were pretty terrifying for this particular type of audience.
At the 1992 Oscars show where the movie swept the awards- Host Billy Crystal makes his entrance wheeled in strapped like Lektor is in the movie. Hopkins in the audience has the biggest smile and laugh about the joke. Check out the highlights on TH-cam.
SUCH fun watching you two watch this brilliant film! In the history of the Oscars only three films have won the Big Five -- Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay. "Lambs" was one of the three.
At 20:23 that swat guy is Chris Isaak. The singer of "Wicked Game". He also was in Married to the Mob. A great movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Modine. Worth a watch!
I love Married To The Mob. Mercedes Ruehl (who later won an Oscar for The Fisher King) was great as the boss’s jealous to the point of becoming deranged wife.
Jonathan Demme and Jodie Foster both hated where the book went and dropped out of it. And they did end up altering the ending in the film anyway. It’s better to read the books (all the books, even though Hannibal is flawed and Hannibal Rising is almost an embarrassment), then watch the TV series Hannibal instead. That was a well done adaptation that reimagined the entire story while staying true to the series.
The horror on Jack Crawford face when he realized Clarice was alone with Buffalo Bill that’s the only time he wasn’t the coolest ice water in veins G-man in the room , thanks for sharing your reactions are always exciting and entertaining
interesting call back: when the doctor at the beginning says his pulse never got above 85 when attacking the nurse, the paramedic in the ambulance gives lecture's pulse at 84 after he kills the policemen.
You should watch Manhunter movie which is the first movie from the Thomas Harris books. Brian Cox played Hannibal. Michael Mann directed it William Peterson played Will Graham, the original profiler who caught Hannibal. It is really good.
So I'm 43 and was introduced to the concept of reaction videos by my kids. I used to think it was...well, I didn't know what to think because we didn't have reaction videos in the nineties but I like your content! The fact that you watch a lot of the movies I grew up with has something to do with it but I like that your reactions aren't that phoney, surprised-at-everything style of reaction video designed to get clicks need on your mouth agape thumbnail. Your reactions seem real. You don't sit there with perpetual smiles or looks of shock on your faces. You smile when something's funny and you raise your eyebrows when something shocks you. It's also interesting to hear the perspective of people that are a little younger and didn't grow up with these movies. In the late 80s/early 90s graphic violence and so-called strong language was just normal. My mother took me to see Aliens and Total Recall in the theater. I saw the criminally underrated Predator 2 in theaters. There was no discussion of the nudity, squibs or explosions or anything afterwards. It was just what young boys saw. I saw Silence of the Lambs in the theater too! When Lecter says the line, "Love your suit!", that was a laugh line that made theaters erupt in laughter and eased our tension. I know how effective was because I saw it twice: once here in New York with friends, and once while on a 2-day class trip to our sister school in Philly. Yes, a class trip! Through your eyes, through modern sensibilities about race, politics and violence-violence against women in particular-I have a different perspective of this and a few other movies now. It's interesting. You guys do good work. Keep it up!
The part with luring the woman over to his car with a sofa was based how Ted Bundy would lure his victims to him, he'd pretend to drop some books or papers and while the woman was helping pick them up he'd knock them out
This is a sequel to Manhunter (1986) Hannibal (2001) (Anthony Hopkins) is 3rd Red Dragon (Anthony Hopkins) is a remake of Manhunter Hannibal Rising is a prequel to Manhunter
The above information is correct. There are two television series: Hannibal--which is a sort of alternate universe version of the characters, and Clarice--which is a sequel to Silence of the Lambs and which takes place one year after the movie.
I also really enjoyed the sequel, Hannibal and Red Dragon (which is actually Chapter 1, before Silence of the Lambs) if you want to do a reaction to those films as well.
Original: Manhunter* (1986) - Brian Cox Prequel: Red Dragon* (2002) - Anthony Hopkins Sequel: Hannibal (2001) - Anthony Hopkins Series: Hannibal (2013-2015) - Mads Mikkelsen *Based on the same book
Actually both Hopkins and Foster have been working in TV and films since the 1960's. Anthony after some time on stage and Jodie was a child actor. The roles did get them Oscars, along with five more for the film.
And Hopkins wasn't just on any stage either. He was one of the legendary Laurence Olivier's proteges at Britain's prestigious National Theatre. Great things were expected of him before he ever made a film. That's why he was able to make his feature film debut next to Katharine Hepburn in one of her Oscar winning roles in The Lion in Winter, and he got a BAFTA nomination for it. Most people don't start their film careers practically at the top.
@@JRRLewis That is very interesting , I never knew that. This made me wonder if there is an Anthony Hopkins biography , or if they are waiting for his death or retirement from acting to do so .
This is one of my favorite movies!! A true masterpiece of a psychological thriller! Jonathan Demme really delivered the fear factor with this film. And the first to win those Oscar’s; we’ll deserved. I’m so glad y’all finally watched this. You need to watch Red Dragon. It’s a prequel. It’s a great movie as well.
The POV shots of actors looking directly into the camera during interactions was a visual trademark of director Johnathan Demme. Other movies where he utilized it to great effect include 1994's PHILIDELPHIA and 2004's THE MANCHURIAN CANIDATE. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is the closest thing to a horror film that has ever won the Oscar for Best Picture. Anthony Hopkins was a shoo-in for winning Best Actor, but it ended taking the Oscar night by surprise winning Best Actress, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay.
When he looks away during the Quid Pro Quo scene, that's a technique used by Therapists and/or Psychiatrists to allow a patient to speak without feeling judged. Likely Hannibal could tell she was resisting, trying to wall him off, so he looked away to allow her some comfort in speaking. As, strange of a statement as it sounds. Late comment, I know - but I hadn't seen it before. And I felt the need to explain. :)
I saw this in the theater when it was first run. If you think Hannibal was creepy on the small screen, imagine that stare from the big screen. Dead silent when he was on the screen and some people were looking away or covering their eyes. The house thing got a lot of people in the audience, too.
Just noticed something based on your description of the facial closeups. In the main scene hannibal and clarice are talking about the "silence of the lambs". I noticed at first hannibals face is framed by the bars in his prison cell. Then as the scene progresses his face is no longer framed by the bars but hers is. then both arent. Its like hannibal and clarice are both imprisoned. First we focus on hannibal in a literal prison then he isnt (foreshadowing his escape), then we focus on clarices prison, her childhood trauma that forced her to become an agent, then as they talk and she tells hannibal about it there are no bars on her because telling him all this allows her to get the info from hannibal to catch bill and free herself from her psychological prison. They both freed each other in a sense. And ive seen this movie countless times. Thanks for your observation!
Awe you guys. This is a real masterpiece. It rubs the lotion on it it's skin. It does this or it gets the hose. I'm so glad you all delved into the lair of the RED DRAGON.
The sequel is called Hannibal. There is a prequel called Red Dragon. They are both worth watching but neither reaches the same level as Silence of the Lambs (tho admittedly that would be tough as this was one of just three movies in history to win the big 5 academy awards: best picture, actor, actress, director, and screenplay).
Quite simply, a modern day classic. Whenever I happen to catch this while channel surfing, I always watch it again from that point. The acting, screenplay, and directing were all phenomenal.
Yes, there are two sequels. "Hannibal" and "the red dragon" - both good movies, highly recommend. Anthony Hopkins plays Hannibal Lecter so well. The psychopathic stare - like a predator is haunting, and so one point. Not every body can pull of such a terrifying and intense stare.
This movie has a Prequel and a sequel movie all with Anthony Hopkins as Lecter. The Prequel is called Red Dragon and the sequel is just called Hannibal. Red Dragon is very good too! Hannibal isn't bad, but Red Dragon is very very good.
@@Bodanki Wow, the book must be bad! It was close to the torture porn films of the early '00s. Just depressing and wallowing in the violence and gore. There was no psychological drama and suspense like SOTL and both Manhunter and Red Dragon.
@@MrDshack if you hate the torture porn aspect then never read the book, it amps up the s and m ten fold to the movie. Strange to say when Thomas Harris invented the characters, but in the book, clarice especially is a completely different person to the character she is in SOTL. It's fucked up. Critics went hard on it
So, just a fun fact: Buffalo Bill ist played by Ted Levine, the same actor who plays Cpt. Stottlemeyer in the series Monk. You have to look twice to see it and then can never again unsee it.
This is one of those rare franchises where all 3 films are good. This one is the best but Hannibal and Red Dragon are both great in my opinion. Red Dragon is universally liked, but Hannibal is polarizing. I loved it but I'm also a huge Ridley Scott fan. I think you guys would like them both.
when hollywood makes a big budget horror film that they not only nominate for best picture (among others) but actually award best picture (among others) they call it a "PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER"
It’s got an atmosphere that no other film can touch. And it’s all done without gore and violence. The actor who played Buffalo Bill was close friends with the woman in the well actress, and found it very hard to film the scene. The first adaptation of SOTL was 1986’s fucking excellent Manhunter. Both are equally as amazing - check it out! It’s more of a police procedural drama but that too has incredible atmosphere and attention to detail
Love your early calling out of Demme's mise en scene -- those close up, face-on shots that completely isolate the character and break the fourth wall. They are a crucial part of his filmmaking and really create an intimate relationship that keeps you pulled in.
Seeing this in the theater was great - those close up shots of the actors on screen filling up the entire screen in a huge theater made each eye like 30' in diameter.....scary stuff
It's a regular quirk of Jonathan Demme's directing that the camera is placed in a character's point of view, with the other actor talking directly to it. This is put to especially good use in Married to the Mob, where the same POV shot is repeated several times with increasing differences, to show the character's thought process as he figures something out.
Jodie Foster has said in interviews that due to that technique, Hopkins & herself only had a handful of scenes where they delivered lines to each other (the initial meeting being one).
great reaction! it's always so interesting to see someone react for the first time to such a classic. The director, Jonathan Demme, seems to like to use that cinematography technique of having the close ups with actors speaking directly into the camera for important conversations or speeches- he directed the movie "Philadelphia" with Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington as well, and I noticed he uses the same technique for some parts of the movie- that is a great movie too, btw. I don't know if you've seen the movie "Man on Fire" with Denzel Washington, speaking of him, but that is a FANTASTIC movie!
Did you notice Hannibal rarely blinks. Makes his scenes incredibly intense. Hopkins said something about that in an interview where he met a crazy guy in London that never blinked
Another fun thing is, despite how dark and chilling the story and performances are, they actually kept things really warm and goofy on-set while they were filming the movie. There's even a hilarious blooper reel you can find on youtube. :)
Thomas Harris did a lot of research for this book. That trick of Bill's with the arm cast was what Ted Bundy used to lure his victims, playing on women's trained tendency to want to help someone in distress. The technique of direct address (actors looking right into the camera) was Jonathan Demme's trademark. He did it in every film. It's a particularly good way to connect the audience to the characters. Check out his film of Toni Morrison's "Beloved", starring Oprah Winfrey. One of the most amazing ghost stories ever.
I've shared this with other reactions but here we go. The scene where Hannibal talks about eating the liver with fava beans and a nice Chianti, the ending where he makes that hissing sound was adlibbed. Anthony Hopkins had a friend on set that day and they talked about him doing it and then his friend dared him to do it and on the next take he did it. The director called cut and his friend exclaimed "oh my god, you're so sick" Kind of a weird thing to laugh about but I just imagine the faces of the people on set when he did that.
You asked about other ones, there actually are two other movies in the series. 'Hannibal'(the movie, not the show) is a proper sequel. 'Red Dragon' is a prequel. They both came out about 10 years after this movie. Neither was bad, but they definitely weren't the same caliber as Silence of the Lambs.
Funny enough: Jodie Foster (Clarice) said in an interview that she was so scared of Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal) after the first scene they filmed together that she completely avoided him on the movie set and never spoke to him until the VERY LAST DAY of the production where Anthanony Hopkins approached her to ask why she avoids him. He surprised her by saying he was just as scared of her. I like to think he invited her out to dinner after that. ;-)
As the credits begin to roll, you are dismissed from Jodie Foster's and Anthony Hopkins' master class in acting. To this day my wife gets creeped out whenever she sees him in anything.
The piano tune that plays when Hannibal kills the two police officers is the Aria of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. It features in every Hannibal film (not sure about Red Dragon/Manhunter).
Really loved your guys' reaction to this film. It is such an amazingly well-done film. Did you guys know this is based on a series of books written by Thomas Harris? Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal. All three films have been made into films. Also, the first appearance of the character Hannibal Lecter was in the film Manhunter, which was directed by Michael Mann, and actor Brian Cox played him in that film. It would later be remade under the original title "Red Dragon" in the 2000s by Brett Ratner and starred Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, and Anthony Hopkins. Just a little bit of trivia for you. Finally, I have seen the Hannibal tv series and it is excellent. Every bit as good as this film was, and just as creepy. And yes, Clarice, is the tv show about Clarice Starling from this film and the books.
Love your commentary. I was couch surfing & after dinner with my friends they decided to see this & I just wanted to go back and crash. When they came in they were so excited & said "You HAVE! TO! SEE! THIS! MOVIE!!!! I saw it 3 times in the theater. The lines to see it (in NYC) went on for a block and a half! It was mind blowing at the time - pre Law & Order SVU, etc. Love to see you guys watch it and see it holds up.
Jodie Foster said in an interview that she was never introduced to Anthony Hopkins and never met him throughout the shooting of the movie. She said that she was terrified of him and has still never met him other than acting with him during a shoot- thought that was weird and interesting.
There are photos of them together at the film's premiere, photos of them hugging at the Oscars, meeting at the film's 30 year anniversary retrospective... 🙄
I've always thought of this as a psychological thriller more than horror. Scared the crap out of me when I first saw it. Another one that scared me was Copycat with Sigourney Weaver. After seeing it my roommate and I looked at each other and I said I'd check the locks on the doors and windows downstairs and she took the upstairs.
The sequel is called Hannibal later there is a 3rd movie called “HANNIBAL RISING” it’s a prequel telling the backstory of who he is and what happened to him to make him the way he is
The movies in the series are Manhunter (directed by Michael Mann who made Heat) Silence of the Lambs Hannibal Red Dragon (remake of Manhunter) Hannibal Rising (origin story).
Silence of the Lambs had my two favorite brains bouncing ideas all movie long to decipher the plot and the misdirection. Excellent reaction. Excellent teamwork. TBR would get an idea, Samantha would fill in the pieces, the TBR would. File in more pieces of the puzzle. Love to see the interaction. Keep it up. And watch "Red Dragon"
Sequel is 'Hannibal' (2001), prequel is 'Red Dragon' (2005), prequel to the prequel is 'Hannibal Rising'. Two tv series, 'Hannibal' which went for three seasons and the new show 'Clarice' which is unrelated.
You guys have such a palatable style. Thank you for not partaking in “overreacting” and for seeming really genuine. And for letting most of the screen be the film. Oh and please watch Jacob’s ladder!
I read the book years ago. The thing I remember most about it was that every sentence pushed the story forward. They captured that aspect in the movie so well. There is not an ounce of fat on it. The sequence in Bill's basement was just terrifying - the acting so transparent, horror in the complete dark. Thank you for such a satisfying reaction to a great horror movie. Not the standard 'kill the monster' fare at all!
Still stuns me that other adults don't know movies like Silence of the Lambs. Guess I'm older than I like to think I am. btw the sequels are great, too. Not as well know because Silence was so groundbreaking, but just as darkly fascinating imo.
Spectacular and Chilling! What other horror classics should we experience!?
Thank you all for the support!
"Red Dragon", it happens directly before "The Silence of the Lambs".
David Fincher films
Zodiac
The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo
Se7en
The Dead Zone, from 1983.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, from 1978.
Dead Ringers
Jodi Foster was definitely a child actor. She was in the original Freaky Friday (I think a lot of people who like the Lindsay Lohan version don't know it was a remake), and another Disney film called Candleshoe in the 70's, but the biggest film of that era for her was Taxi Driver with Robert Deniro.
Red Dragon should be next on your list! It’s a pretty good follow up. It is a prequel. And just as chilling. A lot of the characters from this film are in the Hannibal tv show. There is also a Hannibal origin story which I felt is an overlooked movie. I really enjoyed that film and it does follow a young Hannibal through Europe. I highly recommend these two films. There was the sequel simply called Hannibal. Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise) directed that one. It was okay. But it starred Julian Moore taking over the reigns as Clarice. I think Julian Moore is a great actress. But, I definitely felt Jodi Foster’s absence. Anthony Hopkins returns as Hannibal. Jodi Foster opted not to return to the role due to script issues with the film. But as I tell everyone, I’ll leave it up to you to decide because a lot of people did like it. Anyway, so glad you watched this one!! Hope you select one of the others I just mentioned.
Despite feeling like a dominating presence throughout the film, Anthony Hopkins is only onscreen as Hannibal Lecter for about 16 minutes. It's such a captivating performance!
Holy cow!! That’s crazy! It definitely feels like he is on screen for so much of the movie!
@@TBRSchmitt especially with a reaction because your forced to show pretty much his entire 16 mins for a 40 mins reaction lol
And those 16 mins earned him the Oscar. I absolutely adore this film. One of my favourites for years.
@@neonlightsuk3864 Judy Dench was only in about 4 minutes of Shakespeare In Love and won the Oscar... Us Brits really know how to steal the limelight!😂😉
It's 17 minutes, dumbasses.
Foster and Hopkins always get all the recognition in this film (deservedly so), but a shout out to Buffalo Bill actor Ted Levine. He was truly disturbing and perfectly played.
Ted also played Captain Stottlemeyer, ironically a police detective, in the TV series "Monk." He is great in that role and shows his skills as an actor to go from the horror of "Silence of the Lambs" to the comedy/drama of "Monk."
Ted Levine and Brooke Smith (Catherine Martin) became the best of friends. They were left alone on their own set and chatted and joked around a lot between takes.
Incredible performance by Ted Levine. He was also horrifying in Heat.
You figured out what Bill was doing with the skins way before most do. Well done.
Hahaha thanks! Sam and I did it as a team effort!
Yeah, she was super quick to think of that! I'm sure Schmitt has nothing to worry about, though . . .
It's such a bummer in the book because they know WAY sooner. Like, I think by the end of her first visit with Lecter, they already know he's trying to make a woman suit, basically. She doesn't realize he's such a skilled tailor until the moment in Bimmel's room, but that moment has a lot less power when she's know basically the whole time about the woman suit thing. But yeah, the book overall is amazing though. And the movie is *incredibly* accurate down to even tiny details you don't even really notice in the film (like, the fish tanks in Buffalo Bill's basement, those are tanks with solution that he soaks the skin in, like tanning leather or whatever), so I was glad it's so true to the source material. And the only things they did change are somewhat minor, but in my opinion, they're improvements. Like, there's a difference between how the storage unit thing plays out between the movie and book, but I actually like the movie's version a bit better. Just, about as close to a perfect film as can be.
Winner of 5 Oscars including Best Picture. It was the first Horror Thriller to win!
Wow that’s crazy but well deserved!
Also Anthony Hopkins won the Oscar :)
@@ilcineangolodialex5224 And it was for Best Actor rather than Supporting Actor, despite Lecter not really having that much screentime. Just goes to show how much the spectre of Hopkins' performance dominates the film.
exc CATCH there, Silence of Lamb became only the 3rd film in HOLLYWOOD film history to win all 5 major Oscars as BEST screenplay is the 5th category
I would categorize it as Psychological Thriller more so than horror, but either way, an amazing movie
Foster's acting in the pitch black basement gets me every time. Great work!
That scene was barely 2 minutes long, but it felt like centuries 😂
It was shot in light.
Jodie foster herself says in a video on TH-cam that she finds it funny that people actually think it was shot in darkness and that the shadows prove it was shot in light.
@@MrParkerman6 Those bastards!
This was one of the best paced movies I have ever seen. There is no moment wasted.
I say this all the time. No dull moments
Red Dragon and Hannibal are both movies in the same "universe" with Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal👌🏻
The whole series of books is amazing.
Red Dragon is good, but Holy Sh** Hannibal is insane. That is an incredible follow up to this.
@Trevor Rogert Superman? What fighting did I miss in either of these movies? What disbelief is required for anything he does physically? His character's a doctor, not an action hero.
As is 'Manhunter" which was made before any of these (or Silience of the Lambs). "Red Dragon" is in fact a re-make of the superior version "Manhunter".
@Trevor Rogert well, SPOILER... first off. ANd 2nd, watch the movie again. He had everything prepared for it hours beforehand. Like any good surgeon would.
This is how you do a horror movie. The more realistic the scarier it is. Not one jump scare. Love it and loved your reaction to it. Best 40 minutes I’ve had in a while.
@Peacefield Indeed, calling this a horror movie is selling it short.
It's not a horror It's a thriller.
And often leave descriptions to the imagination of the audience, often our own imagination is scarier than anything we witness
@@LarryBonson but it literally is a horror movie you would know that if you've ever watched any of the behind the scenes features on this movie.
@johngarcia7774
It isn't a horror movie, dumbass, and there IS one jump scare!
I wouldn't have imagined watching two people watch a movie would be entertaining, but you two make it happen. Great channel!
Awesome! Thank you!
@@TBRSchmitt Fun Fact: Director Jonathan Demme has a walk-on cameo on the tropical island at the end. He’s the broadly smiling white guy in a blue cap. :)
Btw another Jonathan Demme movie worth checking out is Philadelphia (1993). Lots of actors from SotL make appearances there!
Two fun facts: 1. You did well picking up on all the shots with people looking directly into the camera. It was a choice by the director to create a certain uneasy feeling, to put us in Clarice's perspective as a young, female cadet in a male-dominated environment. 2. Throughout the entire movie, Anthony Hopkins almost never blinks, he is only seen with a constant stare, again to create an uneasy feeling within the viewer, and make him all the more chilling to behold.
You get that male dominated world perspective in the first few minutes when she steps in the elevator.
I did see him blink at least once. You can see it in this video when she is giving back his drawings.
@@MUSICLOVER23429 Agreed
@@reaper7264 Fair. But at least he tried to blink as little as possible for the purpose stated above.
Lecter even asks her "Don't you feel eyes moving over your body?" during their last interview.
Jodie Foster was a young teenager in the classic Taxi Driver. Years later her performance "inspired" someone to shoot the President of the United States, Ronald Reagen. She contemplated quitting acting after that.
We have never seen Taxi Driver but I have heard of that crazy true story! So wild...
@@TBRSchmitt You guys should watch Taxi Driver. It's one of the best films ever made, and my personal favorite Martin Scorsese film.
@@TBRSchmitt I am 40 years old, I saw Silence of the Lambs, Jacob's Ladder, and Candyman around 9-10 years old. I really don't watch any scary movies anymore haha.
Another movie with Jodie Foster worth watching is The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. Released the same year as Freaky Friday.
@@TBRSchmitt John Hinkley, the man who shot Regan, was released in 2016...
One fun little detail: Clarice's one friend at the FBI academy is Kasi Lemmons, who also played the friend of the protagonist in Candyman. She has gone on to be a director, doing Eve's Bayou, and more recently, Harriet.
I remember the first thing i saw her in was Spike Lee's School Daze. She is in the scene where Half Pint (Lee) is actively searching for girls to go out with, because of his frats hazing requirements. Every time she pops up in things I notice her, and I have incidentally scene most of the films she has directed. All of them were really good films.
One of my favorite behind the scenes facts is that Ted Levine (Buffalo Bill) and Brooke Smith (Catherine/Survivor) became each other’s best buddies on set and are still friends to this day. Which makes me so happy. lol It makes sense too when you hear them explain it in interviews. 90% of their work on the movie was in scenes exclusively between the two of them.
Hahaha that is awesome and a heart warming behind the scenes fact! Thanks for sharing!
@@TBRSchmitt If you like Brooke Smith, you should check out "Series 7 - The Contenders". It's a movie parody of reality TV shows that she starred in in 1999. Reality shows were a very new idea at the time, and it takes the concept to its logical extreme - the contestants have to kill each other off to win. She plays a pregnant woman, the toughest of the chosen group. She is AWESOME. :)
I had read this and it actually helped me because I found the Buffalo Bill character to be incredibly terrifying and in a way that left me unnerved for a long time.
Since there is a Law of conservation of Relationships, A. Hopkins lost his girlfriend to the film - he seemed too scary for her after having seen the film.
@@byzantineladybug9471 It took me years to stop feeling creeped out whenever I heard Ted Levine's voice.
I'd recommend the Hannibal TV series. It takes place before Hannibal is in prison and meets up with Clarice. Mads Mikkelsen is excellent as Hannibal.
The show is amazing. A crime it was canceled
So so so damn good. Every single thing about it is fantastic.
@@Kevin-mf5fm Apparently Fuller and Co. had plans to adapt all the Harris novels, and Silence would have been the next season.
The Silence Of The Lambs is my second favorite movie of all time, but I did not like the show at all. Mads as Hannibal was probably the only thing I did like about the show. I stopped watching one episode into season three.
@@thefilmeffect6089 Bryan Fuller went too far into his fanfiction. Where is the genius in Hannibal impersonating a real person, and an AUTHOR at that. AUTHORS had PHOTOS on their books. It was a miracle only the hater fan guy noticed.
Let that sink in...Anthony Hopkins won best actor at the Oscar for playing Hannibal Lector 16 minutes in that movie...That tells you the level of acting we are dealing here !!! The scene where Clarice pass in front of Hannibal and he is just standing there...that is pure improvisation ! Makes complete sense too for the character...What a great movie !!!
And I think she also won hers as well.
@@wedgeantilles4712 Yes they both won Oscars for the film, as did Demme for Best Director and the film won Best Picture. Only movie to win the big 4 Academy Awards that I can remember.
@@scrptar129 I could have sworn it happened at least once before, and I looked it up. Turns out it's happened three times: 1934 (It Happened One Night), 1975 (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), and 1991 with Silence. All three movies won Best Screenplay, too!
@@Melancthon7332 Good going for the research! Three very deserving films. I think the reason Silence sticks with me is because it seemed to be an underdog going in because “horror films don’t win Oscar awards, much less Best Picture” was the prevailing sentiment. Needless to say I was pretty happy when it did.
I saw this in the theater back in 1991. I couldn't take my eyes of the screen! It was so hypnotic!
One of the greatest films ever made.
It definitely was a hypnotic movie!
Me too. It's the first movie I saw where the audience actually clapped at the end. Incredible movie.
I'm seriously jealous.
One of my favorite takes on this movie is that Hannibal has one of the greatest entrances in Film History and he doesn’t actually walk into the scene. He’s standing in the middle of the room like a creep as the camera’s panning reveals him. It’s chillingly effective.
I freaking love this movie! So glad you guys are watching it. Condolences on it being your first viewing ♥️, that is always a little rough. lol
I absolutely loved his intro scene too! Such creepy vibes in a few second scene!
It’s the build up to him as well. Crawford starts out warning clarice, then chilton does the same as they’re walking through all this super security. Then as you go down the hallway, each of the crazy people is progressively more nuts before you get to lecter.
@@TBRSchmitt In the staff room scene with Barney you could catch a glimpse of him sitting on his cot, through the camera.
When Anthony Hopkins was rehearsing for the role of Hanibal Lector, he trained himself to stare for long periods of time.
This means that Hanibal hardly ever blinks during the whole film.
When you notice, those staring eyes are just creepy as hell.
Wrong, dumbass.
He doesn't blink whatsoever
, Idiot.
Not one time.
Saw it in the theater. Had me on the edge of my seat and my stomach was in knots. One of my fav movie of all time. Total classic.
As others have said Red Dragon with Edward Norton is a prequel. Hannibal the TV show is also quite good. The rest are a disappointment. If you haven't seen it David Fincher's Se7en and Netflix show Mindhunter are other excellent serial killer centric stories. Prisoners is another excellent movie.
Thanks for the suggestions! We watched mindhunter and loved it!
Se7en is a MUST-SEE, if you are still lucky enough to not know anything about the plot you need to watch it. An Prisoners is also excellent, Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman give spectacular performances.
I personally prefer Manhunter to Red Dragon, but both are good.
@@j.f.l.bousquet1998 also Zodiac.
If you haven't seen "Seven" - watch it.
YES!!
thier are a few movies that i will never watch again, this is one of them, full metal jacket, children of the the corn and seven.
Se7en is BRILLIANT - you never actually see anything happen, and yet you can see everything that happens.
The psychological dynamic between Starling and Lector is really interesting, he manipulates her to escape, while simultaneously counselling and advancing her FBI career
Anthony Hopkins has been in films since the 60s. His most well known film prior to this one is 1980s The Elephant Man.
This won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor - not a jump scare movie, Jodie Foster is much older than you think, she was almost 20 years into her career when this was released, and this was released 30 years ago
Came to say same about the Academy Award. It was the rare that a thriller even got nominated.
Yeah it's a great movie. You two should definitely react to Hereditary as well. It's one of the best horror films in years.
Some other really good ones are The Babadook and Midsommar.
@@BigMateo24 I was ready to turn off the DVR, but "Hereditary" finally ended. I thought "A Quiet Place" was better movie, done with a small cast and a smaller budget.
@@BigMateo24 What was the last scary movie you saw?
The Sixth Sense and The Others, classics.
Awesome! Thanks for the suggestions! Hereditary and Midsommar are high on our list to watch!
@@BigMateo24 as someone who has watched horror movies since my childhood in the 1970's, if I judged how good a horror film is on whether or not it scared me, the list of horror I like would be vanishingly small. The last horror film to actually scare me was 2018's "Unsane", with Claire Foy, where I learned I have a deep-seated fear of involuntary commitment to a psychiatric facility. The way in which is was filmed made the first half of the film incredibly disturbing for me, and it was the first film that truly left me shaken in 30+ years.
Greatly enjoyed "The Babadook" and "Hereditary".
If you look closely Anthony Hopkins did one thing on purpose to make his character even more frightening and creepy. He never blinks once throughout the entire movie!
Once - in the chianti line
He blinks several times when he's talking to her after she goes to the storage locker.
Funnily enough, as scary and bone chilling as his performance was here. Anthony Hopkins is one the most real, sweetest people in film history. It's only a testament to his amazing, amazing work as an actor.
"i'm having an old friend for dinner" hmmm😋, yummy 🤤🤤
Haha so creepy!!
This is such a well-done movie. You guys should've seen this in the theater back in 1991. The end scene in the basement with the night vision was absolutely terrifying on the big screen. I don't think one person in that theater was able to take a breath during that whole scene. It does lose a bit of it's effect on the smaller screen, but it's still great.
I saw this in the theater on the big screen and it was terrifying. I was only 20 (and fairly sheltered) and I was paralyzed by the intensity of the movie.
You guys are lucky to have seen it on the big screen back then. What was the reaction like in the theater during the scene when Officer Boyle's corpse was found displayed like a butterfly?
@@GuitaristDog87 I don't recall the reaction to that specific scene, but I do remember the whole movie being pretty shocking to most in the audience. Gotta remember that this was 30 years ago, and this movie was not part of the usual slasher genre (like Friday the 13th) that was so prevalent in the 80s. This was a mainstream movie (with A-List actors) that was billed mostly as a crime drama, so the scenes in the movie were pretty terrifying for this particular type of audience.
It was so scary seeing this on the big screen in the dark. One of the best movies ever.
At the 1992 Oscars show where the movie swept the awards- Host Billy Crystal makes his entrance wheeled in strapped like Lektor is in the movie. Hopkins in the audience has the biggest smile and laugh about the joke. Check out the highlights on TH-cam.
Hahaha that’s perfect!
Yes, Jodi Foster was a child star. One of her first movies was the original Freaky Friday. She was the teen (Lindsay Lohan's role in the remake).
Hahaha no way! I had no idea she did freaky Friday!
@@sweetkiss119 I saw that one in the theater. I was six or seven I think. Lots of fun. Haven’t seen it since.
I saw FF in the theater. Man I am old. 😂
also taxi driver
SUCH fun watching you two watch this brilliant film! In the history of the Oscars only three films have won the Big Five -- Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay. "Lambs" was one of the three.
Thanks for the support!
At 20:23 that swat guy is Chris Isaak. The singer of "Wicked Game". He also was in Married to the Mob. A great movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Modine. Worth a watch!
Awesome! Thanks for the trivia and recommendation!
I love Married To The Mob. Mercedes Ruehl (who later won an Oscar for The Fisher King) was great as the boss’s jealous to the point of becoming deranged wife.
@@MDK2_Radio yes I loved her as the wife who slowly comes unraveled towards the end. She was great!!!
The sequel is called "Hannibal" and it was released in 2001 with Julianne Moore taking over the role of Clarice.
And it was. . . . .ok
I like it a lot, but it's a flat-out horror movie. Ridley Scott didn't want to imitate the previous film.
Red Dragon is better
Jonathan Demme and Jodie Foster both hated where the book went and dropped out of it. And they did end up altering the ending in the film anyway. It’s better to read the books (all the books, even though Hannibal is flawed and Hannibal Rising is almost an embarrassment), then watch the TV series Hannibal instead. That was a well done adaptation that reimagined the entire story while staying true to the series.
Interesting! Did they just recast her or is she a different character all together!?
The horror on Jack Crawford face when he realized Clarice was alone with Buffalo Bill that’s the only time he wasn’t the coolest ice water in veins G-man in the room , thanks for sharing your reactions are always exciting and entertaining
Scott Glenn amazing actor.
Then and when he has his arm around Clarice outside Bill’s house.
interesting call back: when the doctor at the beginning says his pulse never got above 85 when attacking the nurse, the paramedic in the ambulance gives lecture's pulse at 84 after he kills the policemen.
I never noticed that, thats awesome.
You should watch Manhunter movie which is the first movie from the Thomas Harris books. Brian Cox played Hannibal. Michael Mann directed it William Peterson played Will Graham, the original profiler who caught Hannibal. It is really good.
So I'm 43 and was introduced to the concept of reaction videos by my kids. I used to think it was...well, I didn't know what to think because we didn't have reaction videos in the nineties but I like your content! The fact that you watch a lot of the movies I grew up with has something to do with it but I like that your reactions aren't that phoney, surprised-at-everything style of reaction video designed to get clicks need on your mouth agape thumbnail. Your reactions seem real. You don't sit there with perpetual smiles or looks of shock on your faces. You smile when something's funny and you raise your eyebrows when something shocks you. It's also interesting to hear the perspective of people that are a little younger and didn't grow up with these movies. In the late 80s/early 90s graphic violence and so-called strong language was just normal. My mother took me to see Aliens and Total Recall in the theater. I saw the criminally underrated Predator 2 in theaters. There was no discussion of the nudity, squibs or explosions or anything afterwards. It was just what young boys saw. I saw Silence of the Lambs in the theater too! When Lecter says the line, "Love your suit!", that was a laugh line that made theaters erupt in laughter and eased our tension. I know how effective was because I saw it twice: once here in New York with friends, and once while on a 2-day class trip to our sister school in Philly. Yes, a class trip! Through your eyes, through modern sensibilities about race, politics and violence-violence against women in particular-I have a different perspective of this and a few other movies now. It's interesting. You guys do good work. Keep it up!
I'm 45 , and I was surprised how entertaining I find reaction videos lol. As long as they are good , smart ones.
The part with luring the woman over to his car with a sofa was based how Ted Bundy would lure his victims to him, he'd pretend to drop some books or papers and while the woman was helping pick them up he'd knock them out
Yeah didn’t he use a tire iron? It’s odd that he drove such a small vehicle too (Volkswagen Beetle)
Plus he used a cast on his arm too.
@@kindadecent9754 Small space means more control. They can't get out of arm's reach like in a large sedan.
This is a sequel to Manhunter (1986)
Hannibal (2001) (Anthony Hopkins) is 3rd
Red Dragon (Anthony Hopkins) is a remake of Manhunter
Hannibal Rising is a prequel to Manhunter
The above information is correct. There are two television series: Hannibal--which is a sort of alternate universe version of the characters, and Clarice--which is a sequel to Silence of the Lambs and which takes place one year after the movie.
Manhunter with a much earlier role for William Petersen from CSI, I really enjoyed that movie. A good look into the psyche of a criminal profiler.
You guys should see the first Hannibal Lecter movie, 1986's Manhunter with William Petersen.
This!
That's a great film and has a great sound track by Shriekback.
I also really enjoyed the sequel, Hannibal and Red Dragon (which is actually Chapter 1, before Silence of the Lambs) if you want to do a reaction to those films as well.
The doorbell thing got all of us the first time. 😄 Great reaction to an excellent movie.
Original: Manhunter* (1986) - Brian Cox
Prequel: Red Dragon* (2002) - Anthony Hopkins
Sequel: Hannibal (2001) - Anthony Hopkins
Series: Hannibal (2013-2015) - Mads Mikkelsen
*Based on the same book
Hannibal Rising too, but we shall not speak its name.
Actually both Hopkins and Foster have been working in TV and films since the 1960's. Anthony after some time on stage and Jodie was a child actor. The roles did get them Oscars, along with five more for the film.
And Hopkins wasn't just on any stage either. He was one of the legendary Laurence Olivier's proteges at Britain's prestigious National Theatre. Great things were expected of him before he ever made a film. That's why he was able to make his feature film debut next to Katharine Hepburn in one of her Oscar winning roles in The Lion in Winter, and he got a BAFTA nomination for it. Most people don't start their film careers practically at the top.
@@JRRLewis That is very interesting , I never knew that. This made me wonder if there is an Anthony Hopkins biography , or if they are waiting for his death or retirement from acting to do so .
This might be a little off topic, but I find it really cute that you stay so close bunched together during your reactions! Keep up the good work!
This is one of my favorite movies!! A true masterpiece of a psychological thriller! Jonathan Demme really delivered the fear factor with this film. And the first to win those Oscar’s; we’ll deserved. I’m so glad y’all finally watched this. You need to watch Red Dragon. It’s a prequel. It’s a great movie as well.
It really was a masterpiece! Thanks for the suggestion!
I saw it when it came out in the theatre, imagine Hannibal's face 30 feet wide staring at you LOL.
The POV shots of actors looking directly into the camera during interactions was a visual trademark of director Johnathan Demme. Other movies where he utilized it to great effect include 1994's PHILIDELPHIA and 2004's THE MANCHURIAN CANIDATE.
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is the closest thing to a horror film that has ever won the Oscar for Best Picture. Anthony Hopkins was a shoo-in for winning Best Actor, but it ended taking the Oscar night by surprise winning Best Actress, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay.
When he looks away during the Quid Pro Quo scene, that's a technique used by Therapists and/or Psychiatrists to allow a patient to speak without feeling judged. Likely Hannibal could tell she was resisting, trying to wall him off, so he looked away to allow her some comfort in speaking. As, strange of a statement as it sounds.
Late comment, I know - but I hadn't seen it before. And I felt the need to explain. :)
I saw this in the theater when it was first run. If you think Hannibal was creepy on the small screen, imagine that stare from the big screen. Dead silent when he was on the screen and some people were looking away or covering their eyes. The house thing got a lot of people in the audience, too.
I used this as a first date movie. Live and learn. Best. Leo.
That Oscar was well deserved then.
Just noticed something based on your description of the facial closeups. In the main scene hannibal and clarice are talking about the "silence of the lambs". I noticed at first hannibals face is framed by the bars in his prison cell. Then as the scene progresses his face is no longer framed by the bars but hers is. then both arent. Its like hannibal and clarice are both imprisoned. First we focus on hannibal in a literal prison then he isnt (foreshadowing his escape), then we focus on clarices prison, her childhood trauma that forced her to become an agent, then as they talk and she tells hannibal about it there are no bars on her because telling him all this allows her to get the info from hannibal to catch bill and free herself from her psychological prison. They both freed each other in a sense.
And ive seen this movie countless times. Thanks for your observation!
Awe you guys. This is a real masterpiece. It rubs the lotion on it it's skin. It does this or it gets the hose. I'm so glad you all delved into the lair of the RED DRAGON.
The sequel is called Hannibal. There is a prequel called Red Dragon. They are both worth watching but neither reaches the same level as Silence of the Lambs (tho admittedly that would be tough as this was one of just three movies in history to win the big 5 academy awards: best picture, actor, actress, director, and screenplay).
All the other films in the series don't hold a candle to this master piece.
What about the tv show ?
Quite simply, a modern day classic. Whenever I happen to catch this while channel surfing, I always watch it again from that point. The acting, screenplay, and directing were all phenomenal.
Yes, there are two sequels. "Hannibal" and "the red dragon" - both good movies, highly recommend. Anthony Hopkins plays Hannibal Lecter so well. The psychopathic stare - like a predator is haunting, and so one point. Not every body can pull of such a terrifying and intense stare.
Red dragon is a prequel. Also Hannibal is absolute trash. Same goes with young Hannibal, both are absolute shit
Seeing you both make the connections right before it's shown is fantastic!!
This movie has a Prequel and a sequel movie all with Anthony Hopkins as Lecter. The Prequel is called Red Dragon and the sequel is just called Hannibal. Red Dragon is very good too! Hannibal isn't bad, but Red Dragon is very very good.
Love Red Dragon
Hannibal is a horrible, gratuitous dirge of s film.
@@MrDshack of the three it is for sure the worst. The book was terrible. The film was an improvement
@@Bodanki Wow, the book must be bad! It was close to the torture porn films of the early '00s. Just depressing and wallowing in the violence and gore. There was no psychological drama and suspense like SOTL and both Manhunter and Red Dragon.
@@MrDshack if you hate the torture porn aspect then never read the book, it amps up the s and m ten fold to the movie. Strange to say when Thomas Harris invented the characters, but in the book, clarice especially is a completely different person to the character she is in SOTL. It's fucked up. Critics went hard on it
So, just a fun fact: Buffalo Bill ist played by Ted Levine, the same actor who plays Cpt. Stottlemeyer in the series Monk. You have to look twice to see it and then can never again unsee it.
Yes ...I loved the TV show monk
This is one of those rare franchises where all 3 films are good. This one is the best but Hannibal and Red Dragon are both great in my opinion. Red Dragon is universally liked, but Hannibal is polarizing. I loved it but I'm also a huge Ridley Scott fan. I think you guys would like them both.
when hollywood makes a big budget horror film that they not only nominate for best picture (among others) but actually award best picture (among others) they call it a "PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER"
It’s got an atmosphere that no other film can touch. And it’s all done without gore and violence. The actor who played Buffalo Bill was close friends with the woman in the well actress, and found it very hard to film the scene.
The first adaptation of SOTL was 1986’s fucking excellent Manhunter. Both are equally as amazing - check it out! It’s more of a police procedural drama but that too has incredible atmosphere and attention to detail
Love your early calling out of Demme's mise en scene -- those close up, face-on shots that completely isolate the character and break the fourth wall. They are a crucial part of his filmmaking and really create an intimate relationship that keeps you pulled in.
6:55, yes, always check your surroundings.
Seeing this in the theater was great - those close up shots of the actors on screen filling up the entire screen in a huge theater made each eye like 30' in diameter.....scary stuff
It's a regular quirk of Jonathan Demme's directing that the camera is placed in a character's point of view, with the other actor talking directly to it. This is put to especially good use in Married to the Mob, where the same POV shot is repeated several times with increasing differences, to show the character's thought process as he figures something out.
I heard that technique is frowned upon, but Demme did it so well!!
Definitely a style that stands out immediately!
Jodie Foster has said in interviews that due to that technique, Hopkins & herself only had a handful of scenes where they delivered lines to each other (the initial meeting being one).
@@MikeB12800 only frowned upon because it rarely is done well
Seriously one of my favorite films ever. I'm glad you two covered it.
So are we!
great reaction! it's always so interesting to see someone react for the first time to such a classic. The director, Jonathan Demme, seems to like to use that cinematography technique of having the close ups with actors speaking directly into the camera for important conversations or speeches- he directed the movie "Philadelphia" with Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington as well, and I noticed he uses the same technique for some parts of the movie- that is a great movie too, btw. I don't know if you've seen the movie "Man on Fire" with Denzel Washington, speaking of him, but that is a FANTASTIC movie!
Did you notice Hannibal rarely blinks. Makes his scenes incredibly intense. Hopkins said something about that in an interview where he met a crazy guy in London that never blinked
If you want to know what happens to Hannibal, I hope you'll check out the direct sequel. The tv show is great too, but it's a seperate continuity.
Yeah we would love to see more in this universe!
Also the direct to camera is Jonathan Demme's signature. Philadelphia (1993) with Tom Hanks, The Manchurian Candidate with Denzel Washington.
Philadelphia is great, I personally hated the manchurian candidate but that's because I love the original with Sinatra
Yo ellie, how ya doin? Are ya back in jackson?
Oh man. This is an amazing choice! Love your reactions.
Awesome! Thank you so much for the support!
Another fun thing is, despite how dark and chilling the story and performances are, they actually kept things really warm and goofy on-set while they were filming the movie. There's even a hilarious blooper reel you can find on youtube. :)
Thomas Harris did a lot of research for this book. That trick of Bill's with the arm cast was what Ted Bundy used to lure his victims, playing on women's trained tendency to want to help someone in distress.
The technique of direct address (actors looking right into the camera) was Jonathan Demme's trademark. He did it in every film. It's a particularly good way to connect the audience to the characters. Check out his film of Toni Morrison's "Beloved", starring Oprah Winfrey. One of the most amazing ghost stories ever.
It isn't a trained tendency, dumbass.
I've shared this with other reactions but here we go. The scene where Hannibal talks about eating the liver with fava beans and a nice Chianti, the ending where he makes that hissing sound was adlibbed. Anthony Hopkins had a friend on set that day and they talked about him doing it and then his friend dared him to do it and on the next take he did it. The director called cut and his friend exclaimed "oh my god, you're so sick" Kind of a weird thing to laugh about but I just imagine the faces of the people on set when he did that.
You asked about other ones, there actually are two other movies in the series. 'Hannibal'(the movie, not the show) is a proper sequel. 'Red Dragon' is a prequel. They both came out about 10 years after this movie. Neither was bad, but they definitely weren't the same caliber as Silence of the Lambs.
Funny enough: Jodie Foster (Clarice) said in an interview that she was so scared of Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal) after the first scene they filmed together that she completely avoided him on the movie set and never spoke to him until the VERY LAST DAY of the production where Anthanony Hopkins approached her to ask why she avoids him. He surprised her by saying he was just as scared of her.
I like to think he invited her out to dinner after that. ;-)
As the credits begin to roll, you are dismissed from Jodie Foster's and Anthony Hopkins' master class in acting. To this day my wife gets creeped out whenever she sees him in anything.
They both delivered powerhouse performances!
The piano tune that plays when Hannibal kills the two police officers is the Aria of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. It features in every Hannibal film (not sure about Red Dragon/Manhunter).
Really loved your guys' reaction to this film. It is such an amazingly well-done film. Did you guys know this is based on a series of books written by Thomas Harris? Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal. All three films have been made into films. Also, the first appearance of the character Hannibal Lecter was in the film Manhunter, which was directed by Michael Mann, and actor Brian Cox played him in that film. It would later be remade under the original title "Red Dragon" in the 2000s by Brett Ratner and starred Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, and Anthony Hopkins. Just a little bit of trivia for you.
Finally, I have seen the Hannibal tv series and it is excellent. Every bit as good as this film was, and just as creepy. And yes, Clarice, is the tv show about Clarice Starling from this film and the books.
Red Dragon is NOT a remake, dumbass.
Love your commentary. I was couch surfing & after dinner with my friends they decided to see this & I just wanted to go back and crash. When they came in they were so excited & said "You HAVE! TO! SEE! THIS! MOVIE!!!! I saw it 3 times in the theater. The lines to see it (in NYC) went on for a block and a half! It was mind blowing at the time - pre Law & Order SVU, etc. Love to see you guys watch it and see it holds up.
PS - Don't know if anyone put it in your comments, but Clarice is loosely based on a real woman.
Jodie Foster said in an interview that she was never introduced to Anthony Hopkins and never met him throughout the shooting of the movie. She said that she was terrified of him and has still never met him other than acting with him during a shoot- thought that was weird and interesting.
There are photos of them together at the film's premiere, photos of them hugging at the Oscars, meeting at the film's 30 year anniversary retrospective... 🙄
They've definitely interacted now. Theres a reunion between the two of them on youtube recently.
was referring to this interview th-cam.com/video/fXUsRIcwtSo/w-d-xo.html.
Hannibal did not know that Claricewas lying, thats why he delighted in telling her , "That was good!" when they met again.
I've always thought of this as a psychological thriller more than horror. Scared the crap out of me when I first saw it. Another one that scared me was Copycat with Sigourney Weaver. After seeing it my roommate and I looked at each other and I said I'd check the locks on the doors and windows downstairs and she took the upstairs.
Another chilling and tense performance from Anthony Hopkins is Magic (1978) . Great movie
The sequel is called Hannibal later there is a 3rd movie called “HANNIBAL RISING” it’s a prequel telling the backstory of who he is and what happened to him to make him the way he is
And there's Red Dragon
You guessed every plot twist!
I was mindblown when I first saw this
You fly along now, little starling.
Fly, fly, fly
Fly, fly, fly
Wordplay because a Starling is a type of bird
"Josh, were you doing the silly voice for the policeman again?"
"She did, like, all that by herself."
AMEN.
Fun fact: the SWAT officer who opens the elevator hatch is singer Chris Isaak.
Didn't see that, thanks. And he was in Twin Peaks around the same time.
The movies in the series are Manhunter (directed by Michael Mann who made Heat)
Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal
Red Dragon (remake of Manhunter)
Hannibal Rising (origin story).
Silence of the Lambs had my two favorite brains bouncing ideas all movie long to decipher the plot and the misdirection. Excellent reaction. Excellent teamwork. TBR would get an idea, Samantha would fill in the pieces, the TBR would. File in more pieces of the puzzle. Love to see the interaction. Keep it up. And watch "Red Dragon"
Awesome! Thank you so much for the kind words!
Sequel is 'Hannibal' (2001), prequel is 'Red Dragon' (2005), prequel to the prequel is 'Hannibal Rising'. Two tv series, 'Hannibal' which went for three seasons and the new show 'Clarice' which is unrelated.
Clarice takes place in between the first two films.
4:57, Hello, Clarice.
You guys have such a palatable style. Thank you for not partaking in “overreacting” and for seeming really genuine. And for letting most of the screen be the film.
Oh and please watch Jacob’s ladder!
Best thing for him really....... His therapy was going nowhere.
I read the book years ago. The thing I remember most about it was that every sentence pushed the story forward. They captured that aspect in the movie so well. There is not an ounce of fat on it. The sequence in Bill's basement was just terrifying - the acting so transparent, horror in the complete dark. Thank you for such a satisfying reaction to a great horror movie. Not the standard 'kill the monster' fare at all!
The Hannibal tv show is great, you should definitely check it out! Always a pleasure watching your reactions :)
Still stuns me that other adults don't know movies like Silence of the Lambs. Guess I'm older than I like to think I am.
btw the sequels are great, too. Not as well know because Silence was so groundbreaking, but just as darkly fascinating imo.