Jonathan Demme on The Silence of the Lambs

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  • Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024

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  • @27JOHNNEIL
    @27JOHNNEIL Год назад +8

    What an excellent interview. Thank you. I miss Jonathan Demme

  • @KennyEvansUK
    @KennyEvansUK 9 месяцев назад +3

    This film landed into the hands of a genius. Perfect castings and a serendipity of talent.

  • @NoahSpurrier
    @NoahSpurrier Год назад +29

    All the pieces fell together perfectly for this film.

  • @TheBeatles..
    @TheBeatles.. Год назад +42

    I was working at Radio station RRR in Melbourne just before this was released. And Anthony Hopkins came live to the studio for interview. At that stage he was famous but not a superstar. So when we interviewed him (in our mind)..thought "okay it will be an ok movie" but we had no idea how much.
    We asked him to lunch in Skiza's cafe in Brunswick St Fitzroy and he said "sure". No one recognized him.
    After the meal, he said he had no money, so I paid. I got him to sign an IOU saying "I Hannibal Lecter owe Peter $21.80". The movie was 2 months from release & i lost the note .
    😭😭😭
    He was super polite at the 30 minute interview, came by himself and was sooo funny/nice the whole time.

    • @tanyachou4474
      @tanyachou4474 Год назад +6

      What a wonderful story and too bad you lost your note 😂

  • @jedi1967
    @jedi1967 Год назад +3

    I used to work at AMC Theatres when this film premiered. Watched it on a Thursday before the premiere. Couldn’t sleep for three days…

  • @rgrndu
    @rgrndu Год назад +40

    A friend and I stopped at a movie theater to see what was playing & received an invitation to screen a new movie starring Jodie Foster & Anthony Hopkins. We went, were blown away, then asked to stay and fill out a questionnaire about the film. When we left there were several men in suits hanging out in the lobby. A year went by & my friend & I wondered whatever happened to that great movie we saw. When it finally came out I was happy it was so successful & won all the Oscars.

  • @elichilton7031
    @elichilton7031 Год назад +32

    A masterpiece to be sure. It's funny how he describes the production as a wonderful experience so much so that all the accolades to follow was icing on the cake. If you know anything about film productions, you know that the movie gods are not always on your side, and when they smile down on you, that's better than anything else you can receive.

    • @elichilton7031
      @elichilton7031 Год назад +3

      @@markwoldin162 True that. Edit complete.

  • @kzinful
    @kzinful Год назад +4

    I miss him, what a sad loss.

  • @jekw23
    @jekw23 Год назад +3

    Great film with one of the greatest set pieces I’ve ever seen. I’ve never come across a section of a movie that continually cranks up the tension so well for so long.
    The whole film is great but the escape set piece is outstanding

  • @thebadgamer1967
    @thebadgamer1967 Год назад +2

    My all time fave movie, fascinating insight of a wonderful film maker

  • @mreddieau
    @mreddieau Год назад +1

    Demme was massively underrated, he made some amazing movies

  • @trevorpowers6032
    @trevorpowers6032 Год назад +2

    I wish I got to meet him...
    RIP

  • @mulemule
    @mulemule Год назад +23

    Holy-crap. Can you imagine Meg Ryan as Agent Starling?! (Thank God she passed.)

    • @DarkCyberElf
      @DarkCyberElf Год назад +2

      she passed on the role*
      😬 She's alive and well.

    • @mulemule
      @mulemule Год назад +5

      @@DarkCyberElf Self-evident in the context of the clip (but your pedantry's noted).😬

    • @footballpredictions-g2y
      @footballpredictions-g2y Год назад +4

      I could see Meg Ryan. Michelle Pfeiffer seems like a miscast to me, even though she's a better actress than Ryan. Jodie Foster is obviously by far the best choice.

    • @jasonkh4
      @jasonkh4 Год назад

      @@footballpredictions-g2yI think Pfeiffer still would’ve nailed it, but Jodie has certain idiosyncrasies that made the character more believable, as is generally the case with all of her roles

    • @matthewcloranmusic7745
      @matthewcloranmusic7745 Год назад

      My thought exactly. Pffeifer - yeah - but very glad it was Foster!

  • @barmouthbridge8772
    @barmouthbridge8772 Год назад +15

    I was studying in Oxford when this released. Only one small theatre screened it and in order to get a seat you had to queue early in the day for later shows. My friend and I walked to the Empire, queued and bought our advance tickets. Rather than make the forty minute walk back we killed the time by watching a subtitled Japanese film called "In the realm of the senses" about a troubled geisha who ultimately killed her master by castrating him.During the screening we could hear some of the music from the adjacent room. We heard some audience reaction too which certainly helped build tension for the main event. I thought Hopkins was possibly the most mesmerising character I'd ever seen on big screen. The tension in that film was layered up so beautifully.Even today if I hear Springsteen's "American girl" it instantly transports me back to Senator Martin's daughter singing in her car. By the end I wanted Lecter free and didn't mind his escape at the cost of unfortunate Sergeant Pembury. Never remake this or Jaws. Be a crime.

    • @hasltisl
      @hasltisl Год назад +6

      That would be Tom Petty’s “American Girl.”

    • @rgrndu
      @rgrndu Год назад

      They did remake Jaws. They were called Jaws 2, Jaws 3, etc.

    • @NoahSpurrier
      @NoahSpurrier Год назад +1

      @@rgrndu sequels, not remakes.

    • @halflifefan1000
      @halflifefan1000 Год назад +4

      What a double feature!

    • @NoahSpurrier
      @NoahSpurrier Год назад +1

      @@halflifefan1000 I was thinking the same thing! Both movies were very intense.

  • @phero2
    @phero2 Год назад +8

    Dude is selling himself short, you don't get to SOTL levels of perfection just by working hard

    • @rabbit251
      @rabbit251 Год назад +1

      His modesty is really adorable. So really this movie was the right people, cast and crew, come together at the right time to make perfection.

  • @davidkglevi
    @davidkglevi Год назад +5

    It still is one of only three films that have ever won the big five Oscars, best picture, director, screenplay and male and female lead. (The other two films are "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" and "It happened one night".)

  • @robertwiesler381
    @robertwiesler381 18 дней назад

    Jonathan Demme was a hero
    My advice for everybody:
    Watch 'Heart of Gold' by him
    Absolutely fantastic, it made me to
    a die hard Neil Young fan
    RIP Mr. Demme

  • @pressanybutton1880
    @pressanybutton1880 Год назад +6

    So glad Connery passed on it.

  • @markwoldin162
    @markwoldin162 Год назад +8

    Not just a hard worker. An artist. Hearts of the West.

  • @Wellington-nl7vm
    @Wellington-nl7vm Год назад +6

    It's still is the perfect thriller. Amazing movie

  • @palacerevolution2000
    @palacerevolution2000 Год назад +16

    A masterpiece. I had heard that Michelle Pfeiffer was 1st choice, and think she could have been fantastic. I want to add that the film also had a very good promotional campaign. Nowadays you see the whole plot in the trailer. SOTL was creepy and mysterious - you just HAD to see it.

  • @noeldown1952
    @noeldown1952 Год назад +13

    Gone way too soon.

  • @footballpredictions-g2y
    @footballpredictions-g2y Год назад +6

    I strongly believe some things are just meant to be, like Hopkins getting cast as Dr. Lecter, Pacino in the Godfather or Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad. Without those actors, those pieces of art just wouldn't be half as good.

    • @nadagabri5783
      @nadagabri5783 Год назад

      Marlon B in the godfather … as well

    • @stepha5926
      @stepha5926 Год назад

      Gandolfini as well... notice how they're all *negative* characters? 🧐

    • @obiwankenobi9439
      @obiwankenobi9439 Год назад

      Forest Gump. Indiana Jones. Jack Sparrow. Tony Stark. Obi Wan Kenobi.
      All good guys.

  • @himgod6495
    @himgod6495 Год назад +1

    July 8th 1981 is mentioned in that movie......that's my birthday!!!!!

  • @df4196
    @df4196 Год назад +5

    This series is so damn fantastic

  • @Goit_Goit
    @Goit_Goit Год назад +11

    Hopkins. Utterly inspired casting.

  • @TheJoose01
    @TheJoose01 Год назад +1

    He lets us understand he had never made a thriller before, but there's Last Embrace from 1979...

  • @organicmilk5
    @organicmilk5 Год назад +5

    An absolute brilliant film

  • @petermcgill1315
    @petermcgill1315 Год назад +1

    Everything else is gravy. It’s a wonderful attitude.

  • @spinsandneedles
    @spinsandneedles Год назад +3

    Somehow the force of evil that is Lecter, and the force of good that is Clarice, bound together in a chemistry of desperation and ambition. Lecter plotted his escape, gaining opportunities for more murders which he perversely enjoyed. Clarice followed leads, gaining opportunities to rise within the ranks of her profession which would more than compensate for her past. Somehow between them they would each gain the fulfillment of their needs during the course of a psychologically intimate and unorthodox relationship. Jonathan Demme and cast had great material, played it straight, and built in all the suspense of story and the main character's journey into the unknown. (Strangely enough Jodie Foster had a similar arc as a true blue believer again in Contact, bringing fulfillment but not a perfectly happy, unrealistic ending.) When I saw The Silence of the Lambs in the theater I found it completely riveting and fascinating on every level. I can't think of anything it needed.

  • @armandoruiz8963
    @armandoruiz8963 Год назад

    Greatest movie of our generation 😎

  • @aromaticflower
    @aromaticflower Год назад +3

    Demme is just so damn likeable

  • @gilpinsteven
    @gilpinsteven Год назад +5

    Heck yeah Jonathan Demme is awesome. I loved Stop Making Sense, The Talking Heads concert film he directed. Silence of the Lambs is an anomaly in cinema and remains a classic. Also loved Rachel Getting Married. Brilliant filmmaker.

  • @dragonfruit89
    @dragonfruit89 Год назад

    Maybe the "no great expectations" was one of the essential keys to getting it into a masterpiece. Pressure on movie making is high enough anyways.

  • @tanyachou4474
    @tanyachou4474 Год назад +2

    He is one of my favourite director!😊

  • @pcoldlight5631
    @pcoldlight5631 Год назад +8

    I ate her liver , with a vodka martini .

  • @tackysum
    @tackysum Год назад +4

    Trying to imagine Sean Connery as Lecter ... would have been interesting to say the least. But Hopkins is so darn perfect in every choice he made, it's hard to see anyone else in the role. Did anyone see Bryan Cox play him in "Manhunter"?

    • @spinsandneedles
      @spinsandneedles Год назад

      I certainly did.

    • @THEremiXFACTOR
      @THEremiXFACTOR Год назад +1

      "Claricsshh"

    • @davidlean1060
      @davidlean1060 Год назад +1

      Only my opinion, but I think Cox played the genius psycho better than Hopkins, but Hopkins played the role 'bigger'and thus was more memorable. It helped that Demme portrayed Lector's world like a scene from a horror movie too. That enabled Hopkins to ham up Lector and give him 'otherworldy' quanities. Cox played the role 'straight', but Hopkins understood the cartoonishness of the character and played it that way.

    • @patrickc3419
      @patrickc3419 Год назад

      Yes. A better movie.

  • @localcrew
    @localcrew Год назад

    Great interview. Just subscribed!

  • @rabbit251
    @rabbit251 Год назад +1

    Wow! He's so humble??? He won an Oscar and the movie totaled 5 awards! If I had done that I would be running around shouting, "Look what I did!" Humble. Really had to be when all the right elements come together.

  • @jaroslavfricek7772
    @jaroslavfricek7772 Год назад +1

    Saw it again resently. The story telling the camera work sooo exceptional❗️😎❤️🙋‍♂️

  • @SCharlesDennicon
    @SCharlesDennicon Год назад +1

    Meg Ryan XD XD XD Jesus, talk of a close shave.

  • @65g4
    @65g4 Год назад +3

    Still a great movie

  • @orangewarm1
    @orangewarm1 Год назад

    why would anyone turn down Clarice? Amy Brenerman tuned down Edy in Heat because she said the film was too dark. Michael Mann delved deeper? "Why?" He said. She replied "Because i wouldn't want to be involved with that world of crime." He replied, "That's why you should do the part."

  • @shadowfilm7980
    @shadowfilm7980 Год назад

    Can’t believe he is gone now. So soon. Too soon. RIP.

  • @viviandarkbloom8847
    @viviandarkbloom8847 Год назад +3

    "Lecter. Hannibal Lecter."

  • @jeffvannda1250
    @jeffvannda1250 Год назад

    The books are all incredible..He did a great job...

  • @hugh-johnfleming289
    @hugh-johnfleming289 Год назад +2

    The thought of Connery in that role is delicious.

    • @mulemule
      @mulemule Год назад

      Yes but is it fava-beans-with-a-fine-chianti delicious?

    • @dirtyguava8209
      @dirtyguava8209 Год назад +5

      I sadly disagree. Connery plays the same archetype in all his films. He lacks the depth and nuance that Hopkins has as a trained thespian.

  • @joeyxl3456
    @joeyxl3456 Год назад

    Amazing thing piece of art he made there

  • @henrygvidonas9573
    @henrygvidonas9573 Год назад +3

    Connery shure turned down shom intereshting projectsh and franchishesh in hish time, didn't he?
    Silence Of The Lambs, Lord Of The Rings, Harry Potter, The Matrix...

  • @LacoSinfonia
    @LacoSinfonia Год назад

    In response to the first question: Uh, have you seen “Stop Making Sense”?

  • @ClanBez
    @ClanBez 2 дня назад

    Little do you know.... I have a sense he's holding some aspects back. 😉

  • @johnwatson3948
    @johnwatson3948 Год назад +7

    He’s being too modest - no one but Demme could have done the movie with the same undercurrents about personal loneliness and what lies beneath.

  • @MrsBlaileen1
    @MrsBlaileen1 8 месяцев назад

    Wow…can not imagine Michelle Pfeiffer or Meg Ryan playing Starling. Glad it turned out to be Jodie Foster!

  • @zmani4379
    @zmani4379 Год назад

    "Build me a movie worthy of Mordor"

  • @massi6528
    @massi6528 Год назад +2

    Then they completely ruined it with sequel having made by different director and actor as Clarice!🤦‍♂️

  • @anitabordlemay2260
    @anitabordlemay2260 Год назад

    How many serial killers are in this conments space

  • @JohnSmith-gb5vg
    @JohnSmith-gb5vg Год назад +1

    You can see how minority actors and actress can be upset by hearing this. Not one mention of a thought of casting any actors of, any color.

  • @stepha5926
    @stepha5926 Год назад +8

    Connery???? Seriously? 🤦That would've been a disaster! He's never been 1/50th the actor Hopkins is.
    As for Meg Ryan 🤣👎 gimme a break. I think this dude got verrry lucky.

    • @ghostviggen
      @ghostviggen Год назад

      Connery would work very well. It would have been a different film for sure. But he has a very strong screen presence, that would have worked for that film. And people probably would have been shocked by the violence.

    • @stepha5926
      @stepha5926 Год назад +1

      @@ghostviggen no way! With his distinctive accent, you'd keep thinking of Bond or his character from The Untouchables. Plus, with those intense closeups of his face, he just can't do those *piercing eyes* that Hopkins can.
      Sorry, I love Connery. His performance in The Hunt for Red October is one of my all-time faves. But playing Hannibal requires a different class of actor.

    • @ghostviggen
      @ghostviggen Год назад

      @@stepha5926 That’s because Hopkins has established what Hannibal should look and sound. If Connery had been cast you couldn’t imagine how the part have looked with Hopkins.

    • @stepha5926
      @stepha5926 Год назад

      @@ghostviggen absolutely wrong. 🤦 You're just repeating the same cliched thing everyone says.
      Fact: This film would absolutely not have become *iconic* with Connery. Try to focus on that point. Yes, "you couldn't imagine what it'd be like with Hopkins" just like you couldn't imagine The Wolf Of Wall Street with Michael Fassbender - but he would've slayed DiCaprio, & the film would've ranked up there with The Godfather, instead of the overacted cheesy dogshit we received.

  • @anitabordlemay2260
    @anitabordlemay2260 Год назад

    But hopman

  • @r.i.p.volodya
    @r.i.p.volodya Год назад

    My god! Can you imagine Sean Connery as Dr. Lecter!

  • @alexmarshall4331
    @alexmarshall4331 Год назад

    Funny as a punter I can not imagine anyone else but Hopkins and Foster in them roles 👉🇬🇧👈👉😵👈❗

  • @Zomfoo
    @Zomfoo Год назад

    If any of the original cast choices came through the film would have been forgotten by now. Serendipity saved you.

  • @davy_K
    @davy_K Год назад

    After watching Silence of the Lambs I always feel dirty and want to wash. It has such a weird effect on me.

  • @tinytanks
    @tinytanks Год назад

    wow, this guy comes off as even more of a genius than anthony hopkins.

  • @DJ-bj8ku
    @DJ-bj8ku Год назад +1

    Movie sucked. I don’t know why it gets so much acclaim. If it had been a chess match between two brilliant minds, it would’ve earned its headlines. Instead Jodie Foster, who was set up as some impressive new recruit, is instantly overmatched by Lecter’s charisma like some pup, and the movie devolves into a chase scene. Save your time.

    • @danielesteve8359
      @danielesteve8359 Год назад

      Completely agree. Overrated shit.

    • @LindaPage-sb8gc
      @LindaPage-sb8gc 29 дней назад +1

      Finally someone out there , thought the movie sucked..Love Hopkins. Foster so overrated..

  • @ganglabesh
    @ganglabesh Год назад

    hannibal is better

  • @rajo741
    @rajo741 Год назад +2

    A completely over rated film and nowhere as good as Michael Manns Manhunter, the first Lecter film. Hopkins performance struck me as arch then and watching it now it’s an embarrassing caricature performance. I tried watching it a third time and found it unbearably bad.

    • @ingvarhallstrom2306
      @ingvarhallstrom2306 Год назад +4

      And yet here you are thirty years later talking about it?

    • @rajo741
      @rajo741 Год назад +2

      @@ingvarhallstrom2306 the fecking thing popped up and I didn’t go looking for it. Like any human specimen I felt the urge to see what people were saying. First watch Manhunter then get back to me with any comments.

    • @ingvarhallstrom2306
      @ingvarhallstrom2306 Год назад +4

      @@rajo741 I'm a big Michael Mann fan, I've of course seen Manhunter perhaps twenty times at least? But it doesn't make this film any worse, they are two completely different films made in completely different ways.

    • @rajo741
      @rajo741 Год назад +2

      @@ingvarhallstrom2306 you’re absolutely right in your assessment. I just found Demme’s choices to be obvious whereas Manns depictions of psychological horror were more brightly lit in blue tones. In contrast Demme chose to shoot Lambs in a darker spectrum which struck me as cliche and had been done a thousand times. There were good things about his film but Hopkins was not one of them. Then again I’ve always felt he was an overrated actor and I’ve followed him since the start of his career . He’s a good actor but not great the way the press has always portrayed him. His finest performance I feel is in Titus.

    • @ingvarhallstrom2306
      @ingvarhallstrom2306 Год назад +2

      @@rajo741 I think the difference between the films is how they depict psychopathy differently. Brian Cox played it for real, showing no emotion but callous manipulation, the way a psychopath would behave in real life, ultimately not likeable. While Hopkins turned it up to eleven and gave the audience what he thought they wanted, the most likeable psychopath they had ever seen. That's of course the difference in direction, ultimately the directors call on what direction the film should have quite literally.

  • @350125GOW
    @350125GOW Год назад

    Directed The Perfect Kiss by New Order.Legend.

  • @altonreeves1854
    @altonreeves1854 Год назад

    what a waste of film and time............watching paint dry!