In Clarice's defense concerning the lamb: She didn't grow up on the farm. She was brought there after her dad was killed while on duty and her reaction was probably a mix of her being still very young, never having seen an animal actually being slaughtered, AND she was still traumatized from losing her dad to violence.
Right, and I’ve always thought the vegan theme of the movie was almost too blunt, with one killer who loves eating flesh and the other killer making a suit out of flesh, along with the title story
I’ve heard a lamb being Butchered and they sound just like a crying baby. I remember sitting in my room covering my ears and hugging my little cousin. It was traumatizing
Silence of the Lambs/Anthony Hopkins fun story: When Anthony Hopkins once went to see this movie in a theatre after its release, he found himself sitting next to a guy who was reacting very intensely anytime his character Hannibal Lector was on screen. So, being the mischievous troll he is, Hopkins waited for a particular intense scene, then tipped the dude's shoulder with his finger, griined and said in his Hannibal-voice: "Don't be scared! He can't get to you!" Poor dude reportedly screamed in terror...
@@brianegendorf2023 Have you seen the first MCU"Thor" film? That scene where Loki tire to speak to Odin and Odin just growls menacingly, scaring Loki? Tom Hiddleston's reaction is genuine, Hopkins' growl wasn't in the script, he improvised it on the spot! Poor Hiddles didn't know what hit him, LOL!
"HE COVETS." Buffalo Bill wanted to transform into beauty, that's why he chose the butterfly. His need to covet is what eventually got him killed. His faux-caressing of Clarice's face in the dark was him trying to 'possess' Clarice's beauty. In the book, as he is dying Bill asks Clarice, "What's it like to be so beautiful?" Tis beauty killed the beast.
This won ALL the Oscars that year, best actor, best actress, best director and best film. Scary movies seldom are even nominated. That's how big an impact it had when it was released.
@@CraigMurraysVids making it one of only 3 films to win all of the "big 5" (best actor, actress, director, screenplay and film) the other 2 being It Happened One Night (1934) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).
Another fact, the studio that made this film had failed by the time the Oscar's came around. That company being Orion Pictures, which actually came back about ten years ago.
According to Legends, Hopkins went into a cinema and sat in the theatre watching the movie. No one knew he was there, and he was just behind a woman that said to herself/her friends( don't remember wich) about how she would be terryfied of meeting Hopkins like this. Then at the end of the movie,Hopkins leaned in and did his Hannibal impression "Well? did you enjoy it?" Admitedly the woman screamed in Terror
ruclips.net/video/wIlbqWg2IeQ/видео.html For me, Ted Levine deserved best actor, Hopkins did Dr Lecter justice, but Bill was special. And Jonathon Demmes (Director), homage to an William Garvey -the writer of Q-Lazzarus (Goodbye horses) which also features in JD's : Married to the Mob. Love your choice of film Ash.
@@Chicklo11It was Martha Stewart. He spoke and behaved like Hannibal Lecture on and off screen while filming. It took a while for him to knock it off afterwards. Gave her the ick. 😂
Anthony Hopkins did a phenomenal job as Hannibal Lecture and it still gives me chills how in Zorro his calm voice is sweet and reassuring and in this movie that same voice makes the hairs stand on back of your neck. Such a great actor. And leaving it where Hannibal is just roaming with no one having a clue as to where he is the best ending creep factor ever.
fun fact regarding this film, jodie foster never met anthony hopkins prior to start of filming, the only times they saw each other was when they were filming scenes together, later jodie foster admits she didn't want to go near anthony hopkins as he scared her with how good his performance was she was unsettled.
Clarice was moved to the ranch when her father died. She wasn't a farm girl and had no idea about slaughtering livestock. It's all in the case file, so pay attention.
Mine does that too anytime I watch anything where they speak with a Southern accent. My natural but relatively mild Southern accent gets much more noticeable. And it takes a while to get back to normal afterward too.
You asked "what are those big machines, they aren't computers", they are microfiche readers, essentially they are used to read old documents, newspapers etc that have been captured in miniature format and those machines are used to enlarge the images on a screen. This was the process that was done before scanners and computers took over. Lol I remembered you asked the same question during your review of the first Batman movie earlier in the year.
Ok, dating myself here, but in high school, we had both microfiche and microfilm for newspapers, magazines, etc., (also reel to reel tape players) in the school library where I worked. After HS, I enlisted in the Air Force, and eventually found myself working in supply. It surprised my supervisor that I already knew how to work both machines to look up part numbers and cross reference them to stock numbers for ordering them. This was long before any desktop computers were widely available.
Since playing this famous serial killer role, a lot of Ted Levine’s roles have been playing law enforcement officers, like in Heat and The Fast and The Furious.
One of the reasons the scenes where Hannibal is talking are so creepy is that Anthony Hopkins doesn't blink the entire time. It's a little thing but makes it so unnerving.
11:57 The reason Chilton does what he is doing in this scene is because he's just as psychopathic and narcissistic as Lector. Many who get to the top of the social and business ladder are psychopathic. They rarely kill anyone. Lector has the pathology to murder, but Chilton doesn't. They're similar breed, or personality, but their pathology is different. When Chilton claims that it is rare to be able to catch a psychopathy alive, he's trying to hide his own personality disorder by deflection and projection. And it works. For the most part. Chilton doesn't care about those who Lector murdered, nor who Buffalo Bill murdered or will. He only cares about having a big named serial killer in his collection. It gives him narcissistic supply, in that he's in the spotlight.
@@attitudeproblem6462 Yeah, not really. It's pretty easy to put together if you simply know the disorders and how they work. Which I don't claim to be a pro...
@@Deined If you look into the definition of the words, you'll find that Lector is probably much more antisocial than psychopathic. Psychopaths aren't what the media and movies claim they are. The manner in which Dr. Chilton speaks shows that he's trying to use charm and manipulation to get Starling to go out with him. He's extremely narcissistic, which all psychopaths are. I'll copy and paste something for you... Most of the following I got from Dr. Ramani, Dr. Grande... and some from A Psych for Sore Minds. All on RUclips. Psychopathy has two factors. Factor one is simply called psychopathy. Factor two psychopathy is also known as sociopathy. The difference is when it occurs. This is the nature versus nurture aspect. Neither are direct indication of a future serial killer. Narcissistic: Wanting all the attention to be positive towards them, and them only. Psychopathy (factor one): Born without fear and remorse. Less likely to be caught because they are less impulsive; their emotions don't usually dictate their actions. Can become a serial killer if the pathology is present, but being a psychopath isn't indicative of a murderer. All psychopaths are narcissistic, but not all narcissists are psychopathic. That's from Dr. Ramani Childhood plagued by deliquency but can learn how to avoid a criminal record through mimicking. They can trick you into believing they are sorry and that they care. Born without fear. No remorse. Always a narcissist. Can often be the CEO of a company. Politician. Firefighter. Police officer. Almost emotionless but can mimic empathy. As an adult they are very charming but will step over others to get ahead. They aren't likely to murder, mostly just manipulation and very good at it due to a lack of conscience and emotion. Sociopathy (factor two): Basically normal until they experience life changes, or are surrounded by negative friendships. As a child, if given positive attention, they are normal. But once they are given the circumstances, they will become much less remorseful as they grow into an environment with high stress. This causes empathy to become negated due to pressures of their peers. They have emotions and attachments because they are born normal, but are educated by the wrong parts of society. Anyone can become a sociopath. And you can get therapy for it and regain the conscience lost by pressure. But much like the psychopath, they aren't likely to become serial killers. Very impulsive and more likely than a psychopath to go to jail because of rash behavior due to not being able to control emotions and anger. Antisocial personality disorder: Very similar to both psychopathy and sociopathy but has a pathology that dictates a twisted sense of needs that rely on depraved behavior. Often serial killers. Anyone can have the potential for murder. Their personality dictates how badly it can become. If they have a pathological need to harm others and have a rich fantasy life centered on sadism and control, there's a possibility of being a serial killer. But one must be able to compartmentalize their behavior. If someone has a strong fixation towards sadism but they don't exhibit either factors of psychopathy nor antisocial personality, they might just get into role play. But if they don't have the barriers within their personality to stop where it counts, they are likely to harm others. There's a lot of overlap between the personalities and disorders. Having a desire for harming is where the line is drawn. If someone doesn't have the pathological desires to harm yet they were born a psychopath, they aren't likely to become a serial killer. If someone becomes a sociopath yet doesn't have the pathology, again, not likely to become a serial killer. If someone has the pathology and either of the traits defining psychopathy, they're likely to become a serial killer. ------------------------------------------------------ I have learned that cruelty to animals is much less a characteristic of psychopathy and sociopathy, and more on the antisocial spectrum. And I'm thinking that forensic psychiatrists consider that to be pathology. Which is the desire that comes from an abberant fantasy life. Psychopaths are less likely to murder and do cruel deeds than they are to get what they want through more manipulative means. Psychopathy is very misunderstood and considering a serial killer to be a psychopath is misleading as most psychopaths, if their childhood is full of positive attention, they will mature into very productive individuals. Whereas a psychopath who grows up with abusive backgrounds and has a cruel pathology will be more likely to harm in their adulthood. Neither a psychopath nor a sociopath indicate depraved acts. Even though the word pathology is part of the word psychopath, it's two different types all together. Psychopathy, sociopathy and antisocial personality disorders are not mental illnesses. Rather they are personality disorders. Much harder to deal with than that of mental illnesses. These disorders can't be treated like a mental illness. They can be helped only if they can be shown ways to address their own lack of empathy. Being born without fear and much less capable of such emotional responses like empathy is very difficult to help. Unlike a mental illness where medication and therapy can treat it. Therapy and medication cannot bring a person with a personality disorder to a healthy life as soon as someone who suffers from a mental illness. There is more often than not an overlap of psychopathy, sociopathy, and narcissism within a person. It just depends on the moment, and how deeply affected someone is to their own background.
The big machine is a microfiche reader. Before digital storage was widely available records were often kept on microfilm, because it was the smallest format you could use to store pictures. So for example if you wanted to keep an archive of a daily newspaper you'd photograph the pages on microfilm and store that. Then you'd be able to go through those archives with those big readers that would magnify the image on the film back to an easily readable size.
Yup. I have very fond memories of going to my local library, which had the catalogue of every library in the county on microfiche, and ordering up books from other libraries. They probably found this very annoying, but I had read all the interesting books they had, so I had to find a way to get hold of more :) Man I was a pain as a kid.
In the 80s my mom was researching our family heritage so I spent a lot of time with her searching through census records on microfilm at the county seat archives.
The title of this vid should be "Ahsley sings Silence of the Lambs" With hits like "Get away from the Glass" and "Why are you so close to the glass" and others
"Is this the movie that people keep referencing with banjos?" No, that's Deliverance. XD "Wasn't he a real person?" No, Hannibal Lector is a fictional character and is said to be influenced by Ed Gein (though that's iffy, primarily because both Red Dragon and Buffalo Bill are both clearly modeled more on Gein than Lector is). "Isn't this how Ted Bundy got one of his victims?" Yes, a few in fact.
Ashleigh "Do we we find out what he wants to do with people's Skin?" Me "Yes" Ashleigh "Do I want to find out what he is doing with people's skins?" Me "No" Great Vid Ashleigh, Keep up the great work!
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I had almost the exact same reaction (only I went "Yes you do" and "No you don't" :D)
About the lambs; Clarice went to live on the farm after her father was killed when she was 10 so she had not grown up there, hence she didn't know about slaughtering the lambs and I can imagine it would be traumatic for a 10-year-old girl whose dad just died to realize that all the cute little lambs are being killed
I run a farm (lambs). I can see this with some kids, though it's usually adults who have lived away from the natural world most of their lives who have issue with the reality of livestock production, more so than children.
@@manofconstantsorrow Just realize the using plastic and rubber for all our clothes and petroleum-based fertilizers, and shipping exotic veggies from all over the world also destroys animals and their habitats, even more animals than using meat and leather. Don't think simplistically.
I remember being about 9 years old, and finally realizing that all of my great-grandmother's beautiful chickens were destined for a Sunday dinner. And that she would be the one that killed them. 60 years later and I've never forgotten.
Hannibal is like, "You motherfuckers are taking too long, Imma start seizing up if you don't get me in this ambulance rn" He legit faked a seizure. For some reason, that's almost funny to me.
"There could be people in your neighborhood that could have some weird stuff going on in their house and you'd never know it." ... Might I suggest the early Tom Hanks suburban comedy The Burbs. 😏
I was gonna comment this! It's one of my favorites and I think she'd really love it. The cast really makes the movie hilarious since alot of it was improvised.
This movie is a masterpiece. Everything from the settings, camera direction and masterful acting, specially by Hopkins. He paved the way for this character and now we have the amazing version of Mikkelsen to delight with.
One of the reasons Hannibal's closeups are so unnerving is that normally, we speak at some distance that lets us see body language. The closeups take that away, so you concentrate on the one thing that can give you clues, the face. But, Hannibal is clever enough to not give any clues, staring nearly unblinkingly, no movement of eyebrows, no smile or grimace unless he got what he wanted. Nothing visual, so you have to listen to his voice, and his words, which he uses to get into your head. This is one of the reasons to not get too close to the glass. You lose the body language clues. There is an old saying, 'If you want to get someone's undivided attention, whisper.'
It was a year ago that I subscribed to this channel right after hearing: "It's 4 am and I'm about to watch the Exorcist"... Haven't looked back since! You are the best Ashleigh! Love this movie and your reactions.
She was..... too much chatting lately as well as attempted comedy which causes her to miss essential plot points ('Scream', 'An American Werewolf In London') which is frustrating and detracts from the impact of the film.
The "I hear banjos" movie that you're thinking of is probably "Deliverance." Honestly, all of the male characters in this movie range from slightly creepy to full-blown disturbing.
They did that at the end of TV shows that were produced by Mary Tyler Moore (MTM). In cop shows, the cat would have a police hat, for hospital shows she’d be in surgical scrubs, detective shows she’d have a pipe and a deerstalker hat, etc.
Sir Anthony Hopkins is only in the movie for 16 minutes as well. To win the Best Actor Oscar for 16 minutes of screen time is truly a great achievement. Especially when you look who he was up against that year. )Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Warren Beatty and Robin Williams)
Pretty sure this was only the third movie (in all of history) to win the "big-5"... Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
One of my favorite scenes is when Jack Crawford realized he had been played by Hannibal to go to the wrong house and knew Crawford would use Clarice - accidentally sending her to the right house. *Foreshadowing* Hannibal did say at the beginning he would help Clarice's career. He left out the part where he would also be angling for his own escape.
I have an iron stomach when it comes to gore. As long as I can't smell it, I can look at just about anything, including real world stuff. I had a split shift at a video store when this came out. I rented it and stopped for a burger on my four hour lunch. I worked out how Hannibal escaped from his cell when they pulled the guy form the elevator. I instantly flashed into his place, and imagine wearing someone else's face. it's the ONLY time I've ever thrown away food because I just couldn't stomach finishing it, and it was because of a movie.
Fun fact: this was released on Valentine’s Day and started that “scary movie on a romantic holiday” tradition. This was based off the novel, which was amazing as well. It’s my piercing 😉
Other fun fact: Hopkins was the second actor to play Hannibal Lecter. The first was Brian Cox (as “Hannibal Lecktor”) in the movie Manhunter (based on Red Dragon)
@@ikarikid Because the vast majority of Oscar-contending movies are released around the holidays at the end of the year. That was especially true back then.
This movie was very true to the book. It's been a while, but from memory the only thing of any significance left out of the movie was right before Hannibal met the Senator, which explains his "Love the suit" remark. It talks about her suit and how it's a "power suit", meant to project strength, confidence, etc., and gain a psychological advantage over Hannibal. Of course he saw right through it and became offended and this is at least part of the reason why he became hostile to her. Like when he first me Clarice things were going pretty well until she passed him the FBI psych test, the "...blunt little instrument". He became offended and turned on Clarice like he did the Senator.
I wonder if Hannibal sees anything about himself as unworthy? But, I suppose being a typical psycopath he sees himself as superior to everyone. Despite his intelligence he's rather generic, just another murderer driven by his own sense of right and wrong
Very true to the book .. yes .. but (also from memory) wasn't Clarice's boss (Scott Glenn) developed much more as a character with a sub plot about his wife dying from cancer.
I remember the investigation being more convoluted in the book. Like, the hospitals wouldn't initially release the names of patients who had been denied "sex reassignment" surgery. One thing I regret missing from the book was Bill's last words, "How does it feel to be so beautiful?". There were also several references to Clarice's beauty in the book. She was too thin for her skin to be of any use for him, but Bill was going to shoot her in the face because he wanted to take her hair. Hannibal's cell was also very different as it was described in the book. I could never really picture the logistics of the netting on the inside of the bars.
A friend of mine taught his 4 year old daughter to respond to 'What does X say?' with "cow says moo", etc. The usual thing you do with kids. But he also taught her to say "Bill says it puts the lotion on its skin" ... listening to that phrase come out of a cute 4 year old with a deadpan face and voice was creepy as hell. :D
I think she was more traumatized for the fact that the lambs stood there quietly accepting their fate. The last girl did not stay quiet she was very loud and fought back with what she got.
I'm surprised Ashleigh didn't mention the cat watching its owner getting kidnapped. Maybe Beans was watching a creepy person outside your house with NVG's LOL :)
"Beans ya know ppl comment and say they can hear you purring in the back ground. I dont think they're complaining but ya just, ya purr very loud." Definitely not complaining. I love hearing a cat happily purring. A cats purr can literally help heal bones and prevent illness. Its magical!
Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter wasn’t a real person, but the character, along with several other fictional serial killers in books and movies, were based on a real serial killer, Ed Gein. Others who were at least somewhat based on Ed Gein include Buffalo Bill in this movie, and Norman Bates in the movie “Psycho”.
@@jonathancampbell5231 Interesting. I was unaware of that. But there are similarities to Ed Gein as well, which is why many people have mentioned Gein as one inspiration for Lecter.
@@maxnorton1209 Yeah, but Gein inspired several fictional killers, such as Norman Bates and Leatherface. He's not much of an influence on Lecter as far as I can tell (in face Gein was more of an influence on Buffalo Bill).
There's an inmate in Broadmoor hospital in the UK named Robert Maudsley who is kept in a glass cage. He'd killed 4 people (convicted pedophiles, it must be said) and supposedly may have eaten part of one's brain
Great reaction! Thomas Harris wrote 4 novels about Hannibal Lecter. In order, they are: Red Dragon (how Lecter was caught), The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal (sequel to Silence), and Hannibal Rising (Hannibal's childhood and why he became a cannibal). All are movies, but Silence is by far the best of the movies. Red Dragon has two film versions: Manhunter (1986, Lecter played by Brian Cox) and Red Dragon (2002, where Hopkins plays Lecter). Manhunter is a good film, and Cox gives an interesting version of Lecter. There has never been a serial killer like Lecter (a genius), but there have been many cannibal killers: Georg Grossman, Fritz Haarmann, Joachim Kroll, Jeffrey Dahmer, etc.). Buffalo Bill is a combination of 3 actual serial killers: Ted Bundy (pretended to have an injured arm to get girls into his car), Ed Gein (made a woman suit out of the skins of dead women), and Gary Heidnik (kept his kidnapped women victims in a well/dungeon in the basement of his home).
“It puts the lotion on the skin” Buffalo Bill is making a female skin suit sewn from patches of skin of his victims. In order to keep the skin supple he requires them to put the lotion on them. The reason he isn’t killing them right away is because he needs to have them loose body mass making the skin membrane looser on the body and easier to flay off
When examining a body that is well into decomposition, the examiners will put some menthol under their noses to cut down the smell. Anthony Hopkins portrayal of Dr Hannibal Lecter was so perfect that there have been more movies and even a tv series based on him. In interviews, Jodie Foster has said that she was terrified of Hopkins and never talked to him off camera. He really was locked into his cell so it wasn't easy to just hang out with him. He would sneak up behind her and scare her with his creepy sucking noise, so that when he improvised and used the same sound in the scene, it really freaked her out and her reaction was real. So glad you enjoyed this classic.
It’s my piercing! Since you liked this one, you will probably enjoy Seven. It’s along the same line, and you can watch it anytime of year. “What’s in the box?”
Your reaction to this film was priceless. So many twists and turns in this modern classic, with terrific acting and direction. I remember walking out of the theater at the time, just blown away by the performances. You are TOO funny!
the slurping sound that he made after the line "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice ciante" was ad-libbed. Anthony Hopkins was amazing in this.
He did it because it creeped Jodie Foster tf out...according to him,, he tried a few different things but stuck with that because it absolutely freaked her out
LoL.... The banjos scene is probably from Deliverance, a movie I've never seen, but I look forward to watching it at some point along with you. Buffalo Bill was based on the real serial killer Ed Gein who's mother was a piece of work and probably set him on the path to murder. Norman Bates was also based on him, though both movies took different paths. That big machine was a microfiche machine, people would put old newspapers on microfiche so that they could be preserved and people could check out the film to read old articles. In regard to what they put under their nose at the autopsy it was mentholatum ointment, used to help with the stench of decay. Imagine if you were ten and had no idea where meat came from, or how it was processed, and being in a new situation, just after you father has died, and I'm sure logic didn't much come into it when it came to the lambs. This is a movie I find truly scary, it deals with people who have no regard for other people and don't hesitate to not only kill, but mutilate. Oh, and 'It's my piercing!'
Hannibal Lecter was based on Dr. Alfredo Balli Trevino. A doctor who was treating patients, but then killed and mutilated his lover, also accused of kill several hitchhikers. Described a a small thin man with dark red hair. Elegant and stood very still. After serving 20 years of his commuted death sentence. He was released and resumed his practice.
Yes, the banjo reference is from Deliverance. I also look forward to Ashleigh watching it. Deliverance is an action thriller with no real Halloween vibe. I would put it into a similar category as Walking Tall and White Lighting.
The banjo scene was filmed about thirty minutes from where I live now, and that whole area has been turned into gated communities with private security. It's just outside of Athens and the University of GA.
Ashleigh, if you are reading this, I would like to see you do southern themed action movies like White Lighting, Walking Tall, Gator, Deliverance, and Sharky's Machine.
10:40 Psychopaths PREFER dogs as pets actually. From an article: "...One of the stranger characteristics of psychopaths is their choice of pets. Ronson says they are almost never cat people. "Because cats are willful," he explains. Psychopaths gravitate toward dogs since they are obedient and easy to manipulate. Ronson says he spoke with individuals who would qualify as psychopaths who told him they aren't sad when they hear about people dying. "But they get really upset when their dogs die because dogs offer unconditional love."
"It's my piercing!" Since you're going to watch _Child's Play_ in the near future, you might as well add _Hellraiser_ to the list as well. Pinhead is one of the most iconic horror villains in all of cinema, and the movie itself is very well made with a strong female protagonist.
@@jwrockets Pinhead didn’t have a gender in The Hellbound Heart, the Clive Barker novella he adapted into Hellraiser. Pinhead is described as having a light, feminine voice, so a female version isn’t a massive departure from the original idea, just a different, but still valid interpretation. I don’t know where you got the transgender bit from. They’ve already cast Jamie Clayton from Sense8 in the role.
It's my piercing! The thing with Clarice and the lambs, after her father died when she was 10, she went to live with her uncle and cousins on the ranch. So I think even if she knew that they would be killed eventually it was new to her. So to be awoken in the night by the screaming of the lambs freaked her out.
Legend has it: You can still hear Ashleigh recording in the attic, and will never leave. The new "locations" are just that she had the attic remodeled to look different (by people she knows, with face checks every 30 minutes).
17:04 - "He's making himself a woman suit..." I wonder if Lecter was giving a clue when he complimented the female senator on her "woman's suit" ("And Senator, just one more thing...love your suit.")
She only went to live with her aunt and uncle on the ranch when her father was killed... so she wasn't used to the Lambs being slaughtered. But I loved your reaction! Keep up the great content
She also didn’t grow up around the sheep & see them as a way to make a living. One would have to imagine that it was a substantial change, going from a suburban home in West Virginia to a working sheep ranch in the western US.
It's my piercing! Clarice's friend at the FBI is played by Kasi Lemmons, who also co-stars as the best friend in the horror classic Candyman (the 1992 original, not the 2021 sequel). She also became a director, making the underrated indie classic Eve's Bayou, starting Samuel L. Jackson.
What's really cool about this movie is that while Hannibal obviously is deranged, he comes off as more genuine and caring than most of the other males in this movie. He genuinely cares about her success. He wants her to see that evil is not always what it seems, usually hidden in plain sight. He wants her to make the same assessment of human behavior as he had through his years as a doctor. See silence of the lambs, amidst Wolves in sheep's clothing.
The Others is a macabre type thriller. Se7en is DEFINITELY a psychological thriller. Very unsettling and disturbing. Plus... Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt and well so as not to spoil the surprise... John Doe all put on stellar performances
It's my piercing! This movie was so wonderfully written with the twists and turns that you just did not see coming. So many movies made now can't hold a candle to this one.
Everyone already posted all the good/fun facts, so I'll just say that this is one of my all-time favorite movies. "I'm having an old friend for dinner" is such a great line.
The fact that I show this movie to people in recent years who haven't seen it and love it is a testament to how great it is. Really ahead of its time with how obsessed we currently are with serial killers. It was a relatively new aspect in movies at the time. At the end of the era of Freddy, Jason, and Michael Myers horror style movies.
Agree that it's truly a great film and visionary in lots of ways. But we've always been obsessed with serial killers, from ancient times onward. Jack the Ripper is probably the first "modern" serial killer that had the media so involved though.
What's even more amazing is that the members of the academy remembered this February 14th movie all year long and awarded it the top 5 Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
The scene where Lector talks about eating the census taker’s liver was the first scene Foster and Hopkins shot together and he purposely set out to unnerve her
I spent a lot of time at my grandparents farm. We often had fried chicken for dinner. Not once when I was growing up did I think that my grandmother was getting up early in the morning to wring a chicken's neck for those dinners. If I ever thought about it then, I might never eat fried chicken again.
It's been 7 years, and my wife still hasn't forgiven me all the way for talking her into watching this one with me. This movie is an absolute masterpiece of suspense, crime drama, with a few humorous moments scattered throughout. Really hoping Ash might include the second Ghostbusters as one of her light-hearted movies, more future ex-husband Bill Murray is always a good thing for her.
For reference, there was no real "Hannibal the Cannibal". He's based partly on cannibal serial killers like Bundy and Dahmer. The most famous Hannibal in real life was probably Hannibal of Carthage, a Roman-era general who's most noted for successfully leading AFRICAN ELEPHANTS across the Alps during his war against Rome.
He borrows from those infamous serial killers, but a few years ago Thomas Harris revealed that the real inspiration for Hannibal was a guy he met while visiting a Mexican jail called Alfredo Ballí Treviño. Harris was visiting the prison in his capacity as a journalist to interview another inmate, and while there he struck up a conversation with Treviño who was working as the prison librarian, and was formerly a physician who helped out the guards whenever there was a medical problem with the prisoners. Harris found him to be very polite, intelligent and articulate. He assumed that Treviño worked there, and he was shocked when the guards told him that he was actually an inmate, locked up for murdering his gay lover and chopping the body into pieces. Treviño was eventually released and ended up doing charity work. Harries revealed the story after Treviño passed away. I don't know if Treviño ever knew that he inspired one of fictions most infamous monsters.
I have to disagree with the Dahmer claim. The character of Hannibal Lector was first published in the BOOK red dragon in 1981 And while the movie silence of the Lambs came out in the same year as Jeffrey Dahmer’s arrest the movie came out in February of 91, Jeffrey Dahmer’s crimes were not known until the night of his arrest in July 22 of 91. Ted Bundy’s post mortem activities were limited to the sexual nature, no the consummation. His capture methods were however similar to Buffalo Bill’s (pretending to be an handicapped or otherwise weakened individual in need of help with large or heavy items. Ed Gien’s mother obsession was the inspiration for the movie Psycho and his obsession with female corpses in the sequels
Maybe the real life figure most similar to Hannibal Lecter is German serial killer Peter Kurten, the Vampire of Dusseldorf who wasn't a doctor but was a dapper, put together looking guy who also liked to kill people and drink their blood
To second another commenter, you should watch The Burbs starring Tom Hanks. An all time favorite of mine and would be fitting for a Wednesday HalllowBeans viewing. Also you nailed it about the disconcerting close up shots on Dr. Lecter in his cell. Demme the director did such an amazing job creating the suspense and eeriness in this film.
You know someone’s a good actor when you freak out your costar. Hopkins scared Foster so much she was afraid to approach him while they were filming this movie.
"It's my piercing". The thing in the tub is the body of the woman who owned the house. Another part of the reason the shots with Lecter are so intense is that he doesn't blink the entire time, he just stares like he's looking right through you.
I've seen many reaction videos, and I realized hardly anyone notices that Hannibal Lecter is played by Anthony Hopkins, who later played Odin in Marvel's THOR films. Even when they've seen both. Sign of a great actor, I suppose.
It’s my piercing! Also, the skin suit was inspired by real life psychopath Ed Gein, who you should NOT Google if you want to keep your sanity. He also inspired Psycho and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
This the tag from the Thomas Harris book "Silence Of The Lambs" : There's a serial killer on the loose, who knows that beauty is only skin deep, and a trainee investigator who's trying to save her own hide. The only man that can help them is locked in an asylum. But he's willing to put a brave face on - if it will help him escape.
The Hannibal line to Clarice you’ve probably heard, that you mentioned: “A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti”.
In Clarice's defense concerning the lamb: She didn't grow up on the farm. She was brought there after her dad was killed while on duty and her reaction was probably a mix of her being still very young, never having seen an animal actually being slaughtered, AND she was still traumatized from losing her dad to violence.
Yes, this. I will delete my post on this subject.
And not just seeing them being slaughtered, she woke up to the sound of them screaming
Right, and I’ve always thought the vegan theme of the movie was almost too blunt, with one killer who loves eating flesh and the other killer making a suit out of flesh, along with the title story
Every empathic person finds this image (killing lambs) disturbing. You don't have to be an urban kid.
I’ve heard a lamb being Butchered and they sound just like a crying baby. I remember sitting in my room covering my ears and hugging my little cousin. It was traumatizing
Silence of the Lambs/Anthony Hopkins fun story: When Anthony Hopkins once went to see this movie in a theatre after its release, he found himself sitting next to a guy who was reacting very intensely anytime his character Hannibal Lector was on screen. So, being the mischievous troll he is, Hopkins waited for a particular intense scene, then tipped the dude's shoulder with his finger, griined and said in his Hannibal-voice: "Don't be scared! He can't get to you!" Poor dude reportedly screamed in terror...
Seriously 😆
Omg, I would have soiled myself!
If I were an actor, I would totally do that to someone..
@@brianegendorf2023 Have you seen the first MCU"Thor" film? That scene where Loki tire to speak to Odin and Odin just growls menacingly, scaring Loki? Tom Hiddleston's reaction is genuine, Hopkins' growl wasn't in the script, he improvised it on the spot! Poor Hiddles didn't know what hit him, LOL!
@@gozerthegozarian9500 I would love to spend a day on the set of a movie to see how much of it is ad-libbed.
"HE COVETS."
Buffalo Bill wanted to transform into beauty, that's why he chose the butterfly.
His need to covet is what eventually got him killed.
His faux-caressing of Clarice's face in the dark was him trying to 'possess' Clarice's beauty.
In the book, as he is dying Bill asks Clarice, "What's it like to be so beautiful?"
Tis beauty killed the beast.
This won ALL the Oscars that year, best actor, best actress, best director and best film. Scary movies seldom are even nominated. That's how big an impact it had when it was released.
You forgot best adapted screenplay as well - amazing film.
@@CraigMurraysVids making it one of only 3 films to win all of the "big 5" (best actor, actress, director, screenplay and film) the other 2 being It Happened One Night (1934) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).
Another fact, the studio that made this film had failed by the time the Oscar's came around. That company being Orion Pictures, which actually came back about ten years ago.
According to Legends, Hopkins went into a cinema and sat in the theatre watching the movie.
No one knew he was there, and he was just behind a woman that said to herself/her friends( don't remember wich) about how she would be terryfied of meeting Hopkins like this.
Then at the end of the movie,Hopkins leaned in and did his Hannibal impression "Well? did you enjoy it?"
Admitedly the woman screamed in Terror
He also recounts it basically ended a relationship because his partner at the time couldn't see past the role.
ruclips.net/video/wIlbqWg2IeQ/видео.html For me, Ted Levine deserved best actor, Hopkins did Dr Lecter justice, but Bill was special. And Jonathon Demmes (Director), homage to an William Garvey -the writer of Q-Lazzarus (Goodbye horses) which also features in JD's : Married to the Mob. Love your choice of film Ash.
That's perfect!!!
@@Chicklo11It was Martha Stewart. He spoke and behaved like Hannibal Lecture on and off screen while filming. It took a while for him to knock it off afterwards. Gave her the ick. 😂
Anthony Hopkins did a phenomenal job as Hannibal Lecture and it still gives me chills how in Zorro his calm voice is sweet and reassuring and in this movie that same voice makes the hairs stand on back of your neck. Such a great actor. And leaving it where Hannibal is just roaming with no one having a clue as to where he is the best ending creep factor ever.
fun fact regarding this film, jodie foster never met anthony hopkins prior to start of filming, the only times they saw each other was when they were filming scenes together, later jodie foster admits she didn't want to go near anthony hopkins as he scared her with how good his performance was she was unsettled.
Clarice was moved to the ranch when her father died. She wasn't a farm girl and had no idea about slaughtering livestock. It's all in the case file, so pay attention.
Dr Phil sent Clarence to the ranch
This holds up all these years later. Definitely deserved the Oscars it won, especially for Anthony and Jodie’s wins.
It's adorable how Ashleigh's accent started matching Clarice's the further the movie went along.
It's the empathy
That's hard not do do with Jodie. Just one of those voices, you can't help it.
Mine does that too anytime I watch anything where they speak with a Southern accent. My natural but relatively mild Southern accent gets much more noticeable. And it takes a while to get back to normal afterward too.
@@sadfaery I wonder if psychologically that's an adaptation/survival behavior. To fit in with others around you.
@@w1975b Probably so.
You asked "what are those big machines, they aren't computers", they are microfiche readers, essentially they are used to read old documents, newspapers etc that have been captured in miniature format and those machines are used to enlarge the images on a screen. This was the process that was done before scanners and computers took over. Lol I remembered you asked the same question during your review of the first Batman movie earlier in the year.
It really is the forgotten technology between paper files and computer files , the 8 track cassette of the data storage world of you will
Yes, good old microfiche.. Yet another thing millennials know nothing about..
I was about to post an answer to this. Glad I checked to see if someone already had.
@@jacobjones5269 not true. Most Millenials above 30 know what they are. I've even used them several times for genealogy research.
Ok, dating myself here, but in high school, we had both microfiche and microfilm for newspapers, magazines, etc., (also reel to reel tape players) in the school library where I worked. After HS, I enlisted in the Air Force, and eventually found myself working in supply. It surprised my supervisor that I already knew how to work both machines to look up part numbers and cross reference them to stock numbers for ordering them. This was long before any desktop computers were widely available.
BTW, her name is "Starling", not "Sterling". That's why Lector said "Fly away, little starling". A starling is a type of bird.
BTW, his name is "Lecter", not "Lector".
I told her the same thing, maybe if enough people tell her she will get it.
She talks so frickin much and annoyingly loud that I highly doubt she hears hardly any of the dialogue at all
Fun fact: Ted Levine, who plays here Buffalo Bill, played also Captain Leland Stottlemeyer on Monk. Extremely different roles, what an actor!
another fun fact: Both Ted Levine (Buffalo Bill) and Brooke Smith (Catherine the girl in the well) are both in the TV Series Big Sky.
All the actors/performances in this movie are first-rate, which is one reason it is so good
Levine is in Heat too :)
Since playing this famous serial killer role, a lot of Ted Levine’s roles have been playing law enforcement officers, like in Heat and The Fast and The Furious.
Is it me, or Ted Levine looks like David Lee Roth from the Van Halen era in that scene where he ends exposing himself?
One of the reasons the scenes where Hannibal is talking are so creepy is that Anthony Hopkins doesn't blink the entire time. It's a little thing but makes it so unnerving.
He does blink a few times, but not much.
It's quite common for screen actors to not blink, because it can look quite distracting in close up.
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The reason Chilton does what he is doing in this scene is because he's just as psychopathic and narcissistic as Lector. Many who get to the top of the social and business ladder are psychopathic. They rarely kill anyone. Lector has the pathology to murder, but Chilton doesn't. They're similar breed, or personality, but their pathology is different. When Chilton claims that it is rare to be able to catch a psychopathy alive, he's trying to hide his own personality disorder by deflection and projection. And it works. For the most part.
Chilton doesn't care about those who Lector murdered, nor who Buffalo Bill murdered or will. He only cares about having a big named serial killer in his collection. It gives him narcissistic supply, in that he's in the spotlight.
I'm glad Hannibal ate him.
Very clever...
@@attitudeproblem6462 Yeah, not really. It's pretty easy to put together if you simply know the disorders and how they work. Which I don't claim to be a pro...
Well, I agree with most of your statement, but saying that Chilton is as _psychopathic_ as Lecter is a stretch ...
@@Deined If you look into the definition of the words, you'll find that Lector is probably much more antisocial than psychopathic. Psychopaths aren't what the media and movies claim they are.
The manner in which Dr. Chilton speaks shows that he's trying to use charm and manipulation to get Starling to go out with him. He's extremely narcissistic, which all psychopaths are.
I'll copy and paste something for you...
Most of the following I got from Dr. Ramani, Dr. Grande... and some from A Psych for Sore Minds. All on RUclips.
Psychopathy has two factors. Factor one is simply called psychopathy. Factor two psychopathy is also known as sociopathy. The difference is when it occurs. This is the nature versus nurture aspect. Neither are direct indication of a future serial killer.
Narcissistic:
Wanting all the attention to be positive towards them, and them only.
Psychopathy (factor one):
Born without fear and remorse. Less likely to be caught because they are less impulsive; their emotions don't usually dictate their actions. Can become a serial killer if the pathology is present, but being a psychopath isn't indicative of a murderer.
All psychopaths are narcissistic, but not all narcissists are psychopathic. That's from Dr. Ramani
Childhood plagued by deliquency but can learn how to avoid a criminal record through mimicking. They can trick you into believing they are sorry and that they care.
Born without fear. No remorse. Always a narcissist. Can often be the CEO of a company. Politician. Firefighter. Police officer. Almost emotionless but can mimic empathy.
As an adult they are very charming but will step over others to get ahead. They aren't likely to murder, mostly just manipulation and very good at it due to a lack of conscience and emotion.
Sociopathy (factor two):
Basically normal until they experience life changes, or are surrounded by negative friendships. As a child, if given positive attention, they are normal. But once they are given the circumstances, they will become much less remorseful as they grow into an environment with high stress. This causes empathy to become negated due to pressures of their peers. They have emotions and attachments because they are born normal, but are educated by the wrong parts of society. Anyone can become a sociopath. And you can get therapy for it and regain the conscience lost by pressure. But much like the psychopath, they aren't likely to become serial killers.
Very impulsive and more likely than a psychopath to go to jail because of rash behavior due to not being able to control emotions and anger.
Antisocial personality disorder:
Very similar to both psychopathy and sociopathy but has a pathology that dictates a twisted sense of needs that rely on depraved behavior. Often serial killers.
Anyone can have the potential for murder. Their personality dictates how badly it can become. If they have a pathological need to harm others and have a rich fantasy life centered on sadism and control, there's a possibility of being a serial killer. But one must be able to compartmentalize their behavior. If someone has a strong fixation towards sadism but they don't exhibit either factors of psychopathy nor antisocial personality, they might just get into role play. But if they don't have the barriers within their personality to stop where it counts, they are likely to harm others.
There's a lot of overlap between the personalities and disorders. Having a desire for harming is where the line is drawn. If someone doesn't have the pathological desires to harm yet they were born a psychopath, they aren't likely to become a serial killer. If someone becomes a sociopath yet doesn't have the pathology, again, not likely to become a serial killer. If someone has the pathology and either of the traits defining psychopathy, they're likely to become a serial killer.
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I have learned that cruelty to animals is much less a characteristic of psychopathy and sociopathy, and more on the antisocial spectrum. And I'm thinking that forensic psychiatrists consider that to be pathology. Which is the desire that comes from an abberant fantasy life.
Psychopaths are less likely to murder and do cruel deeds than they are to get what they want through more manipulative means. Psychopathy is very misunderstood and considering a serial killer to be a psychopath is misleading as most psychopaths, if their childhood is full of positive attention, they will mature into very productive individuals. Whereas a psychopath who grows up with abusive backgrounds and has a cruel pathology will be more likely to harm in their adulthood. Neither a psychopath nor a sociopath indicate depraved acts. Even though the word pathology is part of the word psychopath, it's two different types all together.
Psychopathy, sociopathy and antisocial personality disorders are not mental illnesses. Rather they are personality disorders. Much harder to deal with than that of mental illnesses. These disorders can't be treated like a mental illness. They can be helped only if they can be shown ways to address their own lack of empathy. Being born without fear and much less capable of such emotional responses like empathy is very difficult to help. Unlike a mental illness where medication and therapy can treat it. Therapy and medication cannot bring a person with a personality disorder to a healthy life as soon as someone who suffers from a mental illness.
There is more often than not an overlap of psychopathy, sociopathy, and narcissism within a person. It just depends on the moment, and how deeply affected someone is to their own background.
The big machine is a microfiche reader. Before digital storage was widely available records were often kept on microfilm, because it was the smallest format you could use to store pictures. So for example if you wanted to keep an archive of a daily newspaper you'd photograph the pages on microfilm and store that. Then you'd be able to go through those archives with those big readers that would magnify the image on the film back to an easily readable size.
Yup. I have very fond memories of going to my local library, which had the catalogue of every library in the county on microfiche, and ordering up books from other libraries. They probably found this very annoying, but I had read all the interesting books they had, so I had to find a way to get hold of more :) Man I was a pain as a kid.
Yes. Thank you for addressing this.
What are those giant machines? *crys in old* 😢
In the 80s my mom was researching our family heritage so I spent a lot of time with her searching through census records on microfilm at the county seat archives.
I still use one at work for our older tools and equipment whose parts manuals are on microfilm.
The title of this vid should be "Ahsley sings Silence of the Lambs"
With hits like "Get away from the Glass" and "Why are you so close to the glass" and others
It'd be a hit on Soundcloud (or whatever is used nowadays) 🤣
And the sooken word classic "Do I wanna find out what he's doing with people's skins"
I’d buy that CD.
You have heard the musical version of Silence of the Lambs, right? Right?
ruclips.net/video/CReU8e86Cyk/видео.html
My favorite is the snappy little number "He's gonna get the gun off the stove!"
"Is this the movie that people keep referencing with banjos?" No, that's Deliverance. XD
"Wasn't he a real person?" No, Hannibal Lector is a fictional character and is said to be influenced by Ed Gein (though that's iffy, primarily because both Red Dragon and Buffalo Bill are both clearly modeled more on Gein than Lector is).
"Isn't this how Ted Bundy got one of his victims?" Yes, a few in fact.
I wish I would have delved further back into the comments before I commented basically the same things you did....lol.
I think Bundy used a fake leg cast
Ashleigh "Do we we find out what he wants to do with people's Skin?"
Me "Yes"
Ashleigh "Do I want to find out what he is doing with people's skins?"
Me "No"
Great Vid Ashleigh, Keep up the great work!
I had almost the exact same reaction (only I went "Yes you do" and "No you don't" :D)
The touch in the cell was significant. It was the first time that Hannibal willingly touched someone without harming them
Ashleigh hears her incessant screaming from the hole: "Maybe she's not the worst loss.." Hahahahahaaaa
I'm so hyped!! Silence won Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay!! Buckle up buttercup here we go!!
One of only three films to have done that.
About the lambs; Clarice went to live on the farm after her father was killed when she was 10 so she had not grown up there, hence she didn't know about slaughtering the lambs and I can imagine it would be traumatic for a 10-year-old girl whose dad just died to realize that all the cute little lambs are being killed
I run a farm (lambs). I can see this with some kids, though it's usually adults who have lived away from the natural world most of their lives who have issue with the reality of livestock production, more so than children.
@@t0dd000 How about 10-year-old girls whose father was just killed? What's your experience with them?
@@t0dd000 KIlling animals is immoral. You should be ashamed.
@@manofconstantsorrow Just realize the using plastic and rubber for all our clothes and petroleum-based fertilizers, and shipping exotic veggies from all over the world also destroys animals and their habitats, even more animals than using meat and leather. Don't think simplistically.
@@LadyIarConnacht exactly. There's nothing wrong with meat eating....but there's something wrong with being cruel and treating animals inhumanely
I remember being about 9 years old, and finally realizing that all of my great-grandmother's beautiful chickens were destined for a Sunday dinner. And that she would be the one that killed them. 60 years later and I've never forgotten.
Your face when Hannibal pulled officer Pembrey's face off was an absolute joy to watch.
Out of context that sounds really bad.
Hannibal is like, "You motherfuckers are taking too long, Imma start seizing up if you don't get me in this ambulance rn" He legit faked a seizure. For some reason, that's almost funny to me.
Was waiting for that moment. Did not disappoint.
Look veey closely at the moth on the poster
And of course, this classic scene from The Office references it. ruclips.net/video/Vmb1tqYqyII/видео.html
"There could be people in your neighborhood that could have some weird stuff going on in their house and you'd never know it." ... Might I suggest the early Tom Hanks suburban comedy The Burbs. 😏
Yasssss
I love that movie so much
I was gonna comment this! It's one of my favorites and I think she'd really love it. The cast really makes the movie hilarious since alot of it was improvised.
YES!!!!! :D
"Ray, do you know what this is?"
"A bone?"
"It's a femur."
"A femur bone?"
This movie is a masterpiece. Everything from the settings, camera direction and masterful acting, specially by Hopkins. He paved the way for this character and now we have the amazing version of Mikkelsen to delight with.
Absolutely agree. Mikkelsen was a great successor to the masterful performance by Anthony Hopkins in this gem of a movie
One of the reasons Hannibal's closeups are so unnerving is that normally, we speak at some distance that lets us see body language. The closeups take that away, so you concentrate on the one thing that can give you clues, the face. But, Hannibal is clever enough to not give any clues, staring nearly unblinkingly, no movement of eyebrows, no smile or grimace unless he got what he wanted. Nothing visual, so you have to listen to his voice, and his words, which he uses to get into your head.
This is one of the reasons to not get too close to the glass. You lose the body language clues.
There is an old saying, 'If you want to get someone's undivided attention, whisper.'
It was a year ago that I subscribed to this channel right after hearing: "It's 4 am and I'm about to watch the Exorcist"... Haven't looked back since! You are the best Ashleigh! Love this movie and your reactions.
Love your Jones town reference.
That is exactly how I got hooked as well. Thought to myself.....OMG, what has this girl got herself into. LOL
Ha! Same!!
She was..... too much chatting lately as well as attempted comedy which causes her to miss essential plot points ('Scream', 'An American Werewolf In London') which is frustrating and detracts from the impact of the film.
@@rnw2739 very, VERY true
The "I hear banjos" movie that you're thinking of is probably "Deliverance."
Honestly, all of the male characters in this movie range from slightly creepy to full-blown disturbing.
Could be 'Let George Do It' from 1940...
What? Even Jack Crawford?
I mentioned Deliverance. Then saw your comment. Never knew about the original version. I just saw the TV version. Not going camping now.,👍
Could someone make a film opening with Beans doing the MGM lion roar? That’d be a great early Christmas present for Ashleigh.
They did that at the end of TV shows that were produced by Mary Tyler Moore (MTM). In cop shows, the cat would have a police hat, for hospital shows she’d be in surgical scrubs, detective shows she’d have a pipe and a deerstalker hat, etc.
@@daveolson6001 I remember that well😊
yaaaaas we gotta buy her one of those little lion manes they make for pet halloween costumes
Some old Tom and Jerry cartoons had Tom at the beginning instead of the MGM Lion
@@daveolson6001 Okay? That was the Mary Tyler Moore show. The OP is asking for one to be created with Beans.
Sir Anthony Hopkins is only in the movie for 16 minutes as well. To win the Best Actor Oscar for 16 minutes of screen time is truly a great achievement. Especially when you look who he was up against that year. )Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Warren Beatty and Robin Williams)
It's crazy to watch him in "The World's Fastest Indian", and realize it's the same man. What an amazing actor!
@@lisathuban8969 Agreed. He's one of those actors who never seems to make a bad movie.
Pretty sure this was only the third movie (in all of history) to win the "big-5"... Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
ftumschk Hearts in Atlantis wasn’t very good. It wasn’t Hopkins’s fault though. The script was terrible.
@@daerdevvyl4314 I've never seen that one... and perhaps it's just as well! Thanks for the info :)
One of the greatest movies ever made.
Your surprise at the facial skin removal in the ambulance was how all of us felt in the theater when we saw it.
"Deliverance" is the banjo one. A fascinating watch, but very emotional and one viewing was enough. I've seen Silence of the Lambs several times.
I only ever saw Deliverance once, too. I agree that once was enough.
Ashleigh should react to deliverance
Ned Beatty in later life refused to answer questions in interviews about the movie because of hearing about it so very often.
Needs to be watched.
Deliverance gave me some anxiety the first time I saw it.
One of my favorite scenes is when Jack Crawford realized he had been played by Hannibal to go to the wrong house and knew Crawford would use Clarice - accidentally sending her to the right house. *Foreshadowing* Hannibal did say at the beginning he would help Clarice's career. He left out the part where he would also be angling for his own escape.
Good catch.
I have an iron stomach when it comes to gore. As long as I can't smell it, I can look at just about anything, including real world stuff. I had a split shift at a video store when this came out. I rented it and stopped for a burger on my four hour lunch. I worked out how Hannibal escaped from his cell when they pulled the guy form the elevator. I instantly flashed into his place, and imagine wearing someone else's face. it's the ONLY time I've ever thrown away food because I just couldn't stomach finishing it, and it was because of a movie.
Smells and gore from inside something I care about.
I think there's a great deal of things that would easily make you throw up despite your iron stomach
The "I ate his liver with a plate of fava beans, and a nice Chianti" line is the other line most commonly referenced from this movie.
Fun fact: this was released on Valentine’s Day and started that “scary movie on a romantic holiday” tradition. This was based off the novel, which was amazing as well. It’s my piercing 😉
Interesting!
Other fun fact: Hopkins was the second actor to play Hannibal Lecter. The first was Brian Cox (as “Hannibal Lecktor”) in the movie Manhunter (based on Red Dragon)
@@THOMMGB why would they not remember this well-regarded and popular movie?
@@ikarikid Because the vast majority of Oscar-contending movies are released around the holidays at the end of the year. That was especially true back then.
@@ikarikid Manhunter was good. "HE TOUCHED THEIR EYES!"
This movie was very true to the book. It's been a while, but from memory the only thing of any significance left out of the movie was right before Hannibal met the Senator, which explains his "Love the suit" remark. It talks about her suit and how it's a "power suit", meant to project strength, confidence, etc., and gain a psychological advantage over Hannibal. Of course he saw right through it and became offended and this is at least part of the reason why he became hostile to her.
Like when he first me Clarice things were going pretty well until she passed him the FBI psych test, the "...blunt little instrument". He became offended and turned on Clarice like he did the Senator.
I wonder if Hannibal sees anything about himself as unworthy? But, I suppose being a typical psycopath he sees himself as superior to everyone. Despite his intelligence he's rather generic, just another murderer driven by his own sense of right and wrong
Very true to the book .. yes .. but (also from memory) wasn't Clarice's boss (Scott Glenn) developed much more as a character with a sub plot about his wife dying from cancer.
@MrMousely- yes. That was a really sad part. I’m halfway through the book now
I remember the investigation being more convoluted in the book. Like, the hospitals wouldn't initially release the names of patients who had been denied "sex reassignment" surgery. One thing I regret missing from the book was Bill's last words, "How does it feel to be so beautiful?". There were also several references to Clarice's beauty in the book. She was too thin for her skin to be of any use for him, but Bill was going to shoot her in the face because he wanted to take her hair.
Hannibal's cell was also very different as it was described in the book. I could never really picture the logistics of the netting on the inside of the bars.
The movie totally cuts out Jack's story and makes much less sense because of it. The movie makes too big a deal out of Lecter.
A friend of mine taught his 4 year old daughter to respond to 'What does X say?' with "cow says moo", etc. The usual thing you do with kids. But he also taught her to say "Bill says it puts the lotion on its skin" ... listening to that phrase come out of a cute 4 year old with a deadpan face and voice was creepy as hell. :D
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I taught my son to say “Hello Clarice” when he was just a little guy. It was even more adorable because he had a little lissssp.
I think she was more traumatized for the fact that the lambs stood there quietly accepting their fate. The last girl did not stay quiet she was very loud and fought back with what she got.
I follow the same philosophy in life
I'm surprised Ashleigh didn't mention the cat watching its owner getting kidnapped. Maybe Beans was watching a creepy person outside your house with NVG's LOL :)
"Beans ya know ppl comment and say they can hear you purring in the back ground. I dont think they're complaining but ya just, ya purr very loud."
Definitely not complaining. I love hearing a cat happily purring. A cats purr can literally help heal bones and prevent illness. Its magical!
at this point if you DON'T say it's Beans when the lion comes out I'm assuming there is an Imposter among us 😑
Sounds pretty sus.
That's clearly sus.
Another great reaction, and your genuine surprise when Hannibal reveals himself under his "mask" is brilliant. "It's my piercing"
Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter wasn’t a real person, but the character, along with several other fictional serial killers in books and movies, were based on a real serial killer, Ed Gein. Others who were at least somewhat based on Ed Gein include Buffalo Bill in this movie, and Norman Bates in the movie “Psycho”.
Thomas Harries eventually revealed he was based on a Mexican doctor called Alfredo Ballí Treviño.
@@jonathancampbell5231 Interesting. I was unaware of that. But there are similarities to Ed Gein as well, which is why many people have mentioned Gein as one inspiration for Lecter.
@@maxnorton1209 Yeah, but Gein inspired several fictional killers, such as Norman Bates and Leatherface. He's not much of an influence on Lecter as far as I can tell (in face Gein was more of an influence on Buffalo Bill).
@@jonathancampbell5231 He was also a cannibal, if I remember correctly. That’s the part I referred to.
There's an inmate in Broadmoor hospital in the UK named Robert Maudsley who is kept in a glass cage. He'd killed 4 people (convicted pedophiles, it must be said) and supposedly may have eaten part of one's brain
You gobbled it all during Lecter's escape, hook, line and sinker, and I LOVE IT!!
Great reaction! Thomas Harris wrote 4 novels about Hannibal Lecter. In order, they are: Red Dragon (how Lecter was caught), The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal (sequel to Silence), and Hannibal Rising (Hannibal's childhood and why he became a cannibal). All are movies, but Silence is by far the best of the movies. Red Dragon has two film versions: Manhunter (1986, Lecter played by Brian Cox) and Red Dragon (2002, where Hopkins plays Lecter). Manhunter is a good film, and Cox gives an interesting version of Lecter. There has never been a serial killer like Lecter (a genius), but there have been many cannibal killers: Georg Grossman, Fritz Haarmann, Joachim Kroll, Jeffrey Dahmer, etc.). Buffalo Bill is a combination of 3 actual serial killers: Ted Bundy (pretended to have an injured arm to get girls into his car), Ed Gein (made a woman suit out of the skins of dead women), and Gary Heidnik (kept his kidnapped women victims in a well/dungeon in the basement of his home).
“It puts the lotion on the skin”
Buffalo Bill is making a female skin suit sewn from patches of skin of his victims. In order to keep the skin supple he requires them to put the lotion on them. The reason he isn’t killing them right away is because he needs to have them loose body mass making the skin membrane looser on the body and easier to flay off
Yes, that's exactly why Buffalo Bill starves them, and makes sure that his victims are big girls. Thin women have less excess skin.
Should we be concerned you know all about this?
Thanks, Mr. Expert!
When examining a body that is well into decomposition, the examiners will put some menthol under their noses to cut down the smell.
Anthony Hopkins portrayal of Dr Hannibal Lecter was so perfect that there have been more movies and even a tv series based on him. In interviews, Jodie Foster has said that she was terrified of Hopkins and never talked to him off camera. He really was locked into his cell so it wasn't easy to just hang out with him. He would sneak up behind her and scare her with his creepy sucking noise, so that when he improvised and used the same sound in the scene, it really freaked her out and her reaction was real.
So glad you enjoyed this classic.
“Deeply unsettled “ is a great description of this movie.
She was a small child who had just been moved to the ranch. It's completely reasonable that something like that would be scarring to a small child.
When I cook a hotdog in the Microwave:
"Well, Clarice, Have the hotdogs stopped screaming?"
😂😂 omg!
"Are you *dolphin noises* kidding me??"
Best reaction ever.
It’s my piercing!
Since you liked this one, you will probably enjoy Seven. It’s along the same line, and you can watch it anytime of year. “What’s in the box?”
It would make unboxing more interesting.
To be pedantic the name of the movie is Se7en, with a 7 replacing the V.
@@mmhdata Yes, I know.
The stuff they put under their nose in the morgue was Vicks Vapor Rub. That's an old trick to combat the smell.
Your reaction to this film was priceless. So many twists and turns in this modern classic, with terrific acting and direction. I remember walking out of the theater at the time, just blown away by the performances. You are TOO funny!
"Do I wanna know what he does with the skin?" Oh sweet, sweet Summer child. You gon learn today.
the slurping sound that he made after the line "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice ciante" was ad-libbed. Anthony Hopkins was amazing in this.
He won the Oscar for Best Actor since his first nomination was for the 1980 movie The Elephant Man.
That is also the other famous line from this movie.
@@mjbull5156 the other famous line from this movie that she's thinking of is 'hello, Clarice.'
He did it because it creeped Jodie Foster tf out...according to him,, he tried a few different things but stuck with that because it absolutely freaked her out
LoL.... The banjos scene is probably from Deliverance, a movie I've never seen, but I look forward to watching it at some point along with you. Buffalo Bill was based on the real serial killer Ed Gein who's mother was a piece of work and probably set him on the path to murder. Norman Bates was also based on him, though both movies took different paths. That big machine was a microfiche machine, people would put old newspapers on microfiche so that they could be preserved and people could check out the film to read old articles. In regard to what they put under their nose at the autopsy it was mentholatum ointment, used to help with the stench of decay. Imagine if you were ten and had no idea where meat came from, or how it was processed, and being in a new situation, just after you father has died, and I'm sure logic didn't much come into it when it came to the lambs. This is a movie I find truly scary, it deals with people who have no regard for other people and don't hesitate to not only kill, but mutilate. Oh, and 'It's my piercing!'
Hannibal Lecter was based on Dr. Alfredo Balli Trevino. A doctor who was treating patients, but then killed and mutilated his lover, also accused of kill several hitchhikers. Described a a small thin man with dark red hair. Elegant and stood very still. After serving 20 years of his commuted death sentence. He was released and resumed his practice.
Yes, the banjo reference is from Deliverance. I also look forward to Ashleigh watching it. Deliverance is an action thriller with no real Halloween vibe. I would put it into a similar category as Walking Tall and White Lighting.
The banjo scene was filmed about thirty minutes from where I live now, and that whole area has been turned into gated communities with private security. It's just outside of Athens and the University of GA.
Deliverance is a solid movie.
Ashleigh, if you are reading this, I would like to see you do southern themed action movies like White Lighting, Walking Tall, Gator, Deliverance, and Sharky's Machine.
Ashleigh watching Silences of the Lambs in night vision, watching Clarice in night vision...very meta 😉
HAHAHAHA
Ashleigh, at the funeral parlour, they were smearing Vicks ( A strong linament ) round their nostrils to counteract the smell from the corpse.
10:40 Psychopaths PREFER dogs as pets actually. From an article:
"...One of the stranger characteristics of psychopaths is their choice of pets. Ronson says they are almost never cat people. "Because cats are willful," he explains.
Psychopaths gravitate toward dogs since they are obedient and easy to manipulate. Ronson says he spoke with individuals who would qualify as psychopaths who told him they aren't sad when they hear about people dying. "But they get really upset when their dogs die because dogs offer unconditional love."
"It's my piercing!"
Since you're going to watch _Child's Play_ in the near future, you might as well add _Hellraiser_ to the list as well. Pinhead is one of the most iconic horror villains in all of cinema, and the movie itself is very well made with a strong female protagonist.
I just heard that there is a Hellraiser remake in the works with Pinhead as transgendered, because, reasons.
@@jwrockets Pinhead didn’t have a gender in The Hellbound Heart, the Clive Barker novella he adapted into Hellraiser. Pinhead is described as having a light, feminine voice, so a female version isn’t a massive departure from the original idea, just a different, but still valid interpretation. I don’t know where you got the transgender bit from. They’ve already cast Jamie Clayton from Sense8 in the role.
“Omg Did I take the scenic route to get there! But I finally got there”- relatable things Ashleigh says #258
Love that phrase.
It's my piercing!
The thing with Clarice and the lambs, after her father died when she was 10, she went to live with her uncle and cousins on the ranch. So I think even if she knew that they would be killed eventually it was new to her. So to be awoken in the night by the screaming of the lambs freaked her out.
It’s my piercing!
This was one of those rare movies that took the all the big Oscars. It won best picture, best actor, best actress and best director
the 5th oscar was for best Screenplay, and only 3rd film in History to win those 5 maj Oscars
Legend has it: You can still hear Ashleigh recording in the attic, and will never leave.
The new "locations" are just that she had the attic remodeled to look different (by people she knows, with face checks every 30 minutes).
17:04 - "He's making himself a woman suit..." I wonder if Lecter was giving a clue when he complimented the female senator on her "woman's suit" ("And Senator, just one more thing...love your suit.")
Makes sense. I would've never thought of that possibility.
"Do we find out what he's doing with the skin?"
Yes.
"Do I WANT to know what he does with the skin?"
No
She only went to live with her aunt and uncle on the ranch when her father was killed... so she wasn't used to the Lambs being slaughtered. But I loved your reaction! Keep up the great content
Yeah... Clarice was living on a ranch, but she had to go live there. She didn't really have a choice. Terms and conditions didn't apply. :)
She also didn’t grow up around the sheep & see them as a way to make a living. One would have to imagine that it was a substantial change, going from a suburban home in West Virginia to a working sheep ranch in the western US.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 exactly! 😀
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Clarice's friend at the FBI is played by Kasi Lemmons, who also co-stars as the best friend in the horror classic Candyman (the 1992 original, not the 2021 sequel). She also became a director, making the underrated indie classic Eve's Bayou, starting Samuel L. Jackson.
She was also a cop in the movie 'Hard Target' starring Jean Claude Van Damme. 😊
The 2021 version isn't a sequel
@@SonOfMuta It is. Have you not seen either of them?
I had the biggest crush on her when this film came out.
@@AutoPilate I can see why, she’s gorgeous.
What's really cool about this movie is that while Hannibal obviously is deranged, he comes off as more genuine and caring than most of the other males in this movie. He genuinely cares about her success. He wants her to see that evil is not always what it seems, usually hidden in plain sight. He wants her to make the same assessment of human behavior as he had through his years as a doctor.
See silence of the lambs, amidst Wolves in sheep's clothing.
17:19: “Is she going to eat the dog?!”😂
(That was funnier than Bundy needing help with a skateboard.)
“The Others” and “Se7en” are soooo good!
The Others is a macabre type thriller.
Se7en is DEFINITELY a psychological thriller. Very unsettling and disturbing.
Plus... Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt and well so as not to spoil the surprise... John Doe all put on stellar performances
That night vision basement scene is THE most terrifying scene in any movie to me. When he reaches out and almost touches her...😱😱😱😱
He was trying to measure how good was the texture of Clarice's hair for a future wig.
It's my piercing! This movie was so wonderfully written with the twists and turns that you just did not see coming. So many movies made now can't hold a candle to this one.
Everyone already posted all the good/fun facts, so I'll just say that this is one of my all-time favorite movies. "I'm having an old friend for dinner" is such a great line.
The fact that I show this movie to people in recent years who haven't seen it and love it is a testament to how great it is. Really ahead of its time with how obsessed we currently are with serial killers. It was a relatively new aspect in movies at the time. At the end of the era of Freddy, Jason, and Michael Myers horror style movies.
Agree that it's truly a great film and visionary in lots of ways. But we've always been obsessed with serial killers, from ancient times onward. Jack the Ripper is probably the first "modern" serial killer that had the media so involved though.
We desire what we hate and we hate what we desire.
What's even more amazing is that the members of the academy remembered this February 14th movie all year long and awarded it the top 5 Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
"He still seems pretty active to me." Lmfao that was fucked up. I died when you said that 😂😂
The scene where Lector talks about eating the census taker’s liver was the first scene Foster and Hopkins shot together and he purposely set out to unnerve her
I absolutely love that you didn't get how he was escaping until the reveal
I have watched a lot of youtube reactors and right now the score is around 50% of them guessing it before the reveal.
I spent a lot of time at my grandparents farm. We often had fried chicken for dinner. Not once when I was growing up did I think that my grandmother was getting up early in the morning to wring a chicken's neck for those dinners. If I ever thought about it then, I might never eat fried chicken again.
It's been 7 years, and my wife still hasn't forgiven me all the way for talking her into watching this one with me. This movie is an absolute masterpiece of suspense, crime drama, with a few humorous moments scattered throughout. Really hoping Ash might include the second Ghostbusters as one of her light-hearted movies, more future ex-husband Bill Murray is always a good thing for her.
She should watch ZOMBIELAND for Hallowbeans! Just for the Murray cameo lol
I don't blame her. LOL
This is the most highly acclaimed American thriller by critics of all time. Your Patreon group picked a good one for you.
For reference, there was no real "Hannibal the Cannibal". He's based partly on cannibal serial killers like Bundy and Dahmer. The most famous Hannibal in real life was probably Hannibal of Carthage, a Roman-era general who's most noted for successfully leading AFRICAN ELEPHANTS across the Alps during his war against Rome.
He borrows from those infamous serial killers, but a few years ago Thomas Harris revealed that the real inspiration for Hannibal was a guy he met while visiting a Mexican jail called Alfredo Ballí Treviño.
Harris was visiting the prison in his capacity as a journalist to interview another inmate, and while there he struck up a conversation with Treviño who was working as the prison librarian, and was formerly a physician who helped out the guards whenever there was a medical problem with the prisoners.
Harris found him to be very polite, intelligent and articulate. He assumed that Treviño worked there, and he was shocked when the guards told him that he was actually an inmate, locked up for murdering his gay lover and chopping the body into pieces.
Treviño was eventually released and ended up doing charity work. Harries revealed the story after Treviño passed away. I don't know if Treviño ever knew that he inspired one of fictions most infamous monsters.
Ever heard of Ed Gein?
Yeah they borrowed a lot from the life ed gein for the Buffalo Bill character
I have to disagree with the Dahmer claim.
The character of Hannibal Lector was first published in the BOOK red dragon in 1981
And while the movie silence of the Lambs came out in the same year as Jeffrey Dahmer’s arrest the movie came out in February of 91, Jeffrey Dahmer’s crimes were not known until the night of his arrest in July 22 of 91.
Ted Bundy’s post mortem activities were limited to the sexual nature, no the consummation.
His capture methods were however similar to Buffalo Bill’s (pretending to be an handicapped or otherwise weakened individual in need of help with large or heavy items.
Ed Gien’s mother obsession was the inspiration for the movie Psycho and his obsession with female corpses in the sequels
Maybe the real life figure most similar to Hannibal Lecter is German serial killer Peter Kurten, the Vampire of Dusseldorf who wasn't a doctor but was a dapper, put together looking guy who also liked to kill people and drink their blood
To second another commenter, you should watch The Burbs starring Tom Hanks. An all time favorite of mine and would be fitting for a Wednesday HalllowBeans viewing.
Also you nailed it about the disconcerting close up shots on Dr. Lecter in his cell. Demme the director did such an amazing job creating the suspense and eeriness in this film.
Yes!!!!!!!!
Yes, please!!!!! Carrie Fisher is in it too!!!
Yes! I LOVE The ‘Burbs!
One of my favorites. And I think she'd love it
"It's my piercing!" So, glad that you finally got to see this, as it is an absolute classic.
You know someone’s a good actor when you freak out your costar.
Hopkins scared Foster so much she was afraid to approach him while they were filming this movie.
I'm telling you: "Train to Busan" is a MUST WATCH!
Best zombie movie ever!
The Night Devoures The World
Those machines are microfilm machines. We used to use them to look at old newspapers.
"It's my piercing". The thing in the tub is the body of the woman who owned the house. Another part of the reason the shots with Lecter are so intense is that he doesn't blink the entire time, he just stares like he's looking right through you.
oh shit... you're right
I've seen many reaction videos, and I realized hardly anyone notices that Hannibal Lecter is played by Anthony Hopkins, who later played Odin in Marvel's THOR films. Even when they've seen both. Sign of a great actor, I suppose.
I didn’t see this mentioned yet, but this film won the big five in Academy Awards. Best Director, best picture, best actor, best actress, best writing
It’s my piercing!
Also, the skin suit was inspired by real life psychopath Ed Gein, who you should NOT Google if you want to keep your sanity. He also inspired Psycho and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
The basement pit was inspired by Gary Heidnik.
This the tag from the Thomas Harris book "Silence Of The Lambs" : There's a serial killer on the loose, who knows that beauty is only skin deep, and a trainee investigator who's trying to save her own hide. The only man that can help them is locked in an asylum. But he's willing to put a brave face on - if it will help him escape.
ouch. you expect that to be hyperbole, like most book descriptions are, but that is very literal.
HAHA! That's brilliant!
Yup, those close-ups were unsettling.
And now imagine those on a big movie theater screen. Where I saw this one in '91.
The Hannibal line to Clarice you’ve probably heard, that you mentioned: “A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti”.