The terrifying symbolism of Lecter being the most powerful character in the whole movie while, almost, constantly being completely restrained is enormously effective.
"The scenes between Lecter and Clarice are basically seduction scenes. They play, oddly enough, as if they were lovers. They only touch one time in the entire movie, in their last scene when he says goodbye to her- when as he hands her back her notes, he touches her finger. And it's almost a shock to the audience, when they touch. But these scenes, you would approach almost as if you were writing a sort of courtship between two lovers." - Ted Tally, Screenwriter for The Silence of the Lambs
Did he not read Hannibal? They literally become lovers in that book. Thomas Harris ALWAYS "shipped" them! This is why Jodie Foster refused to do the sequel even though Ironically they don't *spoiler** end up together in the Hannibal movie.
23:12 "I think it's funny that they still call him 'doctor'. He is a doctor but he is a prisoner now. I think they wouldn't call him doctor." Yes, they would. One of the first priorities of any GOOD corrections officer who is in charge of keeping prisoners is to make sure the prisoners stay calm. One of the best ways to do that is to offer simple dignities, like using proper titles for them. it's a tiny sign of respect but it goes a long way to keeping calm and cooperative prisoners. Corrections officers who don't understand that are the ones who don't last long in their jobs.
At the end, she got a name called mrs litman or something from the 1st victim's friend and went there to talk to the woman who knows her. It's because she figured out he had to know his 1st victim personally, she was investigating her acquaintances to ask them if they've met or seen a man fitting the description or possible names of Buffalo Bill. Clarice was there to ask that Mrs Litman the same things.
I saw this in the theater when it first came out... the whole audience erupted into cheers and applause when the camera turned on Dr Chilton and we all realized that HE is going to be dinner!
Re: The misdirection with the door - the best misdirection in history BTW. Crawford thinks he's solved the case and so his ego completely disregards her information assuming he must be right. But he should've know what Lector knew - that Bill wouldn't be stupid enough to stay at the same address as his moth cocoon's were being shipped to once the FBI intercepted the package. He relocated to Mrs Lippman's house who Starling had found out the river victim used to work for as a seamstress. The fate of Mrs Lippman herself is a little confused. In the novel she died of natural causes but left the house to Jame Gumm but in the movie it's long been believed that he killed her and it's her corpse rotting in the bathtub in a very quick shot as Clarice pursues him into the house. Only when they find themselves at the wrong address does Crawfords ego crack and he realise that Clarice may in fact be the one who solved the case - and is in mortal danger as a result.
"He didn't even call her to tell her all this?" - This was before cellphones. She didn't have a "cop" car with a radio....Also, as far as the killer knowing all the girls, No he didn't. Hannibal said We START by coveting what we see every day.
I watched this movie in the theater when it came out - I couldn't sleep at night for a week. It still creeps me out today. Jodie Foster has said the reason she wouldn't act in the role of Clarice again in the sequels was because the first movie terrified her so much. She actually didn't spend much time filming scenes with Anthony Hopkins (that was mostly editing) and even avoided him on the set because his character creeped her out so much. Amazing actors and roles in this - and terrifying. Great reaction to this psychological thriller, Evie! See you again soon!
actually i think its because in the book shes suppose to have love affair with cannibal even though holly wood didn't portray it that way Jodie felt that to go against the way the movie was made would betray the character of clarise
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins never communicated on or outside the filming. Only in character. She was afraid of him. Great movie. Love your reactions. 👏😊🥰
Another one he drops to Clarice almost right away, saying "That's the Duormo, seen from the *Belvedere*". The newspapers would definitely mention the first victim being from there, so Lecter must have suspected Bill was from there as well.
Cool thing director did was have men look directly into the camera while talking to Clarice, giving us her point of view and how uncomfortable she feels
Manhunter was the 'original' Hannibal Lecter movie, and is way underrated and absolutely fantastic. Silence of the Lambs is definitely a great film, so I don't mean to downplay that. But you called this film the 'original' and it's actually the second film.
Brian Cox was brilliant in the original. (He is from Dundee) Extremely highly rated actor. I like him, he came from hard beginnings. The telephone/ stick of gum scene is so well done, a stand out performance.
True. But Manhunter was a complete flop at the box office and was virtually unknown when this came out. This was the film that solidified the series in the cultural zeitgeist and its one of the main reasons Manhunter grew in popularity and is more well known today.
Don’t ever say “shoot for the leg”. You shoot center mass because you’re way more likely to hit under stress, it doesn’t move around as much and a wounded person can still kill you. Even a shot to the leg can kill someone anyway.
The movie you saw in the early 2000's was Hannibal Rising, which is the most recently made movie, but a prequel to the story shown in the three "main" movies; Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, and Hannibal.
She found the house because Buffalo Bill used to work as a tailor for Mrs Lipman just like Fredericka Bimmel (the first victim) and she spoke to the girl who also worked for her. The girl told her about Mrs Lipman and where she lived, it turned out that Bill was now living in Mrs Lipman's house. It was confirmed for Clarice that he was Bill when she saw the moth settle on the cotton reels.
Lector is fascinated with Clarice from the beginning, and needs to know what drives her.. And that’s what the movie is really about.. An unstoppable force in the form of a 5’3” female..
Wonderful reaction, Evie. Seeing your face when Lector removing Pembry's face in the ambulance was awesome! I absolutely believe you'd love the books from where these characters originate. Author Thomas Harris first introduced Hannibal Lector in this 1981 novel Red Dragon, which was later made into a movie called Manhunter, which was then remade taking the novel's name Red Dragon, starring Hopkins, Edward Norton, and Ralph Fiennes. As great as the Silence book is, Red Dragon is even better, in my opinion. Knowing you like true crime and the forensic field, I've no doubt you'd thoroughly enjoy those books as well as their "sequels" Hannibal, and Hannibal Rising (which tells the origin of Lecter). Can't wait for your next video. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go grill some lamb chops. 😄
Very nice. THE classic "killer" thriller with the incomparable Jodie Foster and the Great Sir Anthony Hopkins. Such a good storyline with superb acting. Loved this one upon original release and still loving it today. Thanks for this little reminder of one of our yesterdays. And an impressive reaction. Cool to listen to your thoughts. Like your style. Good luck with your channel I think it should do well. Keep making selections such as this and your guaranteed lots of views/likes. Big shoutout from this old, longhaired, Southern boy in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Much peace, love, and happiness, Ms. Evie. Be seeing ya on the next. Peace. Later.
She found Buffalo Bill because he took over Mrs. Littmans house and that's who she went to go see, was Mrs. Littman. The FBI went to Biffalo Bill's known residence that he no longer lived at. That was Mrs. Littman in the bath tub.
That little penknife Hannibal picks up in the cell has a small blade, perfect for a skilled surgeon (or butcher) to slice around noses, eyes, nostrils, lips, etc. "Ready when you are, Sgt.Pembrey!" The follow-up film to this - HANNIBAL - offers a greater lesson in Disembowelments and their place in history. Especially in one Italian family's history. I think of many evenings I strolled in Rome after dark. Without an umbrella. Well... no more...
To clarify the climax: So how Clarice and Crawford end up in different places is they're following two leads: Crawford and co. are going to the address Bill used to ship the moths to, but becuase he's not an idiot, he obviously used a fake address. Clarice is following Hannibal's correct assertion that serial killers often start local, so she's reexamining Frederica's case specifically. After she finds out Crawford's raiding a different location, she wants to go join him, but he tells her to keep looking into her lead to gather more evidence.She didn't know he was going to be there, but she was going to knock on every door for info so she'd almost certainly have come across him eventually. Also, shoot the leg is a terrible move. Movies and TV have convinced us that being shot in a limb is, like, a minor inconvenience, but plenty of people have died from being shot in their extremities, and even if it's not fatal, the wounds can lead to lifetimes of problems. You do that to an innocent person, that's your career, plus you get to carry it on your conscience forever.
Everyone was Hannibal's puppet the entire movie. He hated Jack Crawford and made sure to rob Crawford of any credit in capturing Buffalo Bill. 35:11 "Clarice!" - This was the moment Jack Crawford realized he had been played by Hannibal to go to the wrong house while accidentally sending Clarice to the right house. Hannibal knew Crawford was using Clarice the whole time. Hannibal made certain Crawford would pay for using Clarice as his 'grunt investigator' while he attempted to take all the glory for himself. By sending Clarice to the right address, Hannibal knew one of 2 things would happen 1) Clarice captures Bill and gets all the credit - or 2) Bill kills Clarice and Crawford receives heavy public backlash while Clarice is honored for dying in the line of duty. PS: Hannibal knew the beach offer from Clarice was a lie. He hinted across in their dialog that he can tell when she is lying. PPS: Hannibal broke off the pocket clip from Dr. Chilton's stolen pen to pick the handcuffs.
If I'm not mistaken this was the first "horror movie" to win multiple Oscars. I know that "Get Out" and "Parasite" won Oscars but they didn't win any acting Oscars. Enjoyed your reaction to this always great movie.
It’s also a title of a level of educational attainment, not just a job title, so it would still be retained while in prison. It’s why inmates can earn doctorates!
as for this shoot "shoot him in the leg stuff" FBI agents are taught to NEVER shoot to wound if they have to use their guns even a wounded person can still be dangerous⚛😀
Something to perhaps keep in mind; prior to this point in time, women rarely had jobs in law enforcement beyond desk jobs and meter maids. Female FBI field agents were pretty damned rare. So, on top of the whole serial killer aspect and the fact that Starling is a smaller person, there's an extra layer of vulnerability to her character simply because she is one of the early women to be breaking into a formally all male world.
Both Clarice's Smith & Wesson Model 13 and Buffalo Bill's Colt Python are double-action guns, which means they would not need to be cocked separately before being able to fire. However, they _can_ be cocked manually if desired by the user. I think buffalo Bill just did it to draw out and savour the act of killing Clarice, because he's a deranged psychopath. Clarice, being a trained professional, just pointed her gun and pulled the trigger, without any theatrics.
The Silence of the Lambs is not actually the original movie about Hannibal Lecter. The first movie about Hannibal Lecter was the 1986 film Manhunter, directed by Michael Mann and starring William Petersen and Brian Cox, based on Thomas Harris' first Hannibal Lecter novel Red Dragon.
When you own a gun you never try to shoot a burglar or a killer in the leg. It's away a kill shot to the chest area because its your life against the other person so wounding a killer doesn't count.
1. You can't shoot an unarmed man that's not threatening anybody 2. You never shoot to wound, always shoot to kill. Even when you shoot to kill, many times the target is still able to come after you. 3. Actually hitting an extremity on a moving Target on purpose is incredibly difficult.
Great reaction EviReacts. So happy you got to see this movie. It’s one of my favorites. Btw it doesn’t matter if your scared of the dark. The world tells us we half to be a certain way in order to be considered normal, complete nonsense. The fact that other people are insecure and feel they need to judge others about how their supposed to be in this world is there problem. Respect for talking about a fear you have. At the end of the day we are all human. 🙂
Yeah, she ate the lamb. All that lamb-screaming made her ravenously hungry so she stole one to butcher for herself in private, so she could start slicing it up and eating it while it was still alive and kicking. You cracked the case, amazing detective work!
Fun fact, shooting someone in the leg can be just as deadly as shooting someone in the chest because of the arteries running down the legs can cause serious blood loss. Bullet trajectory can change once it hits the clothes & or skin. Bullets can ricochet off bones & pieces of bone fragments can cut arteries. Shooting at the legs is more difficult because they’re smaller targets. Shooting someone in the leg doesn’t necessarily stop someone from moving or still being deadly either. If you’re going to shoot someone, it’s because the person is an immediate deadly threat or causing serious bodily injury to you or others & you want them to stop immediately. You keep shooting until the threat stops. The best way to stop deadly threats is shooting them in the chest area. One shot to the leg can be used against you in court as an unjust shooting because it will be argued you didn’t actually think they were a deadly threat. Also, shooting unarmed people in the back isn’t smart unless you can verify for a fact they’ve committed recent violent crimes, are a danger to others & currently threatening other’s lives with a deadly weapon. Based on her knowledge at the time, she couldn’t shoot him when he ran.
I love that we never get an explanation of how Hannibal tracked down Dr Chilton or knew the FBI phone number, but... we just accept it because. of course. it's Hannibal Lecter.
This is in my opinion, one of the top three movies of ALL TIME. It won the big five at the oscars, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Picture, and Best Screenplay. Phenomenal work of art with amazingly complex characters and Jodie's portrayal of Clarice is something we will never see again - Clarice Starling is a very complex and relatable character who isn't overpowered, impossibly strong for her size- but rather an intelligent individual who is relentlessly embracing her femininity. Through her pure intentions and authenticity, Jodie's character became a symbol of divine power motivated by pure desires to save weaker individuals in her world. Despite the fact she will never be as physically strong as the men who tower over her, she preservers because she sees saving other innocent lives as a parallel to saving the lambs. The whole point Jodie was trying to make was that in the past, since women didn't have the strength or "heroism" that could compare to men, Hollywood often resorts to crafting lazy, unrealistic female heroines (i.e marvel women) who possess unfathomable qualities and don't come across as relatable at all. Besides this, often the only redeeming quality of women's characters in film is their attractiveness, or their relevance is limited to being as the love intrest to their male costars. The Silence of the Lambs changed that when Clarice Starling appeared on screen. The producers took the time to flesh out Jodie's character, Clarice, thereby allowing this talented actress to portray an authentic female role who embodies the characteristics of someone motivated by a well-developed moral compass rather than such trivial, one-dimensional motifs (a relief for audiences). She is then juxtaposed against her male colleagues, almost all of whom are motivated purely by advancement rather than the cause itself.
The "shoot him in the leg" thing often comes from people who know nothing about firearms. Even the most well-trained person would find it nearly impossible to hit that small of an area, on a moving target. It's also often more deadly to shoot someone in the leg than other areas of the body, because the largest artery runs through it, the femoral artery, which causes a person to bleed out in a matter of a few minutes. She also couldn't legally have shot him at that point, because he was unarmed. Police can only shoot someone who is an imminent threat: running toward you with a knife, pointing a gun at you or a member of the public, trying to take your gun, etc.
Wrong, dumbass. First off the femor is a human BONE. Second, she most definitely could shoot him unarmed, police have a lit3ral license to kill, plus it was just the two of them. No one could prove the circumstances in which she would have shot him. He is a serial killer. No one would care and assume he attacked her.
Firearms experts say over and over and over: "shoot them in the leg" is NOT a viable strategy and is NOT part of any responsible firearms training course. Legs move much faster than the center of a person's mass does, which means legs are much more difficult to successfully hit. ALSO: Clarice is, at that moment, STILL A TRAINEE confronting a civilian with her firearm for the first time. What would go through your head at that moment? Would you hesitate for even a split second to shoot a person if you were not 100% sure they were a dangerous criminal? I'll bet I would.
I like crime shows as well. I used to watch Forensic Files every day after work back in the days. I just recently started rewatching it again on youtube. Anyways this movie is a classic. Hannibal and Red Dragon are also good. Definately worth a watch.
You know, if you would like to watch more good suspense horror films with Anthony Hopkins... there is a very good movie from the late 70s, called "Magic", with Hopkins and Ann Margaret. Very good performances, script and dialog, I think you would like it. Nobody has reacted to it yet in youtube. It is kind of a forgotten classic.
I do not know that one. Fracture (2007) is a fine film, drama, courtroom, thriller type. Ryan Gosling i think is in it, maybe a detective or a prosecution lawyer. Odd, yet effective, hearing Anthony Hopkins in an Irish accent.
When the FBI team was headed to Chicago: "He didn't even call her ...?" No cellphones, and she was not at an office or home. No way to get in touch with her. Plot twist on why the lambs were silent: "Did Clarice eat the lamb?" "Shoot him! Shoot him in the leg!" You can die very quickly from a gunshot to the leg, if it hits a major artery. Rule of thumb: you don't shoot unless you intend to kill. Also, she doesn't have much legal authority as a student.
I don't like Crawford. He was wanting Catherine to die. He told Starling on the phone, "that's too early. We want him for murder, not kidnapping". He purposely took his time so Bill would kill her and they would find the body at his house. He also used Starling to make the fake deal with Lecter, putting her in serious danger. He had no idea that Lecter had formed an attachment to her, and didn't want to kill her. All he cared about was catching Bill. Not Clarice, not the victims, not their families.
You're too nice and sweet for this movie 😮there was a serial killer in Wisconsin years ago named Ed Gein...the horrific crap they found in his house inspired movies like this, Texas chainsaw massacre, and Psycho
36:31 The paths of bullets can be unpredictable, and legs have femoral arteries. When Hannibal Lecter stabbed Roger "Gnocco" LeDuc in the femoral artery, he died quite quickly. I don't think it would be a good idea for FBI agents to go around shooting people in the leg just because they _think_ they might be a bit naughty.
If you shoot someone who has a gun in the leg, they can still shoot you. The object is to stop the threat and law enforcement is taught to shoot in the body mass for several reasons. One of the main reasons is being hit in the chest most times will cause the person to fall backwards, but at the least put them off balance. Trying to hit a moving target on a small part of a moving body, such as a leg is hard under stress of life or death. Also hitting the femoral artery might stop the advancing bad person with a gun, but the person will still die in as little as five minutes.
The first movie that had the character Hannibal Lecter and it was called "Manhunter" Silence of the Lambs is based off a book and the actor who plays Hannibal Lecter in this movie is Anthony Hopkins.
You can tell you really enjoyed this. Of all the reactions I have seen it is very hit or miss if the viewer knows Lector is wearing Pembry's face. I know its selfish but I am so glad when the viewer does not know, as the reaction when the cut to the ambulance comes is such pure gold! 😄 Also mad props for knowing the tuck! 😉 Not all ladies do.
jodie foster and anthony hopkins are two of my favorites actors.. What an incredible movie! Loved your reaction as well, I suggest you watch more of the movies featuring either one of them :)
I, too, enjoy psychological thrillers. But, I don't think my heart could have survived seeing this movie for the first time in a movie theater. It's way too gory! It's a great movie, and I often find myself watching it on TV. Both Hopkins and Foster won much-deserved Oscars for their roles as did Jonathan Demme for directing and Ted Tally for best adapted screenplay. It also won for best picture. I loved your reaction to this film!
@@De5O54 I don't understand your reply. Many people act in movies with people they dislike. I remember hearing that Richard Gere and Debra Winger loathed each other while filming An Officer and a Gentleman, but that hatred came across as passion on screen. I think they are both talented actors, and they didn't need to like each other to play believable lovers.
I read the book before I saw the movie, but when Clarice Starling walked up to Hannibal Lechter's cell, I was stunned. Just standing there, he radiates Menace, looks at people as potential prey, doesn't blink his "shark-dead eyes," and gets into Clarice's head toot suite. Actor Ted Levine should have gotten AMPAS attenion for his "Jame Gumb" role and "Goodbye Horses" dance. 39:28 Have YOU ever "had a friend for dinner"? I see that you "walk on the dark side of the street" when it comes to movies. How about something lighter? Romance: "Casablanca" (1942), the animated Life: "Up" (2009), trying to get someplace else: "October Sky" (1999), facing your legacy: "Galaxy Quest" (1999), making a friend: "The Iron Giant" (1999) and taking stock of your life: "Wreck It Ralph" (2012).
There is another movie that is in this general flavor and that you are a fan of true crime and forensics, I would suggest the HBO movie Citizen X (1995) about the real life Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo starring Stephen Rhea and Donald Sutherland. Wouldn’t mind a reaction vid but that would be bonus.
I don't believe with side arm training police and other agencies are taught to shoot anywhere else but the biggest mass of the body (chest) mainly because the chance of missing the target can be higher most expect, even at relatively close range. It is easier to miss if aiming anywhere else. It would seem to make sense to shoot the legs but when every bullet fired has to be accounted for, could mean your career or worse, but when in crisis hold aim at the chest and fire only if/when necessary.
26:30 "I say this all the time. Just like shoot him in the leg. You don't need to shoot to kill if you don't want to. Just shoot him in the leg." Well, the thing you say all the time is illegal and if cops listened to you, they would lose their job and probably end up in jail. Cops are ONLY allowed to fire their weapon as necessary to save a life from danger. We can't have every cop in the country just walking up to anybody they suspect of anything and shoot them in the leg. People die all the time from gunshots in the leg. Some that don't die never walk normally again. Some recover fine but if they do, then the shooter didn't do a good job of shooting the leg properly (as in, he nearly missed and barely hit the leg). Imagine the thousands of lawsuits every year for wrongful death or for pain and suffering or for becoming a cripple if cops made a habit of shooting suspects in the leg whenever they want to. Cops have very, very strict rules about when they're allowed to fire their weapon. For a good reason. 800,000 cops in the USA, nobody trusts every single one of them to make good decisions, so we trust them to follow the rules and NOT ruin the lives of US citizens before those citizens get a chance for a fair trial OR those citizens are in the act of endangering the cops or other people. In that scene, right there, where you said shoot him in the leg, Clarice SUSPECTED he was wild bill but only had circumstantial evidence. Also, he was standing there at a safe distance, unarmed, with his hands up. Not a threat to anybody. Shooting him at that moment, when you said to, would be: 1. Assault with a deadly weapon 2. Excessive force 3. Miscarriage of justice 4. And possibly even homicide or attempted homicide. She would go to prison for 10-20 years minimum. Even this guy, as bad as he is, is entitled to a fair trial by a jury of his peers, and he's entitled to NOT be killed or injured by police officers as long as he's not AT THAT MOMENT attempting to harm them.
1. The lisping sound Hopkins makes after he says, 'I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti." is the first scene he and Foster did together and he wanted to freak her out, so her reaction is real. 2. Ted Levine/Buffalo Bill was so disturbing that he received death threats after this was released. 3. The FBI actually let them use their Quantico facility to film. 4. In the book Crawford did have a "thing" for Clarice. 5. "I'm coming to get you Murdock". The late Charles Napier/Lt. Boyle played Murdock in Rambo First Blood II. A great first time/share. 6. Everybody is hitting on Clarice but IRL hitting on Foster is a waste of time and effort. She doesn't fly that way. 🙄 She has been married to a woman since it became legal in Caliphony. 7. Dr. Lecter was treating Clarice 8. Others will pass this to you as well but: This movie won ALL 5 of the big Oscars.😎 Levine should have gotten best supporting.
Law enforcement coperated with a real serial killer: Ted Bundy. He offered them help in the Green River Killer case, since both had been active in the same area and both had done, let´s say disturbing things with the bodies of their victims. Some information Bundy provided was useful, but after a time, the authorities had the impression, that he was playing for time and ended the cooperation. They even show one of Bundy´s methods of overwhelming his victims. He feigned an injured arm and ask young women for help transporting something. If the agreed, they never were seen alive again. Fun fact: the captain of the SWAT team is the singer and guitarist Chris Isaak.
Wrong, dumbass. Hopkins and Jodie weren't even in the same room.together during that scene, dumbass. They are speaking directly to camera, not to each other.
36:32 - I'm not an expert, and perhaps others can chime in, but the problem with that approach is that the leg is a much skinnier target to accurately hit, especially when it moves very quickly as someone runs. Plus, you'd be surprised how far sheer adrenaline can get you, sometimes a bullet doesn't really slow a person down. Like, I get where you're coming from and I'm sure your heart is in the right place, but it isn't always that simple, though I wish it was.
Not only that DonutOperator did a whole video on the subject and it drives me nuts when people say shoot the leg. It is just like the people who say, "Shoot the gun out of the hand!" The leg not only is smaller and is moving like you are pointing out but the leg has a lot of veins in it. If you miss the veins and say hit the femur on or with a glancing blow those fragments would then, most likely, shred the femoral artery at bare minimum which would cause life-threatening blood loss. Edit: I should point this out for people who will then go, "Shoot the arm then!?" Arms have a main vein as well. This is why police shoot center mass 1) Less chance of overpenetration 2) In the event that a mag dump (which a lot of departments are trained to do) has the highest chance of a person surviving.
[comment part 3] The suspense of Clarice getting the right lead (and Crawford getting the wrong one) is that Clarice is still doing her police work by the book. She knows she's not Dirty Harry; no officer in their right mind can go down that path. That's why I disagree with gunshot-wounding Buffalo Bill, because let's be real, she doesn't know for certain if the evidence in Bill's house will support her decision. The impossible task she faces is to save Catherine's life while also protecting her own future in the FBI. Especially when Catherine (in her panic) attacks Clarice's decisions, Clarice handles the situation much better than I would. (I won't pretend to have moral high ground, I'm a jackass in real life to anyone who's a jackass to me.) My two favorite Chekhov's guns from this film: FBI rule of checking corners, and the night vision goggles. Of course it adds to the horror that Bill can rob his enemy of sight. But then Clarice's reflexes prove to be sharpened by the lessons she's taken to heart. As of 2023, "Silence of the Lambs" is the only horror film to win a Best Picture Oscar. It even managed this without an award-season release (like what "The Exorcist" and "Black Swan" had) or even a summer release (the way "Jaws" had).
Though not the first movie to include Hannibal (Check out Michael Mann's Manhunter, an adaptation of Red Dragon from the 80s), Silence is the most acclaimed and the first to use Hopkins as Hannibal. Hopkins reprises the role in Hannibal and Red Dragon. When your TV schedule opens up, I highly reccomend the show Hannibal, with Mads Mikkelsen as the titular character. It's 3 gorgeous seasons.
It seemed to me that Lecter took to Clarice almost immediately, in his warped way. Maybe he admired her guts. In any case, I think Lecter killed Miggs because of what Miggs did to Clarice. Crawford had the wrong address because he jumped to a conclusion. He found out about the imported moths, but he didn't stop to think that they were shipped from a different part of the world than the killer's moths -- so when he traced them, the location was way off. During that conversation, he ordered Clarice to keep investigating. She went to Mrs. Littman's house looking for clues, and only then realized she was in the killer's house and there he was in front of her. The first shot in the dark room was the killer's. He missed, but Clarice got a powder burn on her forehead from it. It was a good thing she was ready to shoot and that she kept shooting, because she had a revolver with only six bullets and he had a semi-automatic with a magazine which could have held thirty. A rube is a country bumpkin -- someone who's ignorant of what's going on in the world. West Virginia has many locations where people are isolated and have little access to education. At least, that was how it used to be. The place was notorious for inbreeding and outright incest. I liked the way Clarice was able to get all the West Virginia cops to leave the room where the autopsy was being done. She spoke to them as a fellow West Virginian, talking to them in the same accent as theirs. I think she deliberately spoke to them as their mothers would -- with authority. That "go on, now" was familiar to them, and got them moving.
36:31 I could be mistaken, but I think they teach them not to shoot unless there is an immediate threat, I don't think it is considered appropriate for them to shoot otherwise. And when there is they teach them to shoot in the torso, no the leg, for several reasons. One is that if someone is attaking you or someone else you don't want to risk missing the shot and giving them time to attack, so they go for the bigger part of the body. Another reason is that even shooting them in the torso doesn't always stop the person immediately, the adrenaline of the moment (and maybe even illegal drugs) sometimes prevents people from feeling the pain immediately, so they keep going. I saw a police body cam video in which a guy was running towards a police officer (if I remember correctly he had a knife), and the officer shot him like 6 or 7 times in the torso, but the guy kept running as if he was fine. It took a little bit for the guy to drop. Shooting them in the leg is even less likely to stop them, and if you shoot them in the femoral artery by mistake you might kill them when you just wanted to immobilize them. And killing an unarmed man who wasn't attacking her is probably not great for her, even if the guy is a murderer.
Yeah at the end there Clarice is following up all her leads. She still had people to interview even if Crawford was arresting the killer at that very moment. You want to gather up ALL the relevant information. Who knows what statement or evidence will turn out to be pivotal?
Very well made film. Well paced, edited and outdoor photography. Jonathan Demme directed version of the Thomas Harris book. Hopkins has real acting chops. This is the only fine acting role i have seen ever of Jody Foster - other than the overhyped but fine film Taxi Driver. Probably 15 years earlier. I just found your channel. Well done. *_/Thumbs up/_*
"you covet what you see".. clarice went to her house and investigated those people around her. people who knew her or WOULD have known her which led her to the litmin house. from there you see what happened. buffalo bill should have kept his house in order. the moth was the giveaway of course. when lecter explained the whole "coveting" point, he was actually telling her exactly how to solve the case..
Interview on the Graham Norton so I believe Jodie Foster said while she was filming this she was so scared of Anthony Hopkins that she barley said two words to him the whole time while making the movie on a social level
The terrifying symbolism of Lecter being the most powerful character in the whole movie while, almost, constantly being completely restrained is enormously effective.
"The scenes between Lecter and Clarice are basically seduction scenes. They play, oddly enough, as if they were lovers. They only touch one time in the entire movie, in their last scene when he says goodbye to her- when as he hands her back her notes, he touches her finger. And it's almost a shock to the audience, when they touch. But these scenes, you would approach almost as if you were writing a sort of courtship between two lovers." - Ted Tally, Screenwriter for The Silence of the Lambs
Did he not read Hannibal?
They literally become lovers in that book.
Thomas Harris ALWAYS "shipped" them!
This is why Jodie Foster refused to do the sequel even though Ironically they don't *spoiler**
end up together in the Hannibal movie.
@@GarytongueBetz-vl1fu I know btw im a clannibal shipper i was just trying to put a cool quote lol
Hence Anrhony Hopkins referring to the movie as a "romantic comedy" in an interview.😉
''It puts the lotion on the skin or it gets the hose again.'' Is an utterly horrifying line
His character's best line was, "Oh wait, was she a great, big fat person?"
@@DeusExMachina50correct analysis😂
I prefer "The sleep of reason breeds monsters".-
@davideriolhickman - You mean actor Ted Levine. Brilliant actor. ‘Heat’ (1995) was a stand out role.
He describes himself as ‘a hill-billy Jew’.
I get the most creeped out when he's mocking and laughing at Katherine in the well. Absolute nightmares.
Chilton: "He's a monster!"
Evie: "I'm so excited!"
AWESOME!! 👍👍
As the meme says: "You are not afraid to be alone in the dark. You are afraid that you are not alone in the dark." This is a great movie
23:12 "I think it's funny that they still call him 'doctor'. He is a doctor but he is a prisoner now. I think they wouldn't call him doctor."
Yes, they would.
One of the first priorities of any GOOD corrections officer who is in charge of keeping prisoners is to make sure the prisoners stay calm.
One of the best ways to do that is to offer simple dignities, like using proper titles for them.
it's a tiny sign of respect but it goes a long way to keeping calm and cooperative prisoners.
Corrections officers who don't understand that are the ones who don't last long in their jobs.
At the end, she got a name called mrs litman or something from the 1st victim's friend and went there to talk to the woman who knows her. It's because she figured out he had to know his 1st victim personally, she was investigating her acquaintances to ask them if they've met or seen a man fitting the description or possible names of Buffalo Bill. Clarice was there to ask that Mrs Litman the same things.
Buffalo Bill was inspired ( as was novel & film "Psycho" ) by real life killer Ed Gein.
9:03 *Evie rethinks her prospective career path* 😂
I saw this in the theater when it first came out... the whole audience erupted into cheers and applause when the camera turned on Dr Chilton and we all realized that HE is going to be dinner!
He is the brother of actor/ singer Murray Head that sang ‘One night in Bangkok’.
@@De5O54 Dr Chilton was played by Anthony *Heald*. You're thinking of Anthony *Head*, probably best known as Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
He's a slimy narcissist like Trump. Everything is about HIM in his mind.
Re: The misdirection with the door - the best misdirection in history BTW. Crawford thinks he's solved the case and so his ego completely disregards her information assuming he must be right. But he should've know what Lector knew - that Bill wouldn't be stupid enough to stay at the same address as his moth cocoon's were being shipped to once the FBI intercepted the package. He relocated to Mrs Lippman's house who Starling had found out the river victim used to work for as a seamstress. The fate of Mrs Lippman herself is a little confused. In the novel she died of natural causes but left the house to Jame Gumm but in the movie it's long been believed that he killed her and it's her corpse rotting in the bathtub in a very quick shot as Clarice pursues him into the house. Only when they find themselves at the wrong address does Crawfords ego crack and he realise that Clarice may in fact be the one who solved the case - and is in mortal danger as a result.
"He didn't even call her to tell her all this?" - This was before cellphones. She didn't have a "cop" car with a radio....Also, as far as the killer knowing all the girls, No he didn't. Hannibal said We START by coveting what we see every day.
I watched this movie in the theater when it came out - I couldn't sleep at night for a week. It still creeps me out today. Jodie Foster has said the reason she wouldn't act in the role of Clarice again in the sequels was because the first movie terrified her so much. She actually didn't spend much time filming scenes with Anthony Hopkins (that was mostly editing) and even avoided him on the set because his character creeped her out so much. Amazing actors and roles in this - and terrifying. Great reaction to this psychological thriller, Evie! See you again soon!
actually i think its because in the book shes suppose to have love affair with cannibal even though holly wood didn't portray it that way Jodie felt that to go against the way the movie was made would betray the character of clarise
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins never communicated on or outside the filming. Only in character. She was afraid of him. Great movie. Love your reactions. 👏😊🥰
not only Jodie was afraid of him, most of the crew too
Hopkins told her when she said that he replied, that he was afraid of her.. Mutual respect as actors.
Wrong, they didn't communicate in character. Most of "their" scenes are shot of of them talking to camera.and not actually to each other.
Lecter gave clue after clue during this whole movie. When he tells the senator "love your suit" he's telling everyone what BB is doing. Genius!
ohhh that's good!
Another one he drops to Clarice almost right away, saying "That's the Duormo, seen from the *Belvedere*". The newspapers would definitely mention the first victim being from there, so Lecter must have suspected Bill was from there as well.
Cool thing director did was have men look directly into the camera while talking to Clarice, giving us her point of view and how uncomfortable she feels
So true!!
Manhunter was the 'original' Hannibal Lecter movie, and is way underrated and absolutely fantastic. Silence of the Lambs is definitely a great film, so I don't mean to downplay that. But you called this film the 'original' and it's actually the second film.
Brian Cox was brilliant in the original. (He is from Dundee) Extremely highly rated actor. I like him, he came from hard beginnings. The telephone/ stick of gum scene is so well done, a stand out performance.
And the climax of MANHUNTER is so powerful, as is the scene of the 'loaded' rolling office chair. ahem.
True. But Manhunter was a complete flop at the box office and was virtually unknown when this came out. This was the film that solidified the series in the cultural zeitgeist and its one of the main reasons Manhunter grew in popularity and is more well known today.
No, manhunt us extremely over-rated.
Exactly! Brian Cox nailed it. He played Hannibal with just the right amount of tension. Very underrated performance and film!
“She has a cat to get to” 😂😂😂😂 I don’t know why but that is so funny to me.
BUT SHE DOES!!!
Don’t ever say “shoot for the leg”. You shoot center mass because you’re way more likely to hit under stress, it doesn’t move around as much and a wounded person can still kill you. Even a shot to the leg can kill someone anyway.
Indeed. Very large and compressed arteries there.
@@jameshunt9208 Neck, armpit and inner thigh. Nick one and you’ve got about 30 seconds.
People don't take into account the amount of adrenalin running through you when in those situations and what it does to you.
The movie you saw in the early 2000's was Hannibal Rising, which is the most recently made movie, but a prequel to the story shown in the three "main" movies; Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, and Hannibal.
I liked Red Dragon. Hannibal was kind of a miss for me but by no means terrible
*2001's, dumbass.
It is STILL early 2000s, dumbass and will be until 2500, idiot.
2001's
2010's
2020's, etc.
Yu dumbass!
The original is called Manhunter. A Michael Mann movie from 1986 I think. Great movie
She found the house because Buffalo Bill used to work as a tailor for Mrs Lipman just like Fredericka Bimmel (the first victim) and she spoke to the girl who also worked for her. The girl told her about Mrs Lipman and where she lived, it turned out that Bill was now living in Mrs Lipman's house. It was confirmed for Clarice that he was Bill when she saw the moth settle on the cotton reels.
Lector is fascinated with Clarice from the beginning, and needs to know what drives her.. And that’s what the movie is really about.. An unstoppable force in the form of a 5’3” female..
Wonderful reaction, Evie. Seeing your face when Lector removing Pembry's face in the ambulance was awesome! I absolutely believe you'd love the books from where these characters originate. Author Thomas Harris first introduced Hannibal Lector in this 1981 novel Red Dragon, which was later made into a movie called Manhunter, which was then remade taking the novel's name Red Dragon, starring Hopkins, Edward Norton, and Ralph Fiennes. As great as the Silence book is, Red Dragon is even better, in my opinion. Knowing you like true crime and the forensic field, I've no doubt you'd thoroughly enjoy those books as well as their "sequels" Hannibal, and Hannibal Rising (which tells the origin of Lecter). Can't wait for your next video. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go grill some lamb chops. 😄
A movie was made of Hannibal Rising ( the origin story ), with a different, younger actor.
Very nice. THE classic "killer" thriller with the incomparable Jodie Foster and the Great Sir Anthony Hopkins. Such a good storyline with superb acting. Loved this one upon original release and still loving it today. Thanks for this little reminder of one of our yesterdays. And an impressive reaction. Cool to listen to your thoughts. Like your style. Good luck with your channel I think it should do well. Keep making selections such as this and your guaranteed lots of views/likes. Big shoutout from this old, longhaired, Southern boy in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Much peace, love, and happiness, Ms. Evie. Be seeing ya on the next. Peace. Later.
She found Buffalo Bill because he took over Mrs. Littmans house and that's who she went to go see, was Mrs. Littman. The FBI went to Biffalo Bill's known residence that he no longer lived at.
That was Mrs. Littman in the bath tub.
Manhunter is the original movie with Hannibal in it. He's played by a different actor, Brian Cox, but I highly recommend it
That little penknife Hannibal picks up in the cell has a small blade, perfect for a skilled surgeon (or butcher) to slice around noses, eyes, nostrils, lips, etc. "Ready when you are, Sgt.Pembrey!" The follow-up film to this - HANNIBAL - offers a greater lesson in Disembowelments and their place in history. Especially in one Italian family's history. I think of many evenings I strolled in Rome after dark. Without an umbrella. Well... no more...
To clarify the climax:
So how Clarice and Crawford end up in different places is they're following two leads: Crawford and co. are going to the address Bill used to ship the moths to, but becuase he's not an idiot, he obviously used a fake address. Clarice is following Hannibal's correct assertion that serial killers often start local, so she's reexamining Frederica's case specifically.
After she finds out Crawford's raiding a different location, she wants to go join him, but he tells her to keep looking into her lead to gather more evidence.She didn't know he was going to be there, but she was going to knock on every door for info so she'd almost certainly have come across him eventually.
Also, shoot the leg is a terrible move. Movies and TV have convinced us that being shot in a limb is, like, a minor inconvenience, but plenty of people have died from being shot in their extremities, and even if it's not fatal, the wounds can lead to lifetimes of problems. You do that to an innocent person, that's your career, plus you get to carry it on your conscience forever.
Everyone was Hannibal's puppet the entire movie. He hated Jack Crawford and made sure to rob Crawford of any credit in capturing Buffalo Bill.
35:11 "Clarice!" - This was the moment Jack Crawford realized he had been played by Hannibal to go to the wrong house while accidentally sending Clarice to the right house. Hannibal knew Crawford was using Clarice the whole time. Hannibal made certain Crawford would pay for using Clarice as his 'grunt investigator' while he attempted to take all the glory for himself.
By sending Clarice to the right address, Hannibal knew one of 2 things would happen 1) Clarice captures Bill and gets all the credit - or 2) Bill kills Clarice and Crawford receives heavy public backlash while Clarice is honored for dying in the line of duty.
PS: Hannibal knew the beach offer from Clarice was a lie. He hinted across in their dialog that he can tell when she is lying.
PPS: Hannibal broke off the pocket clip from Dr. Chilton's stolen pen to pick the handcuffs.
It'll be a fun one to rewatch and try to catch the hints!
She talked to Frederica's friend who told her about Mrs Litman. So she went to Mrs. Litman's house not knowing that Buffalo Bill was living there.
If I'm not mistaken this was the first "horror movie" to win multiple Oscars. I know that "Get Out" and "Parasite" won Oscars but they didn't win any acting Oscars. Enjoyed your reaction to this always great movie.
They continue to call him Doctor because yes he's a killer but he's also a brilliant doctor of psychology and that's why they want his help
It’s also a title of a level of educational attainment, not just a job title, so it would still be retained while in prison.
It’s why inmates can earn doctorates!
The scariest thing about this movie is there are real people out there in the worald who are warped in some way......
as for this shoot "shoot him in the leg stuff" FBI agents are taught to NEVER shoot to wound if they have to use their guns even a wounded person can still be dangerous⚛😀
Buffalo Bill is Captain Stottlemeyer from Monk.
Anthony Hopkins was on screen for only 16 minutes of this movie, but his performance was so strong that it feels a lot longer.
and he won a oscar for it - one of the all time great movie villain performances.
Something to perhaps keep in mind; prior to this point in time, women rarely had jobs in law enforcement beyond desk jobs and meter maids. Female FBI field agents were pretty damned rare. So, on top of the whole serial killer aspect and the fact that Starling is a smaller person, there's an extra layer of vulnerability to her character simply because she is one of the early women to be breaking into a formally all male world.
Clarisse was at Buffalo Bill's house because Crawford had asked her to check on the Littman (Lippman?) angle...
Both Clarice's Smith & Wesson Model 13 and Buffalo Bill's Colt Python are double-action guns, which means they would not need to be cocked separately before being able to fire. However, they _can_ be cocked manually if desired by the user. I think buffalo Bill just did it to draw out and savour the act of killing Clarice, because he's a deranged psychopath. Clarice, being a trained professional, just pointed her gun and pulled the trigger, without any theatrics.
The final scene had/has Audiences "cheering for Hannibal"... A Beautiful Twist...
"Did she eat the lamb?" OK, I'm in, subscriber, you're the best.
I can’t sleep in total darkness either, I have never been able to. I also need some kind of sound, at least until I fall asleep. So I feel ya. 🙂
My boyfriend has a sleep mask because of me lol I guess opposites attract🫣
Buffalo bill becoming monks boss was a shock when i found out
The Silence of the Lambs is not actually the original movie about Hannibal Lecter. The first movie about Hannibal Lecter was the 1986 film Manhunter, directed by Michael Mann and starring William Petersen and Brian Cox, based on Thomas Harris' first Hannibal Lecter novel Red Dragon.
When you own a gun you never try to shoot a burglar or a killer in the leg. It's away a kill shot to the chest area because its your life against the other person so wounding a killer doesn't count.
1. You can't shoot an unarmed man that's not threatening anybody
2. You never shoot to wound, always shoot to kill. Even when you shoot to kill, many times the target is still able to come after you.
3. Actually hitting an extremity on a moving Target on purpose is incredibly difficult.
Great reaction EviReacts. So happy you got to see this movie. It’s one of my favorites. Btw it doesn’t matter if your scared of the dark. The world tells us we half to be a certain way in order to be considered normal, complete nonsense. The fact that other people are insecure and feel they need to judge others about how their supposed to be in this world is there problem. Respect for talking about a fear you have. At the end of the day we are all human. 🙂
Yes, Dr Chilton is as good as dead.
Bon appetite!
Yeah, she ate the lamb. All that lamb-screaming made her ravenously hungry so she stole one to butcher for herself in private, so she could start slicing it up and eating it while it was still alive and kicking. You cracked the case, amazing detective work!
Fun fact, shooting someone in the leg can be just as deadly as shooting someone in the chest because of the arteries running down the legs can cause serious blood loss. Bullet trajectory can change once it hits the clothes & or skin. Bullets can ricochet off bones & pieces of bone fragments can cut arteries. Shooting at the legs is more difficult because they’re smaller targets. Shooting someone in the leg doesn’t necessarily stop someone from moving or still being deadly either. If you’re going to shoot someone, it’s because the person is an immediate deadly threat or causing serious bodily injury to you or others & you want them to stop immediately. You keep shooting until the threat stops. The best way to stop deadly threats is shooting them in the chest area. One shot to the leg can be used against you in court as an unjust shooting because it will be argued you didn’t actually think they were a deadly threat. Also, shooting unarmed people in the back isn’t smart unless you can verify for a fact they’ve committed recent violent crimes, are a danger to others & currently threatening other’s lives with a deadly weapon. Based on her knowledge at the time, she couldn’t shoot him when he ran.
I love that we never get an explanation of how Hannibal tracked down Dr Chilton or knew the FBI phone number, but... we just accept it because. of course. it's Hannibal Lecter.
Hopkins is in like 20 minutes but steals the show.
Also, first, I think
He told her to look for more info on frederica background. She had no idea this was who they were looking for.......
He didn't throw it at her, he Spider-Maned her 😂
You can't get on if you never got off,peter!
😂
This is in my opinion, one of the top three movies of ALL TIME. It won the big five at the oscars, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Picture, and Best Screenplay. Phenomenal work of art with amazingly complex characters and Jodie's portrayal of Clarice is something we will never see again - Clarice Starling is a very complex and relatable character who isn't overpowered, impossibly strong for her size- but rather an intelligent individual who is relentlessly embracing her femininity. Through her pure intentions and authenticity, Jodie's character became a symbol of divine power motivated by pure desires to save weaker individuals in her world. Despite the fact she will never be as physically strong as the men who tower over her, she preservers because she sees saving other innocent lives as a parallel to saving the lambs. The whole point Jodie was trying to make was that in the past, since women didn't have the strength or "heroism" that could compare to men, Hollywood often resorts to crafting lazy, unrealistic female heroines (i.e marvel women) who possess unfathomable qualities and don't come across as relatable at all. Besides this, often the only redeeming quality of women's characters in film is their attractiveness, or their relevance is limited to being as the love intrest to their male costars. The Silence of the Lambs changed that when Clarice Starling appeared on screen. The producers took the time to flesh out Jodie's character, Clarice, thereby allowing this talented actress to portray an authentic female role who embodies the characteristics of someone motivated by a well-developed moral compass rather than such trivial, one-dimensional motifs (a relief for audiences). She is then juxtaposed against her male colleagues, almost all of whom are motivated purely by advancement rather than the cause itself.
Hannibal gave her the clue when he gave her the papers back, And said he covets what he sees
It is funny that they still call him Doctor. Surely he would've been struck off by then.
The "shoot him in the leg" thing often comes from people who know nothing about firearms. Even the most well-trained person would find it nearly impossible to hit that small of an area, on a moving target. It's also often more deadly to shoot someone in the leg than other areas of the body, because the largest artery runs through it, the femoral artery, which causes a person to bleed out in a matter of a few minutes. She also couldn't legally have shot him at that point, because he was unarmed. Police can only shoot someone who is an imminent threat: running toward you with a knife, pointing a gun at you or a member of the public, trying to take your gun, etc.
Wrong, dumbass.
First off the femor is a human BONE.
Second, she most definitely could shoot him unarmed, police have a lit3ral license to kill, plus it was just the two of them.
No one could prove the circumstances in which she would have shot him.
He is a serial killer. No one would care and assume he attacked her.
Firearms experts say over and over and over: "shoot them in the leg" is NOT a viable strategy and is NOT part of any responsible firearms training course. Legs move much faster than the center of a person's mass does, which means legs are much more difficult to successfully hit. ALSO: Clarice is, at that moment, STILL A TRAINEE confronting a civilian with her firearm for the first time. What would go through your head at that moment? Would you hesitate for even a split second to shoot a person if you were not 100% sure they were a dangerous criminal? I'll bet I would.
I like crime shows as well. I used to watch Forensic Files every day after work back in the days. I just recently started rewatching it again on youtube.
Anyways this movie is a classic. Hannibal and Red Dragon are also good. Definately worth a watch.
“settle down jim carrey” lmfao! i can’t unsee it lmao 😂
"He was not looking AT you, he was looking IN you. Right INTO your soul."
You know, if you would like to watch more good suspense horror films with Anthony Hopkins... there is a very good movie from the late 70s, called "Magic", with Hopkins and Ann Margaret. Very good performances, script and dialog, I think you would like it. Nobody has reacted to it yet in youtube. It is kind of a forgotten classic.
I do not know that one.
Fracture (2007) is a fine film, drama, courtroom, thriller type.
Ryan Gosling i think is in it, maybe a detective or a prosecution lawyer. Odd, yet effective, hearing Anthony Hopkins in an Irish accent.
When the FBI team was headed to Chicago: "He didn't even call her ...?" No cellphones, and she was not at an office or home. No way to get in touch with her.
Plot twist on why the lambs were silent: "Did Clarice eat the lamb?"
"Shoot him! Shoot him in the leg!" You can die very quickly from a gunshot to the leg, if it hits a major artery. Rule of thumb: you don't shoot unless you intend to kill. Also, she doesn't have much legal authority as a student.
There were cell phones at this time, dumbass.
Zack.Morris had one since the 80s, idiot.
I don't like Crawford. He was wanting Catherine to die. He told Starling on the phone, "that's too early. We want him for murder, not kidnapping". He purposely took his time so Bill would kill her and they would find the body at his house. He also used Starling to make the fake deal with Lecter, putting her in serious danger. He had no idea that Lecter had formed an attachment to her, and didn't want to kill her. All he cared about was catching Bill. Not Clarice, not the victims, not their families.
I don't understand why the Senator would be mad. They were trying to save her daughter's life.
You're too nice and sweet for this movie 😮there was a serial killer in Wisconsin years ago named Ed Gein...the horrific crap they found in his house inspired movies like this, Texas chainsaw massacre, and Psycho
36:31 The paths of bullets can be unpredictable, and legs have femoral arteries. When Hannibal Lecter stabbed Roger "Gnocco" LeDuc in the femoral artery, he died quite quickly. I don't think it would be a good idea for FBI agents to go around shooting people in the leg just because they _think_ they might be a bit naughty.
If you shoot someone who has a gun in the leg, they can still shoot you. The object is to stop the threat and law enforcement is taught to shoot in the body mass for several reasons. One of the main reasons is being hit in the chest most times will cause the person to fall backwards, but at the least put them off balance. Trying to hit a moving target on a small part of a moving body, such as a leg is hard under stress of life or death. Also hitting the femoral artery might stop the advancing bad person with a gun, but the person will still die in as little as five minutes.
You need to watch Jodie Foster in taxi driver with Robert de Niro. That was her first Oscar as a kid
She wasn't a kid, she was a teen, dumbass.
Actually The Accused was her first Oscar win, but her role in Taxi Driver is a masterpiece.
@@JamesDavis-sh9gh You're right, anyway she is such a great actress. I love her working with Denzel Washington
someone needs to write a sequel of Catherine Martins cat and Precious the dog and their adventures
The first movie that had the character Hannibal Lecter and it was called "Manhunter" Silence of the Lambs is based off a book and the actor who plays Hannibal Lecter in this movie is Anthony Hopkins.
You can tell you really enjoyed this. Of all the reactions I have seen it is very hit or miss if the viewer knows Lector is wearing Pembry's face. I know its selfish but I am so glad when the viewer does not know, as the reaction when the cut to the ambulance comes is such pure gold! 😄 Also mad props for knowing the tuck! 😉 Not all ladies do.
jodie foster and anthony hopkins are two of my favorites actors.. What an incredible movie! Loved your reaction as well, I suggest you watch more of the movies featuring either one of them :)
Her boss Crawfird told her to stay where she was to follow up on investigation!
She did not know where to find buffaLo boll
I, too, enjoy psychological thrillers. But, I don't think my heart could have survived seeing this movie for the first time in a movie theater. It's way too gory! It's a great movie, and I often find myself watching it on TV. Both Hopkins and Foster won much-deserved Oscars for their roles as did Jonathan Demme for directing and Ted Tally for best adapted screenplay. It also won for best picture. I loved your reaction to this film!
@lisalivingston - ‘Both Hopkins and Foster won much-deserved…’
They cannot stand each other. I do not mean in the film.
@@De5O54 I don't understand your reply. Many people act in movies with people they dislike. I remember hearing that Richard Gere and Debra Winger loathed each other while filming An Officer and a Gentleman, but that hatred came across as passion on screen. I think they are both talented actors, and they didn't need to like each other to play believable lovers.
I read the book before I saw the movie, but when Clarice Starling walked up to Hannibal Lechter's cell, I was stunned. Just standing there, he radiates Menace, looks at people as potential prey, doesn't blink his "shark-dead eyes," and gets into Clarice's head toot suite. Actor Ted Levine should have gotten AMPAS attenion for his "Jame Gumb" role and "Goodbye Horses" dance. 39:28 Have YOU ever "had a friend for dinner"? I see that you "walk on the dark side of the street" when it comes to movies. How about something lighter? Romance: "Casablanca" (1942), the animated Life: "Up" (2009), trying to get someplace else: "October Sky" (1999), facing your legacy: "Galaxy Quest" (1999), making a friend: "The Iron Giant" (1999) and taking stock of your life: "Wreck It Ralph" (2012).
There is another movie that is in this general flavor and that you are a fan of true crime and forensics, I would suggest the HBO movie Citizen X (1995) about the real life Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo starring Stephen Rhea and Donald Sutherland. Wouldn’t mind a reaction vid but that would be bonus.
Of course they’d still call him doctor!
The word ‘doctor’ literally means ‘teacher’.
I don't believe with side arm training police and other agencies are taught to shoot anywhere else but the biggest mass of the body (chest) mainly because the chance of missing the target can be higher most expect, even at relatively close range. It is easier to miss if aiming anywhere else. It would seem to make sense to shoot the legs but when every bullet fired has to be accounted for, could mean your career or worse, but when in crisis hold aim at the chest and fire only if/when necessary.
4 movies and also a tv serie created by Brian Fuller.... and actors are Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikelsen, Gillian Anderson.... a very good serie
Brilliant. And I love your correct take on Chilton haha - "I mean if he had to eat someone, absolutely... 🤷♀"
You NEVER shoot to wound, if you have to shoot make it count.
My favorite movie. The last movie of the series Hannable rising was really good.
26:30 "I say this all the time. Just like shoot him in the leg. You don't need to shoot to kill if you don't want to. Just shoot him in the leg."
Well, the thing you say all the time is illegal and if cops listened to you, they would lose their job and probably end up in jail.
Cops are ONLY allowed to fire their weapon as necessary to save a life from danger.
We can't have every cop in the country just walking up to anybody they suspect of anything and shoot them in the leg.
People die all the time from gunshots in the leg.
Some that don't die never walk normally again.
Some recover fine but if they do, then the shooter didn't do a good job of shooting the leg properly (as in, he nearly missed and barely hit the leg).
Imagine the thousands of lawsuits every year for wrongful death or for pain and suffering or for becoming a cripple if cops made a habit of shooting suspects in the leg whenever they want to.
Cops have very, very strict rules about when they're allowed to fire their weapon.
For a good reason.
800,000 cops in the USA, nobody trusts every single one of them to make good decisions, so we trust them to follow the rules and NOT ruin the lives of US citizens before those citizens get a chance for a fair trial OR those citizens are in the act of endangering the cops or other people.
In that scene, right there, where you said shoot him in the leg, Clarice SUSPECTED he was wild bill but only had circumstantial evidence.
Also, he was standing there at a safe distance, unarmed, with his hands up.
Not a threat to anybody.
Shooting him at that moment, when you said to, would be:
1. Assault with a deadly weapon
2. Excessive force
3. Miscarriage of justice
4. And possibly even homicide or attempted homicide.
She would go to prison for 10-20 years minimum.
Even this guy, as bad as he is, is entitled to a fair trial by a jury of his peers, and he's entitled to NOT be killed or injured by police officers as long as he's not AT THAT MOMENT attempting to harm them.
22:58--Roger Corman
It made that click sound when he tucked. It's in the unrated version.
1. The lisping sound Hopkins makes after he says, 'I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti." is the first scene he and Foster did together and he wanted to freak her out, so her reaction is real.
2. Ted Levine/Buffalo Bill was so disturbing that he received death threats after this was released.
3. The FBI actually let them use their Quantico facility to film.
4. In the book Crawford did have a "thing" for Clarice.
5. "I'm coming to get you Murdock". The late Charles Napier/Lt. Boyle played Murdock in Rambo First Blood II. A great first time/share.
6. Everybody is hitting on Clarice but IRL hitting on Foster is a waste of time and effort. She doesn't fly that way. 🙄 She has been married to a woman since it became legal in Caliphony.
7. Dr. Lecter was treating Clarice
8. Others will pass this to you as well but: This movie won ALL 5 of the big Oscars.😎 Levine should have gotten best supporting.
Law enforcement coperated with a real serial killer: Ted Bundy. He offered them help in the Green River Killer case, since both had been active in the same area and both had done, let´s say disturbing things with the bodies of their victims. Some information Bundy provided was useful, but after a time, the authorities had the impression, that he was playing for time and ended the cooperation. They even show one of Bundy´s methods of overwhelming his victims. He feigned an injured arm and ask young women for help transporting something. If the agreed, they never were seen alive again.
Fun fact: the captain of the SWAT team is the singer and guitarist Chris Isaak.
Wrong, dumbass. Hopkins and Jodie weren't even in the same room.together during that scene, dumbass. They are speaking directly to camera, not to each other.
36:32 - I'm not an expert, and perhaps others can chime in, but the problem with that approach is that the leg is a much skinnier target to accurately hit, especially when it moves very quickly as someone runs. Plus, you'd be surprised how far sheer adrenaline can get you, sometimes a bullet doesn't really slow a person down. Like, I get where you're coming from and I'm sure your heart is in the right place, but it isn't always that simple, though I wish it was.
Not only that DonutOperator did a whole video on the subject and it drives me nuts when people say shoot the leg. It is just like the people who say, "Shoot the gun out of the hand!" The leg not only is smaller and is moving like you are pointing out but the leg has a lot of veins in it. If you miss the veins and say hit the femur on or with a glancing blow those fragments would then, most likely, shred the femoral artery at bare minimum which would cause life-threatening blood loss.
Edit: I should point this out for people who will then go, "Shoot the arm then!?" Arms have a main vein as well. This is why police shoot center mass 1) Less chance of overpenetration 2) In the event that a mag dump (which a lot of departments are trained to do) has the highest chance of a person surviving.
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The suspense of Clarice getting the right lead (and Crawford getting the wrong one) is that Clarice is still doing her police work by the book. She knows she's not Dirty Harry; no officer in their right mind can go down that path. That's why I disagree with gunshot-wounding Buffalo Bill, because let's be real, she doesn't know for certain if the evidence in Bill's house will support her decision. The impossible task she faces is to save Catherine's life while also protecting her own future in the FBI. Especially when Catherine (in her panic) attacks Clarice's decisions, Clarice handles the situation much better than I would. (I won't pretend to have moral high ground, I'm a jackass in real life to anyone who's a jackass to me.)
My two favorite Chekhov's guns from this film: FBI rule of checking corners, and the night vision goggles. Of course it adds to the horror that Bill can rob his enemy of sight. But then Clarice's reflexes prove to be sharpened by the lessons she's taken to heart.
As of 2023, "Silence of the Lambs" is the only horror film to win a Best Picture Oscar. It even managed this without an award-season release (like what "The Exorcist" and "Black Swan" had) or even a summer release (the way "Jaws" had).
Though not the first movie to include Hannibal (Check out Michael Mann's Manhunter, an adaptation of Red Dragon from the 80s), Silence is the most acclaimed and the first to use Hopkins as Hannibal. Hopkins reprises the role in Hannibal and Red Dragon.
When your TV schedule opens up, I highly reccomend the show Hannibal, with Mads Mikkelsen as the titular character. It's 3 gorgeous seasons.
1996's MANHUNTER was the first, five years earlier. It's most highly recommended.
It seemed to me that Lecter took to Clarice almost immediately, in his warped way. Maybe he admired her guts. In any case, I think Lecter killed Miggs because of what Miggs did to Clarice.
Crawford had the wrong address because he jumped to a conclusion. He found out about the imported moths, but he didn't stop to think that they were shipped from a different part of the world than the killer's moths -- so when he traced them, the location was way off. During that conversation, he ordered Clarice to keep investigating. She went to Mrs. Littman's house looking for clues, and only then realized she was in the killer's house and there he was in front of her.
The first shot in the dark room was the killer's. He missed, but Clarice got a powder burn on her forehead from it. It was a good thing she was ready to shoot and that she kept shooting, because she had a revolver with only six bullets and he had a semi-automatic with a magazine which could have held thirty.
A rube is a country bumpkin -- someone who's ignorant of what's going on in the world. West Virginia has many locations where people are isolated and have little access to education. At least, that was how it used to be. The place was notorious for inbreeding and outright incest.
I liked the way Clarice was able to get all the West Virginia cops to leave the room where the autopsy was being done. She spoke to them as a fellow West Virginian, talking to them in the same accent as theirs. I think she deliberately spoke to them as their mothers would -- with authority. That "go on, now" was familiar to them, and got them moving.
In the book.Hannibal, Hannibal and Clarice become.lovers.
36:31 I could be mistaken, but I think they teach them not to shoot unless there is an immediate threat, I don't think it is considered appropriate for them to shoot otherwise. And when there is they teach them to shoot in the torso, no the leg, for several reasons. One is that if someone is attaking you or someone else you don't want to risk missing the shot and giving them time to attack, so they go for the bigger part of the body. Another reason is that even shooting them in the torso doesn't always stop the person immediately, the adrenaline of the moment (and maybe even illegal drugs) sometimes prevents people from feeling the pain immediately, so they keep going. I saw a police body cam video in which a guy was running towards a police officer (if I remember correctly he had a knife), and the officer shot him like 6 or 7 times in the torso, but the guy kept running as if he was fine. It took a little bit for the guy to drop. Shooting them in the leg is even less likely to stop them, and if you shoot them in the femoral artery by mistake you might kill them when you just wanted to immobilize them. And killing an unarmed man who wasn't attacking her is probably not great for her, even if the guy is a murderer.
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Definitely in my top 5 favourite films of all time 😁
Yeah at the end there Clarice is following up all her leads. She still had people to interview even if Crawford was arresting the killer at that very moment. You want to gather up ALL the relevant information. Who knows what statement or evidence will turn out to be pivotal?
Very well made film. Well paced, edited and outdoor photography. Jonathan Demme directed version of the Thomas Harris book. Hopkins has real acting chops. This is the only fine acting role i have seen ever of Jody Foster - other than the overhyped but fine film Taxi Driver. Probably 15 years earlier.
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"Did she eat the lamb?"
That was adorable.
Was very worried about the lamb for a hot second there 🐑
@@eviereacts Hah! Well, eating a lamb is pretty good way to silence it.
"you covet what you see".. clarice went to her house and investigated those people around her. people who knew her or WOULD have known her which led her to the litmin house. from there you see what happened. buffalo bill should have kept his house in order. the moth was the giveaway of course. when lecter explained the whole "coveting" point, he was actually telling her exactly how to solve the case..
Interview on the Graham Norton so I believe Jodie Foster said while she was filming this she was so scared of Anthony Hopkins that she barley said two words to him the whole time while making the movie on a social level
Cannibal Dad Jokes are the best.