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How could we let October pass by without featuring the only horror film to ever win Best Picture. And yes, I said Horror film. The Silence of the Lambs was a horror film before it got nominated then suddenly I remember people started calling it a “Thriller” instead.
Why is it when a horror film is done well it becomes a drama or a thriller?
The Silence of the Lambs is a serial killer movie. A man wears another man’s face in this film. One of its leads is A CANNIBAL.
Yes, it’s also a drama and a suspense-thriller, but come on. Let’s not pretend this isn’t a movie about a man who kills women to make a woman suit because he hates his penis.
Rant over, soap box removed. However you categorize the movie, it’s brilliant. From Tak Fujimoto’s photography to Jonathan Demme’s direction to Ted Tally’s flawless script to fantastic performances from Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine and one of the most iconic personas ever put to screen in the form of Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal Lecter this film is damn near perfect.
And let’s not forget Roger Corman’s cameo. Best Picture, featuring Roger Corman!
So today’s pic features Mr. Jonathan Demme and a certain doctor. Enjoy!
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If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare or the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes Pic IS NOT MY MOTHER!!!!
-Quint
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- They Live
- The Empire Strikes Back (Tippet with Wampa)
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- 1941
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I don't want to
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as they don't do anymore, I'm cool.
And DEFINATELY no more prequels. Only saw half of Hannibal Rising, had to turn that awful, awful film off. -
Mr bad ass george romero!
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I thought was damn creepy too. One of Ridley's best movies. Nice pic Quint
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catigorizing horror is hard. In the Bedroom can be a horror movie, it's as much a revenge tale as Last House on the Left.
Elephant can be a horror movie, what substantial differences in plot points are there to All the Boys Love Mandy Lane? -
I didnt want to see it but my college roommate talked me into watching it. I watched it 3 more times that week. Love it!
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as a member of the Senate investigation panel - that film was better than SotL -
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Talk amongst yourselves.
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Oct 18, 2010 8:03:11 PM CDT
Quite possibly, the greatest horror movie of all time.
by mr. nice gaius
I can't think of anything that comes close on a dramatic level.
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I feel that Ted Levine's performance was overshadowed by Hopkins, which is a shame, because he was quite wonderful in the role.
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And sorry about the double post.
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For awhile, she was doing those lesbian action star movies. What happened?
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As long as we're counting up his cameos. I think any big director who got his first break from Corman has to put him in his films...
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Of all time! BRILLIANT!
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Waiting to get in the phone booth. Pass it on.
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My bet is that it's going to be a pic from Psycho.
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I don't think it's important. I've never thought of The Exorcist as a horror film; it's a drama with extreme supernatural happenings. I feel the great films somehow transcend their genres and just roll off peoples' tongues as "oh yeah, that's an awesome movie" -- not "oh yeah, that's a great horror movie" or "what a great sci-fi film."
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Shenanigans. I realize it was intended to make you sound cool and sophisticated but I don't buy that for a second. You never thought of The Exorcist as a horror movie. C'mon. You don't have to say that to be cool. I like you just the way you are.
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you left out part of his meal...he ate her liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
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I listen to Goodbye Horse's at least twice a day. http://tinyurl.com/27eqnpw
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Always.
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What's the name of the actor in the background?
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Oct 18, 2010 9:11:06 PM CDT
Good call Gaius, it's on my short list of perfect films.
by stuntcock mike
"Amputate a man's leg and he can still feel it tickling. Tell me, mum, when your little girl is on the slab, where will it tickle you?"
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people who couldn't find any cocaine, heroin or meth, did manage to find 105 tons of weed. it is a sad day in bongville
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The only actor to appear in every Hannibal film. Yup even Manhunter.
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just a matter of weeks before weed is legal for everyone in Cali
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His name is Frankie Faison. It's really too bad Jodie never came back for HANNIBAL. That bit of recasting never really worked for me. Oh, and RED DRAGON was awful. Though I did enjoy that one shot of the blood hitting Emily Watson's face near the end.
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perhaps Invaders From Mars?
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Tomorrow's pic is undoubtedly from The Exorcist, truly the greatest of all horror movies.
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Incredibly great movie that I stay riveted to once it starts playing. Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Ted Levine; top notch direction by Jonathan Demme; a mourneful score by Howard Shore...just a great, great all around picture. The score is so good, it just goes to show you that less is more.
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That movie is SCARY AS FUCK.
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Silence of the Lambs is a great movie, and I do like Anthony Hopkins...but I have a sorts of love for Michael Mann's original "Manhunter".
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is the superior movie. You want shocks and scares and a general feeling of unease - the Tooth Fairy is the best and Brian Cox has a physical presence that says: "I can rip a man's heart out with my bare hands!". Hopkins is a just a fucking ham in comparison and comes across far too camp.
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Had never seen it before. Bleh. Not sure why it gets so much praise. I wasn't impressed.Silence of the Lambs however is a great movie. Thumbs up.
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Great film. Weird mashup.
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A horror movie's principle aim is to scare people, Silence is more a mix of genres but mainly a thriller.
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is why we are now overrun with CSIs
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And I think I'd have to place it on my short-list as well. I can't think of one wasted shot or misstep in the entire film. Truly, it's Demme's masterwork.
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I dont think your thinking holds up. also someone corrected someone else saying "you left out part of his meal...he ate her liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti" it was a census taker who tried to quantify Hannibal and it was a man.
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or should I say the actress that plays her was also in this movie called Series 7 The Contenders. Thought that was kinda coo'
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...and as much as I enjoy Brian Cox's portrayal of Lecter (aka Lecktor), I don't think it holds a candle to Hopkin's iconic performance in SOTL. (I'm discounting the hammier performances in the increasingly watered down sequels/prequels.) Cox's Lecter, on the other hand, just isn't in the film long enough to deliver a palpable sense of dread. While I do find him interesting and slick, he's just not that unsettling to me.That being said, MANHUNTER works because of great performances and atmosphere (supplemented by a memorable, ambient score). And while some of it's clearly dated style-wise, the film still holds up remarkably well.
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and then went back to the movie and felt jarring truncations of the narrative. but that was the just my first reaction; I've since let those hang-ups go.
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it was a he...fucking unforgivable mistake on my part
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Anthony Hopkins rightly received much praise for his performance, but Ted Levine was ignored way too much. His role was the bravest one in the film, and the best performance as well. I love me Mr. Hopkins, but Ted was really cheated.
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...But the book's story was gutted so the De Laurentiis clan could cash in with the pointless, stupid HANNIBAL RISING. And the way the ending was "softened" was a monumental act of cowardice...Jodie Foster had already walked in a feminist snit, there was no reason not to go all the way...
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...As the freakish, weirdly engaging Dolarhyde.
He recently did a hilarious bit on LOUIE as a forensics doctor whose overly-detailed description of Christ's suffering gives the young Louie CK PTSD...not to be missed. -
I thought they got that right - great bit of casting, a fine turn by Oldman - and one of the most fantastic prosthetic jobs!
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Well someone had to say it!
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I've always felt Manhunter was superior to SOTL in almost every way. Hopkins was to hammy. Cox was just terrifying without trying to be. Having said that, SOTL really toughens my nipples.
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Just compare him to Hopkins and his toothless drool... no comparison. And never mind the different spellings.
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Oct 19, 2010 4:28:05 AM CDT
Where would Mr Plinkett and Chris Griffin be without Ted Levine.
by mr nicholas
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...and I totally agree with the above posters that rank Manhunter with Brian Cox as superior. Silence of the Lambs is kinda the overwrought student film compared to Michael Mann's stylish, slickly cool and subtle masterwork. His Lecter was the FAR more believable serial killer, because in reality it's the actions of such men that are monstrous, not their appearance or demeanor. Lecter's cell in SotL was a bizarre Gothic set compared to the infinitely more plausible facility in Manhunter. Demme's good, but Mann is a master visual stylist that I wouldn't have wanted to follow. Perhaps it's best that he did go in a more Hollywood way, just to cut a clear line between the two films.
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Chris Isaak as the swat team guy!
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It was just written poorly, regardless of how you feel about background stories, and the way they turned Lector into a sympathetic anti-hero, rather than the monster on display in Red Dragon and SOTL. Hannibal was weird, but rather well written. I always thought that Rising, the movie, was actually better than the book - though pointless, and destructive of the previous works. And, despite being film-geek-chic to prefer Manhunter, I actually liked Red Dragon more. I liked that they went into the Dollerhyde story in detail, and Ralph Finnes was excellent in it.
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still i like them both.
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i have to agree with what you said and i prefer Manhunter than Silence too.
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was when the lights go out in the basement. Im a pretty jaded horror fan, watch just about everything no matter how cheap or direct to dvd ish. Ive been startled, a little anxious, but never that on edge. Still remember that opening night in the theater vividly, and I went in knowing next to nothing about the flick. I can watch it over and over.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I7IdcJDacg
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Great behind the Scnes pic of Deme and Hopkins.
Definitely have to say that out of all the incarnations of the Hannibal Lecter series (Michael Mann's "Manhunter" (Which was actually "Red Dragon") in the 80ies, the sequel Hannibal in 99-00 and the remake/reboot official "Red Dragon" a few years back...Silence is THE best film bar none!
I wouldn't classify "Slinece of The Lambs" as a "horror" film. Thriller or Suspense or Psychological Thriller is more apt I think. I also think that a film based on not one but two crazy psychopathic serial killers...real life monsters that truly do exist in modern day society and I am sure there are some that are out there right now who would make the characters Hannibal Lecter and Buffalo Bill look like amatuers (We have just yet to hear about them and their sick ways)...I would definitely call/classify this one more as a psychological thriller than anything else. -
Love your suit!
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If I'm gonna dislike a movie, it's going to be on its own terms and not in comparison to its sequel/prequel. That being said, Hannibal Rising was an absolute snoozer.
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It's not as good as Silence, of course it isn't. But it's way way better than the critical backlash at the time gave it credit for.
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i'd fuck me.
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Oct 19, 2010 8:13:13 AM CDT
I can understand why people hate on Hannibal, but I love it.
by stuntcock mike
It's so batshit nuts at times, I can't help it.
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ratner was smart enough to get the fuck outta the way and let the professionals to their thing.
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Comparing Norton's monotone snooze-fest performance to Peterson's menacing intensity alone is enough. To say nothing of Cox blowing Hopkins off the screen (the campy, cash-in Red Dragon Hopkins, not the more subtle Hopkins of SOTL).
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I'd fuck me HARD!!
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*****lobs jizz*****
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all time favorite movies. Ted Levine should have gotten a nom. also
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Ted Levine rules.
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Ted Levine rules.
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Oct 19, 2010 10:08:52 AM CDT
I always think that the difference between HORROR and THRILLER =
by sherlock_junior
The fact that horror movies are supernatural and thrillers are more grounded in real life terror. The antagonists in a horror is some kind of impossible evil (freddy, chucky, demons, wherewolves, dracula zombies, killer that cannot die etc etc)
the antagonist in a thriller is a killer, maniac on the loose (that can actually die), a stepfather, evil sister etc etc.
Any thoughts?
( I always thought via my definitions of horror that MJ'S Thriller was called THRILLER. Cause it's basically a HORROR with undead and wherewolves ) -
( I always thought via my definitions of horror that IT WAS STRANGE, that MJ'S Thriller was called THRILLER. Cause it's basically a HORROR with undead and wherewolves )
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Directs actors in close up better than any other I can think of. Hard as fuck for an actor to look into a camera and do their job well (very reason most directors don't do it), but somehow in his films they always come across as convincing. Anyway, great film.
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Cool pic, but you mentioned everyone except the one person in the world without whom SotL would have never happened at all. The author Thomas Harris.
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really? That's him? Come on..really?
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"Oh no sir I must say you're wrong
I must disagree, oh no sir, I must say you're wrong" Funny that Demme used music just as memorably as Mann did in his Lecter film. -
... but come ON, people . . .
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People called it a thriller because the novel was a thriller, which could be found in the crime/thriller section of book shops long before it was a movie.
If 'Silence of the Lambs' is a horror film, then 'Criminal Minds' must be a horror series. -
just thought you guy's would like to know.
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I read earlier he had a cameo along with Roger (who is pretty easy to spot), but even knowing what George looked like even back in 1991 when it came out, I have yet to recognize his part...
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Lecter in Manhunter isn't meant to inspire dread in the way that he does in SOTL ... an odd disquiet, yes, a loathing of, yes ... I like both films and both performances ... but the scene in Manhunter where Cox talks about God collapsing a church on his believers in the Phillipines or wherever is just brilliantly written, acted, directed and edited.
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and I just read "Hannibal Rising": it's beyond terrible and I wish I could have my memory of it removed. Apparently Harris only did it because Dino de Laurentis said "I want another Hannibal Lecter film and I'll do it with or without you" and Harris reluctantly went along and obviously botched it (it took him 10 years to write "Hannibal"; he churned out "Hannibal Rising" in two)
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Fair enough. Although, I'm not entirely sure of your assumption that Cox's Lecter isn't "meant" to inspire dread. But his is a different performance; one that I admire. Yet he's just not in the movie long enough to really "own" the character like Hopkins and his iconic portrayal.I agree about the church scene. Good stuff - I wish Mann had stayed with it longer!
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One thing that I really loved about the character of Will Graham (and yes, William Petersen DESTROYS Ed Norton) is how he doesn't seem to fear Lecter. Granted, he's disturbed by his presence when confronting him in his cell...seeing the man who stabbed him and so forth...but that's mainly because of Graham's self-awareness of knowing how his mind can think like Lecter's.When you consider what the audience knows about Lecter (especially now in hindsight), it's just awesome to hear someone tell Lecter that he has "disadvantages" (aka he's insane) and that he's "sick of you crazy sons of bitches"!
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"But don't talk to me about late, pal! I'll tell you when it's too fucking late! Until then, we go as late as I wanna take it!"
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the minute they showed where they "housed" LECTOR, what was that bulletproof glass or the Brig from Star Trek?
The Administrative Segregation unit (AD SEG) was ridiculous...I remember seeing that dungeon for the first time and was expecting the Joker to be somewhere in a dark corner plotting his revenge, it totally had an Arkham Asylum vibe to it. Don't get me started with the overly stylized bird caged he escaped from.
The performances in Silence was great, Hopkins was creepy as shit. I just hated the way the movie looked in certain areas...Manhunter was wayyyyyyyy better. -
'I can smell you cunt'
_ I myself cannot" -
...for the plexiglass cell door construction.
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as well as styles. Demme's version is as Hollywood as it gets, but it's still iconic. I prefer 'Manhunter' (having a huge man-crush on Petersen since 'To Live And Die In L.A.'), because of Michael Mann's use of music and lighting (which I guess you can attribute to his choice of cinematographer, Dante Spinotti - no one ever mentions the cinematographer!), and a deep fondness for 'Vice'(which, when you watch it now...wow! Doesn't really hold up so well..but for it's time - it was awesome).But the real star was Tom Noonan ('Last Action Hero' anyone?). Fucking Tooth Fairy freaked me out! The broken bits of mirror on the eyes thing? Yeesh! Never saw 'Red Dragon' - never felt like I needed to. 'Hannibal?' Meh. Had it's moments. I thought Hopkins came off a bit 'Shatneresque', although I love the scene where he fed Liotta his own brains! Sweetmeats..mmmmm...
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Se7en.
I think the problem is that the general public thinks that horror films are b-films, and if one rises to the a-list... it must not be horror! -
SHPREAD YOUR LEGSH!
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is to say the same of Psycho and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre... since all three films are nightmare variations inspired by Ed Gein's true life horror.
Yes there can be horror in real life.
Also... Manhunter is hilarious! The ending with the crazy editing, the song... the neon/rough-new wave feel to the reality.
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Too bad I'm coming to this TB so late, probably no one will see this comment, but I simply can't let this opportunity pass without mentioning how great Dennis Farina was as William Crawford. He owned that role and was a thousand times better than Scott Glenn or Harvey Keitel...
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