The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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F. Murray Abraham
F- Murray Abraham
Swastikas? I was scrubbing through the movie while listening to the episode and just caught some weird swastikas in bills dungeon. One as a quilt pattern, another as a poster; could be more but it’s the first time I’ve caught them in the many times I’ve watched the movie.
If you want to read a great book about serial killers, try Programmed to Kill by David McGowan.
I picked Stanger up at Main Street station. Weird that he skipped the Quantico Amtrak stop. He wants to know “is Hannibal Lector a Stoic?” I think because of the Marcus Aurelius quote?
No Silence of the Hams mentions.
The movie certainly has memorable lines, but I would guess that the main reason why comedic people like the movie is that it is very fertile ground for impersonations. The three primary actors all have unique accents and mannerisms that are very fun to mimic. As a young kid, even before I saw the movie (or even knew what the fuck I was talking about) I was reciting the fava beans line to my friends.
Hopkins’ performance is pure camp. Natural for comedians to be drawn to it.
I never liked the coincidence that Lector personally knew Jame Gumb
or for that matter that Jame Gumb happened to live in Mrs Lippman's old house.
The “Goodbye Horses” singer died this summer and I thought this look at her life was really interesting. It says there’s a doc she was involved with that will be out next year. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/q-lazzarus-diane-luckey-goodbye-horses-dead-obituary-1234577321/
Ben: If you go to Cartagena, you should pack some linen.
Stanger question: Do you think Hannibal Lecter used a fake voice when he called the FBI reception and asked for Clarice Starling? What voice do you think he used?
Do you like fake voices? I like em. I think theyre funny and stuff.
Oh yeah, there’s definitely pictures of food and shit on her dress
Speaking of movies moms love, I finally watched The Hitcher with Rutger Hauer, a movie my mom has mentioned with high praise several times throughout my life. I finally took her up on it and I feel comfortable recommending it to ABZ fans. Horror/thriller, engaging and frustrating, Rutger is a creep. Pretty good.
I just watched the Hitcher for the first time over the weekend and thought the same thing. I loved it. It’d be perfect for Octooky.
I’ll ask this in Stangers absence: Did you guys think that guys hamburger face looked tasty?
Remember business cards? Did you guys ever have business cards or like keep stacks of them like that?
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Looking forward to buying an ActionBoyz branded fleshlight
Can’t they get Stangerbot or goragone to fill in like wtf!
stanger got a gig on Avatar 5: Sounds of the Sauna we ain’t gonna hear from him for years
2nd best Stanger question: best Precious in a movie? The dog in Silence or the ring in LOTR?
The novel Push by Sapphire.
My best Stanger question: which movie has a better young Jodie Foster-Silence of the Lambs or Contact?
Yo, the ABZ need to check out a Radwood meet up. Scratch that 80’s-00 auto itch.
Jon burying the lede this long about his dad meeting Ali is crazy
I'm sure a fellow janitor wolf already caught it, but Rodgers mentioned a guy singing Goodbye Horses. Q Lazarus is a woman, and had a pretty interesting life post-SotL https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_Lazzarus
As an X Files guy myself I remember reading (fever dreaming?) that Gillian Anderson was up for Julianne Moore's role in the sequel. There was apparently a clause in her X Files contract saying she couldn't play an FBI agent in anything else though. What could have been...
Guessing by the action boyz flippant mentions of stanger, he’s in grave physical danger. Possibly heart related. Clearly a coping mechanism
Hesitate to bring it up because I thought it was a deep pull and I just went on wikipedia and see it's mentioned there but... the Times ran a profile of Harris a couple years ago (which Rodgers mentions, but not this particular factoid) and one very cool thing it talks about is that Harris quietly volunteered for over 20 years at an exotic bird and animal rescue in Miami, taking care of these rare, tiny birds who got injured one way or another. The people at the rescue had no idea who he was and thought he was just some nice, gentle dude who loved animals. Worth checking out.
Another detail I want to point out which is so great, is that Mrs. Lippman's house is next to some dilapidated commercial building which I assume is somehow connected in the basement explaining how it can be so labyrinthian and large.
Makes sense. We were commenting on how cavernous the basement is
What a corker of a Big Jon story! Wild to be this deep in the podcast before we heard about such a legendary meeting. Great episode!
Yeah I can’t believe we never heard Muhammad Ali play slapped Big Jon before! What a great story
That cop's mustache is unreal. Thin and it goes all the way to his jawline.
It felt very real. Big swing on the facial hair
Just remembered Frankie Faison is in Manhunter too
Aaaaaand, so is Dan Butler, who played one of the bug guys.
I live in Miami and Thomas Harris had a house down here (not sure if he still does) and I went to his house a few times with my dad who was doing some work for him at the time. He was a really laid back and unassuming guy who gave me a copy of Red Dragon and personalized a signature for me. He had a room off his office with all of the foreign editions of his books.
To make this movie truly great, it needed a scene explaining how he got the name Hannibal.
Our thoughts and prayers are with stanger as he spends this month fighting his sauna addiction at passages Malibu
I'm a Mazda man too, Gabrus. Zoom zoom!
Me too.
Stanger is The Joker of the podcast
Haven’t seen you in a minute RB. Fitting you chime in on the day I wore my Rodeo Cinema shirt to work.
Oh shit I just scrubbed through some old eps and they erased every word or mention of Stanger he must have got a Marvel role or something
I borrowed this book after Ben mentioned they were doing it. It’s a great, fast read. Almost every chapter is an iconic movie scene. The movie does cut out the best character, Alan who works in Chilton’s office. The boys would love Alan
I love the whole Hannibal book series. The thing that stood out to me the most about the silence of the lambs book was how the Lecter escape and killing of the 2 cops is less than one page long. I was fully expecting that to be a huge part of a chapter, going into intense detail, seeing how critical of a film scene it is.
Can't wait for y'all to do the other Demme classic: Caged Heat.
Did they post what they’re watching in Octooky??
Not that Ive seen
Do you guys like size 14 butts in your face?
Take a shot every time Gabrus says ‘evolved’ in this episode
Or "rich"
Rodgers' criticism of NBC's Hannibal (the volume of serial killings in the DC area) is well-taken, but for a network TV show, Hannibal was not appreciably different from an FX or AMC show, and season two in particular had the same - or better - structure, cinematography, buildup and finale as any prestige cable show I've seen in the past decade.
It's absolutely worth watching. Some of the episodes are just chef's-kiss levels of good. The graphic violence of the show would earn it a hard R if it were released in theaters. I'd have a hard time believing there was ever a show on network TV that was this violent. But to Ben's point, the level of art that the murder scenes achieve over the course of the show is absurd, and the show does get its head stuck up its ass a bit in season 3. Still, it's a superb part of the HannibalLector-verse.
Dang it, I watched Silence of the Hams. For some reason I thought it was Oct-spoofy.
Bad humour, I know.
Hearing Jane's bark was like putting on an Action Boyz Snuggie.
Saw the movie and was like “Awh hell yeah”. Hope stranger is ok.
RIP Q Lazzarus!
‘Goodbye Horses’ is an absolute classic banger. It’s been a favorite of my friend group in karaoke for years. Amazing to think that she was driving a taxi for Jonathan Demme, they talked about music- she handed him a cassette of her songs and he put it on the soundtrack.
We should all lay hands on a hard body for Stanger!
Can Stanger be the hard body?
i know it’s not any of our business, but we are all hoping that Stanger is ok! very worrisome that he has been away from both shows. we love him we wish him the best
He's either filming something or he's just too scared to watch Octooky movies, either way he's probably fine.