Silence of the Lambs - Hannibal Lecter in Prison
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Final encounter between Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter. One of the best and most chilling pieces of cinema ever captured on camera.
Final encounter between Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter. One of the best and most chilling pieces of cinema ever captured on camera.
Can we all admit that Anthony Hopkins is one of the best actors of all time?
It's very possible. But his character (Hannibal Lecter) is very talkative and becomes quickly really boring. And THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is really boring and has an over the top reputation!
Says you
@@user-jl1mf8mx9y Yep, me and a lot of other folks.
@@Jeckxdeel Stick with your CGI comic-book movies kid. They're much more to your liking... and comprehension.
@@donarthiazi2443 You just don't know what you're talking about. I don't watch any comic-book movie at all. I'm not a kid anymore for a long time. I was born in 1976. And I clearly understood this movie. I just mean that many other thrillers/crime movies (some of them are even older and also psychological) are way far better.
"people will say we're in love" best line of the movie, makes me laugh every time.
Her story to him was 100% true and a major part of her life. Hence how touched he was.
He wasn't touched in any normal human way, he was intrigued by it. He would have been excited by her vulnerability. He would kill her without a second thought if it suited him.
@@grahamblack1961 Wrong. In the sequel he cuts off his own hand instead of hers to get out of handcuffs
@@grahamblack1961 No he really loves her. Its made clear in the books especially. His inner thoughts make it obvious.
@@DerekWong967not what happens in the book, they added that in the movie
She actually made the whole story up. Starling's father was a used car salesman, she grew up in Milwaukee and she never saw a lamb in her life
"Brave Clarice...you will let me know when those lambs stop screaming, won't you?" that's when he revealed he already knew Starling was gonna solve the case in time.
Jodie foster was superb in this scene. The frustration in her face when she is trying to get useful info out of Lector. The feeling she clearly has of being out of her depth is made up for with the sheer courage it takes to give up something so personal in order to be able to do her job
What I'd like to see continue for a second season is Clarice
Anthony and Jodie definitely deserve their Oscars. Great actors .The awards are said to be biased, but I think they definitely chose the best actors in 1991! ;-)
Racism?
@@paranoidandroid9979 In recent times, the Oscars are said to be biased, but I think Jodie and Anthony are Oscar winners well deserved.
If you havn't seen the Hannibal TV show I highly recommend you do. They really do the story justice with a different interpretation. It's almost like a prequel because you get to see Hannibal when he's free and messing around with the FBI.
Sure. But this movie is very talkative, has a painful static aspect, pacing issues/obvious lengths and feels longer than it is.
While Anthony Hopkins gave a career defining performance as Dr Hannibal Lecter I sincerely think Nick Nolte gave the more powerful performance in The Prince of Tides that year. That’s just my two cents
People will say we’re in love.
I love the way Lecter says Clarice, chilling and captivating!
@@piguy3280 I never said I identified with any of them.
Amazing how a sadistic serial killer can be deeply moved by a story of pure innocence. when he says “thank you Clarice” I guess he’s genuinely happy to know there is good in this sadistic world
Lecter is a sociopath who doesn’t even consider himself human. So no, he, just as Buffalo Bill, was coveting. Hannibal dealt in control, making others vulnerable using their trauma, that is his game. That was why he went from being a surgeon to a psychiatrist. And he just hit the motherlode here when it comes to trauma and control.
@@horseaphoenix1016that’s a brilliant assessment
@@irishsingersongwritertessp4223 Thank you for your kind words. I’d like to add that the nature of their dynamic really convinced me that the character of Clarice Starling really is the greatest heroic character ever. She was visibly disturbed and terrified for many parts of the film, but still took all the risks when they’re presented as progress to solving the case. She was working with Hannibal and Jack Crawford, both men who she knew were superior to her when it comes to investigation, but her ability to defeat her own fears and insecurities made her the final hero.
No hes intrigued by it. Hes in love with her story and the potential she has, the challenge it would be to manipulate her, hes not truly in love with her or moved by her story.
She stroked his deep, ingrained love and preternatural aptitude for being a psychiatrist. Even the most vile people can and do have a passion for something. His was psychiatry. And he and his über-genius intelligence had been locked up for a long time. This little _session_ allowed him to once again experience being the best shrink on the planet.
Best scene in the film. Acting, dialogue, direction, editing is near perfect. You can hear the wind when Clarice is talking about how cold it was.
16 minutes only on screen. It's hard to think of any other character from any film that caught the imagination more than Hannibal Lecter. Hopkins is ridiculously convincing.
Well i thought Nicholson did something similar with a similar amount of screentime in a few good men. It's just that the subject and character here is something that will catch more attention.
Beauty had an inner beast. Beast had an inner beauty.
that was in psycho 1960 first , same as that face of lecter with zoom on screen talking to clarice like with norman bates at the end in the police station detained same as here...
He was dissecting Clarice here the same way he did Buffalo Bill. He wanted to find out Clarice's motivations, what is her nature, what does she do?? As marcus aurelius would inquire. And he got it out of her. These are the ultimate goals for any psychologist.
just the wind howling, the camera is so close to their faces, makes this such a haunting scene, like its coming from the depths of her very soul, she's told no one this story and hannibal is he first to hear it
I could hear wind howling too.
There was a pin drop silence in the movie theater, while watching this scene. The effect of the conversation between the two and the low audible BGM, was surreal and meditative. This entire scene is what made this movie Oscar-worthy. As some people have posted here, Dr. Lecter, was not genuinely moved by Clarice's story. He simply was trying to get into her head and make her his. He was in a prison for a long time, so he has the patience of a monk. He savours the time as he seduces her slowly, and waits for almost a decade before she becomes 'his girl'. He also sowed the seed in Clarice's mind, that somehow she was responsible for his escape, thus kindling her obsession on him. Crawford warned her about this in the beginning. Thomas Harris explains it beautifully in the novel. After saving her from the muderous hogs in Verger farm and nursing her back was part of a game to completely own her. Finally making her to offer her breast, for him to suckle, was the high point of his success and accomplishment. The main reason why Jodie Foster refused to reprise the Clarice role was the ending in the novel. Not many have the understanding of the nature of this story, hence cannot digest the inherent dichotomy.
I feel like the truth is somewhere in between. Lecter wants to suss out whether Clarice is just an another career-agent working for the approval of the bureau/high-status people, or for the imagined approval of her dead cop father, or if she's someone who truly gets how unimaginably fucked-up the world is due to deeper personal traumas that she survived, yet was somehow turned better by instead of worse. He's got a deep contempt for most of the do-gooders in the series, whose moral choices he believes come from naïvety, lack of imagination, cowardice, etc. But getting the whole story out of Clarice is not only interesting and satisfying to him(an initially-bored prisoner with no promise of ever having more to look forward to), but seems to validate her to him as someone doing all this for very dark reasons he can understand and appreciate(similar - as we find out in the next book - to his own). And he enjoys being the one to finally make her realize and/or admit that. In many ways, I think Lecter's reaction to this breakthrough is like a dark reflection of Maguire's eventual breakthrough with Will Hunting after years of boredom and grief before their own sessions began.
Chilling. Disturbing. Clever. Haunting. Moving. Eerie. BRILLIANT.
Lecter is fascinated by Clarice as her story reveals that she's almost his equal intellectually, but is as naturally disposed towards good (saving the lambs from being killed and eaten) as he is towards evil (killing and eating humans without even a second thought). It's like what the Joker says to Batman in The Dark Knight: "you complete me." Yin and yang.
Everyone has their role to play in this cosmic drama.
Clarice reminds him of his dear sister Mischa, who was ate by starving men. His final objective before completely falling in love with Starling was to drug and break Clarice's mind to the point she believes to be her sister Mischa herself. He started this process giving her cocktails of drugs, but in the process, Clarice seduced him so much that he ended up in bed with her, and both ate Paul Kendler's brain. Since then Lecter started loving Clarice as a real person, not only as a shadow of the being he had loved the most, his sister.
I believe even Hannibal was touched by a young Clarice struggling through the cold carrying a lamb she was trying to save. When he says "Thank You" it's very sincere and he looks away with for Hannibal would be admiration and honest to goodness sympathy for this tragedy that shaped Clarice into what she is. This cemented Hannibal's opinion that "the world is more interesting with you in it".
that last extraction of information was more sweet and tender than any lamb or veal he could get from any meal he could ever wish for... proving that at his core, he is a therapist and not a... hannibal.
Killers are only inhuman when the lust for wicked pleasures takes over them.
@@jorelldye4346Takes one to know one.
@@willmercury You were accidentally insightful here. Having suffered through an addiction of my own, I find the internal dilemma described by some killers in their slow descent into a mind without conscience to be intuitive. Psychopathy develops slowly as a means to cope with a burning conscience.
Anthony Hopkin's portrayal of Hannibal is so fucking iconic and has been imitated, copied, parodied and spoofed so many times that when I actually see a scene with him I feel as if he is impersonating Anthony Hopkins's portrayal of Hannibal.
Pure magic. The film as a whole is terrific but this scene above all is what won Hopkins and Foster their Oscars. Demme did something similar a couple of years later in Philadelphia, when Tom Hanks's character talks about his love of opera and what it represents. Utterly compelling filmmaking.
3:28 That low droning howl in the background is like the ghosts of her past coming back to haunt her.
"NO. That is incidental!" I believe that. No one is born a serial killer.
This film reminds me when I was young, was a magical time. I was 16 living in a hotel, used to watch this and The Lawnmower Man all the time.
What was life like for you in the early 1990s
2 of the greatest performances' from 2 of the greatest actors' in the history of cinema.
Lol
Calm down dude
I'm so glad they didn't do a flashback. I wonder if they filmed a flashback scene and we'll never see it....
Utterly unnecessary. This scene takes you there in your imagination.
If done right, flashbacks can work great but in this case, it would had interrupted the piercing stares of Dr. Lecter. The whole scene is about putting the audience into the shoes of the characters. The audience can believe they're being addressed and talked to like the characters in the movies and it's so powerful and believable.
They did film one and were going to use it, until Demme seen how good Hopkins and foster were and decided to keep them on screen the whole time instead.
He's right about reading Marcus Aurelius. I take those words with me into many situations in my life.
To me, this was the most impressive acting in the history of cinema.
That doesn't prevent the movie from having a static aspect, obvious lengths/pacing issues, being very talkative, quite too slow moving and boring.
@@Jeckxdeel it's exactly what made it a classic, and also because there are plenty of sick wannabe an artistically charming psychopathic cannibal of a psychiatrist people like me😉😡😅😟🤣😗😐
I don't know if there was ever a greater scene in the history of cinema!
I dunno, Sharknado was pretty cool too
However, it's really such a static scene (this movie has a very static aspect anyway), very talkative, (too) long and painful. There are many much better scenes in other thrillers/crime movies and also in other movies all genres/times combined!
@@Jeckxdeel This is the greatest scene in film history of people just talking, the most riveting conversation I've ever seen in a movie. Saying it's "static" I mean doesn't that just draw all attention to the conversation? if the cinematography got too fancy, the music too loud or any action occurred, it'd take away from the engrossment. It's only a few minutes, if you find a few minutes of people talking too long and you don't think the writing is bad (maybe you do though?), your attention span must be poor. There might be less than 10 scenes on par with this, let alone greater of which there's even fewer.
@@Mr.Goodkat "The greatest scene in film history of people just talking" It's your right to think so but I disagree with that. It's your opinion and not the ultimate and universal truth (nobody holds it anyway). And this conversation (just as most of the other ones) is not riveting and interesting at all to me. It stretches and drags on just to end up with nothing interesting. Her story with the lambs (and the one she tried saving) is just painful and boring. Conversations in some other thrillers/crime movies (some examples: THE USUAL SUSPECTS, THE STAR CHAMBER, etc.) are much more interesting to me. And my attention span is not poor at all. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS has just an over the top reputation/fame to me. And I think it's one of the most overrated movies all times combined. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS feels longer than it is (pacing issues), is more slow moving than the average of many other thrillers/crime movies, is very talkative for not much, is quite pompous/pretentious and finally is quite boring. Many other thrillers/crime movies (some of them are older) which are also psychological are way far better in my opinion. I don't like this movie at all and I disagree with most people about its so-called reputation as an awesome/amazing work. And so I also don't care about their opinion on filmmaking in general. And I'm not ashamed about it at all. That's my last word.
had there been some numb diggers in the scene it would be better.
Fun fact - two of our greatest actors Anthony Hopkins and Richard Burton grew up in South Wales just a few miles apart in Margam and Pontrhydyfen very near the stunning Afan Argoed forest and the equally stunning Port Talbot steel works!
Beauty and Beast, arguably Disney's best animated film (although there are some other great contenders), was nominated for best picture. It lost to silence of the lambs... which I suppose is fair.
It lost to the superior "Beauty and the Beast" film.
In real life, cops never answer an inmate or suspect's questions. Especially personal stuff. They don't give them the power. They deflect or redirect. A good example would be Gordon the The Dark Knight interrogation scene. When the Joker asks him the time, he redirects with "Why does that matter?"
My favorite scene from the film.
This one 10 minutes scene nailed the Oscar for hopkins
2:16 when they ask me to work overtime
People will say we are in love 💕
Bill scared me when I was younger Dr. scared me when I was older
I see the truth of it
Why the hell do they give him such a nicely decorated jail cell? 😂
'cause he's a master manipulator and knows how to leverage
Lector is just as good at dissecting people mentally as he is physically
Very true.... Razer sharp...
Lecter is a brilliant Psychiatrist and its ptobably the best acted scene in the film, or in the last 30 years for that matter.
The bars.. they move at first,. They obscure. The bars are a barrier between the two. Until she allows Hannibal in. He makes love with her memories.. he is not behind the bars when she finally opens up... They are in the same cell
The cinematography is absolutely on point in the entire scene. Soundtrack too - at first we only hear the echo of the room but then we start to hear the wind, which is only in Clarice’s recollection. Brilliant.
This movie is a masterpiece
No. Not at all! "Masterpiece" is really a pretentious word anyway!
My favourite movie of all time is THE GAME. My second favourite is this movie.
Pure brilliance in motion - Sir Anthony Hopkins 🌹❤️🙂
It's a misnomer to say Lecter was just a serial killer. He was, but it was always very specific people he killed. Lecter never killed ordinary civilians, but liars with power. That's why he was a dark father to her. He knew he could never win her as a friend, but if he told her the truth about the corrupt world she was inhabiting, eventually she would see there were bigger monsters than him walking among us every day, and her honestly would be forced to admit it.
10/10 would ask out for cheeseburgers and beer.
I’ve always been fascinated by the way Hannibal seems to genuinely be fond of Clarice. Probably bc she is real, and he has seen so much disgust in humanity. Finding someone genuine and “pure?” I guess like that would be few and far between.
so if you think you can save katherine you'll no longer wake up to the screaming of the lambs, very deep.
which is why it's called silence of the lambs
@@The_Gallowglass That's why indeed. But that story with the lambs is not very interesting anyway!
@@Jeckxdeel I hear the secrets that you keep... when you're talking in your sheep...
@@willmercury By THE ROMANTICS.
@@Jeckxdeel have you ever heard a lamb squeel as its dying its very much like a girl scream that is why hannibal is interiested in her he likes when she screams like a lamb.
Three lines of this scene are so chilling and beautifully performed and almost the heart of the movie for me. What does he do, this man you seek? He kills women. NO, that is incidental.
Dr. Lector I came because I wanted too. People would think we r in love. That was good. Send her in
Makes you wonder, what does Hannibal covet? Is eating people incidental to something else?
The only thing in life that Hannibal ever really coveted or longed for to that degree was the return of his little sister Mischa. The books go into great detail of how he even studies the theorems of time-travel wishing to go back to find her. And that he eventually seats Clarice "in the place of reverence" of his life where Mischa had once sat. It seems to be the deepest desire of his heart, and with good reason.
@@jadefire2817 I seem to recall that he was happy that Mischa was gone and not in some kind of afterlife "kissing God's ass for all of eternity" or something like that.
@@e.j.5053 Hannibal was *never* happy that she was *GONE.* True , he doesn't believe in the afterlife, that's all they meant by not kissing God's ass. Hannibal believes that once you're dead, that's all there is, but he was never *NEVER* happy that she was gone and robbed of life. She was the only person he ever loved with a purity , and her death at the hands of the Nazis was the beginning of his hatred for mankind.
@@jadefire2817 Yeah I didn't mean he was happy she was dead, just that he took some solace in the fact that she was free from her suffering. It was nice to see Hannibal get his retribution at least 👍
Extra rare lamb chops
Que película y qué actor ...!!!
Waking up to hear the screaming of the lambs
He gets satisfaction from going deep into the minds of people it’s his pleasure her telling him her deepest darkest mind set got him there!!! Brilliant acting so so good! I just do not understand why we don’t get anything like this anymore I mean why are there no good films anymore where are all these natural actors
1:59 is how I answer my supervisor as much as possible
Robert Kepple conducted hours of interviews with Ted Bundy in prison while investigating the Green River murders which is what this element of the film is imitating. Other elements are inspired by real life too which is why it's probably the best fictional movie on the subject.
Funny she looks so young now
It’s amazing what plastic surgery and some foreskin cream will do to rejuvenate your face.
Epic scene!
incredible acting and writing
Gonna watch it again tonight
The best movie I've ever watched in my life acting is outstanding
Many other thrillers/crime movies which are also quite psychological are way far better! And some of them are older.
@@Jeckxdeelname one film with a central scene as good as this. You’d have to go back to 2001.
@@strawsonian DRESSED TO KILL (1980) by Brian De Palma which is also a thriller/crime movie. And it's a scene without any dialogue. It's the crossover/spinning scene in the museum. It lasts between 4 and 5 minutes and contains so much more tension/intensity than in the entire of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. And that scene in DRESSED TO KILL is way far better than this endless and very talkative one. DRESSED TO KILL is way far better than THE SILENCE OF LAMBS in my opinion anyway and is one of my favorites all times/genres combined. Even if the acting is good in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, I hate this close-ups overload. Her story about the lambs is not interesting at all to me. And THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is very talkative, has pacing issues and so feels longer than it is.
@@JeckxdeelHow much ground could a groundhog grind if a groundhog could grind ground?
@@JeckxdeelCURLY is a GARBMUT. So's SHEMP.
This movie.... It is bittersweet
Great scene
The only kind of woman to be loved. You can't demand high waves of love from her. But this is one point, why people like him love them.
Lector is a hero of mine. This was great cinema.
La vi la peli.año 1986.recien ruptura con mi novia.lo siento y lamento las circumbalaciones de aquello
Anthony Hopkins’ voice kind of sounds like Willem Dafoe’s voice in this clip.
A tour de force scene from both actors.
This movie is super useful like Shutter Island. I always wondered if there would be an Identity V movie to round off the idea in it's basic legal iteration. I do this to myself, you know. When I was young the stabilisers on my bicycle were badly screwed in and I came off my bike on a hill, straight over handlebars. So I'm always that one going..."I forgot something. Oh, me. No...argh!?" It's awful. But basically in that rexamination of what I thought i knew, did find a greater understanding
Ciao,come hai fatto ha girare questa parte, impegnativa e impressionante. Lui è stato bravo.
the conversation of the the two elfs
Es todo una Pura pantomima.busca escapar.quiere ser solo libre ❤.
So Good!
therapist who can cure me
Lol how did he know about tiktok before it hit the market
I understand Dr. Lecter was thankful for Clarice storie and that she shared her dark past. We can learn from other peoples insight of the world.
I bet his grandchildren were terrified when he pulled that sucking teeth scene at family reunions.
Anthony Hopkins truly is a master actor outstanding performance
I wonder if they considered that a lot of people probably didn’t know what “covet” means
At the 5:00 mark you can hear a crew member drop something in the background
Every fucking day.
If he wasn`t insain , he would have been a good teacher at the FBI.
Is he insane though?
How was he insane??? I eat my girl out twice a day and get laid constantly, am I insane???
This movie was a fucking cinamatic masterpiece the screenshots the camera work the lighting angles the acting start to finish you'll never see this kind of atuff ever again very few movies made the cut this is definitely one of them!
what cut? and who knows maybe we will see things on this level again, I mean what about after one hundred years? two hundred? at some point something is likely to come along as good.
@@Mr.Goodkat alright mate you sit and wait two hundred years let us know lol
@@davemustaki134 You can't know but only one of us claimed too.
The camera work is not so wonderful. Brian De Palma does way much better than Jonathan Demme about camera work and directing.
@@Jeckxdeel ok buddy you go make a movie and show me your camera work
This was an good movie
Maybe the real silence of the lambs were the friends we made along the way
what book is he reading
Great great movie
what a movie
He coveettsss
Original looking movie
yah hannibal was in that prison 2 keep him safe from Clarerise..i know that now
He protects something
Nature finds away
But the lamb must say something.
Are you ready for this ? Most of the black people on television, are whites in blackface.
Who else could have played that port
Hello Clarise How did you know it was me? I could smell ya getting off the elevator!
Awesome scene.
Absolutely powerful
He wasent touched he was a phyachiatrist in the former life. A role of course its a movie but his level of intellect and the FBI aint no joke. For real
fear hole episode, use this wind.
She got a few miles! That's pretty good for a young girl carrying a lamb.