The Silence of the Lambs (1991) | First Time Watching | Movie Reaction 

I worked in a Detroit Area Prison for 25 years. We had a dedicated shower specifically for staff who didn't duck quick enough when convicts threw bodily fluids (or whatever) on them. It's also stocked with antibacterial soaps and clean sweat suits to change into.

You'll never hear that Tom Petty song the same again.

29L58 "Love your suit." is a clue: Bill is making skin suits. I remember catching this when I was a kid. I'm so proud of myself LOL

Crawford telling Starling that he wont forget how much she helped in the case IS professional.

“We’re not scared of you behind that glass”…. … 3 seconds later … … “he will haunt my dreams.”❤

" M*****F***** Don't Draw Her! And a lamb!" That was the best! HaHa!

Check out these movies if you haven’t seen them: Misery(1990), Get Out(2017), The Shining(1980), and Psycho(1960).

Hi Lipps! The very early part of Clarice's interview with Dr Lecter sets up their relationship. When she says she's a student and is there to learn from him. He's amused by the idea, but decides to chase her off instead. Weirdly, it's his version of being kind. He regards her as a pawn in the long-term feud between himself and Jack Crawford, but an innocent pawn, and dislikes that she's being used like that. So he chases her away with some aggression, but he's capable of being much more cruel." Fly away little Starling, fly, fly, fly." He wants her out of game. When Miggs does that disgusting thing Lecter becomes furious at Craford for sending Clarice there and at Miggs. He gives a clue for something to impress her teachers with and sends her off. At that point he desides to find out how well she thinks and learns. Coming very much from his formal training in psychiatry. As their relationship progresses he's fully aware of the lies Crawford is feeding her, and doesn't hold her responsible for them. If Clarice had actually gotten in his way he wouldn't have hesitated to kill her, but otherwise has no real motive to do so, especially after all the time and thought he's put into her. It's too bad his amygdala is so broken, he would have made a good teacher.🧓🎭📽️

You didn't include one of my favourite lines in the RU-vid version. I know copyright editing demands things be cut. When Clarice is being told that Hannibal escaped, and her friend is concerned that Hannibal will come after her. Clarice assures her friend that Hannibal won't, "I can't explain it. He would consider it rude."

"I'm having an old friend for dinner." Perfect ending.

This is one of only three films in history to sweep the top four Oscars, and they all swept the top five! (Actor, Actress, Director, Picture, and Screenplay). The other two were 'It Happened One Night' (1934) and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' (1975).

I remember when the book came out, my sister had been an ER nurse at a Level One Trauma Center for almost 10 years, and loved reading stuff like this, so she got the book, but she couldn’t finish it because she thought it was too disturbing. Of course, she’d give this “disturbing” book to her high-school-aged brother to mess with, but I absolutely engulfed that book, and then I was crazily excited when I saw that a movie had been made. Such a good book, and movie.

It has aged really well, as genuinely good movies tend to do. It's cool that Hannibal's switcheroo with the dead cop caught you off guard. If you want to add another gritty 90's crime thriller to your list try Seven.

28:16 Hannibal hates rudeness. When he was free he kinda thought himself as a public service going after people with bad manners or annoyed him in some way.

Hannibal’s moral code is rather simple: he prefers to eat the rude. The nurse was rude to him. She lost an eye. The orderly we met was always polite to him. He never got scratched.

45:00 “Walk out of the house. Call for back up.” Yes. What so many cops do. Let that girl in the well get shot, and make a note of it in their report. This is what sets Clarice Starling apart from most Law Enforcement officers. She doesn’t let the lamb die. “Courage is not the absence of fear. It is proceeding in the face of fear.”

This is the definition of a horror movie. The actors were superb, and the horror was mostly from the situations, not the violence.

You need to see the other 2 Hannabil and Red Dragon

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. In the book Crawford did have "a thing" for Clarice. 8. Dr. Lecter was treating Clarice 9. Others will pass this to you as well but: This movie won ALL 5 of the big Oscars.

Ted Levine should have been nominated for Best Supporting Actor! The part where he said "PUT THE ****ING LOTION IN THE BASKET" was so terrifying!

It depends if he has a Ph.D. His medical license as a surgeon could have been revoked after his conviction but if he also has a Ph.D. as a Forensic Psychiatrist he could still be called "Doctor" in terms of having a doctorate which is an academic credential and extremely difficult to revoke after it has been earned.

You can find out where Hannibal and Clarise in the sequel - Hannibal. Enjoy. It's messed up and wonderful. ahahah.

Butterfly Bill! 😂😂 21:06

Hannibal Lector's escape is only 2nd to Andy Dufrane's escape in The Shawshank Redemption! They are probably tied, the same, equal, but because Shawnshank is a happier story, I'll give it first... hahahaha!

"Crawford is always rolling like 500 deep when we see him, and Clarice is always rolling alone." .. 👍🏾😆 SO Accurate!

I liked how you responded to Hannibal's heightened sense of smell. A lot of people miss that but it's done for a reason. It's supposed to show that Hannibal has a supernatural sense like a vampire or predator animal. He even looks very vampiric with the widows peak, slicked back Bela Lugosi hair, and pale skin. Going back to that scene where Clarice says "and what is he?" Then it transitions to Dr Chilton saying "he's a monster!" Hannibal is the wolfman, Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, and the creature from the Black Lagoon. He's an urban legend made flesh. Oh, and to add to the vampire similarities, when he requests Clarice's story, it's like he's consuming a part of her. The satisfaction he gets from Clarice's story almost fills him the same delight he would get from consuming people.

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I’ve been called “Lips” before.. lol.. I’m not complaining..

I'm pretty sure Clarice in one of the flashbacks said "Oh, shoot" and not "Oh, shit", when his father said all the bad guys "got away" that day.

ok, how did Lecter make the elevator move if he was lying on the ground pretending to be the guard? & how did he know where Crawford was going?

What on earth does “let’s keep things professional” mean in that context??? I’m so baffled. What on earth could that possibly mean???

The first novel that included Dr Lecter was Red Dragon, about the agent who arrested him, nearly dying in the process, and his being brought out of retirement by Jack Crawford. It was adapted for the screen in the in the 1980s under the title Mind Hunter and again after Silence under original name Red Dragon. Like most folks who have seen both productions I like them equally. It's fun to see the contrast in styles and budgets. I personally, don't like the sequels. They are mostly exploitive and wonder away from the very well portrayed behavioral science in the first two stories. I'm not faulting Mr Harris for making hay while the sun shines, but Hannibal Lecter was born with an underdeveloped amygdala or suffer damage to it when he was very young. Stories that attribute his behavior to other causes have to be taken with so much salt, it ruins the taste of of the original characters. But that's just me.

41:19 he was being professional. Your assumptions are crazy. Would you rather he be Dr Chilton and take all the credit?

I never ever considered this a horror movie.

I have an old friend for dinner: best closing line for a movie ever.

They redid his restraints. The ones at the airport are different then the ones in the cell. Dr. Chilton left his pen in Letchter's cell.

Watched this movie when i was 9 😏 loved it then, love it now

Watch Silver Bullet (1985), the 4k looks like it was shot yesterday and it's older than this movie.

My guess on why he attacked the nurse is that she disrespected him in some way. He seems to be a stickler for politeness and good manners. If she forgot to call him Doctor Lecter, that might have been enough to offend him. Or maybe he was just feeling peckish.

I miss the smell in Blockbuster.

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If you read the book, you will find out how Dr. Lecter knew what fragrances Clarice Starling wore.

Entertaining review 😂👍

"He's gonna gaslight the shit out of us" LMAO

The reason she went down in Bill's dungeon was because of Catherine. If there was a chance she was still alive or maybe he went down to kill her...Clarice had to at least try to protect her.

I heard that Dr. Lecter is voting for Trump this year. (Insert Trump joke about failing mental state.) Comedy.

Great reaction to one of my absolute favorite movies of all time ❤ Btw, did you know that no other movie after Silence of the Lambs came out has won the big five (best movie, best director, best screenplay, best actor and best actress) at the Oscars? Silence of the Lambs did 😊

stone roses for the music....Good bye horse.

Det.Stottlemeyer from tv's " Monk " same actor as Buffalo Bill 😊

This movie. Fight club .matrix changef a lot then 911

'What's his moral code?' Man's gotta eat....

"M.F. don´t draw her....and the lamb" LOL

Hi new sub, i hope you do more movies :)

I have a soft spot for Hannibal lol. Yes hes a k i ll er but he doesnt tolerate d e g ener at es and rude inconsiderate people. I think he actually cared for Clarice.

You actually need to read all the books before watching.

I don't remember how many times I watched that movie in the movie house. I was so hooked with it that I started to doubt if I too had a murderous mind. Hindsight, I learned I was not alone who had the same addiction to this legendary movie.

Anthony Hopkins was on screen for less than 20 minutes and won an Oscar

Great reaction Lipps, like always. I really love this movie its one of the best movies of 1991. Led by two brilliant turns from Foster & Hopkins, this chilling psychological thriller is as much about power plays as it is about solving the case. And this movie is based on the novel by Thomas Harris, and there are some fun facts about it. Gene Hackman wanted to make the film, Hackman bought the rights to the 1988 Thomas Harris book, splitting the $500,000 cost with production company Orion, and had planned to direct, write and star as Lecter. Ted Tally, the man who would end up writing the screenplay, contacted Orion President Mike Medavoy who said, “Gene thinks he’s going to write this, but don’t worry, he’ll find out how hard that is, and we’ll get back to you.” Medavoy called back later and said, “Gene’s written 50 pages of the script, and he’s only 50 pages into the book. So, if you can meet with him and convince him that you’re the right guy for it, you’ll have the job.” During their first meeting, there’s a moment where Lecter mocks Starling’s southern accent. This was improvised on the spot by Anthony Hopkins, and not expected by Foster. She was hurt by the comment, and her on-screen reaction was real. However, she later thanked Hopkins for provoking a genuine reaction. This film is geared around framing every shot from Clarice’s perspective to put us in her shoes. Generally, the characters speaking to Clarice are front and centre of the frame, breaking the fourth wall by looking directly into it. When Clarice is in the frame she’s looking just off camera, that is a nice touch to notice. Hopkins’ now iconic lip roll sound after his fava beans speech was inspired by Bela Lugosi’s iconic title performance in Dracula (1931). He said, “When I was a kid, I’d tell the girls around the street the story about Dracula and I’d go th-th-th, as a result, they’d run away screaming.” Hopkins took inspiration from some unusual sources Hopkins said that he had a friend in London who rarely blinked, which, “freaked people out” and noted similar characteristics in reptiles. Reptiles only blink when they want to, and they do it consciously. He applied these characteristics to Hannibal, in the film Hopkins only blinks at specific moments. And if you notice Hopkins isn’t in the film all that much, but won an Oscar anyway, but his performance is spot on. But It wasn’t all success for Hopkins on the back of this movie. He was in a relationship with retail businesswoman Martha Stewart at the time, but she dumped him shortly after the film’s release because all she saw when looking at him was a cold-blooded serial killer. In the scene where Clarice tells Lecter about the lambs and running away from home, if you listen closely after she says, “I thought if I could save just one…” you can hear a crewman dropping a wrench off-screen. Foster remained in character and continued until the end. Keep up the good work.

When this came out, my friend and I watched it basically on Fast Forward, because we were so chicken and thought it would give us nightmares, but we had to be cool and tell everyone we watched it.

The second movie is good too

Clarice is always alone because she is always going rogue. It is also called ambition

If you want to know what Hannibal is up to after escaping I would recommend the movie "Hannibal". The novel is good as well and has a different ending

Why would you not call him doctor, especially if you want his help?

Also the Hannibal series is really cool! It motivated me to cook. And it's only 3 seasons...

Your questions about Lechter's moral code, and why people treat him with a kind of respect, are really perceptive. I think Lechter's code is about two things ... He respects courtesy and social elegance. And there are a very small number of people he meets who he respects. When people are vulgar and dishonest, Lechter hates them intensely. So we have Miggs who treats Clarice so horribly in the most viscerally disgusting ways. And we have Dr. Chilton, who is not only able to torment Lechter with impunity, but Lechterm himself also correctly sees that Chilton is a fraud and a dishonest self-promoter in the very field Lechter is in. On the other side, Lechter comes to respect Starling for her intelligence, bravery, honesty, and genuine compassion. She is authentic where so many of the people in her field are, in Lechter's view, contemptible functionaries. Plus, we get the tiniest hint that Lechter also respects Barney, the asylum. attendant. When he's trussed up in that restraint and Dr. Chilton tells Barney to go, Lechter quietly breathes out, "Barney." That indicates that he trusts Barney to be straight with him and maybe even protect him a little. Maybe he found Barney to be another intelligent an honorable person ... not elegant and sophisticated, but authentic. As for why people still treat Lechter with respect, still call him "Doctor," that's partially custom, and partially strategic I think. I believe it's customary to refer to a doctor as "Doctor" essentially forever, no matter what they do or what their social status becomes. But I also think that once Lechter is caught and, (they think), well and truly caged, there's no ongoing value in treating him disrespectfully just to punish him ... especially when he MIGHT be manipulated by superficial respect into behaving himself or even helping with serial killer cases like this one. If treating Lechter courteously day to day makes him easier to handle, then why not do it? That said, I agree, a second dinner is a bit much! P.S. I've often thought about whether it was okay for Clarice to pursue Bill in the house alone. On the surface, no. On the other hand, she was there alone because she was doing background investigation, not expecting to pursue him. And this was reinforced by the other FBI guys being so sure that THEY were about to arrest Bill. And once Clarice saw that she'd found Bill, and that the girl was probably in the house too, I think she thought she couldn't wait for backup. He might have just gone down and killed the girl if he wasn't busy evading Clarice. Anyway, that's my take. I wonder what an actual FBI agent would say.

As a trans person I thought I'd leave a comment about Buffalo Bill and the movie's take on him. The "not a real transexual" comment is a pretty complicated and loaded statement, though the movie at the time tries at least to make a clear separation between buffalo bill and transgender people and make it explicit that this isn't a trans person thing, it's a Buffalo Bill thing, and that's appreciated, at least. Buffalo Bills psychology seems to be more a persons desperate desire to find an identity, we can see from him little lair he seems to have gone through many phases, like all the nazi memorobillia and tattoos he has. He tries on a persona and then after a while he realizes it isn't working and moves onto the next thing. Hence the imagery with the butterflies/moth cocoons, he's always evolving but he never quite becomes that beautiful butterfly he wants to be. Buffalo Bill is a fictional character, so I'm willing to just agree with the premise of the plot and accept that he isn't really trans though. But getting rejected by a medical facility isn't proof that someone isn't trans, surgery or not. Trans rights and acceptance have a VERY strained relationship with the medical and psychology industry, as they more often than not do not act on the behalf of trans people but instead act as their gatekeepers. Even today trans people are asked in their appointments if they played with dolls or action figures as a kid, asked how they masterbate and refused treatment if they don't "perform" their appropriate gender well enough for their doctor. (In the UK, where I am from, you're expected to wear make up and wear dresses publicly for at least 2 years, changed your name, come out to your family and live completely as a woman (if you're a trans woman) before you are given treatment such as hormones, never mind surgery. As you can imagine it's a pretty traumatizing and humiliating experience and is perpetuated by discriminatory and sexist, outdated, ideas about what gender is. Just food for thought for anyone curious about a trans perspective on Buffalo Bill, this movie and the time it's from, and how you can't always take for granted claims about people not "really being trans", which is especially in these times, used to gatekeep and harm trans people just trying to live their lives.

Small movie screens? No fun nat all.

IT IS A CLASSIC! YOU NEED TO WAKE UP!!

You want to know how Lecter was caught then you could watch Red Dragon. You want to see the continuation after Silence of the Lambs you could watch Hannibal. Then there is that weird movie where Lecter is young doing martial arts called Hannibal Rising.

a serial killer-cannibal stoy to reflect the creepiness of men towards women. Every single face-shot of a man in this film is kinda gross. If thats how we make feel girls sometimes, im sorry. Its awful.

It isn't really a horror movie, but it's more intense than most horror movies imo. In part because of the realism. A show that IMO is in a similar vein even though a lot of bits are fictionalized is the Chernobyl show.

"Smelly"? Every hear of leather?

It's a psychological thriller, not horror.

Lipps vs Lambs!

I think you only lose the title of Dr. if you are convicted of malpractice, wether medical or other doctorate(in this case psychology). Hannibal was put away for murder and cannibalism, but malpractice was never proven so his doctorate was never revoked. (Disclaimer: This is only what I think I remember)

I wonder....will Dr. Chilton be cooked medium or medium rare?

The moral code of Hannibal is both simple and really complex at the same time but it would not be wrong to say that he kills for 2 reasons: He enjoys killing people who he perceives as RUDE or he kills out of necessity like when he killed the guards in order to escape (They were not rude to him at all)

What else could Clarice do? She obviously had no mobile phone, and I can't recall anything that suggested that she had any kind of communication device in the car. If she left in order to try to get to a phone, Billy might have killed his victim and possibly managed to escape. Chris Carter, the creator of "The X-Files", was partially inspired by Jodie Foster's portrayal of Agent Starling when he created Agent Dana Scully. In the early episodes of "The X-Files", Scully even has a similar hairdo 😄 Thanks for the reaction!

The late great Hannibal Lector

If you're not considering the movies that came after (which are also good), I'd recommend the TV show Hannibal. It's not the same but it's just as cerebral as Silence of The Lambs, but in a different way.

8:30 "Leave her alone!" Buddy, he's the one in jail.😂

Ted Bundy did the cast thing. Ed Geine did the skin thing. As well as others things. Alfred Hitchcock's movie Psycho (1960) was inspected by the book of the same name. That book was about Ed Geine.

A jolly entertaining reaction, Lipps.

This falls more into the "psychological thriller" than the "horror" category...

25:55 Surgery does not make you "real or not real", but it sure does make it look more serious.

I'm pretty sure you and Lecter would be good friends 😉

Loving the channel, love me some Lipps reactions. 💥

Lechter can smell her because he was a wine taster at one point. They need a very strong sense of smell. There was a tv show on NBC that ended around 5 years ago called Hannibal. The tv show is like this movie on steroids. At times you will be shocked and wonder how the hell this was on NBC. I thought it was pretty dam good myself. It's mostly stuff that happened before this movie and it ran for 3 years.

You'd really like Clear and Present Danger.

@ 28:41 I’m not experienced in the medical field but, I believe once you’ve achieved something (a doctorate) you can’t un-achieve it. So I guess in a technical sense, you’re still a doctor.???

Now you need to react to SEVEN, and then you will have seen the two best serial killer movies

I effing love that whole scene where we get the reason for the title of the movie. So good

He touched her finger because he couldn't give her a kiss....

📌 How about the prequel to it? Hannibal (2013) the series with main story and small stories in between.

My first horror movie came from Platoon. Or maybe the Shining. Both happened.

Not really a horror.

47:50 You looked like Jodie Foster a little there!😂

He had "... demands of his own."

"...sometimes you wear L'Air du Temps, but not today."

#43:00 why are you serial killer shaming him ?