Another #FlashbackFriday for you, dear listener–again Academy Award themed. We’re looking at this multiple Academy Award winner, not just in honor of the Oscars this coming Sunday, but also for our first annual Academy Awards Livestream Party. This week from the GoodTrash vault, we bring you the 1992 Best Picture Winner, Silence of the Lambs, guest hosted by friend of the show Nick Sanford.
The film won the Big Five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director (Demme), Best Actor (Hopkins), Best Actress (Foster), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Ted Tally), making it only the third film in history to accomplish that feat.
In this episode, all the the chaps at the table agree that it is an excellent film, with varying degrees of fervor. Dalton gives a sociological/criminology reading about profiling serial killers. Nick discusses the composition of the film and its plot construction issues. Arthur examines feminism (briefly) and more formalism to this film, in terms of roles being constructed. Dustin then finishes the analysis by looking at formalism and how it gives the viewer agency within the film.
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SILENCE OF THE LAMBS TIME STAMPS
Time Stamps
0:45 – Introductions and Welcome
4:03 – Voice of the Cinema
4:50 – Brief Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down Review
13:53 – Analysis
41:50 – Shelf or Trash/Else or Instead
47:17 – Feedback
51:30 – The Game: “Characters that Can Continue into Infinity Based on New Actors”
60:22 – Fired Up in Pop Culture
Alexandra Bohannon just graduated with her Master’s in Public Administration, and is on the job hunt. She’s also on an a weightlifting team and podcasts way too much. Keep up with Alexandra’s most recent flicks on Letterboxd @Alexvbooks or follow her on Twitter @alexvbrohannon
