Episode 6: The Silence of the Lambs

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

The LFTS team discusses how our videos can change dramatically as we develop them, the differences between the original screenplay for The Silence of the Lambs and the final film, and how the directorial choices elevated the movie beyond a normal thriller.

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Show Notes

Every Frame a Painting video on The Silence of the Lambs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V-k-p4wzxg

Book References (w/Affiliate Links):

Into the Woods by John Yorke

Making a Good Script Great by Linda Seger

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael.
0:07.3	Welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:09.2	Today we are talking about the Silence of the Lambs, and I'm joined by the Lessons from the Screenplay team, writer Trisha Averhahn.
0:16.2	Good afternoon.
0:17.2	Writer Brian Bittner.
0:18.2	Good morning.
0:18.9	And editor Alex Cayeros.
0:20.6	Hi.
0:21.2	Say good evening. Comener. Good morning. And editor Alex Kallaros. Hi. Say good evening.
0:22.0	Come on.
0:24.2	Good afternoon.
0:25.0	Good evening and good night.
0:26.1	Brian, you were the one that suggested we do the silence of the lambs.
0:29.5	Why did you want to talk about the sounds of the lambs?
0:31.6	Oh, you're going to make me go on this ride again, huh?
0:33.5	Yep.
0:35.0	It all started, gather up your carpet squares and your juice boxes. Kids, story time. It all started
0:41.0	like way back when I was working on the collateral video and I was reading John York's
0:45.8	Into the Woods. And he talked about how Steens have the same structure as an act or as an entire
0:51.8	movie. And I thought, huh, it seems obvious, but I had never really
0:54.6	thought about it before. And I thought, oh, it would be cool to do a video on the structure of a scene.
0:59.3	Just take one scene. That's what the entire video is about and look at the structure. And that
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