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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Silence of the Lambs with Emily Vanderwerff

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2020

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

The two friends are joined by prolific writer Emily Vanderweff to talk about the most influential movie that BC has covered - except for Fletch of course. It's so influential there are TOO MANY BITS! What's Emily's take on what all Demme movies are about? What could Hannibal lector have looked like if it was a different actor? And a special shoutout to all our cannibal psychologist listeners!

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0:00.0

I

0:21.3

sense his take everyone's tried to podcast me. I ate his pod with some cast beans in a

0:27.8

nice podcast. Started bad. Got worth 40 F's. That's the Pete Holmstech. You just sounded like

0:40.5

you were a snake. Are you trying to hypnotize my ego right now? I just I was pretty good.

0:48.4

It's the first is the top quote. I said, I'm going to do the impression poorly. Let's just get it

0:52.5

over with because it'll happen more over the course of the episode. I was trying to maybe

0:56.8

hooff as we said the rare move of the Clarissa into Hannibal. You look like a

1:02.0

roo the reverse Tomahawk. Right. I mean, Dr. Lector. Dr. Lector. Dr. Lector. Is she a lot

1:08.2

doctor? I can say this because it's not transoratial for me to say this, but it puts the podcast

1:13.7

on its skin. Yes. You know, or else it gets the pot again. I was thinking about that. I

1:18.8

feel like that's an even harder voice to do. That's very fun to try and nail, but incredibly

1:24.1

specific. Right. It's so. Yeah. Very unusual. Oh, yeah. Oh, right. But they could sort of

1:31.5

like edging into Denofrio in Menendom right, right? Right. Sugar water. A pet cat. That's

1:39.8

your friend of mine. A pet cat. A pet cat. I just remember we delivered a pet cat in a

1:44.0

Menendom. Is it not weird that that performance didn't win all four acting categories that

1:49.6

year should have won all four and also best director. Best bug. Yeah. There should be a

1:54.2

best supporting bug. And then Vincent Denofrio would have won that. It is crazy how like that

1:58.5

movie comes out and everyone's like, Dinoff here's great. I mean, it's not a real performance,

2:02.0

but he's great in it. And then people even say that at the time. I feel like they're like

2:05.5

Dinoff here gives a fun turn, a committed performance. I feel like people were like really hung

2:09.2

up on how gross he was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I feel like 20 years later, everyone kind

2:13.7

of agrees like, Oh, no, that's one of the best pieces of acting in the history of American

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