The Silence of the Lambs w. Harmony Colangelo

You Are Good

Sarah Marshall + Alex Steed

Film History, Film Reviews, Relationships, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Clarice Starling was a revelation while the portrayal of "Buffalo Bill" became a bane for many trans people coming of age. The impeccably constructed film is the gold standard of copaganda. We unpack The Silence of the Lambs' complicated legacy with Harmony Colangelo! We made a playlist to accompany this episode! (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4X8ip0Kbb6F2Kthz73QIqs?si=NoBiKaUCTI2l53pQpe-E8g) It's comprised of songs that come to mind when we all think about this movie. You can Harmony's essay A Reluctant Defense of Silence of the Lambs' James Gumb here. You can find Harmony on Twitter here (https://twitter.com/Veloci_trap_tor). You can find A Year of Queer Cocktails here. You can find This Ends at Prom here! Why Are Dads (https://www.podpage.com/why-are-dads/) is a show in which hosts Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed attempt to understand what the hell it means to be the grown children of dads and other dad-like figures. And, as they do with all difficult subject matter, they do so by looking through a pop culture lens. You can find us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/whyaredads), Instagram (https://instagram.com/whyaredads) and Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/whyaredads). You can find producer and music director Carolyn Kendrick's music here. (fanlink.to/ctuc) She's also on Twitter (https://twitter.com/carekendrick). Fresh Lesh (https://www.freshlesh.com/) produces the beats for our episodes. Abigail Swartz of Gray Day Studio (https://www.graydaystudio.com/) designed our logo!

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0:00.0	You're listening to our dads it's a show where we uh we talk about a whole host of things
0:14.4	from feelings to trauma to dads from feelings to other feelings by we're talking about
0:25.2	movies that um usually have a direct dad theme and in this one no direct dad theme no there's a
0:30.9	dad theme oh you're right you're right there's actually several several dad things which we
0:34.8	talk about holy shit i feel like this is you're like welcome to the bell pepper show where we talk
0:41.1	about all kinds of bell peppers not just yellow ones look at this one it's green and i'm like
0:46.7	that's actually yellow one you're like oh yeah oh yeah this is very yellow this is this is yellow
0:51.6	indeed i just want to make sure that all pepper fans know that they're welcome can you just
0:57.9	give a rundown a quick rundown of what silence of the lambs is about yes oh my god i was born
1:03.8	for this okay the silence of the lambs is about an FBI training and clary starling who we love
1:11.2	and she's played by jody foster basically her former professor when she was taking some kind of
1:18.5	FBI class at uva or something got Crawford is like there's a serial killer on the loose his name's
1:25.6	buffalo bill and we can't figure it out and no one who works for the FBI can get Hannibal
1:32.0	Lecter to talk because he hates all of us and Hannibal Lecter is this brilliant incarcerated serial
1:39.0	killer and we're doing a program where we're talking to incarcerated serial killers to try and get
1:46.0	insight into what the serial killer at large is like so maybe you would like to go talk to Hannibal
1:52.8	Lecter is kind of an extra credit type thing and and she's like okay as i describe it now it's
2:01.7	very disingenuous why do they go to her well as dr. kilton says in a moment of savviness you know
2:10.0	that was smart of Crawford to send you a pretty young woman to what is it i don't know a pretty
2:17.0	young woman to something take all his fancy what is appetite something gross like that man
2:22.5	returns this is also really a film about institutional sexual harassment yes every turn but anyway
2:28.8	chilton is like you know Hannibal Lecter hasn't seen a woman in like nine years i think this was
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