The Silence of the Lambs

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.5 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy dig into 1991's serial killer thriller The Silence Of The Lambs! They praise the many ways the film puts us in Clarice Starling's head, discover the inspirations for Hannibal Lecter's voice, and learn how Buffalo Bill was originally received by LGBT activists. Plus: former detective Paul Holes of the Murder Squad podcast explains what Silence of The Lambs gets right abour criminal profiling. Who should play Atticus FInch in a modern adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird? Call the Unspooled voicemail line at 747-666-5824 with your answer! Follow us on Twitter @Unspooled, get more info at unspooledpod.com and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Photo credit: Kim Troxall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It puts the podcast on its playlist.
0:04.0	It's 1991 in the movie Silence of the Land.
0:07.0	Music
0:25.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Unspilled!
0:29.0	I'm Amy Nicholsson.
0:30.0	And I am Paul Sheer in this is the podcast where each week we watch one film from the AFI's
0:33.5	top 100 greatest films of all time list and see if they're still as good as people say
0:37.6	they are, do they hold up and how have they influenced the films we watch now?
0:42.6	Today we're going to be talking about Silence of the Lambs, but before we get into that,
0:47.6	we're going to talk a little bit about the film we talked about last week, which of course
0:51.6	was Tootsie, which our Facebook group has decided does not belong on the AFI list
0:58.4	where they influence maybe by our conversation, your passionate plea, Amy, that we're trying
1:03.2	to make room for some new blood on this list and then they like, savages killed Tootsie.
1:09.7	It was a sacrificial lamb, I don't know.
1:12.4	Yes, everyone listens to me.
1:13.4	No, no one listens to me.
1:16.4	No, but I think that this movie, you know, it's a fun movie and I think a lot of people
1:20.7	felt like the movie they connected to, they really like, but it's not worthy of necessarily
1:25.2	being on this list.
1:26.3	Now there is interesting moving and shaking and it developments happening in the unspooled
1:31.1	verse.
1:32.1	The Facebook group has created an unspooled book club.
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