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Hello, my name is Shauna.
- Here with Olivia.
- And this is your PCJ Pop for the week.
I am going to name a movie that I am shocked
that I had never seen all the way through
from beginning to end.
I had just seen chunks of it over the years
and I sat my ass down
and I watched Silence of the Lambs from 1991.
- How did you?
- Thank you.
I can't believe I had never just,
I threw pop culture in just a few.
Yeah, I feel like I'd started it a couple times
over the years and then just never finished it
or I'd catch it in the middle or something on TV
back in the day, but never actually watched the entire thing
and I loved it.
- So good.
- Yes, Silence of the Lambs is a psychological
or thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme.
It stars Jodie Foster as FBI trainee Clarice Starling
and Anthony Hopkins as the incarcerated cannibalistic
psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter
who helps her hunt a serial killer known as Buffalo Bill.
I will say it's a little funny that his name is Hannibal
and he ends up being a cannibal.
I mean, like, why would you name your kid?
Yeah, but like, why would you name your kid Hannibal?
I don't know.
I hope he doesn't grow up to be a cannibal.
- Cannibal.
Oh darling, wouldn't that be funny?
It rhymes.
We'll just stick with the name, it's fine.
These movies, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal and Red Dragon
are all based on a series of novels by Thomas Harris.
I've not read the novels for their little interesting
and you know, don't adapt directly to the movies.
But I loved this.
I think that it's iconic.
It's got so many memorable lines and character performances.
It is one of the only three films to win the big five
at the Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Director,
Best Actor, Actress and Adapted Screenplay.
Something that is very rare for horror films too.
Horror does not get as many accolades as it should.
I guess in recent years it has a little more,
but I absolutely say pop Silence of the Lambs.
If you've watched it before, watch it again.
If you've never seen it, definitely give it a whirl.
I watched it on Toobie, I believe.
- Yeah.
- I watched it on Tubi.
- I recently watched it as well.
- Yeah, but it looks like you can find it on, you know,
for rent for free on lots of different platforms.
So I am going to pop Silence of the Lambs
and that we'll do it for this week's PCJ Pop.
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