Did you doubt his character the first time through this movie?Ġ0:05:21 – Clarice arrives in Jack Crawford’s office and lays eyes on the bulletin board containing the infamous “Bill Skins Fifth” newspaper clipping.Ġ0:05:35 – Graphic crime scene photos of Buffalo Bill’s victims.Ġ0:05:51 – “Starling, Clarice M. I like to fantasize that if Kasi Lemmons ever has a film in the Oscar conversation, Jodie Foster will be stumping hard for her. I love their friendship in this film, even though it’s not featured prominently. Contemporary is not synonymous with unimpressive, people!Ġ0:03:53 – Clarice and Ardelia (actress turned writer/director Kasi Lemmons of Eve Bayou / Black Nativity fame) share a brief encouraging single handshake in passing. Just another reminder for craftsmen to look outside of period and fantasy when filling out their ballot. But, the lack of technical nods outside of sound and editing is galling. It’s hard to make the argument that a winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture got the shaft. Just one of the many people on this film who should have been nominated and was not. The economy of storytelling in this film is great.Ġ0:03:39 – “Production Designer Kristi Zea”. What’s behind the look? Lust? Annoyance? Some combination of both? Staying on his face as he gazes at her is a small, but very communicative little touch that tells us not too obviously what kind of world this is. Jodie Foster’s Clarice has justifiably become an iconic role for Foster, almost synonymous with her real-life persona-so much so that it’s easy to forget what a surprise this performance may have been at the time, given what audiences had seen from her before.Ġ0:03:07 – A nameless male functionary tells Starling “Crawford wants to see you in his office” with somewhat of a lingering look as she runs off. It’s a tiny reminder of how different those two performances are and how good she is at inhabiting a role without in ways that aren’t conspicuously chameleon-like (if that makes sense). This performance is a great assembly of perfect little details.Ġ0:02:55 – Funny how both of Jodie Foster’s Oscar-winning films (this and The Accused) essentially begin with her character sprinting, albeit in very different contexts. That little look of “let’s do this thing” that she gives when she climbs that rope into the clearing. There are some true gems in there.Ġ0:01:31 – The opening montage of young FBI trainee Clarice Starling in the woods near Quantico, Virginia (thanks, super!) I love how Jodie Foster plays Clarice Starling as incredibly enthusiastic, but not naïve. Seriously, check out the slate of Orion releases. It’s at once simple, yet incredibly evocative and iconic.Ġ0:00:24 – Seeing the Orion logo calls to mind Jodie Foster’s Oscar speech where she thanked Orion Pictures “as it used to be and how it will always be in heart”.
For the 25th anniversary of the influential horror classic Silence of the Lambs, winner of 5 Oscars for 1991 (Picture, Director, Actress, Actor, and Adapted Screenplay), Team Experience is revisiting the picture, tag-team style all week long.Ġ0:00:01 – Howard Shore’s score always transports me into the mood of this film.
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