While critics and film buffs have rightly parsed every eerie eye twitch Anthony Hopkins made in his Oscar-winning portrayal of the nefarious, cannibalistic Dr. Three decades have passed since the film first graced silver screens on Valentine’s Day in 1991. 'Clarice': 'Silence of the Lambs' FBI Agent Doesn't Quite Get Her Due 'Silence of the Lambs': 'It Broke All the Rules' I asked him, ‘What the hell did you do in that audition? You were so amazing.’ He was like, ‘Well, you know, I wasn’t sure what I was gonna do, so I just drank a lot of coffee.’ He was amazing.” “When Ted walked in, it was so crazily obvious. senator’s daughter whom Gumb abducts in the movie. “I read with the three final guys who were going to be Buffalo Bill,” says Brooke Smith, who played Catherine Martin, the U.S. I think this is why I found Fiennes portrayal of Dolarhyde a good mix for Red Dragon, we see how absolutely hard it is for him to cope in society and how he holds it together.You never know what’s going to happen with an audition,” actor Ted Levine remembers of the first time he portrayed Jame Gumb, The Silence of the Lambs villain also known as “Buffalo Bill.” “I just pulled something out. The movie is near perfect, though, everyone is acting their arses off, and it's an incredibly quotable horror film.Įdit: A minor addendum. Jame, however, is always, doing something related to his murders, he's never shown really doing anything relatable, he's always acting strange, this is probably intentional. For instance, we see Clarice training, we see her studying or talking to her roommate and we see Hannibal talking about his drawings, or being searched and punished, normal stuff really for someone incarcerated, of course Hannibal still does abnormal stuff, but it isn't non-stop. Yeah, I'd agree that his performance is overlooked, I guess the film sort of concentrates on the crazy shit he does, whereas we see Hannibal and Clarice being a bit more, 'relatively' normal or at least normal in their own routines and roles. I just feel like it’s a performance that’s often overlooked or dismissed or even forgotten compared to Foster’s or Hopkins’.Įdit - I should add that his modus operandi was nightmare fuel for me when I was a kid and when I grew up. To me he was definitely frightening and a bit more intriguing than Hannibal Lecter (but maybe it’s because Hannibal Lecter has become this huge cultural killer that we’ve seen a lot thanks to the sequel) The voice, that dance in front of the camera (you know the one), the hand gestures, the way he screams when Precious is taken by his captive, the short scenes where you see him say ‘I’d fuck myself pretty hard’, and when he acts all normal when Clarice comes into his house. Ted Levine was just incredible, and he didn’t have much screen time (just like Anthony Hopkins). I know there’s a lot of controversies on his character being gay/transgender, but I’d like to talk about the actor’s performance. I was expecting to be blown away by the story, Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, but honestly it’s been two hours and I have been obsessed by Ted Levine’s Buffalo Bill. I knew the story of course but I hadn’t seen it in close to a decade. I just rewatched The Silence of the Lambs this evening.
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