Gene Hackman, a well-known actor who starred in "The French Connection," signed Hollywood's little-known "The Silence of the Lambs," and he was excited to write the screenplay for screenwriter Ted Tally to begin writing the script. In the end, Hackman understood that his momentary ambition was insufficient (he had no directing experience at all), so he quickly got rid of this unpopular murderous movie. He took over by Mike Medavoy, one of the founders of Orion Pictures, who easily accepted the unwanted gift.
Director Jonathan Demme's years at Orion Pictures have been happy, and he has already made two films here. Although the later film "Married to the Mob" seems to have a strong and unorthodox banter on both sides of the Chinese and English titles. But Demi himself is quite happy to shoot, one of the big reasons is that Orion Pictures, a young Hollywood film company, has a young stupidity, from the big boss to the work team are very easy to get along with - a more rigorous statement, the studio owner does not regard the director as a slave labor, but a creative partner.
Orion, unlike other established Hollywood studios that have been around for more than fifty years, gives directors and screenwriters a lot of freedom. Therefore, Demi's personal relationship with one of the bosses, Meadow Buddha, is also good, and he will communicate with each other on weekdays and exchange some scripts or ideas that are optimistic about each other.
While Demi is preparing for his third film in Orion, he wants to revise his long-standing comedy style to make a thriller movie in Zhenggang, and this script is exactly to his liking: a poor ghost who has been killed by the Three Treasures of the Road turns into a vengeful ghost, hunting other ghosts on the road. And our road hero happened to be his next prey, and the two had a chase on the road... Demi has always loved Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon, and he feels that Glover only shows a comedic side in Lethal Weapon, and that he should be a good fit to star in thriller movies. Even better, Glover agreed with the idea and agreed to perform. Demi, who is ready for everything, is gleefully preparing for his transformation masterpiece.
Danny Glover and Demy (right) in the center are former U.S. President Carter.
History has taken a quiet turn here: if Demi continues to make this road thriller, it should be many more years before we see "The Silence of the Lambs." It can even be said that the "Silence of the Lambs" that we can see will not be the one we like. Demy knew that Kim Hackman was going to direct and star in the film, and he naturally didn't have the guts to grab the plan with the recognized tough guys in Hollywood. And he also heard that Michelle Pfeiffer, the heroine of "Marry the Gangster", who he had just finished filming, would come to play Clarice, the heroine of "The Silence of the Lambs"—which should be the most recent connection between Jonathan Demi and "The Silence of the Lambs".
The Silence of the Lambs chrissy (with a director who wants to make her laugh).
Demy happily passed on his modern version of mad Max script to his boss, Meadowfar. The next day — Meadowfo, as the big boss, always responds to the directors' messages as quickly as possible, which is another reason for his success — Demi gets a call from Meadowfoll.
"Hey Jonathan, the script you passed on to us is amazing, and we love the casting of Danny Glover, and we're definitely going to pay for it.""
Fantastic, everything went smoothly. However, history changed in the next moment:
「...... This movie is great, but before I start shooting, I want you to read another script that I have here."
Demi directed The Silence of the Lambs.
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Ok, you can forget about the thriller movie of Glover's revenge on the road, Orion didn't make it in the end; Demi will have to wait a few more years before working with Glover again in Beloved. All this is to blame for Medalf's little gift to Demy: a copy of The Silence of the Lambs.
Later, the other bosses of Orion Pictures were once very unforgiving to Meadowfo, because he personally smashed a case of his own company. He sent the novel along with the script to Demi, who was amazed. The director immediately dropped all his work and proposed to Meadowfo to become the director of "The Silence of the Lambs".
"Thomas Harris's novel is amazing, he showed 100 percent strength, let a charismatic heroine lead this classic American horror story, I know this script can be made into a super scary movie, can be made into a masterpiece." 」
"Ted Daly wrote a perfect script, but every day after work, I would read the novel again to see how Harris wrote in this plot to make sure that the highlights of the original book were preserved in the script. So when I went to the set to shoot, it was all the same god, because I knew how Harris wrote in the novel, and I had Ted's brilliant script."
Demi said.
This is almost arguably the first key factor in the success of The Silence of the Lambs: the director loves the original book, and he has a good script that is already complete, and he reads both materials well, and then makes a balance between them. It sounds trivial, but it's hard to do—not as many directors are so diligent at reading.
Demi (center) directed The Silence of the Lambs.
But don't forget "Marry the Gangster", if you've seen this crazy comedy movie, you won't believe the director of this movie, and the next work will be "The Silence of the Lambs". Kristi Zea, the art designer for Marry the Gangster, continues to work with Demi in The Silence of the Lambs, and she is terrified to see her own set and props become part of a living human purgatory (yes, although she made the moths or the dirty basements).
"I can't help but ask Demi, really?" Are you really going to make a movie of a guy skinning a woman off to make a coat? Jonathan, what the hell are you doing? Are you a sign?"
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The guy who started Shaw may dare to boldly change the runway. We mentioned that comedy director Todd Phillips was also criticized for not doing his job when he was going to direct Joker: The Playlist reported this:
"Would I want to see a clown movie made by Phillips and Scorsese?" Of course I want to, but I'd rather only Scotts shoot it himself."
But the results of "Joker" are there for all to see, and now no one dares to laugh at Todd Phillips. But from another perspective, comedy may be the most brutal genre, because comedy is about digging out the weirdest details from various emotions and then amplifying them pompously, making the audience laugh for the absurdity — and they are also forced to accept the cruel truths that can't be laughed at.
This means that the funniest guys must have the most delicate observation to know what people don't know, and Demi's comedic qualities also make him even more weird about the "Buffalo Bill" in "The Silence of the Lambs" - buffalo Bill is the guy who makes Zia hairy. Bill, a buffalo, kidnaps women, kills them and skins them. To everyone, Buffalo Bill is an out-and-out villain, but to Demi, Buffalo Bill is not the "bad guy" we perceive, on the contrary, he is the ultimate victim of the destruction of his personality, and his childhood and family life have completely destroyed any normalcy in him. Worse still, he was alive, and he wanted to escape from this despised flesh and transform into a more beautiful gesture — so he wore the human skin of a woman and became fascinated by the moth that had metamorphosed and reborn.
The Silence of the Lambs Buffalo Bill.
"The film is a clear picture of Jamie Gamber (Buffalo Bill) who has spent his whole life trying to transform himself in order to escape his poor self-esteem or to forget how he was abused in the past. 」
This delicacy derives a clear logic that makes the existence of Bill the Buffalo real, who is not a murderer who suddenly goes mad one day and then vows to slaughter women, but on the contrary, he has a distorted worship of women, as if hunters respect their prey. These women can give him the appearance and energy of rebirth, and can make him no longer the weak waste material. Therefore, their sacrifice is necessary and at the same time noble. Novelist Harris, screenwriter Daly, and director Demi have worked together to build a solid rational logical skeleton in the bodies of each of the irrational characters in The Silence, so that these characters are truly sublimated, no longer the tools of B-movies to serve the dramatic effects - they may really live in some corner of the world.
The Silence of the Lambs, Buffalo Bill's home studio.
So don't be surprised that the thriller "Silence of the Lambs" doesn't seem to have too many hot shots from "Thunderbolt Detective", because Demi actually spent a long time presenting the process of these monsters becoming demons, or the true character under their appearance. Like the moody Dr. Hannibal, he actually has a very strict moral code, and under the shocking behavior of cannibalism, it is Hannibal's ultimate anger against "rudeness". When you are in line, you encounter someone else cutting in line, or someone opening your thighs on the bus, these seemingly innocuous but very rude moves, I believe will ignite your Samadhi true fire, and for Hannibal, he does not want to simply kill these non-listening bastards, he wants to eat them, use the stomach to break them down to the smallest particles, and then squeeze them into a stool.
The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal.
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After the success of "The Silence of the Lambs", it led to the 90s hunting thriller movie trend, but in fact, many followers hunted in vain, but there was no real thriller. "The Silence of the Lambs" actually brought a fundamental revolution to the thriller genre, revealing the deepest desires and traumas in everyone's heart, and then logically allowing these heartaches to distort the human skin and human flesh feast. Following this vein, you can clearly see that Hannibal and Buffalo Bill actually have a very high similarity, but Hannibal has found a perfect way to transform (or "digest") hatred, and Buffalo Bill, who is still learning, has not yet found his most comfortable way to survive.
In fact, after "The Silence of the Lambs," Demi made another win-win-win film that was loved by critics and audiences, "Philadelphia"— and the Oscars loved it too. But after these two films, Demi no longer seems to be able to pique the audience's interest. It's not fair, as you can actually see the naked humanity wrapped in layers of disguise in his 2013 film adaptation of Ibsen's play, A Master Builder, and his 2008 film Rachel Getting Married really put Anne Hathaway to the show.
Ann Hathaway said that Demy and Rachel's Wedding really opened her up to acting.
"The Silence of the Lambs" is fortunate to fall into the hands of McMedauer who knows how to appreciate it, but it can be handed over to Ronnassen Demi, which is the real three lives. Demi has not made a secret of the fact that since Hollywood has referred to him by his name, it will call him "The Silence of the Lambs Guy", and he does not hate this title, which means that he has succeeded at least once, and this time he has successfully changed the world:
Demi.
Ten years after "The Silence of the Lambs", the earth really realized that their 20th century only had ten years left, and the unknown and uneasiness at the end of the century made the wind blown by "The Silence of the Lambs" even more miserable, and Hollywood frantically produced a large number of perverted murder movies, good and evil movies, high-intelligence criminals make bad movies, anti-hero movies, suspense murder movies... After "The Silence of the Lambs", the classification of "thriller movies" really has a complete shape, and now you look back at the movie "Seven Deadly Sins" (along with many David Fincher films), "Fargo," "Gone Girl," "Memento," the film series "Dexter," and more, can all find the shadow of "The Silence of the Lambs."
Fragments of Memory: The Story of an Innocent Sinner Seeking Atonement.
It sounds like "The Silence of the Lambs" has no regrets for Jonathan Demi, who died in 2017... Maybe there's still a little regret? When he took over as director, he hoped that Michelle Pfeiffer would continue to play his Chrissy, but in the end, it was Judy Foster who became the heroine. And this is another "Silence of the Lambs" story...
(To be continued)