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Barbie
Oppenheimer
Silence of the Lambs (first time watching finally)
The Drop (as mentioned above)
Do you think you'd go to the cinema to see silence of the lambs these days?
idk Jodie Foster
I'd say it holds up good enough
Maybe?
I think it def holds up as a good movie I watch it every year but it's just also the movie I have in my head as the example for great movies that nobody would go to the cinema to see if it came out today. But I wouldn't mind being wrong
I feel like it wouldn’t get made in its current form as a major studio film, maybe independently and through a smaller distributor, but more likely as a limited series. I think its path to getting a big theatrical audience today would be to market it more as a horror film, and to downplay its procedural elements. Sort of how Haunting in Venice is being positioned in materials as horror, without highlighting the fact it’s another Poirot film. Look at Fincher, he’s been mostly pushed to the small screen when it comes to his crime/investigatory projects.
Well fincher like Scorsese make very costly films that don’t necessarily make their money back but are good feathers in your cap, which is why streaming companies like them. Fincher had 3 pilots at HBO going, but he wouldn’t come down on the cost or be flexible so they all failed and he just stopped doing Mindhunter bc he didn’t want to devote time to it anymore.
But on SotL, it’s very hard to strip it if it’s cultural mark. To remove it from its time would reconfigure movie history and trends. Is Manhunter the only other instance of Hannibal Lecter then? Does Seven get made? True crime craze? It’s also the last movie to win the Big Five - Director, Picture, Script, Actor, Actress, so that’s a lot of alchemy to reconfigure. A mid00s Fincher + Amy Adams would have been a good start,
It’s not a story that necessarily needs to be a movie. Hannibal the show showed you can mine that source material in a serialized format and it was touching on the Clarice stuff towards the end as much as they were legally allowed to show.
(The story would also be tweaked some what bc gay person being a twisted killer was barely cool in the early 90s. Basic Instinct had protests because of it)