I've been watching a lot of movies to try and hit that 31 mark before the end of the month but I watched Silence of the Lambs for the 1st time in a long time and damn. I can see now why this was such a popular/influential movie. I know it was a long time because when I was watching this I was like
They got the Harley Quinn Joker dynamic from this movie.
When Lector meets Clarice for the first time he was giving her some ether.
You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube
A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?
And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed: pure West Virginia. What is your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you... all those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars... while you could only dream of getting out... getting anywhere... getting all the way to the FBI.
CLASSIC