Can we get a round of applause for Daniel's great work on the new series "The Furniture"? I'm loving it so much and we're only two episodes in.
Consider this a spin-off one-off. I thought I'd share a particular movie obsession that we haven't yet dived into in all these years of blogging - signs. Shove a professional sign or any diegetic text or hand-scrawled message in front of the camera and I go all bookworm eyes. Are they subliminal subtitles? That's surely up to the set decorator, prop man, production designer and director. But on our recent revisit to Silence of the Lambs (1991) its signs felt newly purposeful.
Probably because the film begins with such a bold aggressive dare, nailed right to a tree. [More...]
HURT
AGONY
PAIN
LOVE - IT
That's quite a statement.
I was going to share a gallery of every single unspoken / non subtitled word in the horror classic but after grabbing over 50 screenshots that feels excessive even for excessive-friendly sites like this. But here are 12 key images from the film that use extra unspoken words to tell the story.
What is that "blue eyed boy" business on the board?
Love how the No Smoking sign just reads as a simple warning for Clarice: "No." as she enters the asylum/jail
I tried to blow this up to read it. I goes something like this:
Clarice -
Doesn't this ??? scattering ??? seem a bit overdeliberate?
Doesn't it seem desperate ??? like the elaboration of a bad liar?
Ta,
Hannibal Lecter
Bon Appetit is a good joke if an obvious one. But how brilliant are the books in Bill's first victim's room. Diet books and a romance novel called "Silken Threads"
Do you have a secret infinity for handwritten scrawls, printed materials, and other kinds of signage onscreen? If so please share so I don't feel alone, utterly alone.