{"id":11946,"date":"2015-02-18T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11946"},"modified":"2015-02-15T17:04:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T21:04:01","slug":"18-things-you-might-not-know-about-silence-of-the-lambs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11946","title":{"rendered":"18 Things You Might Not Know About &#8220;Silence of the Lambs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z021815silencelambs_18things.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"429\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Mental_Floss<\/strong> presents <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/61604\/18-things-you-might-not-have-known-about-silence-lambs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>18 Things You Might Not Have Known About <em>Silence of the Lambs<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. IT\u2019S THE THIRD FILM TO EVER WIN ALL OF THE &#8220;BIG FIVE&#8221; OSCARS\u2014BEST PICTURE, ACTOR, ACTRESS, DIRECTOR, AND SCREENPLAY.<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The other two were\u00a0<em>It Happened One Night<\/em> in 1934, and <em>One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest<\/em> in 1975.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. GENE SISKEL GAVE IT A THUMBS DOWN.<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Siskel infamously didn\u2019t see what all the fuss was about, dismissing the movie as a \u201cstar-studded freak show\u201d on TV and writing that <em>Lambs<\/em> was \u201ca case of much ado about nothing.\u201d The Oscars, and Ebert, disagreed.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">7. SEAN CONNERY WAS THE FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY LECTER.<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Connery read the script and found it \u201crevolting.\u201d Daniel Day-Lewis and Derek Jacobi were also considered.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental_Floss presents 18 Things You Might Not Have Known About Silence of the Lambs. Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11948,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946\/revisions\/11948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}