Movies Ted Levine or Anthony Hopkins - Who gave the better performance in The Silence of the Lambs?

[Takes Two To Tango]

Ted Levine is criminally underrated actor.

Also I thought his performance in Silence of the Lambs was outstanding.

And it's without saying about Anthony Hopkins. But who do you think was better?

 

[Sobek]

No one will agree with me but I found Hopkins too theatrical and 'actory'. It just came across to me as an actor trying to be creepy. Even his swinging of the police baton was weak and about as convincing as an 80 year old Deniro kicking the shit out of someone in that last nameless gangster movie he did.

I think Brian Cox did a better performance in the role in Manhunter. More realistic and calculating.

Levine is always good and very versatile. I liked him in this. He delivers memorable lines well, cycles through emotions. I preferred him over Hopkins.

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

No one will agree with me but I found Hopkins too theatrical and 'actory'. It just came across to me as an actor trying to be creepy. Even his swinging of the police baton was weak and about as convincing as an 80 year old Deniro kicking the shit out of someone in that last nameless gangster movie he did.

I think Brian Cox did a better performance in the role in Manhunter. More realistic and calculating.

Levine is always good and very versatile. I liked him in this. He delivers memorable lines well, cycles through emotions. I preferred him over Hopkins.

I agree. The baton swinging scene was kind of silly.
Brian Cox played Hopkins in a much more sane way.

 

[Zer]

No one will agree with me but I found Hopkins too theatrical and 'actory'. It just came across to me as an actor trying to be creepy. Even his swinging of the police baton was weak and about as convincing as an 80 year old Deniro kicking the shit out of someone in that last nameless gangster movie he did.

I think Brian Cox did a better performance in the role in Manhunter. More realistic and calculating.

Levine is always good and very versatile. I liked him in this. He delivers memorable lines well, cycles through emotions. I preferred him over Hopkins.

I agree, Hopkins Lecter has all the subtlety of a trick or treater

Levine was great though. I believed he really would have fucked himself. Speaking as someone who knows that feel

 

[Streeter]

Hopkins od course here but levine was really good

 

[Berserker13]

I agree. The baton swinging scene was kind of silly.
Brian Cox played Hopkins in a much more sane way.

Serial killer cannibal is supposed to act sane?

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

Serial killer cannibal is supposed to act sane?

Show me a scene in Manhunter where Brian Cox wasn't acting sane.

 

[Berserker13]

Show me a scene in Manhunter where Brian Cox wasn't acting sane.

cold, calculating most of the time

 

[mozza1831991]

I’m more of a Miggs man myself. Such a relatable character.

 

[ColemanwastheGOAT]

Anthony Heald is the unsung hero of SoTL. What a fucking cunt he was in that movie.

 

[misterfurious]

Serial killer cannibal is supposed to act sane?

Ted Bundy sure did…

 

[Fedorgasm]

No one will agree with me but I found Hopkins too theatrical and 'actory'. It just came across to me as an actor trying to be creepy. Even his swinging of the police baton was weak and about as convincing as an 80 year old Deniro kicking the shit out of someone in that last nameless gangster movie he did.

I think Brian Cox did a better performance in the role in Manhunter. More realistic and calculating.

Levine is always good and very versatile. I liked him in this. He delivers memorable lines well, cycles through emotions. I preferred him over Hopkins.

I agree with you.

Ted Levine's performance is great, as was Brian Cox's in manhunter. I never knew why so many people loved Hopkins as Hannibal. Great actor but not his best IMO

 

[Prex32]

tied

 

[KnightTemplar]

I agree. The baton swinging scene was kind of silly.
Brian Cox played Hopkins in a much more sane way.

War Cox Crew checking in!

IIRC, even the director admitted Hannibal's escape in Silence jumped the shark.

 

[BoogerDawson]

I’m more of a Miggs man myself. Such a relatable character.

He could smell Clarice's kunt

 

[Sobek]

Ted Bundy sure did…

He bit a chick's ass or something but he didn't eat anyone.

Otherwise yes.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

No one will agree with me but I found Hopkins too theatrical and 'actory'. It just came across to me as an actor trying to be creepy. Even his swinging of the police baton was weak and about as convincing as an 80 year old Deniro kicking the shit out of someone in that last nameless gangster movie he did.

I think Brian Cox did a better performance in the role in Manhunter. More realistic and calculating.

Levine is always good and very versatile. I liked him in this. He delivers memorable lines well, cycles through emotions. I preferred him over Hopkins.

Hahaha. Cox was literally just doing a good, normal acting job. Nothing about his performance gave me the creeps at all or was in any way memorable as a top tier performance.

98% of people arent going back to check for Cox breakthrough performance of Lector.

Hopkins gave that performance life and essentially gave us one of the most epic characters in modern film. How are we even comparing these?

 

[Sobek]

Hahaha. Cox was literally just doing a good, normal acting job. Nothing about his performance gave me the creeps at all or was in any way memorable as a top tier performance.

98% of people arent going back to check for Cox breakthrough performance of Lector.

Hopkins gave that performance life and essentially gave us one of the most epic characters in modern film. How are we even comparing these?

Just differing opinions I guess.

 

[armbarforhire]

Serial killer cannibal is supposed to act sane?

Lots of serial killers in real life have lived pretty normal lifes to the general public.

Ironic enough some of the guys that act the part like Charles Manson never actually killed anyone with their own hands.

 

[mozfonky]

Ted Levine is criminally underrated actor.

Also I thought his performance in Silence of the Lambs was outstanding.

And it's without saying about Anthony Hopkins. But who do you think was better?

great jobs all around but Anthony made his legacy as far as I know, right there. Jodie was already a veteran at the young age of 27 or whatever and she did a stellar job, particularly with the accent. I thought the making her so attractive to all the males was a bit of a reach, not that she's not attractive but she's not that attractive but I guess when you're in a cell, any woman will make you want to fling your cum at them.

Levine did great, the character actor who played her chief did fantastic but Hopkins gave a performance for the ages. The little weird ideas like the ststststst sound he makes after he talks about the farvor beans was his improvisation. He asked Demme if it was over the top and Demme said of course not.