Before you
pour the bucket of
pig's
blood on me, I want to first say I'm well aware Silence is adapted from Shūsaku Endō's novel of the same name, which was also turned into a film in 1971 that received worldwide acclaim upon release (another Scorsese remake of an Asian cinema classic!).
Specifically, a certain afternoon in the bowels of Saigon sitting on a small, plastic chair chowing down on a freshly
poured bowl of soup full of thick slices of meat, savory broth, giant - sized shrimp and a big blog of congealed
pig blood (yes,
pig blood).