Red Dragon

Red Dragon

A lot could've gone wrong in Red Dragon, but the movie exceeds expectations. Replacing the acclaimed Manhunter as an "official" entry in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, this topnotch thriller--the second adaptation of Thomas Harris's first Lecter novel--returns to the fertile soil of The Silence of the Lambs, serving as both prequel and heir to the legacy of Lecter as portrayed, with mischievous menace, by the great Anthony Hopkins. Familiar faces and locations reappear (along with Lambs screenwriter Ted Tally) as Lecter coaches FBI profiler Will Graham (Edward Norton) in tracking the horrific "Tooth Fairy" killer (Ralph Fiennes), whose transformative killing spree is inspired by a William Blake painting. By dutifully serving Harris's potent material, Tally and director Brett Ratner craft a suspenseful film worthy of its predecessors, bringing Hopkins full circle as one of the cinema's all-time greatest villains. With overtones of Psycho and a superb supporting cast, Red Dragon succeeds against considerable odds. --Jeff Shannon

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Production: Universal Pictures
  4 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
60
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
R
Year:
2002
124
$92,930,005
Website
9,634 Views
Before the Silence
Meet Hannibal Lecter For The First Time
How It All Began!
FBI Agent Will Graham Is About to Enter the Mind of a Killer. He Must First Let Hannibal Lecter Inside His Head.
Before the Silence, there was the Dragon

[Graham is consulting with Lecter on a series of murders that Lecter is in fact committing]

Hannibal Lecter:
Special Agent Graham? What an unexpected pleasure.

Will Graham:
I'm sorry to bother you again, Dr. Lecter. I know it's very late.

Hannibal Lecter:
There's no bother. We're both night owls, I think. Come in, please. [Will comes in] Let me take your coat. [Hannibal closes the door behind Graham; cut to Graham sitting in Lecter's office] So, what's on your mind?

Will Graham:
We've been on the wrong track, this whole time, doctor, you and I. Our whole profile's wrong. [sighs] Well we've been looking for someone with a crazy grudge, and some kind of anatomical knowledge - decertified doctors; med-school dropouts; laid-off mortuary workers-

Hannibal Lecter:
From the precision of the cuts, yes, and, uh, his choice of souvenirs.

Will Graham:
See that's where we're off target. He's not collecting body parts.

Hannibal Lecter:
Then why keep them?

Will Graham:
He's not keeping them. He's eating them. Listen, we were at Molly's parents for New Year's, and Molly's dad was showing my son Josh how to carve a roasted chicken. He said, "The tenderest part of the chicken is the oysters, here on the outer side of the back." I--I had never heard that expression before, "oysters"? And suddenly, I had a flash of the third victim, Darcy Taylor. She was missing flesh from her back. And then it hit me - liver, kidney, tongue, thymus - every single victim lost some body part used in cooking.

Hannibal Lecter:
[studies Graham for a moment] Have you shared this with the Bureau?

Will Graham:
No, I didn't. I needed to see you first but I'm right. I know I'm right. I'm... I'm starting to be able to think like this one.

Hannibal Lecter:
That's fascinating. You know I'd always suspected as much, you are an eideteker.

Will Graham:
I'm not psychic.

Hannibal Lecter:
No, no, no, this is different; more akin to artistic imagination. You're able to assume the emotional point-of-view of other people, even those that scare or sicken you. It's a troubling gift, I should think. How I'd love to get you on my couch.

Will Graham:
Something still doesn't make sense to me: you're the best forensic psychiatrist I know. And somehow, in all our time together, this possibility never occurred to you.

Hannibal Lecter:
I am only human, Will. Perhaps I made a mistake.

Will Graham:
You don't strike me as a man who makes very many mistakes.

Hannibal Lecter:
Now I'm starting to think that I might no longer enjoy your full confidence.

Will Graham:
No, no, I--I didn't say that. I didn't. I don't, I don't know what I'm saying, I... I'm very, very tired. [thinks for a minute, and then shakes his head in frustration] I... I almost had it.

Hannibal Lecter:
[smiles] It'll come to you.


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