Red Dragon (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
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Actor: Anthony Hopkins, Ralph FiennesBrand: UNI DIST CORP. (MCA)
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
Published: 2003-04-01
DVD Release Date: 2003-04-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Red Dragon (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: To understand the origin of evil, you must go back to the beginning.
Summary: 4 Stars
PLOT: The film opens with a brief prologue in Baltimore, 1980. A Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concert is going on, and in the audience is none other than everyone's favorite cannibal, Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins). The first flautist, Benjamin Raspail, doesn't seem to be too talented and botches up quite a few notes. A week later, Lecter has the members of the Symphony Board over for a dinner party. One of them mentions the fact that Benjamin Raspail is missing and presumed dead. Lecter serves everyone a strange, yet delicious dish. When one of the board members asks what it is, he replies, "If I tell you, I'm afraid you won't even try it." Later that night, FBI criminal profilist Will Graham (Edward Norton) shows up at Lecter's home. Graham and Lecter have been working together to track down serial killers for years. Graham thinks he has new evidence about an active serial killer dubbed the "Chesapeake Ripper". Graham noticed that all of the victim's lost some body part used in cooking. He believes that the Chesapeake Ripper is not keeping his souvenirs, he's eating them. Lecter asks Graham to come back in the morning so the two can revise their profile. He then leaves the room to get Graham's coat.Upon looking around at the object's in Lecter's office, Graham notices an antique medical book. Upon seeing Lecter's handwritten notes for "sweetbreads", Graham immediately knows that Lecter has been the Chesapeake Ripper all along. He turns around and gets stabbed in the abdomen by Lecter. Just as he is about to get killed, Graham stabs Lecter with a bundle of antique arrows. He then manages to fire a couple of shots into Lecter before the two lose consciousness. Years later, Graham (now retired and living in Florida) gets a visit from his old partner Jack Crawford (now played by Harvey Keitel). Crawford informs Graham that there is a new serial killer on the loose, dubbed as "The Tooth Fairy", and that he has already killed two families. He pleads with Graham to consider coming back to the FBI in hopes of trying to find the killer before he kills again. After careful consideration, Graham says goodbye to his wife Molly (Mary-Louise Parker) and son Josh and goes back to the FBI. Graham carefully studies the case file and sees that the Tooth Fairy killed both families in the exact same manner. He inserted mirror shards in their eyes after killing them and even left jagged bite marks on some of them (hence the nick-name). After reaching a dead end, Graham can't find any connection between the two families or why the Tooth Fairy chose to murder them. He decides to consult Dr. Lecter who now resides in solitary confinement in a maximum security facility; after all, Lecter did help Graham catch other serial killers early on in his career. Lecter decides to help Graham and looks at the case file. Graham knows that only Lecter can help him get in the mind of such a bizarre serial killer, but he hopes that he finds him before the next full moon, the only time the Tooth Fairy (Ralph Fiennes) strikes.
COMMENTS: Brett Ratner's film adaptation of Thomas Harris's novel is not the first. It was originally made in 1986 under the title Manhunter. Now, thanks to Ratner, we can finally see Harris's original vision. Manhunter director Michael Mann changed around the story in his screenplay, and several elements of the story were either lost or watered down, including the titular sub-plot involving the Tooth Fairy's obession with the Red Dragon. Since Manhunter's release, two other films based on Harris's novels were released which firmly established Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, so it was only natural that he play Lecter again in Ratner's film. Silence of the Lambs screenwriter Ted Tally returned to adapt the screenplay for Red Dragon. I especially liked the prologue at the beginning which shows how Will Graham captured Lecter, a scene which was actually absent from the novel. Tally also completely restored the sub-plots involving the reasons for Francis Dolarhyde's (The Tooth Fairy) madness, as well as his obsession with the William Blake paintint "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in the Sun." Since this film takes place before The Silence of the Lambs, Rattner went to great efforts to make Hopkins appear younger. At one point he even considered digitally de-aging the actor, a technique he later used in his film X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). It brought back chills to once again see Lecter occupying the original cell from Silence. The Hannibal Lecter films starring Anthony Hopkins all seem to follow the same formula. All three were made by very different directors (Jonathan Demme for Silence of the Lambs, Ridley Scott for Hannibal) who in turn made three very unique moods for the films. Even though the films are part of a trilogy, they all work as stand alone films as well. You don't need to watch them in any particular order to know what is going on. Sometimes I watch the films in release date order and sometimes I watch them in chronological order; it doesn't really matter. The film itself features an all-star ensemble cast. I thought that Harvey Keitel as Jack Crawford was a good replacement for Silence's Scott Glenn. Lecter's nemesis Dr. Chilton (played by Anthony Heald) makes a return from Silence, as does Barney Matthews (played by Frankie Faison) from Silence and Hannibal. The character of Barney Matthews actually doesn't appear in the novel, but Ted Tally felt that it would only make sense that he be in the film. Ralph Fiennes gave a very creepy performance as Francis Dolarhyde; not necessarily better than Tom Noonan's in Manhunter, but different. Tally also restored Harris's original ending for the film. He even added an epilogue which sets up the film for the events in The Silence of the Lambs. Overall I think that the film is a much more faithful film than Michael Mann's Manhunter. After this film was released, Hopkins announced that he would never be portraying the character of Dr. Hannibal Lecter again. Harris wrote a prequel novel, entitled Hannibal Rising, in 2006. The novel chronicles the life of the young Hannibal Lecter. A film adaptation was released in early 2007, but unfortunately Hopkins refused to appear in the film for a brief cameo or even a voice narrative. This DVD features the film in the original theatrical widescreen ratio. It is loaded with special features including a Making Of documentary, Commentary by Brett Ratner and Ted Tally, Hannibal Lecter's FBI Case File, The Life History of Hannibal Lecter, and much more.
Description of Red Dragon (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
FBI AGENT WILL GRAHAM HAS BEEN CALLED OUT OF EARLY RETIREMENT TOCATCH A SERIAL KILLER, KNOWN BY AUTHORITIES AS THE TOOTHFAIRY. HE ASKS FOR THE HELP OF HIS ARCH-NEMESIS, DR. HANNIBAL THE CANNIBAL LECTER.THE ONLY PROBLEM IS THAT THE TOOTH FAIRYIS GETTING INSIDE INFORMATION FROM LECTORA 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
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