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As one might imagine, the original plan was to call Red Dragon's first movie adaptation just that, Red Dragon.

Many critics scoff at movie remakes, viewing them as thinly-veiled attempts to capitalize on the good will generated by a popular original film in order to market a new production more easily. As such, her final plight becomes the climax of the movie, since it represents Dolarhyde’s ultimate tragedy, and since Graham’s entire purpose was to comprehend that tragedy himself. They’re both adaptations of Thomas Harris’s 1981 novel, Red Dragon, but they both tell the same story, so for the sake of argument we’ll let Red Dragon qualify as Manhunter’s remake.

Dolarhyde thinks he’s achieved that state when Reba appears to love him, but finally projects his own insecurities onto her and assumes that she has betrayed him. Various contrasting sequences reveal Manhunter to be the superior film. Manhunter concludes before the book does, with Graham actually reaching Dolarhyde in time to save Reba and, ultimately, the day. The cast of Red Dragon, it must be admitted, is truly stellar, with a veritable “Who’s Who” of great, award-winning actors who have done brilliant work in other, better films, and as such it can be intuited that the director is to blame for their uniform blandness here.

The biggest story difference between the two films is their climax, which Mann staged as a showdown between Graham and Dolarhyde at the latter’s home, when Reba is in peril.

Fans liked the portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs and so they get more of that here, even though that portrayal does a decided disservice to Ratner’s own film.

Unlike Mann, who admittedly has proven himself to be one of the greatest directors alive (Public Enemies notwithstanding), Ratner does seem committed to adapting his Red Dragon faithfully from its source material. Lecter’s relationship with Graham is the same as his relationship with Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs. I could go on for pages, but the finale is particularly telling. Not everyone can be Stephen King, with books optioned before they're even on shelves. We’ll find out for you, and hopefully save you the trouble of watching both. It’s practically apples and oranges, here. Lecktor speaks to Graham as an old friend, someone with whom he has an intimate connection, and Graham is so terrified by that possibility that he literally flees the building, racing down multiple flights of stairs in a panicked effort to distance himself from the maniac Lecktor, and the maniac Graham fears he could become. Thematically the biggest difference is that Mann takes the story’s theme of empathy and runs with it, while Ratner uses it as an occasional plot device to aid in telling his potboiler.

Graham is an atypical hero for these kinds of movies, however, as he’s empathic to an almost debilitating degree. And he does so by thinking like the killer, to the extent of scouting the house in the exact way Dolarhyde surveyed the homes of his victims. Mann’s film relies largely on the synth soundtrack style that was popular in the 1980’s but failed to catch on in a permanent basis, while Ratner’s film features a bombastically scary score from Danny Elfman. Many are true classics and arguably even better than the original, and many others work sufficiently on their own merits, or differ enough from the original movie they can be enjoyed even if they’re not, technically, as good. But I digress.

In Manhunter, Graham sees Lecktor more sparingly, but their final scene together takes place over the telephone with both characters physically relaxed and chatting about news of the day like old, albeit estranged friends. But by now Graham is closing in, setting the stage for a climactic showdown between the hero and villain. It permeates throughout the entire film, and is enhanced by the foregrounding of Will Graham as a character. More: Hannibal: Which Movie Each Season Adapts. Put simply, most kinds of marketing exist to raise awareness of a brand, so that if you’re interested in buying a certain product you’ll ask for their particular brand by name. To make matters worse, Manhunter bombed at the box office anyway. Let’s start with two Hannibal Lecter movies: Michael Mann’s Manhunter from 1986 and Brett Ratner’s Red Dragon from 2002. In Manhunter, Will Graham visits Hannibal Lecktor to return to that terrifying mindset he’s spent years trying to avoid. Manhunter was kind of inspired by Red Dragon the book.

Find it, watch it, and marvel at its masterful balance of serial killer suspense and genuine depth. Year of the Dragon was a box office bomb and received mixed reviews, but like many movies, has gained fans over the years.

Mann’s film offers a cool palette of blues and whites, while Ratner’s film favors grimy greys and warm, fireside reds. There was Manhunter, directed by Michael Mann, in 1986, then Red Dragon, directed by Brett Ratner of all people, in 2002, and Bryan Fuller's Hannibal season 3 in 2015.

Meanwhile, Lecter is playing games of his own and corresponds with The Tooth Fairy, secretly giving him Graham’s home address and an invitation to “kill them all.”. In Manhunter, Graham comes to learn what, exactly, Dolarhyde thinks he is transforming into through the act of murdering people he desired: a creature capable of being desired himself. Manhunter, I think they even changed the name because it …

Unless they’re both good, in which case: jackpot. Manhunter, in every single way. Red Dragon (2002)* The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Hannibal (2001) All three films are based on novels by Thomas Harris. Dolarhyde begins a romantic relationship with a blind co-worker named Reba (Joan Allen, later Emily Watson) that seems to set him on a path to retirement, if not necessarily redemption. That said, Mann’s film has more overt sympathy for the character, and as a whole Mann spends more time getting into each character’s psyche than Ratner, who appears to be more interested in the external plotline. With Graham’s character established, each film eventually begins cutting between his efforts to catch the killer and the killer himself, Francis Dolarhyde (Tom Noonan, later Ralph Fiennes). Even to this day, there are some fans unfamiliar with the film that don't realize it's a Red Dragon adaptation. The novel was published in October 1981, and was on theater screens less than five years later. Since it’s October, we’re going to spend the first couple of Remake Rumbles talking about horror movies, or at least movies with a horror slant.

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