Meanwhile, the music is a minimalist synth rock score, and murderer The Tooth Fairy frequently gets no soundtrack at all, as is befitting of the character’s quiet intensity. William Petersen (now of CSI fame) portrays protagonist Will Graham as an FBI profiler so gifted that he threatens to march directly into psychopathy. Cox’s Lecter is quick-talking and narcissistic, unlike the composure of Hopkins’, yet still vastly intelligent. Recent years have been kinder, though, and rightfully so. However, upon release, Manhunter bombed while failing to wow film critics.
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It also marks Lecter’s earliest cinematic appearance, played by Brian Cox, and may be the first serial killer thriller to emphasise the significance of forensic science. The first adaptation of Thomas Harris’s initial Hannibal Lecter novel, Red Dragon, was directed by Michael Mann: the master of crime dramas responsible for Thief, Heat and making Tom Cruise a baddie in Collateral. It’s amazing that Manhunter isn’t talked about more.
The narrative also reveals everything from Lecter’s childhood through to his arrival in the United States, meaning it subtracts much of the ambiguity that helped make the Chesapeake Ripper so chilling a decade and a half beforehand. However, that’s all that’s worth writing home about in this origin story, which is a dime-a-dozen revenge thriller depicting Lecter hunting down the Nazis that ate his sister. On screen, Gaspard Ulliel plays the young Lecter at only 22 years old, he matches the menace and measure that defined Anthony Hopkins’ take on the character. Harris penned the book Hannibal Rising and the film’s screenplay, both of which expand upon the cannibal’s backstory that the Hannibal novel whisked through. Hannibal and Red Dragon producer Dino De Laurentiis claims he told the author, “If you don’t do, I will do it with someone else,” which forced into existence a reviled 2006 novel and an even more hated film adaptation the following year. Hannibal Lecter novelist Thomas Harris was essentially blackmailed into writing this prequel.
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