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...Dragon opens with a scene borrowed from the Lambs novel, in which Lecter serves a musician to his unwitting dinner guests, and ends with an oblique reference to Starling. Lecter's cell from Lambs has also been re-created by production designer Kristi Zea. The references didn't come cheap, since the movie rights to Lambs still belong to MGM. This time, Universal avoided litigation by offering MGM a share of Red Dragon's box office...
Good novels don't often make good movies. The communion of author, character and reader is usually lost in translation. But Thomas Harris' Lecter stories have been blessed with caring midwives: four films and not a lemon among them. The trick, which Red Dragon pulls off in smart fashion, is to take sensation seriously, to find its root in loneliness and love...
...blind girl he befriends (Emily Watson)--is a wounded creature with the gift, or curse, of second sight. They see too deeply into both want and fear. They recognize that it is equally risky to know oneself or reach out for another. For inside us all, the dragon dwells...
...death ensues between two souls doomed to understand each other. The brilliant creepiness of the novels and the films derives from their daring to walk into the haunted house of madness, and live there. You may be able to shake off the scares and the gore of Red Dragon, but the sorrow in its unquiet heart will follow you home. --By Richard Corliss
...year-old actress, who has a throaty laugh several octaves below her normal speaking voice, says she was known around studios as "that mad, bad, dangerous girl who takes her clothes off and weeps a lot." But now Hollywood is taking a chance on that girl. In Red Dragon, Watson gives a heart-breaking performance as Reba, a young blind woman who seduces Ralph Fiennes' titular madman so thoroughly that he thinks twice about biting off her fingers. Director Brett Ratner offered her the role because he was impressed with her work in Breaking the Waves. But Watson also felt...