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Back in 1979 author Thomas Harris was in Mississippi writing a novel about an intrepid detective named Will Graham who was on the trail of a particularly gruesome serial killer dubbed the Red Dragon. During long nocturnal walks through a cotton field, Harris came up with an ingeniously creepy notion: Graham would seek expert advice from a murderer he had captured years earlier--the baddest serial killer of them all, one Dr. Hannibal Lecter...
...interest in re-creating Manhunter, which to me was kind of like a Miami Vice episode," says Tally. "I love the book." His script, which explores all the characters' psychological underpinnings, helped get the esteemed cast on board: Edward Norton as Will Graham, Ralph Fiennes as the serial killer and Philip Seymour Hoffman as a tabloid reporter who expires, memorably, in a speeding, flaming wheelchair...
Everyone--the detective (Edward Norton), the supervillain (Anthony Hopkins), his acolyte killer (Ralph Fiennes) and the 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...
Emily Watson is not the kind of actress you expect to see in a serial-killer movie. Ever since her Oscar-nominated performance in 1996's Breaking the Waves--as a beautiful young religious fanatic who talks to God while having sex with strangers--she's had critics scrambling for words like luminous. Yet her charms have never been employed for big-budget Hollywood movies, despite an illustrious resume that includes 1998's Hilary and Jackie (for which she received a second Oscar nomination) and a juicy bit in last year's Gosford Park as a rough-edged servant...
...next morning?when the wounded soldier was still alive?he was shot again and killed. The commission didn't determine who actually murdered Hur's son or why. Understandably, the father isn't satisfied. He says he won't bury his son's ashes until the killer or killers come forward. With the commission closing the book on his son's case and so many questions still unanswered, Hur wonders "Who are we supposed to turn...