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Will Graham and the Red Dragon · years after Lecter's 1980 capture

Red Dragon

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Will Graham comes back and needs help from the man who nearly killed him

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Quick recap

In 1980, profiler Will Graham realizes the psychiatrist helping him on a case, Hannibal Lecter, is the cannibal killer. Lecter is locked in a psychiatric hospital. Years later, Jack Crawford pulls Will out of retirement to catch the Tooth Fairy, who kills families on full-moon nights. Will asks Lecter for help, and Lecter passes the killer Will's home address. The killer is Francis Dolarhyde, who sees himself as William Blake's Great Red Dragon and murders reporter Freddy Lounds. He falls for his blind coworker Reba and sets his house on fire with her inside, but she escapes. Dolarhyde fakes his death and breaks into Will's Florida home, where Molly kills him. Lecter gets a visitor: a young woman from the FBI.

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  1. SetupA young woman from the FBI

    In the last scene, Dr. Chilton tells Lecter he has a visitor: a young woman from the FBI. The film ends there.

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  2. CameoTwo films, same crew

    Red Dragon and Manhunter share a cinematographer, Dante Spinotti, and an actor in different roles: Frankie Faison.

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  3. Behind the scenesEight hours of ink

    Ralph Fiennes trained about 90 minutes a day for months, wore a cleft palate prosthetic and sat for about eight hours to get the back tattoo applied.

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