Red dragon (film)

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Movie
German title Red Dragon
Original title Red Dragon
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 124 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director Brett Ratner
script Ted Tally
production Dino De Laurentiis ,
Martha Schumacher
music Danny Elfman
camera Dante Spinotti
cut Mark Helfrich
occupation
synchronization
chronology

←  Predecessor
Hannibal (2001)

Successor  →
Hannibal Rising - How it all began

The great red dragon and the woman clothed in the sun, watercolor by William Blake

Red Dragon is an American thriller from 2002 . The literary film adaptation was directed by Brett Ratner and is based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Harris , which is the first part of a novel tetralogy about the serial killer Hannibal Lecter . The film is chronologically the second of now four films. It was created as a prequel to The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal .

The novel was filmed in 1986 by Michael Mann under the title Blutmond ( Manhunter ) with Brian Cox as Hannibal Lecter. However, this film adaptation was not very successful and had a different ending compared to the novel. Furthermore, they wanted to complete the series with Anthony Hopkins in the role of Hannibal Lecter.

In 2007 the film Hannibal Rising was released as a prequel to Roter Drache .

action

In the area around Baltimore in the US state of Maryland a cruel serial killer is on the loose, the ausschlachtet his victims. FBI agent Will Graham believes the serial killer may be a cannibal. He had previously worked with forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter and meets with him in his apartment to discuss the series of murders. To his horror, he realizes there that only Dr. Lecter may be the culprit. Both fight in a fight in which they inflict severe injuries on each other and only survive if they are very lucky. After his recovery, Lecter is convicted and taken to a mental institution. After his recovery, Graham, who was traumatized by this case, resigns from the FBI.

Three years later, his ex-colleague Jack Crawford asks him for help. Again a brutal serial killer is up to mischief. At night, when the moon was full , he cruelly murdered two families, smashed all the mirrors in the house and mutilated the corpses with the broken pieces. The police have three weeks until the next full moon to catch the perpetrator. Graham is ultimately dependent on the help of his former archenemy. Lecter to help him, the new psychopath in the press as Tooth Fairy ( " Tooth Fairy is called") - Wear all victims the same distinctive bite marks - to convict. However, Lecter provides Tooth Fairy with information about Graham after contacting him.

Lecter uses a trick to get Graham's home address. In order to get revenge on Graham for his arrest, he gives the address to the "Tooth Fairy" via an encrypted newspaper ad, with the request to kill Graham and his family. However, Graham and Crawford decipher the ad in time and are able to bring Graham's family to safety. The tooth fairy killer is actually called Francis Dolarhyde and works for a film development company, which gives him access to many private narrow films from families and so he can choose his victims. He meets his blind colleague Reba McClane and falls in love with her. Reba is also interested in Dolarhyde, but at first he is too shy to spend an evening with her.

Graham tries to provoke Dolarhyde to attack him instead of his family. With the help of the newspaper reporter Freddy Lounds , he has an article appear that the tooth fairy u. a. as homosexual and impotent in women. He hopes that the tooth fairy will attack him in his office, which is deliberately shown in the newspaper article, and that the colleagues lying in wait can arrest the tooth fairy. However, the shot backfires. Dolarhyde does not threaten Graham, instead he kidnaps Lounds, whom he cruelly murders. Before that he lets him speak a text on tape in which Graham is threatened with revenge. He sends this tape to Graham.

Dolarhyde then comes closer to the blind Reba and sleeps with her. But the next morning his madness returns when the inner voice of the Red Dragon orders him to kill Reba. He then drives Reba home and doesn't want to see her again for the time being. Dolarhyde wants to stop killing and devours - as a symbolic act - the graphic of the red dragon in the Brooklyn Museum of Art . A detailed copy of the red dragon is tattooed on its back from shoulders to hips.

After Graham visits Lecter again and receives the crucial clue about the killer's identity from him, Graham discovers the killer's connection to the films and that Francis Dolarhyde must be the killer. However, Dolarhyde learns that Graham is searching his place of work and flees to Reba's apartment. There he watches as she says goodbye to her colleague Ralph Mandy , who brought her home from work and warned her strongly about Dolarhyde, and in whom Dolarhyde sees a competitor, with a kiss.

While Reba is in the apartment, Dolarhyde shoots the man out of jealousy, drugged Reba and brings her to his house. When she comes to there, Dolarhyde spills gasoline everywhere and wants to kill herself and Reba with a shotgun. But he does not have the heart and shoots, while the fire is rampant, apparently only himself. The blind Reba feels horrified what she thinks Dolarhydes bloody face and flees from the burning house. There she runs into Graham, the police officers and FBI agents who came to arrest Dolarhyde. The house explodes in a ball of fire before their eyes. The case seems to have been resolved. After the fire, the officers find a thick scrapbook in a vault in the house with glued-in photos, newspaper clippings and documents that reveal Dolarhyde's horrific childhood, his traumatization and his subsequent career as a serial killer.

When Graham is back home with his family, he is horrified to learn that Dolarhyde has only faked his suicide, wants to kill him and his family next and is already in his house. The bloody face Reba had touched belonged to Ralph Mandy, shot by Dolarhyde, who had not been missed at work because of a week's vacation. Dolarhyde holds Graham's son a long shard of mirror to his temple and wants to kill him. However, Graham has read Dolarhyde's diary and provokes him with his childhood trauma , his subjectively perceived ugliness due to a cleft lip and the insults with which his grandmother humiliated and tormented him during childhood. So Dolarhyde lets go of the child and attacks Graham instead. In the fight, Graham is seriously injured again and Dolarhyde is finally shot by Graham's wife Molly . Graham survived and later reads a letter from Lecter to him on a sailing yacht.

In the last scene, a few years after the incident, Lecter can be seen in his cell when the prison director Frederick Chilton tells him that a young FBI agent wants to speak to him. This marks a transition to The Silence of the Lambs .

Others
The "red dragon"
  • The symbol that Dolarhyde carves into a tree is the Chinese character 中(Zhōng, "middle"). It can be found on the Mah-Jongg stone "Red Dragon".

synchronization

The German dubbing was done by Berliner Synchron . Michael Nowka wrote the dialogue book, Tobias Meister directed the dialogue.

role actor Voice actor
Dr. Hannibal Lecter Anthony Hopkins Joachim Kerzel
Will Graham Edward Norton Andreas Fröhlich
Francis Dolarhyde Ralph Fiennes Udo Schenk
Jack Crawford Harvey Keitel Christian Brückner
Reba McClane Emily Watson Arianne Borbach
Molly Graham Mary-Louise Parker Katrin Fröhlich
Freddy Lounds Philip Seymour Hoffman Oliver Stritzel
Dr. Frederick Chilton Anthony Heald Jürgen Thormann
Lloyd Bowman Ken Leung Oliver Rohrbeck
Barney Matthews Frankie Faison Tobias Master
Josh Graham Tyler Patrick Jones Patrick Baehr
Dinner guest Brenda Strong Ana Fonell
Police chief Bill Duke Engelbert von Nordhausen
Bookseller Azura Skye Cathlen Gawlich
Grandmother Dollarhyde Ellen Burstyn Christel Merian
Ralph Mandy Frank Whaley Torsten Michaelis

reception

Awards

Reviews

“A remake of the first part of the 'Hannibal' trilogy by Thomas Harris, conceived as a prequel to 'Das Schweigen der Lämmer'. Although it does not achieve the cohesion and terrifying virtuosity of the first film adaptation of this novel ('Blutmond' by Michael Mann), it is nevertheless convincing as a straightforwardly staged star cinema of high quality. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Anyone who doesn't know Mann's work will be terrified here one time or another. The connoisseur, on the other hand, is also very well entertained thanks to brilliant performance. After the remarkable 'The Silence of the Lambs' and the flatly disappointing 'Hannibal', this is again gripping thriller fare. "

- prism

“And for director Ratner, who previously shot casual riot hits like“ Rush Hour ”,“ Roter Drache ”is of course a huge step, impeccably atmospheric and staged with a lot of timing for tension. Within the trilogy, between Demme's claustrophobic sophistication and Scott's eccentric optics, however, he has only achieved an exemplary genre work, in which nothing really bothers, but also does not disturb anything. "The Silence of the Lambs" is still recommended as an introduction to the trilogy. "

- Spiegel Online

Gross profit

The film opened in theaters on October 4, 2002, and with a production budget of approximately $ 78 million, it was able to reap over $ 209 million at box offices worldwide. The film opened in Germany on October 31, 2002 and was seen by 2,092,220 cinema-goers. Since May 8, 2003, Roter Drache has been available on both VHS and DVD .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the red dragon . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2003 (PDF; test number: 91 859 V / DVD).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Red Dragon . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Red Dragon. Retrieved April 4, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Red Dragon on fbw-filmb Bewertung.com
  5. ↑ Red Dragon. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ Roter Drache on prisma.de , accessed on December 31, 2011
  7. ↑ Oliver Hüttmann: Copy with exclamation mark on Spiegel Online from November 1, 2002, accessed on December 31, 2011
  8. ↑ Red Dragon (2002) on boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed December 31, 2011
  9. ↑ TOP 100 DEUTSCHLAND 2002 on insidekino.de , accessed on December 31, 2011
Hannibal Lecter
Novels

Red Dragon (1981) • The Silence of the Lambs (1988) • Hannibal (1999) • Hannibal Rising (2006)

Film adaptations

Blood Moon (1986) • The Silence of the Lambs (1991) • Hannibal (2001) • Red Dragon (2002) • Hannibal Rising - How It All Began (2007)

watch TV

Hannibal (2013-2015)