--- Carrie Pruett <
pruettc@hotmail.com> wrote:
> speaking of Harris adaptations, I just read
some
> weird thing about "Red
> Dragon" being made with Ralph Fiennes in the
"title
> role" and Anthony
> Hopkins in a supporting role - I never read
the
> book, but does this mean
> Hopkins is playing Lecter?
That's probably what it means. The book is a good one,
although I haven't read it in years. It's actually already
been made into a movie once, called MANHUNTER, which suffers
from an inadequate cast but otherwise holds pretty true to
the novel. (The guy from Crime Story, I think, plays
Crawford, and the lead FBI investigator now has a role in
C.S.I., a show I've never watched.)
If your source actually puts Ralph Fiennes in the
"title role," that makes him the bad guy, more or less. The
Red Dragon is actually a painting in the novel, but the mad
serial killer dreams of becoming the dragon or uniting with
it or some such thing. Unless they're going to stick with the
MANHUNTER title, which I can't believe they would, in which
case Fiennes would be the FBI agent. Although serial killers
are manhunters, too, in a sense, so who knows?
By the way, for those of you who have read HANNIBAL
(seeing the movie doesn't count), the ending makes much more
sense if you've read RED DRAGON. Hannibal succeeds with
Clarise where he failed with the protagonist of RED DRAGON,
and it makes the whole thing much more believable if you know
that this is an actual pattern of behavior on Hannibal's
part. Or, it seems that way to me, anyway.
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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