William petersen thief 1981
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Scenes with Graham and his wife (Kim Greist) were set in “romantic blue,” while the movie’s unsettling moments were done in a green hue, with some purple or magenta thrown in.Īs for the plot, the movie cares less about hitting you with bloody, gory elements and more about showing you the intense, dedicated process Graham and his fellow FBI agents (which include such familiar TV faces as Life Goes On’s Bill Smitrovich, Frasier’s Dan Butler and longtime David Letterman crony Chris Elliott) go through to find this guy.
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Mann worked with cinematographer Dante Spinotti, who would work with Mann on later films (as well as Red Dragon, that other adaptation of the book, which also starred Hopkins as Lecter), in creating a visual tone full of color tints. But, if he wants to catch this guy before he strikes again, he has to fully get inside-to borrow a Geto Boys song title-the mind of a lunatic. It’s a road Graham, who would rather be living the retired life on the beach with his family, doesn’t like traveling down. That’s certainly a creepy-ass way to start a movie.Īnd, yet, this is also Mann showing the audience how Graham starts an investigation, diving into the killer’s point-of-view and figuring out how the son-of-a-bitch did it. It begins from the killer’s perspective, as he creeps up a flight of stairs and literally shines a flashlight on his poor, sleeping prey. Those are the main elements of Manhunter, a movie that’s cool to look at but still makes you feel uneasy while watching it. Back then, Mann was trying to bring style and substance to bland, prime-time TV, producing police procedurals that were all about mood, visuals and storytelling that took its time. Manhunter is basically a cinematic continuation of what Mann (who spent the ’70s writing for TV shows like Starsky & Hutch and Police Story before directing his 1981 feature debut, Thief) was doing on television at the time, show-running the cool cop dramas Miami Vice and Crime Story (which starred Manhunter cast members Dennis Farina and Stephen Lang). Graham is on the trail of new killer Francis Dollarhyde (Tom Noonan)-nicknamed “The Tooth Fairy” for his tendency to leave bite marks on victims-and comes to the incarcerated Lecktor for consultation. In Mann’s film, the role so closely associated with Sir Anthony Hopkins for decades is played by another acclaimed British actor-future Succession patriarch Brian Cox.Ī supporting character in Manhunter, the clever, calculating cannibal Lecktor still holds a grudge that he was caught by Will Graham (William Petersen), an FBI profiler still haunted by Lecktor’s physical and mental scarring. Hannibal Lecter.īased on the 1981 novel by Thomas Harris, Red Dragon, Manhunter is where Lecter (whose last name is spelled Lecktor in this film) makes his first appearance.
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It’s definitely the first movie that introduced audiences to that serial killer who just won’t die: Dr. You could say the movie was the first instance of the wave of grisly, serial-killer films that would clutter multiplexes in the ’90s and ’00s.
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A crime drama with no big names-at least then-in its cast, the $14-$15 million movie was a flop, grossing somewhere around $4 to $6 million.
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Thirty-five years ago this month, Michael Mann’s Manhunter slipped into theaters.