Graham's wife, Molly, and his stepson are evacuated. Meanwhile, Lecter's de facto jailer, Frederick Chilton, discovers Lecter's secret correspondence, with which Lecter gives Graham's address to Dolarhyde. Flashbacks reveal that his sociopathy is born from the systematic abuse he suffered as a child at the hands of both his sadistic grandmother and his family.Īs Graham investigates the case, he is hounded by Freddy Lounds, a sleazy tabloid reporter. Dolarhyde is unable to control his violent, sexual urges, and believes that murdering people-or "changing" them, as he calls it-allows him to more fully "become" an alternate personality he calls the "Great Red Dragon", after the dominant character in Blake's painting. He is a disturbed individual who is obsessed with the William Blake painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun (which the book identifies as The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun). Louis film processing firm named Francis Dolarhyde. "The Tooth Fairy" is revealed (to the readers) to be the production chief of a St. After looking over the crime scenes with only minimal insight, Graham realizes he must visit Lecter and seek his help to capture "the Tooth Fairy."
Two days after the Leeds murders, agent Jack Crawford, Graham's mentor, goes to Graham's Marathon, Florida, residence and pleads for his assistance Graham reluctantly agrees. He first kills the Jacobi family in Birmingham, Alabama, then the Leeds family in Atlanta, Georgia.
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5 years later, in 1980, a serial killer nicknamed "The Tooth Fairy" stalks and murders seemingly random families during sequential full moons. However, Graham suffered serious injuries from the encounter and retired afterward. In 1975, Will Graham, a brilliant profiler of the FBI, captured the serial killer Hannibal Lecter.
#Red dragon series
Elements of the novel also influenced the NBC television series Hannibal, while the plot was adapted as the second half of the series' third season. Due to the success of the second and third films, Red Dragon was remade as a film directed by Brett Ratner in 2002, this time bearing the title of the original novel and with Hopkins playing Lecter. Both film sequels featured Anthony Hopkins in the role of Hannibal Lecter, for which he won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1991.
A second sequel, Hannibal, was published in 1999 and adapted into a film in 2001.
Īfter Harris wrote a sequel to the novel, The Silence of the Lambs (1988), itself turned into a highly successful film in 1991, Red Dragon found a new readership. Directed by Michael Mann, the film received mixed reviews and fared poorly at the box office. The novel was adapted as a film, Manhunter, in 1986, which featured Brian Cox as Lecter (spelled "Lecktor" within the film). The title refers to the figure from William Blake's painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer whom Graham reluctantly turns to for advice and with whom he has a dark past. The plot follows former FBI profiler Will Graham, who comes out of retirement to find and apprehend an enigmatic serial killer nicknamed "the Tooth Fairy".
Red Dragon is a psychological horror novel by American author Thomas Harris, first published in 1981.
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