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191: Manhunter, Part 2 (with James Majure)
🕑 Added 2024-12-10 14:01:05 +0000 UTCJames Majure and I continue our discussion of Michael Mann’s Manhunter, first by exploring Mann’s career-long interest in the 1975 non-fiction book The Home Invaders, a strange mid-series episode of Miami Vice that serves as a tv version of Manhunter with Sonny Crockett going inside the mind of a bizarre cat burglar, and how Dino DeLaurentiis churned out Hannibal material in the wake of success of The Silence of the Lambs (which he didn’t produce) including an inferior Brett Rather version of Red Dragon (shot by the same cinematographer) with an all-star cast and Anthony Hopkins as Lecter, which makes one appreciate Mann’s artistic achievement with Manhunter even more.
The Home Invaders: Confessions of a Cat Burglar by Frank Hohimer (1975), a key text for the cinema of Michael Mann which has inspired many works including the forthcoming Heat 2, is available to read on Internet Archive.
1986 TV spot for Manhunter, 1986
Commercial for the network premiere of Manhunter on NBC, 1989
Trailer for Red Dragon (Brett Rather, 2002)
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Jesper Ohlsson
"Hannibal Rising - in his younger years, Hannibal was a proto-redditor who m'ladies Real Authentic Demure Japanese Woman in literal katana fight for her honor. Goes to Japan, presumably for weeaboo reasons." There, now you've seen it. Hannibal is played by a certified dud, who tragically died not that many years later, making it even more grim to go back to even as a curiosity. It's the movie-equivalent of pouring in a cup of water in a shampoo bottle for the fifth time.
