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Edward Norton's Will Graham needs Hannibal Lecter's help in Red Dragon

Screen Bites' prison-visit clip draws fresh attention, while viewers revisit the casting of an earlier adaptation, Manhunter.

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Will Graham Visits Hannibal Lecter Scene (Edward Norton) | Red Dragon

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0:00Chilton escorts Graham through the hospital, seeking details about Lecter and proposing a book collaboration.
1:05Graham reaches the glass-fronted cell, where Lecter recognizes his scent.
2:42Graham asks Lecter for advice on murders in Birmingham and Atlanta.
4:47As Graham prepares to leave, Lecter requests the case file and an hour of privacy.
5:42Lecter examines smashed mirrors and outdoor privacy before turning his analysis toward Graham's hidden fear.

Lecter remembers the aftershave. Before Will Graham can ask for help, Anthony Hopkins' imprisoned psychiatrist greets him with a personal complaint: "That's the same atrocious aftershave you wore in court."

It's an uncomfortable welcome for Edward Norton's FBI profiler, who has returned to the man he caught because another murder case requires his insight. Screen Bites' excerpt from Red Dragon has added roughly 39,000 views in a day, about eleven times its usual daily gain. The clips channel posted the scene five days ago; this is renewed attention for a movie encounter, not a new release from its stars.

The visit begins with a different kind of unwanted attention. Dr. Chilton, played by Anthony Heald, escorts Graham through the hospital while fishing for details about Lecter and proposing a book collaboration. Graham refuses. Once he reaches the glass-fronted cell, the questions become harder to brush aside.

Lecter asks for privacy with the case file, then studies the photographs and offers observations about smashed mirrors and the killer's need for seclusion. But his interest keeps returning to Graham himself. The investigator has come for a profile of someone else; Lecter insists on examining what the two men share.

The comments extend that uncomfortable pairing into a casting discussion. Viewers bring up Brian Cox's Lecter and William Petersen's Graham in Michael Mann's Manhunter (1986), an earlier adaptation of Thomas Harris's novel. Others compare Tom Noonan's killer with Ralph Fiennes' version in Red Dragon. This particular prison visit has become an entry point into two very different screen treatments of the same book.

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I have the feeling Lecter is not actually over it.
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the older i get the better I like Brian Cox's Lector
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Hopkins has range like no one else.
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I even think Tom Noonan was better than Ralph Fiennes as the tooth fairy!!
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Everyone hates to admit it, but Manhunter is the superior film.
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