Line #69 Film/Manhunter


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2	[[caption-width-right:252:It's just you and me now, sport.]]
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4	->''"Well... here I... am."''
5	-->-- '''The Tooth Fairy'''
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7	The first FilmOfTheBook of the Thomas Harris novel ''Literature/RedDragon'', this 1986 film, written and directed by Creator/MichaelMann for the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, features Hannibal Lecktor (note the spelling) [[ThePeteBest as played by]] Creator/BrianCox. Like in ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', he is used to help an FBI investigator. His name is Will Graham (Creator/WilliamPetersen) and he is trying to find a serial killer known as Francis Dollarhyde (note this spelling too), nicknamed "The Tooth Fairy". As he tries to find the serial killer, Graham's personal demons start to haunt him, affecting his work and his relationships.
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9	Unlike later adaptations of the Hannibal Lecter novels, ''Manhunter'' relies heavily on saturated colors and overpowering music. Mann carried over much of the film's style from his earlier work with ''Series/MiamiVice''.
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11	The film was later [[{{Remake}} re-made]] in 2002 as ''Film/RedDragon'', this time acting as a prequel to the 1991 adaptation of ''The Silence of the Lambs'' instead of a self-contained work.
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13	Not to be confused with Creator/{{Sierra}}'s [[VideoGame/{{Manhunter}} series of adventure games with the same name]], or the [[Comicbook/{{Manhunter}} comic]] of the same name. It should also not be confused with [[VideoGame/{{Manhunt}} the similarly titled horror/killer video game]] produced by Rockstar Games, even though both feature actor Brian Cox.
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15	!!This movie contains examples of:
16	* AdaptationDistillation: A few notable changes:
17	** Lecktor's sixth finger is missing--although every film adaptation of the series has excluded this plot point.
18	** Dollarhyde's obsession with the red dragon painting and his split personality are mostly ignored and instead just barely hinted at-- in fact his past and backstory are glossed over as is much of the character's personality.
19	** Instead of the wider-array of targets the literary Lecter chooses, the cinematic Lecktor is said to specifically target college girls, and there is no mention of the fact he is a cannibal (save munching on a nurse's face). In some ways he's more of a minor character here to give history to Will Graham and provide Dollarhyde his information- which is how he was intended to be, but is given much less focus than in the novel.
20	** The mental hospital is a new facility, bright white and clean as opposed to the filthy dungeon look of later films, with Lecktor kept in a room divided into his cell and a visitor room. There is no Plexiglas wall or neighboring cells.
21	** Kevin is Will's son, not his stepson. In the book, when Will tells Kevin about what he has to do to catch people like Lecter or Dollarhyde, he feels ashamed for having to defend himself to his stepson. In the film, it becomes a bonding moment for father and son.
22	** Dollarhyde is killed at his home in a shootout with police, rather than escaping to show up at Graham's house later.
23	** In the book, [[spoiler:Will is badly disfigured by Dollarhyde, and later is revealed to have become a serious alcoholic.]] In the film, [[spoiler:Will has some facial injuries that are not disfiguring, and while he's going to check into therapy to deal with the trauma of the film's events, he will eventually recover and rejoin his family.]]
24	* AdaptationTitleChange: From ''Red Dragon'', mostly so people wouldn't confuse it for a martial arts film.
25	* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The ending is much lighter, being changed completely from the book's ending to one where Graham gets to fight and kill Dollarhyde before he ever gets the chance to invade his home and attack his family. As a result, his psychological troubles are now set at ease so that he can go back to retiring in peace.
26	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The novel describes Freddy Lounds as a lumpy, ugly guy with buck teeth. Here, he's played the handsome Creator/StephenLang.
27	* AdaptationalBadass: In the book, Dollarhyde is exceptionally fit, and it takes multiple bullets from a comically oversized handgun to take him down; nonetheless, Will and Molly effectively stop him, and he earlier flees when the police arrive rather than risk capture. Here, he takes on said cops single-handedly with a shotgun and ''kills them all'', and [[MultipleGunshotDeath it takes Graham emptying his revolver into him to finally kill him]]. [[MadeOfIron Even then, he shrugs off the first few shots]].
28	* AdaptationalHeroism: Chilton is almost a completely different character than he is in the book and later Lecter mythos adaptations, being a quietly competent professional versus a self-aggrandizing {{Jerkass}}. The Director's cut adds a brief scene showing more of Chilton's {{Jerkass}} side, but he is still ''far'' more competent than he is in the book and later films (Chilton tries to pick Graham's brain for some insights into Lecktor's psyche; when Graham coldly shuts him down, Chilton ''immediately'' realizes he went too far and backs off).
29	* AdaptationalJerkass: Lektor is much more of a jerk than his AffablyEvil portrayal in the book. He also lacks the redeeming qualities of his book counterpart.
30	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Reba's supervisor at the photo lab is shown to be professional and polite in his two brief scenes, in contrast to his portrayal as a lecherous, leering sleaze in the novel. This was probably done to make his murder by Dollarhyde seem even more pointless and delusion-driven, as opposed to the killing of an AssholeVictim.
31	* AdaptationalUgliness: Rather than the serial killer of the book who ''believes'' he is ugly (due to a birth defect tied in with his traumatic childhood that has since been reduced to a small surgical scar) who is presently oblivious to how women at his workplace actually consider him attractive, Francis Dollarhyde is played onscreen as distinctly older-looking, bald on top with drawn, sunken features.
32	* AdaptationNameChange: Unlike other adaptations of the book series, ''Manhunter'' spells Hannibal's last name as "Lektor" instead of "Lecter." Similarly, Francis Dolarhyde's name is spelled with two L's in the film instead of just one.
33	* AdvertisedExtra: The film was broadcast on TV immediately after the phenomenal success of ''The Silence of the Lambs'' but the title was changed to ''Red Dragon: The Pursuit of Hannibal Lecter''. Of course, anyone who saw the movie in 1986 or read the book would realize that Lecter had about eight minutes of screen time and being that the story is set prior to ''Silence of the Lambs'', Lecter is still behind bars for the entire film. The character being pursued was a serial killer called The Tooth Fairy real name is Francis Dollarhyde. Lecter's influence is marginal and is mostly part of the main character's backstory. The name change and subtitle was just an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of the recent 1991 blockbuster by broadcasting a little-remembered film that was based on the previous book in the series.
34	* AlasPoorVillain: Even without the FreudianExcuse that makes him such an unbelievable tragic figure like he is in [[Film/RedDragon the other movie]], [[spoiler:Dolarhyde still is such a human figure who did legit care about Reba to the point that even here, his death still has that sense of melancholy]]—even with it being more of a relief when it happens too.
35	* AnimalMotif: Much as been made of how reptilian Brian Cox is, with cold black eyes and a black, gaping maw.
36	* ArtImitatesArt: After Graham fills Dollarhyde full of lead, Dollarhyde falls down on his back. A camera shot from above shows the blood pooling out from Dollarhyde in a symmetrical winged shape that looks just like the Red Dragon from William Blake's painting.
37	* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The Chinese character 中 (zhong) is said to mean "Red Dragon" in the film. It actually means "middle." The confusion comes from the game mahjong, which features a group of three tiles called the "dragon tiles" in English. There are three of them: a red one, a green one, and a white one. The red dragon tile features the Chinese character for "middle." Evidently somebody misunderstood, thinking that the red "dragon tile" was actually the "red dragon" tile, and that 中 means "red dragon." In actuality, "red dragon" in Chinese would be 紅龍 or 紅色龍.
38	* AssholeVictim: {{Deconstructed}} by Lektor on Freddy Lounds, practically giggling that Will did a good job of MakeItLookLikeAnAccident by setting him up as a target for Dollarhyde. Will lamely refutes this, but it's clear he wonders if he did it subconsciously.
39	* TheBait: One that backfires badly [[spoiler:as the Tooth Fairy realises he's being LuredIntoATrap and goes after Lounds instead.]]
40	* BaitAndSwitch:
41	** After feeding the misleading and insulting story about the killer to the ''Tattler'' in order to set Will up as a target, the FBI plans to have Will walk a particular route at night while snipers and other agents closely monitor the scene. As Will walks the path, a man in a hoodie appears running in his direction. Right when the man gets close, Will tackles him and the agents rush in. Upon removing the hood, they realize it's just some random jogger who can't be the killer (they know the killer is blond based on crime scene evidence, while the jogger is black). [[spoiler:The killer had ''actually'' decided to go after Freddy Lounds that same night.]]
42	** [[spoiler:Immediately after Jack and Will discover that Lektor's coded message to the Tooth Fairy was the address of the Graham family, the film cuts to Molly being woken by Kevin, who notifies his mom of some strange noises outside. The two quietly make their way to the front door, noticing the silhouette of a man holding a shotgun on the kitchen wall. Upon opening the front door, they come face to face with a police officer with a shotgun politely asking if they're alright while loads of other officers sent in by Jack frantically cover the premises.]]
43	* BaldOfEvil: Francis Dollarhyde, the Tooth Fairy, is balding in this movie, mostly because his actor is.
44	* BerserkButton:
45	** Graham doesn't like it when people bring up his past experience with Lecktor, especially when the one bringing it up is the same tabloid reporter who took advantage of said experience to sell newspapers.
46	** Graham deliberately makes himself TheBait by telling Lounds to pen a story in which Will insinuated the killer was a) gay, and b) had sex with his mother. [[spoiler: It backfires-- Dollarhyde goes after ''Lounds'' instead.]]
47	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:While many died; Reba was almost killed by the man she fell in love with and Graham was really put through it by both Lecktor and Dolarhyde--with Crawford showing clear guilt about it too, Graham is able to go home to his family and leave all the bad things behind him once Dolarhyde is dead and it also means Graham never has to ever go back to see Lecktor in the prison ever again too.]]
48	* BlindAndTheBeast: Dollarhyde starts dating a blind woman halfway through the movie. This is partly because of his implicit insecurities about his cleft palate (much more explicit in the novel and 2002 movie); he thinks he is ugly, and doesn't believe he'd stand a chance with someone who could actually see him. This, in fact, is one of the reasons he kills- [[ILoveTheDead dead women don't think he is ugly.]] Significantly, Dollarhyde stops Reba when she tries to touch his face.
49	* BookEnds: An inter-film example: ''Manhunter'' opens with a POV sequence of Dollarhyde breaking into the Leeds' home in the dark of night, while ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', adapted from the sequel to the book this movie is based on, ends with a POV sequence of Buffalo Bill chasing Clarice Starling throughout his darkened basement.
50	* BreakingSpeech: Hannibal gives one to Will over the phone, telling him that GodIsEvil and that what bothered him about killing Garret Jacob Hobbes (the first SerialKiller Graham caught) was that [[EvilFeelsGood he secretly enjoyed it]].
51	* CelestialDeadline: Since the Tooth Fairy operates on a lunar cycle, the FBI has until the next full moon to catch him before he kills again. [[spoiler: They start out with two weeks, but end up taking it right down to the last minute before the killer claims another victim.]]
52	* CentralTheme: The entire film is about vision and color. For example, notice the background colors of the opening credits, saturated and overexposed. Lektor's prison is completely white, which has a negative psychological effect on Will (who calms down when staring at the green grass.) Of course, Dollarhyde's ''job'' is color correction, and he puts shards of mirrors in his female victims' eyes.
53	-->'''Lecktor:''' Have you ever seen blood in the moonlight, Will? It appears quite black.
54	* ChekhovsGun: Hannibal is casually chewing bubble gum. He uses the metal wrapper to hot-wire the phone.
55	* ColorMotif: Cool blue tones were used for the scenes shared between Will Graham and his wife Molly, and unsettling greens and magentas were used for the scenes with Francis Dollarhyde.
56	* ColorWash: The film frequently makes use of saturated color-- be it through set design or tinting the picture-- as a method of conveying a scene's mood. Even the opening credits are affected by this, being set atop a solid blue backdrop.
57	* CompositeCharacter: In ''Red Dragon'', the novel, Will has caught two serial killers prior to the Tooth Fairy case--Lecter, and another guy who was killing college students. In ''Manhunter'', the other guy is vaguely referenced but "Lecktor" has been locked up for killing college girls.
58	* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: Graham seeks help from Hannibal Lecktor in order to gain better insight in finding the Tooth Fairy.
59	* CowboyCop: Graham devolves into this near the end, as highlighted by his vow, [[PreAsskickingOneLiner "It's just you and me now, sport."]]
60	* CursedWithAwesome: Graham's ability to get inside the heads of the killers he tracks makes him good at his job, but puts serious stress on his own sanity at the same time.
61	* DemotedToExtra: Frustrated with Graham's mental state, his wife decides to spend time away. [[spoiler:In the novel, she returns and it is she, not her husband or the cops, who kills Dollarhyde in the climax.]]
62	* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the book, Molly Graham shoots Dollarhyde in her home. In the film, Will shoots him in Reba's home]].
63	* DramaticShattering: Francis Dollarhyde leaves slivers of glass embedded in his victim's eyes. In the climax, he's shown shattering a mirror as he prepares to kill Reba.
64	* DrivenToVillainy: Francis Dollarhyde:
65	-->'''Will Graham''': As a child, my heart bleeds for him. Someone took a little boy and turned him into a monster. But as an adult... as an adult, he's irredeemable. He butchers whole families to fulfill some sick fantasy. As an adult, I think someone should blow the sick fuck out of his socks.
66	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Compared to the 1991 film adaptation of ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' and its successors, ''Manhunter'' takes a far different approach, to the point where one could easily forget it's part of the same greater franchise.
67	** It lacks the Gothic overtones of later films, opting instead for a more stylized approach making heavy and idiosyncratic use of saturated color to invoke mood (e.g. "sensual" blue and "subversive" green).
68	** The film lacks much of the more explicit violence of later films in favor of exploiting NothingIsScarier and the GoryDiscretionShot, which makes the few instances of explicit violence that much heavier-hitting.
69	** Probably the most microcosmic aspect of ''Manhunter'' is Hannibal "Lecktor": his prison is a cramped cell in a sterile, white mental hospital, far removed from the large, dungeonlike design seen in later films, and Lecktor himself is more smug and willing to put up facades than the serpentine and more outwardly malevolent portrayal by Creator/AnthonyHopkins.
70	* EurekaMoment: When Graham finally figures out how the Tooth Fairy chooses his victims.
71	--> '''Graham:''' And you know you need a bolt-cutter and every other Goddamn thing. Because everything with you is seeing, isn't it? Your primary sensory intake that makes your dream live is seeing. Reflections. Mirrors. Images. .... You've seen these films! Haven't you, my man?
72	* EvilIsHammy: Largely averted with Brian Cox's cold and understated portrayal of Lecktor (in contrast to Creator/AnthonyHopkins in ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''). Tom Noonan as Dollarhyde plays it more straight in his debut scene, although all things considered there really isn't any other way to play that moment ''but'' hammy.
73	--> '''Dollarhyde:''' You owe me ''awe!''
74	* EvilMentor: Lektor clearly considers himself to be this to Graham, repeatedly goading and coaxing him to admit and accept the darker impulses within him and that they're not that different. Graham is justifiably repulsed by this.
75	* {{Expy}}: Cox based his portrayal of Lektor on Scottish serial killer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Manuel Peter Manuel]].
76	* FauxAffablyEvil: Lecktor lacks the legit charm of the later film version of Lecter to the point that it comes off way more superficial here as a result.
77	* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: During his EurekaMoment, Graham acknowledges that Dollarhyde must have been abused and states that he pities the child Dollarhyde used to be. However, in the same monologue, Graham states that he feels absolutely no sympathy for Dollarhyde as an adult and states that Dollarhyde is a selfish, utterly-disgusting human being who deserves to die violently.
78	--> '''Crawford:''' You feel sorry for him.
79	--> '''Graham:''' This started from an abused kid, a battered infant... My heart bleeds for him, as a child. Someone took a kid and manufactured a monster. At the same time, as an adult, he's irredeemable. He butchers whole families to pursue trivial fantasies. As an adult, someone should blow the sick fuck out of his socks.
80	* AGodAmI: Lektor's justification of why he and any SerialKiller commits murder- it makes you feel like you are God. He tells Will to look forward to that feeling.
81	* GodIsEvil: Lektor insists this is the case, along with AGodAmI.
82	-->'''Lektor:''' Did you really feel depressed after you shot Mr. Garrett Jacob Hobbes to death? I think you probably did. But it wasn't the act that got to you. Didn't you feel so bad, because killing him felt so good? And why shouldn't it feel good? It must feel good to God. He does it all the time. God's terrific! He dropped a church roof on 34 of his worshipers in Texas last Wednesday night, just as they were groveling through a hymn to his majesty. Don't you think that felt good?
83	-->'''Will:''' Why does it feel good, Dr. Lektor?
84	-->'''Lektor:''' [[EvilMentor It feels good, Will,]] ''[[ArmorPiercingResponse because God has]] '''[[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity power]]''','' ''[[AGodAmI and if one does what God does enough times,]] '''[[AGodAmI one will become as God is.]]''''' God's a champ. He always stays ahead. He got 140 Filipinos in one plane crash last year. Remember that earthquake in Italy last spring?
85	* GoryDiscretionShot: The moment where Dollarhyde [[spoiler:bites Lounds' lips off]] isn't actually shown, instead cutting to the outside of Dollarhyde's house just before [[spoiler:his mouth reaches Lounds']] and leaving the latter's muffled screams of pain as the only indicator of what's happening. Additionally, [[spoiler:the slides that Dollarhyde shows Lounds, depicting his victims postmortem]], are left obscured from the viewer, leaving [[spoiler:Lounds']] pained reactions being the only indicators of how horrific they actually are. Compare this to the 2002 film and the ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' TV series, which show both in vivid detail.
86	* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: When Graham shoots Dollarhyde, each round is shown to penetrate Dollarhyde's body, spattering blood on the wall behind him, despite the Glaser specifically being designed to avoid overpenetration.
87	* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Will Graham is a criminal profiler who lives in fear that his understanding of the mind of a killer will turn him into a sociopath.
88	* HopeSpot: In the scenes where Dollarhyde spends the night with Reba, his strong emotional connection to her (the first in his life) suggests that he may have found someone and something that may fill the void in his life and lead him to stop killing. Unfortunately, after having committed so many murders already, he's too far gone to turn his mind and life around.
89	* ImmediateSelfContradiction: Lektor scoffs that appealing to his intellectual vanity won't work, but once Will tells him Dr. Bloom is working on the case and "he's the best", Lektor immediately acquiesces to Will's demands.
90	* {{Jerkass}}: Brian Cox's take on Lecktor, in contrast to Hopkins's later, AffablyEvil performance.
91	* JumpScare: A few, but the most startling one is after Graham has ran out of the mental institution, interrupted by Lounds photographing him.
92	-->'''Lounds:''' Gotcha.
93	* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Dollarhyde puts Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" for his final kill, and it plays in its near-entirety throughout his playing with his victim, his OneManArmy shotgun rampage against the policemen that arrive to try to stop him, and Graham's BigDamnHeroes DynamicEntry and subsequent killing of Dollarhyde.
94	* LighterAndSofter: The ending is changed completely from the book's ending to one where Graham gets to fight and kill Dollarhyde before he ever gets the chance to invade his home and attack his family and ''completely'' destroy his face (he gets a large gash across it in the film, but it's nowhere near disfiguring). As a result, his psychological troubles are now set at ease so that he can go back to retiring in peace, his wife and stepson don't leave him, and he doesn't become an alcoholic.
95	* LockedIntoStrangeness: Graham's hair has some gray tinges, due to his experience with Lektor.
96	* MadDoctor: Lektor is a world-famous [[PsychoPsychologist psychiatrist]] who happens to be a convicted SerialKiller. He might be stuck in an insane asylum, but that doesn't stop him from writing for psychiatric journals.
97	* ManipulativeBastard: Lektor, sure, but Crawford uses a BatmanGambit to get Will to take on the case, and freely admits it when Will confronts him with it. Lektor congratulates Will for setting Lounds up to be killed, and even though it wasn't Will's ''conscious'' intent, he wonders if he really plot Lounds' death subconsciously. [[invoked]]
98	* ManOnFire: [[spoiler: Freddy Lounds]] is set on fire and sent rolling down the street tied to a wheelchair.
99	* MistakenForCheating: Dollarhyde's fragile connection with sanity snaps when he misinterprets an innocent moment between Reba and her coworker as something intimate.
100	* ModestyBedsheet: Graham's wife keeps the bedsheet wrapped around herself as she walks over to Graham, staring out the hotel room's window.
101	* MurdererPOV: Used at the beginning when the Tooth Fairy enters the Leeds' house. Portions of the sequence are used again when Graham examines the crime scene for the first time; a visual representation of his ability to enter the minds of killers.
102	* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted somewhat; although, if women in this world ''didn't'' menstruate, and we found a box of Maxi-Pads from a world where they did, we'd probably be inclined to assume they're some kind of stick-on blindfold, too.
103	* NothingIsScarier: Used quite heavily here: most of the violence occurs entirely off-screen, with probably the bloodiest scene in the movie being the shootout at Dollarhyde's house. As a result, the quick cuts to the graphic crime scene photos and [[spoiler:Lounds' flaming body]] have a much greater impact than if the film were more lenient with its violence. The film ''establishes'' itself with a MurdererPOV stalking the family in their own house as he ascends to their bedroom, cutting to the credits just as the wife wakes up.
104	* NotSoDifferentRemark: Lektor tells this to Graham. What's scary is that he seems to be right.
105	-->'''Lecktor:''' You want the scent? ''Smell yourself.''
106	* NotSoStoic: Lektor is even-keeled and unfazed during his interview with Will, but after Will matter-of-factly tells him he caught Lektor because he was insane, Lektor gives him a DeathGlare then starts asking loudly, "Do you know how you caught me? ''DO YOU KNOW HOW YOU CAUGHT ME?" Will flees, and Lektor snarls, "You want the scent? Smell yourself."
107	* OneManArmy: When the cops finally close in on Dollarhyde, he rather casually grabs Graham as he jumps at him, slashes him across the face, tosses him into a corner, and then grabs a shotgun. Using the latter, he then goes to town on the cops trying to stop him, killing several and [[FeelsNoPain ignoring at least one point-blank gunshot wound]]. He returns to kill Graham, only to go down after [[{{BFG}} absorbing half-a-dozen .44 Special Glaser rounds]].
108	* OnePhoneCall: Hannibal Lektor is given a phone to call his lawyer; he instead rewires the phone (it has no dial) so he can make another call to find out where Will lives.
109	* OnlyInMiami: ''Manhunter'' was displaced to a mostly South Florida setting, and the film itself is very stylized around Eighties South Florida. No surprise, since [[Series/MiamiVice Michael Mann]] wrote and directed it.
110	* {{Paparazzi}}:
111	** Freddy Lounds, who's so sleazy he even broke into Graham's hospital room to take pictures of his injuries after his encounter with Lektor. [[spoiler: Makes it hard to believe he didn't deserve the fate the Tooth Fairy gave him.]]
112	** Lektor in fact applauds Will for setting Freddy up like that. [[spoiler: Will ponders if he set Freddy up, if subconsciously, as Lektor implies.]]
113	* PragmaticAdaptation: A great deal of expository content from the novel is absent from the film, thus cutting out a good amount of background information crucial to understanding the book's characters. Most notably, Francis Dollarhyde's backstory and split personality are only briefly alluded to in the film, thus making him a far more enigmatic character compared to the almost voyeuristic level of detail he's given in the book. Given that the final movie is already two hours long, it's likely much of this exposition was cut out for the sake of saving time, and the film works around these gaps by playing them into its heavy focus on implication.
114	* PrematurelyGreyHaired: Will Graham has gray tinges in his hair due to his past experience with Hannibal Lecktor.
115	* ProductPlacement: Subtly. Hannibal notes that Will's aftershave is something a child would choose because it has a ship on the bottle -- which would be Old Spice. A more blatant example occurs in the scene where Graham comes clean to his son, during which several cereal brands are plainly visible, but because it takes place in a supermarket, this is probably inevitable.
116	* TheProfiler: Will Graham is the archetypal fictional profiler, the basis for a great deal such detectives who showed up in the media after this film came out, and the book based on it.
117	* ReCut: The Director's Cut features the following additional scenes:
118	** After visiting the Leeds house in the beginning of the film, Will takes a pause in watching their home movies and calls his wife and talks to her for a while.
119	** A scene with Graham and Dr. Chilton just before Graham goes to see Lecter.
120	** Additional dialog during Graham's meeting with Lecter concerning how Graham caught Lecter.
121	** A scene with Graham telling Crawford that he is bringing his wife and son to town.
122	** An alternate ending, in which Graham visits the family that would be next in line for Dollarhyde, but who are now safe, thanks to Graham.
123	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Dollarhyde gives one to Lounds, reflecting on Hannibal's assessment he has a [[AGodAmI god complex]]:
124	-->Before me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the afterbirth. It is your nature to do only one thing correctly: tremble. Bur fear is not what you owe me. Lounds: you and the others, YOU OWE ME AWE!
125	* RecycledSoundtrack: The music that plays when Graham visits Lecktor in his cell ("Freeze" by Music/KlausSchulze) originally appeared in the 1983 Austrian film ''Film/{{Angst}}''.
126	* RuleOfSymbolism: The final shot of a dead Dollarhyde shows him [[https://screenhubweb.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/screenhub-movie-manhunter3.png?w=1440 in the same pose]] as ''The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun''. In essence, he could only become the Red Dragon through his own death.
127	* SanityHasAdvantages: How Will caught Hannibal, who he admits is smarter than him.
128	* SanitySlippage: In the BackStory, Will suffered one after catching Lecktor, because of his ToKnowHimIMustBecomeHim detective style, and was committed to an insane asylum.
129	* SerialKiller: Francis Dollarhyde, aka "The Tooth Fairy" or "The Red Dragon". Also, Dr. Lecktor.
130	* SerialKillerBaiting: Will Graham, armed and ready, tries to make himself a target for Dollarhyde by appearing in a photo of a tabloid article specifically written to anger and trigger an attack by the killer. It backfires when Dollarhyde goes after tattler journalist Freddy Lounds instead (who, due to his huge ego, also insisted on being in the photo).
131	* SexyDiscretionShot: Reba giving Francis a blowjob is now just more implied than explicit.
132	* ShirtlessScene: Will Graham gets a few. Comes with living on a Florida beach.
133	* ShoutOut: When Freddy Lounds first sees Graham, he says to him, "[[Film/AngelsWithDirtyFaces Whaddya hear, whaddya say]]?"
134	* ShowDontTell: Almost everything regarding Dollarhyde's personality and behavior is conveyed through acting and actions. During the Lounds sequence, unlike ''Red Dragon'', the film shows Lounds' reactions to the grisly sliders of the murdered family, and never shows the slides themselves.
135	* ShutUpHannibal: When Lecktor in his final scene is ranting to him over the phone, Graham moves the phone away from his ear as if to hang up on him, which could be representative of him refusing to let him get to him anymore at that point.
136	* SlasherSmile: Before biting off Freddie's lips, Francis snorts poppers, then turns toward Freddie with a profoundly ''creepy'' smile on his face.
137	* SoftGlass: Graham goes straight through a window at full gallop. He does get a couple of superficial cuts on his face.
138	* SpotlightStealingSquad: Fans of ''Manhunter'' generally see Brian Cox as this for his true-to-the-book, brief on-screen role as Hannibal Lecter.
139	* SuperWindowJump: Will Graham does this to rescue Reba in a scene very well-timed to a diegetic "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida".
140	* SympathyForTheDevil: Deconstructed in the uncut version.
141	-->'''Jack:''' You feel sorry for him.
142	-->'''Will:''' As a child, my heart bleeds for him. Someone took a little boy and turned him into a monster. But as an adult... as an adult, he's irredeemable. He butchers whole families to fulfill some sick fantasy. As an adult, I think someone should blow the sick fuck out of his socks.
143	* TechnicallyASmile: Before attacking Lounds, Dollarhyde snorts poppers (amyl nitrate), and wears a dissonant happy smile before going in for what seems like a KissOfDeath (when he's about to bite off Lounds' lips as the film cuts away.)
144	* ThatManIsDead: Francis, thinking she was unfaithful to him, tells Reba "Francis is gone forever", before attempting to murder her. It's also his last line in the film.
145	* TooDumbToLive: Freddy Lounds has such a big ego that he insists on appearing in the photo with Will Graham in the article he wrote to deliberately provoke Dollarhyde. It never occurred to him if the article might set Dollarhyde off to attack Graham, he as the author (and centerpiece photo) would be an even more obvious and easy target.
146	* ToKnowHimIMustBecomeHim: Graham's method for profiling serial killers. Sometimes it works ''too'' well.
147	* TragicallyDisabledLoveInterest: Reba, Dollarhyde's blind coworker, goes home with him and engages in very vigorous woman-on-top sex with him. Her blindness plays a significant factor in their relationship in an example of BlindAndTheBeast.
148	* YoureInsane: Not in the usual use of the trope, though.
149	-->'''Will:''' I know that I'm not smarter than you.
150	-->'''Lecktor:''' Then how did you catch me?
151	-->'''Will:''' You had disadvantages.
152	-->'''Lecktor:''' What disadvantages?
153	-->'''Will:''' ''(matter-of-factly)'' You're insane.
154	-->'''Lecktor:''' ...

Context Film / Manhunter