Talk:Manhunter (film)

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Contents 1 Director's cut? 2 TfD nomination of Template:Hannibal Lecter films 3 Added Lecter scenes 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Lecktor02.jpg 5 WikiProject class rating 6 Box office performance 7 Fair use rationale for Image:Manhunter michael mann film poster.jpg

[edit] Director's cut?

I rented Anchor Bay's "director's cut" disc when it came out, and it suuuuuuure looked like a work print ... with a bad sound mix, crude credits, and that awful-terrible scene of Graham going to see "family #3" after catching Dollarhyde. I didn't think it was a "director's cut" such much as pre-release work print. Does anyone watching this page know of any cites or references discussing this? David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 01:09, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Check out this page. It gives a great, in-depth look at the various cuts of the movie including the so-called "director's cut." Count Ringworm 14:41, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Wow, thanks. That site is extremely precise. And proves I'm not losing it, as seeing the Director's cut, and going on memory from teh VHS tapes I'd rented, and my original viewing, I wondered if I'd only imagined some scenes. David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 19:24, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Hannibal Lecter films

Template:Hannibal Lecter films has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. --CyberGhostface 21:59, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Added Lecter scenes

I removed a mention of the added Lecter scenes in "Red Dragon".

This is certainly something that happened in "Red Dragon" but it's also something that occured in "Manhunter" as well.

In both cases there are scenes that played in some sort of less-personal way that were translated into a more cinematic literal exchange between characters.

In "Manhunter" the scene where Will Graham and Hannibal Lektor (ugh) talk on the phone is based upon a scene in the book where Graham reads a letter from Lecter. That's obviously not very cinematic and thus "Manhunter" became guilty of adding a Lecter scene to the movie 16 years before "Red Dragon" did it.

Since they're both guilty of it (and converting such uncinematic exchanges is pretty common when adapting a book) there's really no reason to even point it out in the article.GuruAskew 00:36, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Eh, you are right in a way. However, Red Dragon adds a lot of Lecter, while I can only think of one Lecktor (yes, ugh) scene that Manhunter added off the top of my head. Maybe it is just worth mentioning how much Lecter is loaded into Red Dragon. Dr. Hannibal Lecter 17:28, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Lecktor02.jpg

Image:Lecktor02.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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[edit] WikiProject class rating

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[edit] Box office performance

In 2002, another adaptation of the book, titled Red Dragon, was released. It was more faithful to the novel. - I have removed "It was more faithful to the novel", as said statement is utter rubbish and is an opinion, not a fact. The rest of the article (box office) still needs work done, as the next sentence goes on to provide more speculatory opinions. Many, myself included, would see the film "Red Dragon" as killing the series - as an avid Harris fan I found his most recent book "Hannibal Rising" to be bland, uninteresting, and filled with lowest-common-denominator two-dimensional characters, not the rich fleshed out personalities I'm used to. While I say this here, I don't put it in the article because it's an opinion. But as for Manhunter vs Red Dragon; while the latter did do some very specific things more faithfully, overall the main characters did not remotely resemble the novel characters, how anyone could consider this to be "more faithful" baffles me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.9.137.70 (talk) 13:28, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Manhunter michael mann film poster.jpg

Image:Manhunter michael mann film poster.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:58, 8 March 2008 (UTC)