Francis Dolarhyde

I think there's also something godly in that treatment of women in that way.

And then the other thing that I have been thinking about is There's this moment in Michael Mann's Manhunter where Hannibal Lecter and the FBI agent Will Graham are talking about this other serial killer, the Tooth Fairy.

And Will asks, like, what is the pleasure of killing? Like, why would you continue to do this? And Hannibal Lecter says, like, every time you kill, you become more like God until you convince yourself that you are God.

And I think a lot of that DNA is in Max as well.

Okay, I...

This is the silliest scene in this whole movie to me because we, we have to fast-forward through the life of Francis Dolarhyde, the Tooth Fairy, played by Ralph Fiennes.

Mm-hmm.

And so all we're gonna d- get is some B-roll footage of this dilapidated old nursing home.

Let's meet Reba McClane.

Oh, Reba.

Francis Dolarhyde, who goes by D-

Yeah

So they're trying to keep the blackness in.

And then you've got this red brown thing that happens when Dollar Hyde comes along, who is the Tom Noonan character, who is the tooth fairy, who is staging home invasions and killing people because they're happy.

Okay, let's take something from it.

This is a scene where William Peterson, as Will Graham, is visiting the scene of a quite violent murder, and he's making notes in his dictaphone.

Although Peterson had to, he couldn't get away from this character afterwards.

He famously dyed his hair blonde to do a play in Chicago afterwards.

Joan Allen who plays a blind woman whom Dollar Hyde becomes obsessed with so that it's a very clever thrillery thing because she doesn't know who she's involved he's showing her videos of people he's killed and she doesn't know what he's showing her she walked around New York in a blindfold in order to get the part but Noonan who actually died earlier this year he He didn't like, like me, I hate stories about actual psychopaths.

I don't want to read them or know about them.

Here you go.

Will Graham, Francis Dolarhyde.

Dolarhyde.

These are characters?

I know the name Will Graham.

Mm-hmm.

Once again, those are Will Graham and Francis Dolarhyde.

And they're characters in the movie we're looking for?

This dude's out here watching them.

And I can't kick the thought of Francis Dollarhide watching the houses in the book, The Red Dragon.

Dude was out there lurking, setting up a pattern of what the people were doing when they came, when they left.

And then at the perfect time, he'd go into the house and murder everybody.

This dude's out here watching them.

And I can't kick the thought of Francis Dollarhide watching the houses in the book, The Red Dragon.

Dude was out there lurking, setting up a pattern of what the people were doing when they came, when they left.

And then at the perfect time, he'd go into the house and murder everybody.

but instead somebody who had nothing but murder on their mind the whole time and was actually, like, spying on these girls? That's like right out of a movie.

That's like some Red Dragon shit, Francis Dollarhide sitting around in someone's backyard or up in their tree trying to formulate a plan on how to get into the house.

Now, I'm not saying I buy into that, but...

You know, there's a lot going on here, and with the police investigation turning up bupkis pretty much, everything has to be on the table.