Rewatchables Reference

• The ending / last 20 minutes – the In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida sequence, Petersen sprinting through the glass window (Bill's pick).
• The FBI note relay / conference room scene – experts decode the toilet paper note, 'You're so sly, but so am I' (Chris's pick).
• Graham vs. Lecktor scene #1 – 'You had disadvantages.' 'What disadvantages?' 'You're insane' (Sean's pick).
• Will goes to the victim's house – crime scene walkthrough with tape recorder.
• The tiger scene – Joan Allen petting a sedated tiger.
• Will figures everything out watching home movies.

• The blend of cutting-edge forensic science and criminal profiling – at the forefront of the genre that spawned CSI and true crime podcasts.
• The 'Miami Vice' peripheral casting – 6 people from memorable Vice episodes appear (Bill's vote).
• Tom Noonan's performance; Lecktor's quote 'If one does what God does enough times, one will become as God does'.
• Brian Cox's career evolution – multiple incarnations over the decades, now Succession.
• Dante Spinotti's cinematography and Sean's color coding: blue = safety, green = searching, red = danger.
• The phrase 'time is luck' – used in 'Manhunter', Heat, and 'Miami Vice'.
• The beach house filmed at Robert Rauschenberg's actual house in Captiva, FL.

• The title change from 'Red Dragon' to 'Manhunter'.
• Lecktor's prison cell compared to Silence of the Lambs' cell – ages worse in comparison.
• William Petersen and Tom Noonan reuniting on the CSI episode 'Abracadaver' 16 years later.
• Smoking in elevators.

• De Laurentiis wanted Richard Gere, Mel Gibson, and Paul Newman for Will Graham.
• For Lecktor: John Lithgow, Mandy Patinkin, William Friedkin, and Brian Dennehy were all considered; Dennehy recommended Brian Cox.
• David Lynch almost directed but didn't like the story and backed out.
• Ted Levine met Michael Mann at the wrap party (visiting friend Petersen), which led to Crime Story and eventually Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs.

• William Petersen – a few moments that are a bit too big (attacking Freddy, the window-touching eureka moment); Chris disagrees strongly.
• Stephen Lang as Freddy Lounds – some 'mid-80s NBC cop pilot energy'.

• Jim Zubiena – the Argentinian hitman from Miami Vice's 'Return of Calderone'; Southwest Pistol League champion, Mann was fascinated by how fast he could draw.
• Dan Butler (Jimmy Price in the FBI conference room).
• Brian Cox wins the Dion Waiters version – in the movie for only about 10 minutes but dominates every scene.

• 1986 Richard Gere as Will Graham (Bill's pick; Chris vehemently disagrees).
• Paul Newman as an older Will Graham (Sean – around the time of 'The Color of Money').
• Modern: post-Revenant Leonardo DiCaprio; Lakeith Stanfield (Sean – 'great at performing without talking').

• Tom Noonan took up bodybuilding, stayed in character at all times – everyone on set was afraid of the 6'5 guy convincing himself he was a serial killer.
• Brian Cox asked to audition with his back turned so they could hear the power of his voice.
• They couldn't get permission to shoot on an airplane so Mann booked tickets and guerrilla-shot it; gave passengers crew jackets.
• The pool of blood around Noonan was corn syrup; he lay there so long he became stuck to the floor.
• 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' is 17 minutes and 5 seconds long.
• They shot the William Blake/Red Dragon tattoos but Mann decided they seemed too corny and cut them.

• Tom Noonan – probably yes.
• William Petersen – debated; CSI (biggest show on TV) is a strong counter.
• Fire corpses on rolling desk chairs – yes, apex mountain for that concept.
• Captiva, Florida – yes, apex mountain.
• Sprinting through a window – Will Graham is probably apex.
• Michael Mann – no (Heat is his apex).
• In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida – debated; Sean argues no because the song inspired heavy metal.

• How does Will Graham afford that amazing beach house on a cop's salary? Even in 1986 that's a $4 million house.
• It took him 2 months to figure out the killer was watching home movies – slow for 'the Michael Jordan of criminal profiling'.
• Mann has never written a normal first date (Dollarhyde takes Joan Allen to pet a tiger; McCauley's awkward date in Heat).
• Geographic confusion throughout – unclear if they're in Washington, Atlanta, or Chicago at various points.

• Essentially already done with Hannibal (NBC series with Mads Mikkelsen).
• Sean: 'we're good on Hannibal' – enough versions have been told.

• What is life like if Brian Cox got the Silence of the Lambs part? Does Cox become too famous for Succession?
• Did Will get paid by the FBI to come back? Nobody in these movies ever discusses salary.
• The home movies are creepy – who's filming when the whole family is in the shot?

• The note that Lecktor makes Freddy read (Chris).
• The beach house in Captiva (Sean).
• The giant piece of driftwood from the opening scene (Bill).

Michael Mann – 'Mann directs the shit out of this movie'.