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Analysis of RedDragon

Red dragon (2002) by Brett Ratner

The opening title are red and white, this is a connotationof evil because of the red titles at the begging of the sentence, then whitewriting comes after, this is a connotation of pure and innocent. With a blackbackground, indicates a sinister edge to it, could be a horror. it makes it seem eerie because of the titles with the music playing.

The lighting that is used in the opening scene is artificial lighting because you can see the shine coming off Hannibal lectors head, it brings attention to him, and shows that he has a main role in the film. The way the light also shines on the man playing the wrong notes brings more attention to him because of the lights above him, and the way they look at the man making the wrong notes. The opening scene is set in a big hall, which is very orchestral and the posh seats signify that they are all upper class because they are listening to classical music, which is normally stereotype of the upper class people. The location is a real life location, you can tell this because its very big and grand, and also its only a setting for the begging they don't go back there to use it again, so this means it is a real life location. The props that were used in the opening are the knife and the guns also, the arrows, the arrows show that he is a very cultural man, who has maybe travelled and he could come across as a predictor and a main person, especially when he is circling the table, and giving out the wine. The costumes that were used are suits and dress's this shows that they are very upper class and live a high life style. also you get this by they way they are going to watch classical music. When the man playing the flute is doing the wrong tune, Hannibal picks up on it and, tilts his head, to show that he's confused because he's not playing the tune right, also the way he looks at him, is very angry and he seems annoyed at the fact he is paying the wrong tune. Also people are frowning at the man playing the flute because they know that he's not playing it right, but non of the audience pick up on this accept Hannibal, this shows he is very inelegant. Also he is winsing because he feels uncomfortable because he knows that the notes are wrong. The Camera angles that were used in the first scene, the beginning started with an establishing shot, an extreme long shot, could be someone's point of view of the stage and the orchestra playing. Then from this its a lot of close ups of the musicians playing the classical music. Then it goes into a hight angle cane shot, and sweeps in to show then main character, you can see him straight away because he is a Juxture position of the shot, in the middle you can see him straight away even in the crowed, this might be because he is sitting in the middle, might be because he is the only bald one, could be because he has light shining onto him or many other things, but you are drawn to him straight away. The sound you can hear is the violins playing in an orchestral way. The edits between each clip in seamless, because you cant tell when its been cut and it all runs very smoothly.


Scene Two


This scene start by showing the outside of the house that they are all in, its a big victortian like house, very tall, looks like it is something that you would see in london, like a town house, very upper class what you would see in a main city. Its all set in a real life location, you can tell this because its a real street, and the brick work and the housed are very detailed. Also the cars parked outside the house look very higher class, which also indicates that they are very intelegant wealthy people. On top of this the clothes that the people are wearing show there's class, they are all wearing smart, suits and elegant dresses. Inside the house the interior is Upper class, just from looking at the inside of the house you would think it is a manor house because of all of the furniture and ornaments, this signifies and shows you even more so that they are all wealthy and upper class. The silver cutlery and the candelabras on the table shows they have a lot of money because its not an everyday object what people would be using. The English accents makes it seem very Edwardian and that they are stereotyping elgland, because we are stereotyped as being very upper class, even though it is set in america and most of them probebly originate from america they put on this accent to seem upper class. The main character (Hannibal) is the host of the meal, he is going around circling the table, pouring red wine which is best served with red meat, so we get the hint that the meat is a red meat because of the wine that is being poured, this kind of meal is served at around winter or autumn we can get this just from the meal and the alcohol. The red wine may have some religious meaning to it for instance, jusus represented red wine as his blood, but we find out that they are eating a human, so this could be a symbol of their blood. The way that Hannibal is curling the table is the kind of way a predator would circle its prey and we kind of get that through the way he is walking and is a well looked upon man. The other people who are talking to Hannibal around the table are using very intellectual words, what most people wouldn't understand, but Hannibal does, also they are using recognisable famous quotes what Hannibal also knows, so this even more suggests and shows how inelegant he actually is. Hannibal calls all the people sitting down the herd, this implies he could mean that they are his prey, and one of them could be next. Low angle shots are mostly used on Hannibal, because this makes him seem very much in power and in charge of what's going on, very high power over the people. There is a man in the scene who is talking to Hannibal at the dining table, and he comes across very arrogant and seem he don't care about anyone but him self, we see this because he is mocking then man that has gone missing. Then shortly after this one of the ladies ask what exactly they are eating, then Hannibal replies " if i told you, you wouldn't even try it" being serious, but they all think that he's joking, this is the first insight that we get that he may have put human meat in the meal and we know that something is not right. Hannibal, is wearing a white shirt, this means purity, but we don't know that something is wrong at all until the next scene.

Scene Three

It starts with an over the shoulder shot of aman looking over at Hannibal at the door, but then Hannibal introduces him intothe scene so we learn to realise that they already know each other in the first place. As soon as Hannibal answered the door he said "oh special agent Graham what an unexpected pleasure." This means that they both know eachother and they have been met before and they must have a very close friend shipbecause he comes around the house late at night. The Special agent is wearing a gun and white which automatically shows that he is something to do with the law and that he is a high power. The agent is wearing white and black very seriouse and smart colours. And make him seem very professional and have a lot of authority. When the agent starts speaking about the killer must be eating them, he seems that he is onto something, because this links in with the last scene of Hannibal saying about the meat, "if I told you I would have to kill you." this makes us suspicious of Hannibal because of the way he then goes about trying to put the agent off the idea of the killer eating them and how it’s not right. Hannibal seems to be like a father figure to special agent graham because of the way he comes to Hannibal looking for answers no matter what time it is, he comes round his house asking for help in the case he is trying to solve, even the way the interrupt each other and they socialize together. Hannibal says he is going to get the agents coat. Whilst he has gone the agent looks around and finds a book marked on the page of making meals using human body parts, and it zooms into the book showing the recipe and then zooms into the agents face to show that he was right and that he needs to stop Hannibal before something bad happens. But this is going to be hard you would think because of the close nit friendship with one another. Then all off a sudden Hannibal comes into the room and stabs the agent. Even though he has stabbed him Hannibal is still trying to make it easy for him and trying to kill him the best way possible without that much pain so even though its bad what he has done you do get t see that he cares for him, but obviously he thought the only way off getting out off this would be to kill him, so no one finds out. Then the agent stabs Hannibal with a sharp arrow and the music goes all mistrial, and Hannibal is falling back, but then he comes back at the agent like a predator and tries to finish him off. Even
when the agent first starts shooting at him Hannibal is still walking forward towards him. But then he drops onto the desk. Then a scrap book comes up with all the cases of the trials and pictures off Hannibal going through all the different trials and what’s happening to them, and Hannibal going to prison. This makes you think that someone must feel aspiration towards him and makes the person who is making the scrap book wants to be like him and looks up to him in some weird way. Or the person who made the book could just be amazed by all the crimes and murders that he committed.