10 Movie Characters Who Just Needed To Listen To Reason

After acting as the main antagonist for Hannibal in 2001, Sir Anthony Hopkins' iconic villain returned to his previous role of incarcerated consultant for the FBI in the prequel, Red Dragon, a story previously adapted by Michael Mann in 1986's Manhunter.

This time, however, instead of helping Clarice Starling find Buffalo Bill as he did in The Silence of the Lambs, Special Agent Will Graham (Edward Norton) went to him for answers about the newest serial killer in their midst, the Tooth Fairy, who longs to be known as the titular Red Dragon (Ralph Fiennes).

The opening scenes of the movie show how Graham previously consulted Hannibal Lecter over a string of killings before realising that the killer was Lecter himself, and how he was almost murdered by the cannibal. Understandably, this drove Will away from the FBI and to a quiet life in Florida.

Thanks to his experience with catching Hannibal, his former boss Jack Crawford (Harvey Keitel) wanted his help with the Red Dragon, a question to which Graham's immediate answer should have been no. Crawford had the entire FBI at his disposal, and Will had almost been killed last time. He had gotten out of the job for a reason.

This was everything that his wife Molly (Mary-Louise Parker) said to him, but he was never going to listen, and as she said, he was never going to stay at the back of the pack. In spite of the overwhelming reasons not to, Graham still went to see Hannibal, and still went after the Red Dragon, putting his family in mortal danger because of it.