Movie: Red Dragon
Painting: The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun
Author: William Blake
About the film
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel, Mary-Louise Parker, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Actors in scene: Ralph Fiennes
Country (movie): USA, Germany
Genres: thriller
Director: Brett Ratner
Writers: Ted Tally
Time of scene: 01:32:55
Release year: 2002
About the painting
Title: The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun
Author: William Blake
Date of creation: 1805
Style: Symbolism
Size: small
Artist's country: United Kingdom
Room: other, workshop
Room colors: brown
Theme:
Color: yellow, brown
Additional information:
Francis Dolarhyde (Fiennes) kills at the behest of an alternate personality he calls “The Great Red Dragon.” He is obsessed with a William Blake painting, The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun, and believes that each victim he “changes” brings him closer to “becoming” the Dragon.
At his job in a St. Louis photo lab, Dolarhyde falls in love with Reba McClane (Watson), a blind co-worker, but his Dragon personality demands that he kill her. Dolarhyde attempts to stop the Dragon’s “possession” of him by going to the Brooklyn Museum and literally consuming the original Blake painting (01:40:17).