Manhunter is a 1986 film based on Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon.
Written and directed by Michael Mann (pictured), it stars William
Petersen as offender profiler Will Graham, Tom Noonan as serial killer
Francis Dollarhyde—"The Tooth Fairy"—and features Brian Cox as
Hannibal Lecktor. Manhunter focuses on the forensic work carried out by
the FBI to track down the killer and shows the long-term effects that
cases like this have on Graham, highlighting the similarities between
him and his quarry. The film features heavily stylized use of color to
convey this sense of duality, and the nature of the characters'
similarity has been explored in academic readings of the film. Opening
to mixed reviews, Manhunter fared poorly at the box office at the time
of its release, making only $8.6 million in the United States. However,
it has been reappraised in more recent reviews and now enjoys a more
favorable reception, as both the acting and the stylized visuals have
been appreciated better in later years. Its resurgent popularity has
seen it labelled as a cult film.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunter_(film)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
718:
Forces of the Umayyad Caliphate abandoned their year-long siege
of Constantinople, causing the caliphate to give up its goal of
conquering the Byzantine Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(717%E2%80%93718)>
1511:
Afonso de Albuquerque captured the city of Malacca, giving
Portugal control over the Strait of Malacca, through which all sea-going
trade between China and India was concentrated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Malacca_(1511)>
1812:
War of 1812: Potawatomi warriors destroyed the United States
Army's Fort Dearborn in what is now Chicago, Illinois, and captured the
survivors.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Dearborn>
1942:
World War II: The tanker SS Ohio reached Malta, as part of an
operation to deliver much needed supplies during the Siege of Malta.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pedestal>
1963:
President Fulbert Youlou was overthrown in the Republic of
Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trois_Glorieuses_(1963)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
avail:
1. (transitive, often reflexive) To turn to the advantage of.
2. (transitive) To be of service to.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avail>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The supreme truths are neither the rigid conclusions of logical
reasoning nor the affirmations of credal statement, but fruits of the
soul's inner experience. Intellectual truth is only one of the doors to
the outer precincts of the temple. And since intellectual truth turned
towards the Infinite must be in its very nature many-sided and not
narrowly one, the most varying intellectual beliefs can be equally true
because they mirror different facets of the Infinite. However separated
by intellectual distance, they still form so many side-entrances which
admit the mind to some faint ray from a supreme Light. There are no true
and false religions, but rather all religions are true in their own way
and degree. Each is one of the thousand paths to the One Eternal.
--Sri Aurobindo
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo>