Red Dragon





By William Ruhlmann
All Music Guide
Artist Direct
2002







Universal

# Song Name

1 Logos (0:50)
2 Revelation (2:41)
3 Main Titles (3:00)
4 Cell (3:27)
5 Old Mansion (4:45)
6 Address (1:41)
7 We're Different (1:26)
8 Note (2:47)
9 Enter the Dragon (5:52)
10 Threats (2:23)
11 Tiger Balls (1:32)
12 Love on a Couch (5:09)
13 Devouring the Dragon (3:43)
14 Fire (4:34)
15 Book (0:34)
16 He's Back! (6:08)
17 End Credits Suite (6:45)


Album Review



Anyone recalling the 2001 film adaptation of Thomas Harris' novel Hannibal and expecting Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins, to turn up in Red Dragon minus one of his hands can be reassured that the film is actually a "prequel" to Hannibal's predecessor, The Silence of the Lambs, not a sequel to Hannibal. Dr. Lecter actually plays a relatively small part in Harris' novel of the same name, which was adapted for the screen previously under the title Manhunter. Nevertheless, fans of The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal should know what kind of stomach-turning suspense they are in for. Danny Elfman isn't exactly the ideal composer to write the score for such a film. He certainly has some macabre titles to his credit, most of them in the service of director Tim Burton, but those -- such as Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and even Sleepy Hollow -- cut the tension with a degree of humor, and Elfman was able to emphasize the more comic aspects in his music. Red Dragon doesn't seem like nearly as much fun, and Elfman has to play the horror for real this time. He manages to do so, with lots of sustained strings and abruptly shifting tempos, but he really isn't doing anything special here. (You can tell he's spent a lot of time listening to the scores of John Carpenter, particularly Halloween.) And that may be just as well. A movie like Red Dragon needs a certain kind of music as punctuation here and there and to support the ongoing sense of dread, but it would not benefit from a score that called attention to itself. Using a small army of orchestrators to flesh out his ideas, Elfman fulfills the assignment, but this is not one of his more distinctive efforts. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide



Album Credits

Bobbi Page Choir Contractor
John Rodd Engineer
Dennis Sands Engineer, Mixing
Bill Talbott Technical Engineer
Tom Steel Stage Crew
Kathy Nelson Executive in Charge of Music
Penny Bennett Creative Director
David Slonaker Orchestration
Carla Leighton Art Direction, Design
Marc Mann Preparation, Choir Conductor, MIDI
Manager
Ellen Segal Producer, Music Editor
Pat Sullivan Mastering
Julian Bratolyubov Music Preparation
Pete Anthony Conductor
Ron Vermillin Music Preparation
Brett Ratner Executive Producer
Randy Dry A&R
Patricia Sullivan Fourstar Mastering
Edgardo Simone Orchestration
Ryan Robinson Technical Engineer
Meredith Friedman Coordination
Thanne Tangel Package Coordinator
Steve Bartek Orchestration, Supervising
Orchestrator
Greg Dennon Engineer
Harry Garfield Executive in Charge of Music
Danny Elfman Producer
Bruce Fowler Orchestration







 

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