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'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' or 'Men Who Hate Women'

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jeffreybehr

The latter 'title' above, the English translation of the Swedish title, is more accurate, but I imagine the American distributors felt it was too dark.

This is an excellent who-done-it, that while longer than average, held my interest continuously and NEVER dragged. The story, screenplay, actors, direction, and cinematography are all excellent IMHO. A young-woman investigator/computerhacker is played cooly by Noomi Rapace, who has acted in all 3 of the Steig Larssen-based movies. Her character fascinated me, perhaps for being so unlike female actors in American movies.

HIGHLY recommended. Ebert sure loved it.
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Did you read the book before you saw the film? (tiny spoiler alert) - kSpace 19:38:45 04/12/10 (0)
I went expecting a hack job. The story has so many characters with involved relationships that I thought it would be impossible to cover the whole story.

Well I was wrong. I thought the film was terrific on it's own and I was very impressed with the editorial decisions. The adapted screenplay takes a few small liberties with the story (for example: when Blomkvist tracks down the honeymooning couple...and the time line of the story relative to his jail time), but generally is quite true to the book. I wonder if the filmmakers used the same locations that Stieg Larsson scouted for his book?

Anyways, I hope they do the whole trilogy!

kSpace
Thanks for hyphenating the tag. I'd hate to have to sue you. :-) nt - tinear 14:09:20 04/09/10 (2)
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- Which hyphen(s) is/are that/those? Which tag is that? Did you post your... - jeffreybehr 22:40:56 04/09/10 (1)
  ...note in the correct thread?
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  - "Tin-eared audiofool." nt - tinear 09:33:28 04/11/10 (0)
    dfs
RE: the book was a fantastic read - Shlooby 06:18:56 04/09/10 (6)
i'll definitely be seeing the movie.

Call me pessimistic but I have no doubt that when Hollywood gets around to remaking this they will ruin it somehow. Maybe cast Angelina Jolie as Lisbeth? ugh
- Just checked the listings... - mkuller 11:20:45 04/09/10 (4)
  ...and it's gone from the theaters.
  
  Have to wait for the DVD.
  
  American casting for Lisbeth - how about Ellen Page (Juno)?
  - "American casting for Lisbeth" Avril Lavigne in her first film role with Brad Pitt as Blomkvist. - Tony D. 22:09:44 04/10/10 (0)
    I wouldn't bet against something like this along with making the film a love story with the brilliant detective story relegated to nothing but a vehicle.
    
    J.B.
  - How about the most ridiculous castings... nt - dave c 21:00:47 04/10/10 (1)
    bleep
    - Keanu Reeves: Blomqvist, Catherine Zeta Jones: Lisbeth - dave c 21:02:54 04/10/10 (0)
      with Jack Nicholson as Henrik Vanger.
  - Ellen Page? She's WAY too nice AND conventional looking IMO. - jeffreybehr 22:42:51 04/09/10 (0)
    This role needs someone who can be hard as nails.
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- Or worse (much worse) - sjb 10:59:23 04/09/10 (0)
  Megan Fox
  
  "The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I just finished reading the book this week... - mkuller 20:54:19 04/08/10 (0)
...it's a great story.

I plan to see the film soon.

You know that an American version has been green-lighted for production, now that book is so popular.
I'm going this afternoon. nt - dave c 17:27:07 04/08/10 (1)
bleep
- Pls let us know how you liked it. (NT) - jeffreybehr 22:48:52 04/08/10 (0)
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