Having said that, I'm curious why there is no connection to the original movie showing up here on IMDb. Is it that obvious that no one thought of putting it in the details? I'm not sure what happened there, though I'm sure someone will change it it's almost April , let's see how long it'll take. Comparing the two adaptations of the novel which I haven't read , I can tell you that there are differences.
Smaller ones plot points and other things , but also time framing and character points. I can only recommend this, because it is a great thriller indeed! I saw the original Swedish version of this film almost five years ago and before reading the book by Stieg Larsson.
I thought it was a stunning movie for which I gave it the highest IMDb rating. I got my hands on the novel within the past year, and it was so compelling, I read the second two books that round out the trilogy, and then moved on to the next set of three by author David Lagercrantz, all dealing with the two principal characters, Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander.
While it's not strictly necessary to read the novel first, it does offer a lot more detail and nuance that would have been hard to incorporate into a film, especially given it's length.
But what you do have here is a first class treatment of the original material by screenwriter Steven Zaillian and director David Fincher.
Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara deftly capture the essence of their respective characters Blomkvist and Salander , while the story flows with the expected twists and turns provided by the intriguing plot. There are also a lot less names to keep track of than in the novel, which is a welcome relief given the preponderance of names and relationships within and without the Vanger family.
You also don't have to deal with the tongue twisting Swedish street names and Stockholm locations that the story throws at you.
There is one rather significant change versus the original novel, in as much as the 'dead' woman Blomqvist was attempting to track down was found in London using an alias, rather than running a ranch in Australia. However if you didn't know that, there's really no impact that changes the outcome of the story. It's been so long now since I've seen the movie of the same name, so to be fair, I couldn't recommend one over the other.
But this adaptation is superb, and I can't rate it any less than the one directed by Niels Arden Oplev in Sweden. Best bet - watch both and buckle up for a great ride. Meanwhile investigating Blomkvist is brilliant but damaged researcher and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander Oscar and Golden Globe nominated Rooney Mara, from the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street , also she has mental incompetency and is therefore under state legal guardianship, lawyer Nils Bjurman Yorick van Wageningen is appointed to be her guardian after the previous had a stroke.
Bjurman abuses his authority and has her perform sexual favours for him to get money or whatever, starting with blowjobs and then he violent rapes her, but he didn't realise she had a secret camera filming it, and next day she returns to tazer him, tie him up, rape him with a dildo, and blackmails him to give her good progress reports and give her control of her money, and to make sure he remembers she tattoos the words "I am a rapist pig".
Going through a notebook from Vanger, Blomkvist is trying to decipher written names and numbers in a notebook, his daughter identifies them as Bible references, and to help him with his research Vanger's lawyer Dirch Frode Steven Berkoff recommends him to see Salander who he knows is researching him.
With her computer skills she finds a connection between a series of murders of young women killed between and and the way that they were killed, the Bible references seem to be clues as to how the victims will be killed, and during their time together Salander and Bromkvist become lovers, she is unaware he is already lovers with Erika Berger Robin Wright. Trying to get more clues Blomkvist breaks into Martin's house, but he is caught out trying to get away unnoticed and Martin chains him up, and attempts to kill him using a bag for suffocation and is about to stab him, but Salander arrives in time to stop this and chase Martin out, until they speed on the road, Martin crashes his car due to the icy road, and he dies when it blows up.
Before he died Martin did admit to the other murders, but not to killing Harriet, so Blomkvist is nursed back to health by Salander, and in bed she admits that at twelve years old she tried to kill her father, and recovered he goes to see Harriet's sister Anita Joely Richardson because he is convinced she is still alive and her sister would know where she is.
After waiting some time for Anita to contact Harriet and following her movements, Blomkvist correctly deduces that Anita is actually Harriet herself, she explains that she changed her identity and ran away because her father and brother sexually abused her for years, and she saw Martin kill their father in self-defence, the real Anita smuggled her away, after years however she tearfully returns to Sweden and reunites with her grand-uncle Henrik. The direction by Fincher is well paced, the story remains pretty much the same as the original Swedish version, but with a couple of new additions in terms of action, it does not feel like you are watching the same film, it is a brilliantly watchable crime thriller.
Very good! I missed the first quarter hour of the film and that may be why I was a little puzzled throughout. I understand that Daniel Craig is a magazine editor offered a lot of money by a millionaire isolate to find out what happened to his daughter many years ago.
I understand that Craig enlists the help of a punk delinquent young girl who is a computer whiz. The problem, if any exists outside of my own head, may lie in the difficult task of translating a novel into a movie.
In a novel, we have time to stretch out and get comfortable with the characters, to learn their distinguishing features. A movie by necessity compresses social space and simplifies the story. That's one of the reasons there are so many complaints that "the movie isn't as good as the book," and so few complaints that, "the novel is a waste of time compared to the movie. So someone on the island probably knows what happened to her, but who?
The only people on the island -- now and at the time of the disappearance -- are family members, many of whom are not on speaking terms with one another, for reasons not made too clear. Except for the fact that one of them is an unregenerate Nazi, it's hard to tell one from another. And when you add in the police and big business intrigues, it's like looking into a kaleidoscope.
It isn't until a few minutes before the end when things clear up, and the solution turned out to be extremely simple. One of the resident family is Stellan Skarsgard, who is always impressive, no matter if he's a good guy "Good Will Hunting" or a bad boy "Ronin". He has an easy-going psychotherapeutic demeanor. If a bullet pocks the plaster near his ear as in "Insomnia" , he just leans slightly away and looks slightly annoyed, as if he'd been pestered by a fly.
Rooney Mara has an important role as the devalued computer expert with the leather jacket, the tattoos, and the pins through her eyebrow, nose, and lips. She lacks eyebrows too but she's no Mona Lisa because she never smiles. Neither does she blink. This gives her a fixed, determined, reptilian glare. And it all adds to the impression that her character has only one note on her instrument. Not even sex seems to arouse her.
It's a long, slow, rather dull mystery with little action, though what there is of it is handled deftly. But I'll bet the novel was interesting because some of the dialog, presumably lifted from the text, is catchy.
I am generally NOT a fan of re-makes, especially one so close in time to the original vs But this is such a rich, interesting story that they pull it off quite well. The story remains set and filmed mostly in Sweden, each character uses his or her version of a Swedish accent.
But it is a more elaborate production and takes the whole story up a notch. In my comments on the movie I wrote, "All the characters are good, but I can't say enough about Rapace as Lisbeth.
She creates a character as memorable as any. More closely akin to Nikita than anything else. Who would have thought, from her role in 'The Social Network'? She deserved the Oscar nomination and it would not been wrong if she had won. Daniel Craig is the investigative reporter, Mikael Blomkvist. Christopher Plummer is Henrik Vanger, who hires him to re-look at the disappearance 40 years earlier of his niece. In an interesting casting Robin Wright is Erika Berger.
The story follows the same arc but some of the story elements are presented differently, often in more detail. The scenes with Lisbeth and her dastardly guardian are more graphic. In the original Blomkvist has to spend 3 months in jail after his conviction, here it appears he only has to pay a large fine. And there is another key difference I will mention below after "spoilers. I hope they make the second and third ones too, but that seems to be in doubt right now. In the original she was found in Australia.
In this version she was found practicing law in London under a different name. After Martin's death in a fiery car crash she was able to reconcile with her family. What's all the fuss about Rooney Mara receiving an Oscar nomination here. That being said, the film is excellent. Christopher Plummer is again with the Nazis. This must have taken him back to his "The Sound of Music Days. Daniel Craig is good as the sued journalist hired by Plummer to find out what exactly happened to his niece four decades before.
Mara, who is made up like the devil, takes bitter revenge on the bank person who wants sexual favors for her to get more than her monthly allowance.
What she does to him is worth the price of admission to the film. It is engaging what Mara helps Craig uncover regarding the niece.
The ending is an absolute shocker, well done and something you wouldn't expect. Clever director David Fincher adapts Swede Stieg Larsson's novel, the first of a trilogy of chillers.
A disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist Daniel Craig , accepts a job writing a biography of a wealthy industrialist; but actually is hired to solve the mystery of the patriarch's niece's disappearance Most of the family live scattered on a small island and very few speak to each other, if at all. Mikeal will need the aid of bi-sexual, tattooed, punk computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander Rooney Mara.
It is very hard to keep a good girl down and this job will require every talent she has. The journalist and hacker work outstandingly well together.
Their investigation will involve looking at decades of business records and analyzing old photos. The pair will uncover massive corruption and family portrayals like you couldn't believe. Secrets die hard. Some scenery is high maintenance; and some of my favorite scenes involve snowy landscapes.
The violence does not necessarily pack a punch; but the sex scenes leave very little to the imagination. You will be eager in waiting for the second and third installments.
Awesome movie with great fight scenes and car crashes. Just as good as the book. As a lover of film and film theory, John wrote humorous movie reviews on his blog, Back of the Head, which got him noticed by Screen Rant. John can be found on Twitter BackoftheHead if you want to see photos of the food he eats. By John Orquiola Published Nov 09, Share Share Tweet Email 0. Key Release Dates. What about when she finally sees Blomkvist after months apart and manages to convey emotional range across a literal chasm?
Or her ravenous appetite for truly terrible food that Foy manages to make look both appealing and repulsive? She may occasionally be saddled with some infallible James Bond-isms — that jump into the tub during a fireball, come on — but the human moments are the ones that set her performance apart.
In my day, we had Daniel Craig taking a dark and gritty vacation from actually playing James Bond. In other words, Lisbeth Salander 3. And yet… she still seems totally wrong for the part. Old though he is, at least compared to the year-old Lisbeth, we can understand why a strange kind of attraction should exist between them. The amount of gruesome detail in the story requires a believable, human edge — some light as well as shade.
Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig bring this in their great performances. Craig is almost as good. Look, for example, at the way Craig reacts after he receives a glancing blow across the forehead from a bullet — having had his graze stitched back up by Lisbeth, he sits around afterwards, whining about how much it hurts. Fincher, though, is adept at building suspense and directing intimate character moments.
Even after seeing the Swedish version, and knowing roughly what would happen next, I still found myself on the edge of my seat during the US Dragon Tattoo.
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