It's not too bad so far.
But in movie news, I saw the American version of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo last Sunday.
It was awesome. Like I said in my earlier post, I was worried they would ruin the movie, since the American version is a remake.
There was some random arty something or other in the beginning credits of the movie, which was weird, but tolerable.
The rest of the movie was just... it was great. It was on par with the Swedish movie, if not slightly better than it.
One of the reasons I think this version of this movie was better, for the North American audience at least, because from what I understand Swedish humor is very dry humor. This movie had the type of humor that is typical of American movies. Although it did keep some of that dry humor.
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Daniel Craig also plays Blomkvist very well. I wasn't too sure about how he would work in this role; not because of his acting skills but because I couldn't reconcile his appearance with the one the books describe of him.
While there were some changes to this version of the movie, they weren't too bad, not did they alter the story line in an unforgivable way.
I would suggest this movie to mystery lovers, as long as they don't mind violence, sexual content, rape and vulgar language.
Nighty night all!
Wow, that's a major "as long as...!" :)
ReplyDeleteIt really is. I feel it's good to stress those parts though, since although it is an excellent movie it is not light and fluffy.
ReplyDeleteI saw this over vacation as well, as a total newbie to the story though -- I've neither read it (shocking!) nor seen the Swedish movie. I though it was okay but kind of overwrought. Lisbeth as a character seems to be what carries this whole phenom--can a more experienced Trilogy devotee comment on that? She's unique, everything else was typical Serial Killer Plot. I also called that what's her name was going to be still alive right at the beginning.
ReplyDeleteBut in my opinion that's the way to do genre stories--conventional, comforting (comforting in that it is familiar) plot carried by a complex and memorable character.
On it's own, I found that the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a very loooooooong story with a somewhat predictable ending (admittedly). After reading the Girl who Played with Fire and the Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest however, the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo seems almost like a really elaborate character set up, and at 500 odd pages it does a really good job setting up the characters.
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