Lisbeth Salander Is Totally Awesome, Part One

[craigoxbrow]

James Bond is her sidekick.

She's about four times more awesome than necessary to resolve the plot (and subplots) in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. In complexity terms it's a bit like dropping Batman on an unusually nasty episode of CSI. Which may be why she doesn't actually join the main plot until halfway through.

Not having read the books, I was prepared for the almost unrelenting grimness of the subject matter and some of the events, but not for the horrible-but-minor-origin-story-ness of Lisbeth's first subplot and the "uh, really?" daftness of some of the plot twists.

Still a great intro sequence.

Trailers: Young Magneto versus sex addiction, Liam Neeson Versus The Arctic Circle (having already defeated Paris and Berlin he needs a larger target), MIB3 looking a tad out of place, Clint Eastwood versus J. Edgar Hoover, and Steven Spielberg, Loki, Sherlock and a horse versus the Kaiser. None having any of the "gotta see this opening day" factor of the trailer for above.

Comments

[invisible-al.livejournal.com]

I concur she does indeed kick ass. The book mainly involves more faffing about to get to the point :). It's still worth a read though, not sure about the 2nd and 3rd books though. I hope if they end up filming them they take more liberties with the source text.

Thing that made me go wtf? was the opening credits, thought I'd walked into a Bond movie by mistake, gorgeous but not what I was expecting.

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

I've just seen the 2009 Swedish film (in Swedish, with subtitles), which was excellent (although it felt typically odd, as with many foreign films). I do like how every character hasn't had two weeks of Hollywood airbrushing prior to appearing. Trivia point: it's Noomi Rapace's birthday today.

If I watch the American version, I'll give you a comparison (slightly put off by some severe lack of eyebrows).