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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ( film)
film by David Fincher
This article is about the English-language film. For the Swedish-language film based on the same novel, see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ( film).
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a neo-noirmysterythriller film directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. Starring Daniel Craig as journalist Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander, it tells the story of Blomkvist's investigation to find out what happened to a girl from a wealthy family who disappeared 40 years ago. He recruits the help of Salander, a computer hacker.
Sony Pictures began development on the film in It took the company a few months to obtain the film adaptation rights to the novel, while also recruiting Zaillian and Fincher. The casting process for the lead roles was intense; Craig faced scheduling conflicts, and a number of actresses were sought for
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Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Move over, Noomi Rapace -- there's a new Lisbeth Salander in town. And she's as kick-ass as ever.
The relatively unknown Rooney Mara has pulled off an unlikely cinematic coup, claiming Rapace's iconic role as her own. As the tough, taut and tortured Salander, Mara all but owns the new English-language version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with her brave and stunning performance. If there is any justice in the movie world, she has hacked, pummeled and snarled her way to an Oscar nomination.
For the rare film fan who hasn't read Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy of crime novels, seen the trilogy of Swedish (but energetic, and therefore not very Swedish) films, or otherwise been exposed to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's plot and characters, I'll summarize the movie as best I can without spoilers. (This isn't easy for such a dense, complicated story with plenty of surprises.)
The story opens as grizzled Swedish journ
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by J.M. Tyree
from Film QuarterlySpring , Vol. 65, No. 3
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, David Fincher&#;s latest antiblockbuster, is a baroque rethink of the serial-killer subgenre; a subtly retuned adaptation of the first novel in Stieg Larsson&#;s penny-dreadful Millennium trilogy; a technical achievement of narrative compression and pacing in a mainstream thriller; and the most recent proof of the director&#;s trademark habit of unleashing bad vibes in the multiplex. It&#;s a sick kind of holiday movie. The story is bookended by two Christmases—a year its two protagonists resehandling among murderers, sexual predators, and a wealthy family with a history of sadistic brutality (and Nazi sympathies), all stirred up by a cold case involving the disappearance of a sixteen-year-old girl from a private island. With good reason, Fincher called The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo &#;the feel-bad movie of the season.&#; The director ren