Even if the gorgeous Daniel Craig is going to play journalist Mikael Blomkvist, I am not sure I can trust them to get it right. I am rather glad that the Swedes managed to complete the tale of computer wunderkind Lisbeth Salander…
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest
I read the slightly blood curdling news recently, that Hollywood is about to remake the Dragon Tattoo trilogy of which The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest is the last book.
Even if the gorgeous Daniel Craig is going to play journalist Mikael Blomkvist, I am not sure I can trust them to get it right. I am rather glad that the Swedes managed to complete the tale of computer wunderkind Lisbeth Salander before the Americans got hold of it. We will just have to see what they do with it…
The third film opens with Lisbeth in hospital awaiting trial for three murders. She spends most of the first half of the film in her hospital bed recovering from her horrific injuries, watched over by the compassionate Dr Anders Jonasson, as Mikael begins to discover just how deep this conspiracy (yes, conspiracy) goes, and how long it has been going on.
Lisbeth is the linchpin of it all and obviously attempts are made to silence her. Mikael’s sister, Annika Giannini, unwillingly becomes her lawyer.
The problem is of course that Lisbeth, true to form, won’t trust, or talk anyone. She refuses to talk to her lawyer, to the police or to the loathsome court appointed psychiatrist Dr Peter Teleboran. All the while the other story of the secretive and covert “Section” plays alongside this. Also, there is the added subplot of Lisbeth’s giant of a brother, Ronald Neidermann, who is out to kill her (get in the queue).
As well as we know Lisbeth by this point – it is obvious that this line is not going to end well, for him anyway. This book was always the wordiest, and the least action-filled of the three. But surprisingly I thought they managed to get the pace pretty much right, though strangely it felt a little simple on story when there was just so much in the book.
The other character I have loved in all three of the films is the silent Stockholm in the background. The sets are all wonderful and I have just loved all the styling in the films.
All in all it was easily made to fit well with the other two films, and I still like Noomi Repace’s stoic, autistic take on Lisbeth. I wonder what the Americans will do with her then? We won’t really have to wait long to find out, now will we?
By Anya Brighouse, 28 November 2010.
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