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seriousficSo just back from seeing The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Good movie, but with subtitles, so naturally they’re remaking it for American audiences. And I think it could stand it, assuming that they don’t turn Lisbeth straight (although in this movie her bisexuality (?) is given so little shift that it’s practically fan service). It’s basically a thriller, so the two and a half hours seems excessive -- it has a bit of Return Of The King in its epilogueness. I’d be interested to see what comes of streamlining it, and maybe Hollywoodizing the weak ending (if you’re going to have a car chase, HAVE A CAR CHASE).
If Blomkvist is even necessary at all, it still takes way too long for him and Lisbeth to team up. You see, he’s this disgraced journalist who gets hired to solve a murder, then the eponymous Lisbeth is kinda stalking him and she helps out from afar like the Swedish gay baby of Barbara Gordon from Birds of Prey and Parker from Leverage. It makes her seem more like a sidekick than the big damn hero, and if the movie's named after you, you should get to be the big damn hero. Although since fandom is a bit het up at the moment about ”together, they fight crimes!” pairings of humorless by-the-book women and brilliant but eccentric men, I suppose it’s a bit neat that here the straight man is… uh… a straight man and the funny man is a woman.
I don’t know, maybe they just wanted a nice, likable boy so no one thought they had read Y: The Last Man with a bit too much gusto. Do they have “oh, shit, this movie is for real people, we’re not an indie movie, you’re allowed to enjoy this even if you’re not a lesbian!” in Sweden? But still, you could cut out Blomkvist without losing much. Give what little he does that isn’t covered by Lisbeth to Henrik, beef up that character so his ending has more weight. Plus, , instead of “girl saves boy,” you could have “girl saves self.” Imagine the pop if she let Martin rant away, all while she’s calmly pulling a lockpick from her bracelet because oh, shit, after she got raped she learned how to pick locks. Then an escape/chase/fight scene and she goes home to her weirded-out-but-tolerant girlfriend.
If Blomkvist is even necessary at all, it still takes way too long for him and Lisbeth to team up. You see, he’s this disgraced journalist who gets hired to solve a murder, then the eponymous Lisbeth is kinda stalking him and she helps out from afar like the Swedish gay baby of Barbara Gordon from Birds of Prey and Parker from Leverage. It makes her seem more like a sidekick than the big damn hero, and if the movie's named after you, you should get to be the big damn hero. Although since fandom is a bit het up at the moment about ”together, they fight crimes!” pairings of humorless by-the-book women and brilliant but eccentric men, I suppose it’s a bit neat that here the straight man is… uh… a straight man and the funny man is a woman.
I don’t know, maybe they just wanted a nice, likable boy so no one thought they had read Y: The Last Man with a bit too much gusto. Do they have “oh, shit, this movie is for real people, we’re not an indie movie, you’re allowed to enjoy this even if you’re not a lesbian!” in Sweden? But still, you could cut out Blomkvist without losing much. Give what little he does that isn’t covered by Lisbeth to Henrik, beef up that character so his ending has more weight. Plus, , instead of “girl saves boy,” you could have “girl saves self.” Imagine the pop if she let Martin rant away, all while she’s calmly pulling a lockpick from her bracelet because oh, shit, after she got raped she learned how to pick locks. Then an escape/chase/fight scene and she goes home to her weirded-out-but-tolerant girlfriend.
