How Many Movies In Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Series?

I have seen all 3 (well, 6, actually) Swedish films, and I’ve seen the American film. I”m blown away by the Swedish films and think Noomi is extraordinary, and can’t imagine anyone else in the role. And then I watch the American one and I can’t believe how amazing Rooney is, how she embodies Lisbeth in such a heartwrenching, yet survivalistic way. Kudos to both. Seriously. I do love the darkness of the Swedish films more, and the regular look of the actors.

Unfairly most people say the Rooney Mara version is better, and it is great. Both Rapace and Mara great imo, because they seem to evoke the way the character must have been written in the book, which is rarely the case with any adaptation. Swedish version feels more authentic and too the bone. While the American version is more skill, and craft.

I see a lot of embedded thought, people rooting for Naomi . Its the original, perfectly executed movies and impeccable acting by the actors. watched the Swedish version loved it and decided to read the book. Then came the Hollywood version, I was skeptical still I give it a chance and watched it. Damnn… Rooney nailed it, it was like re-reading the book, except a few plot changes… and I dare say, I prefer the Hollywood version for the acting, score and the pace of the movie., it perfectly brings out the suspense u feel while reading the book but plot wise I prefer the swedish version just coz I find it more honest. #JustMyOpinion

I find that a much more powerful experience than trying to stay true to a book that I will never read. As for Mara, she might have done a good job, but as for me she just doesn’t cut the mustard. She’s an actress in a movie that plays everything safe – especially the casting – and thus FEELS safe and never breaks new ground, a shame from the director of Se7en. It takes one Noomi Rapace to carry an ok movie and take it over the top, it takes half of Hollywood to turn it into business as usual.

I red all trilogy before perusal the swedish movies and found it nothing more than amusing… then, by chance, I saw the Larsson’s series on tv and suddenly fell in love with Lisbeth Salander. So, I red again all the Millennium with much more interest, because now Lisbeth had a real face, the Noomi Rapace’s one. I’m of the opinion that she’s and will be for ever the only real mc coy for all that concerns Lisbeth Salander on screen. The only flaw you can blame her is to be too much beautiful in comparison with the character described by Stieg Larsson. Now I find Noomi first among my favourite actresses, I never miss her films and I’m still thanking Stieg Larsson who let me know her …. Rooney hasn’t done a bad work but her Lisbeth doesn’t touch my heart.

If you read the book, you would know that the American version was so much more accurate to it than the Swedish version. I’m not going to argue with who is better a better actor though. Rooney Mara and Noomi Rapace both had their own take on Lisbeth, and they both essentially played different characters with the same name. So while I prefer the accuracy of the American version, I’m not going to argue over who was a better actor.

Rooney was much more like what character of Lisbeth was actually described as. A small girl who looked like a doll. She was 27 but looked like a teenager. Noomi is beautiful but she looked too old for the part. Rooney actually looked to be the five foot, ninety pound woman. People are putting too much emphasis on comparing her to Noomi. I compared her to the book and I say she’s a better fit.

No, you’re perfectly right. And the original trilogy is so much more authentic than the American one. It’s a Swedish movie about a Swedish story playing in Sweden with brilliant actors. I hate the perfectly styled dialogues of Hollywood movies. People don’t always speak perfect sentences so I loved to see how the actors tried to play as realistic as possible.

No competition. Noomi Rapace brought Lisbeth Salanda alive first and then the US, who seem incapable of anything but prequels, sequels and reboots these days, just copied the movie. I love the original trilogy precisely because it isn’t a soulless American product. The writing, the depth of the characters and plot, the production quality and realism of the whole trilogy are what set this movie and countless other foreign movies apart from the Western mainstream cinema. Christopher Nolan is one of only a few Western directors who is creating anything new in Western cinema. One could believe that the 2011 version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was only produced so that illiterate Americans didn’t have to bother reading subtitles and have all the character and plot subtleties spelt out like some educational program for slow learners. Today’s American film industry comprises only ideological propagandist screenwriters and unimaginative businessmen unwilling to take any risks.

Noomi is the better actress imo. She’s more dynamic and she’s got Lisbeth’s soul in her eyes! Rooney has a tendency to appear robotic rather than shut, and that’s not how I imagined Lisbeth. It’s down to personal taste I suppose. I like the chemistry between Rooney & Craigh better than Noomi-Nykvist though and Rooneys clothes are more like the Lisbeth I imagined.

Noomi Repace. The only reason is that the whole movie she was the one in charge, she didn’t take shit from anyone and she didn’t need permission from anyone. In the remake they make Lisbeth seem like “the broken girl” and “look at me, I’m sad” instead of the hard shell of a person she was in the book. The remake had her asks permission to get in bed with Mikael and in the original (and the book) she takes control even when he protested against it.

If I hadn`t seen original version of Millenium Trilogy first, I would be thrilled with Rooney as Lisbeth, but unfortunately Noomi Rapace has ruined it for me, because for me she kind of upgraded the character from the book, ensouled her and gave her power. She definately made her more robust and hard core physically than it is in the book, but I like it.

I didn’t really have that much of a problem with Rooney Mara’s version of Lisbeth (of course I preferred Noomi); it was the film’s script and the adaptation of her character that kind of bugged me at a point. At the end, she asks Mikhael’s permission to kill Martin. Lisbeth would NEVER do that in the novels; she’d make the statement that she will kill him, not ask the “adult” if it’s ok.

Quite the contrary, as cited quite a lot, it wasn’t Rooney who depicted the behavior spot-on, it was the script which depicted it correctly. Noomi took a decent script to another level. Forgetting the disturbance and falling into past behaviors is part of the character’s development. The novels explain these behaviors quite clearly. What does looks have to do with mental instability? I do kinda agree with the directing, though.

When I read the books a while ago, I pictured someone who looked a lot like Rooney’s version. She’s supposed to be rail-thin, and short in size. Noomi looked like she could kick my ass, which is probably what the Swedish director intended, so that’s not her fault. The performances are both GREAT, but in my opinion, Rooney Mara wins because she’s visually closer to the true Lisbeth Salander, and the fake accent didn’t bother me.

Are you aware of what we’re talking about here? How Rooney and Noomi did the role. What version you like the most. Not only looking but what they said and what they did in the movie. If you want to reflect it all on the screenwriter yourself, you shouldn’t write Rooney and Noomi’s names in your first comment, you know.

One scene had Lisbeth telling her co-sleuth and sometime lover Mikael Blomkvist everything about her sordid past — “page after page,” Rapace recalls. “I said: ‘You’re kidding me. She does not talk about herself. I can’t do this.’ ” this is from an interview,noomi rebelled,she is a fighter,i suppose like lisbeth,rooney not,she made simply the assignment,what the others said her to do

I’m from Spain so I watched both versions with subtitles, I all I can say is that I loved Rooney as Lisbeth. Don’t get me wrong, Noomi is simply amazing and outstanding and she was the best of the swedish movie (actually I think that she was the only thing that made the movie acceptable, I honestly think that is a bad adaptation) but Rooney is true to the book. Love Noomi so much, but physically and emotionally Rooney killed it as Lisbeth, her emotional transformation was only seen in US version

amen. Geez people have such hate for all things American. I have not seen the swedish version and didn’t ever know there was one until I found out about it a few months ago. But thanks to the American movie I have looked into and found that it looks good as well. But Damn,people don’t need to hate on America. I am proud to be American and proud of all the country has accomplished. To be honest I am starting to take the jealousy as a compliment though lol lol lol

Now I’m not basing my opinions on who was the better actress, but rather what I saw the film (and promotions of the film) portrayal of Lisbeth. The first American poster promoting this film had a shirtless Lisbeth being held from behind across the shoulders by a fully clothed Mikael. While the Swedish poster had a fully clothed (hood, long sleeves, long pants and boots) Lisbeth siting in front of a fireplace with a picture of Harriet above it. Now what do you get from those two images?

This is an unfair contest… a lot of people are gonna go with the American version simply because they don’t like perusal subbed/dubbed films, even if they do, it can distract a portion of people’s attention from a lot of the details on the screen. Also because the American version is much more accessible, many people who see the poster of it will be completely unaware that the entire trilogy is already out in another country. Maybe i’m thinking in too much detail.

Excuse me? You’re going to accuse me of not knowing how to read a book now? Rooney looked like Hollywood to me. She didn’t feel real. I never believed she could be a real person. I believed Noomi’s character could exist. That’s more important to me. I have to separate literal book interpretation from movie. They are two different genre. For my money I enjoyed Noomi’s performance not just as an adaptation, but as a standalone performance. Rooney I can only appreciate in adaptation

I think Roony’s expressions, body postures, and overall demeanor better fit the part as someone with a troubled and abused past. While Noomi’s acting is beautiful but I think in terms of her portrayal of Lisabeth Salander, her body language and expressions appear a bit too imposed and confident. That and her costume design/makeup is that of a mainstream goth-punk type (too clean-cut)…keeps screaming Selene from Underworld at me for that specific reason.

and rooney’s fans are like”she’s better because of the look and she’s so vulnerable oooh”and yes rooney is winning and is scandalous,but how many people that vote rooney have seen also noomi?the american version has been seen more than the swedish version and noomi in many countries has the complication of the language,swedish is less familiar than english,then the subtitles,it demonstrates how of great impact she is and for who has seen both and prefers rooney,that limited taste you have

@SirTimothyMarton What didn’t you like about Rooney’s performance? I can’t tell you why I think she’s great if you say she was awful but give no reasons for why. On it being a remake it is not one, it’s a new adaptation of the book, and it’s actually much closer to the book than the Swedish version was. David Fincher doesn’t make movies just to cash in, he makes movies with an artistic intention. A hollywood “Dragon Tattoo” was inevitable. The books have sold over 65 million fucking copies.

Rooney made the whole movie for me! Much more depth and acting,despite what everyone was telling me all the time: “European cinema is superior to Hollywood crap,blablabla… that’s a lame american cover of the great swedish original,etc. etc.” Then I’m perusal Noomi’s Salander,really trying to believe her,and I can’t. Why is her acting being pointed out as better? She’s walking around with that frozen frown on her (otherwise attractive) face and thats it!

you are judged by your looks, as lisbeth. talking about the movie, noomi portrayed a heroine and her acts of vengeance felt righteous. a book always rely on the mindset and cultural baggage of the reader and the ability of the writer to give richness and depth to the psique of the character. a movie character feels natural if in deed has depth, the actress knows how to put that suit on and flows with the argument. because of this “noomi vs mara” goes to noomi, unless lisbeth true need was a dad

@rachelsOne Oh i didn’t know you read people’s minds as if that’s why they remade it. Im a film student studying to become a director. When we are inspired by something we make it….we don’t say ah that sucked i wanna remake it… >_> and what are you going off about foreigner and freakin americans?!?!?!?!??!?! That shouldn’t even be the subject of this movie whatsoever….. wow

Well…To Me, I did read the Book and Mara did ‘appear’ more Psychotic but Rapace just did it for Me. I found Her very believable although by no means attractive as seems to have become a debate. When She Encountered Pain being Memory or real She just seemed more in touch with Her Character. I’ll rewatch the U.S. version as soon as work allows but I just didn’t feel Her depth as much as Rapace. This could also be Director vs Director. I suppose I felt Original Film was Better in Swedish to.

I actually thought both Rapace and Mara did excellent jobs as Lisbeth, but, if I had to give the edge to one, it would be to Rapace simply because she played the role first. I saw Rooney’s performance first and it inspired me to then see the original Swedish version of the film. Both the American and Swedish versions of the film are worth seeing.

if you’ve seen both movie you’ll can really say that both movies fallow the book pretty close except for some small differences the US version fallowed the book a little bit closer towards the end then the original. I also noticed that Rooney’s attempted at lisbeth was more “joker” type crazy and Noomi’s was more of that silent don’t mess with me or I’ll fuck you up type crazy. all in all i enjoyed both movie’s but i like the sweden version better as its characters seemed a little more realistic

i haven’t read the books so i’m not conditioned and i couldn’t care less lisbeth is small,seems a teenager etc,i value the performances,rooney is pander,she moves to pity the audiance,she’s banal and dull ops “vulnerable” and sadly people like the stereotype of dull(ops again)woman,noomi and her lisbeth are far better,really fantastics and if really rooney’s lisbeth is like the book’s one,noomi not only overcomes rooney but also stieg larsson with all the respect for him

you must be high…. honestly what are you talking about? I am from the U.S. Also yes I can read just fine. I replied to your comment telling you that you are just another person whining about how America remade this movie. The reason I replied to your comment was because I think its stupid that all the Sweden folk think that our version is bad just because its a “remake”. We made a movie based off a book. It is better than the Swedish version. end of story. learn to think before you type.

for those of you who profess to read the book (most likely AFTER perusal the movies…. and reading a few stupid articles online) stop telling me accuracy this, accuracy that. For me Rooney Mara was like a good girl trying to go bad. Like a child trying to be tough. Noomi could fuck you just staring at you. Name me one scene in which Rooney ever made you feel like that. And if she did, she better nod from the master she stole from, Noomi Rapace. Average work for Fincher btw.