Hey everyone,
I know I promised a Clint Eastwood review every week and I've sort of dropped the ball on that. I will be continuing on that path soon, but there is a film trailer I kind of wanted to mention before I go back into that stuff. It is the trailer for "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." Now, if you are friends with me on facebook, you know I generally post new trailers on my wall with a snippet of my opinion, and I did that with this trailer initially a week or so ago. However, after much thought I decided to give this a further bump, even though this film doesn't come out until december.
The film is based on the popular trilogy of books by Stieg Larsson, about two people (Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander). In the first one, Dragon Tattoo, they attempt to solve the mystery around the disappearance of a young lady. It is through this disappearance that we learn more of said family, the Vangers, and their own past. I think thats about as much into the books as I can get without spoiling anything.
Anyway, I had read the book, currently on the second one, and I must say, these books are spectacular. The characters are VERY well defined, Mr. Larsson is a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to writing the backgrounds of the characters. The story is well paced and its sort of written like a journal, so it flows well and doesn't really fall apart, it makes you want to go on to the next book. But I am losing track, on to the trailer.
The Swedish film version I though was ok, it definitely had its moments where it strayed from the books a bit. The cast was great, particularly Noomi Rapace as Liusbeth. Now, Rooney Mara (Social Network) takes the role with, what Im considering a perfect casting choice, Daniel Craig as Blomkvist. That's where I think this film will succeed, the cast I think is perfect. Stellan Skarsgard as Martin Vanger, the great Christopher Plummer as Henrik Vanger (the head of the family), and Robin Wright as Erika Berger, a "coworker" of Blomkvist. The trailer I think is very well done, it doesn't give much away, but if you've read the book, you will have a good idea of whats going on. Also, the great David Fincher (Seven, Social Network) is directing and Steve Zaillian (Schindler's List) is adapting it, I mean come on. Definitely keep this one on the radar come Christmas time, Im already feeling this is going to be a heavy hitter come oscars, but I also said that about Social Network, so we shall see.
p.s. The tagline for the film is "Evil Shall with Evil be Expelled" I think that's just an awesome tagline for this film.
Here's a link to the trailer, since my original attempt got taken down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yUwXwrR35U
Movie's I've Seen Recently:
Water for Elephants: B
Win Win: A (see this if you get a chance)
Bridesmaids: B-
