The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Short description
Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist whose career has been damaged by a losing court case, is hired by Henrik Vanger, the elderly head of a wealthy Swedish industrial family, to look into a disappearance that has gone unexplained for four decades. Vanger's niece Harriet vanished from the family's island without a trace, and he believes a relative killed her. Lisbeth Salander, a young hacker under state guardianship, is drawn into the investigation and eventually works alongside Blomkvist, and the two turn up evidence of financial wrongdoing and old crimes that reaches well beyond one family.
David Fincher directed the film, the ninth of the thirteen features he has made, following The Social Network and preceding Gone Girl, from a screenplay by Steven Zaillian. Daniel Craig plays Blomkvist and Rooney Mara plays Salander, with Christopher Plummer as Henrik Vanger, Stellan Skarsgård as Martin Vanger, Robin Wright as Erika Berger and Yorick van Wageningen as Nils Bjurman, among a credited cast of ninety. The production, mounted by Columbia Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Yellow Bird, cost about 90 million dollars and returned roughly 233 million worldwide.
On IMDb it holds 7.8 out of 10 from some 526,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.4 from about 7,800 votes, while the critics' score stands at 7.6 from 256 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- Carey Mulligan, Elliot Page, Kristen Stewart, Natalie Portman, Mia Wasikowska, Keira Knightley, Anne Hathaway, Olivia Thirlby, Emily Browning, Eva Green, Scarlett Johansson, Sophie Lowe, Sarah Snook, Léa Seydoux, Emma Watson, Evan Rachel Wood, and Katie Jarvis were considered for the lead role.
- Johnny Depp, Viggo Mortensen, Brad Pitt, and George Clooney were considered for the lead male role.
- David Fincher rejected Scarlett Johansson for the role of Lisbeth Salander because he considered her too sexualized for the part.
- The filming period in Sweden coincided with the coldest winter in the last 20 years.
- Following a plan approved by Fincher himself, Rooney Mara got piercings in all the places required by the script in a single day, even though she had never worn earrings before.
- At the beginning of the film, Lisbeth Salander intends to give her guardian a book about Bobby Fischer. David Fincher, in turn, had planned to make a film about Fischer.
- Max von Sydow could have played Henrik Vanger.
- Daniel Craig's character sits in a diner after the trial, a diner where Ellen Nykvist, the daughter of actor Mikael Nykvist – who played Mikael Blomkvist in the Swedish "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" – worked while in school.
- In the film, Blomkvist tells Lisbeth that he had the same Triumph motorcycle when he was young. In reality, Rooney Mara's character rides a Honda CB350s motorcycle.
- To transform the lean and athletic Daniel Craig into the clumsy office worker Blomkvist, the costume designers dressed him in several layers of t-shirts and sweaters.
- In one scene, the character reads that Hans Erik Wennerström founded a company with a capital of $30 billion. However, the article shows that the capital is only 60 million krona, which corresponds to approximately $10 million.
- September 3, 1967, is the official date of Sweden's transition from left-hand to right-hand traffic. The girl disappeared in 1966. However, during the yacht club parade, it can be seen that all motorists are driving on the right side of the road and the steering wheels are on the left side of all cars, even though Sweden still had left-hand traffic at that time.
- In one scene, Martin pours wine from a bottle into a decanter, after which the decanter becomes almost full. But after a while, you can notice that the wine level in the decanter has decreased, even though no one has touched it.
- Mikael's MacBook is too modern for 2006. MacBooks with a black keyboard first began to be released in 2008.
- At the end of the film, in the cafe, Blomkvist throws a newspaper onto the table. A few seconds later, when a man approaches the table, it lies completely differently.
- When the hacker Plague first appears on screen, he is wearing a black t-shirt with a white logo of the band “Nine Inch Nails,” whose member Trent Reznor is the film’s composer.
- The film is based on Stieg Larsson's novel "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (Män som hatar kvinnor, 2004).
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