{"id":19988,"date":"2011-12-23T00:54:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T00:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-mr-bonds-dragon-tattoo-wont-leave-much-of-a-mark\/"},"modified":"2011-12-23T00:54:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T00:54:02","slug":"the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-mr-bonds-dragon-tattoo-wont-leave-much-of-a-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/23\/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-mr-bonds-dragon-tattoo-wont-leave-much-of-a-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: Mr Bond&#8217;s dragon tattoo won&#8217;t leave much of a mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&#038;authornamef=Chris+Tookey\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Tookey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last updated at 12:54 AM on 23rd December 2011<\/p>\n<p><span>The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (18)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Verdict:<\/span> Grim, stylish&#8230; but a bit boring<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong><br \/>\n<span><span><span title=\"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: Mr Bond's dragon tattoo won't leave much of a mark\n\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"Chris Tookey\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"2011-12-23T00:54+0000\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nRating: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rating\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/b90drating_showbiz_2.gif\" width=\"55\" height=\"9\" alt=\"2 Star Rating\" title=\"2 out of 5\" \/><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Right from its parody Bond-style opening title sequence, it\u2019s clear that David Fincher has decided to turn Stieg Larsson\u2019s best-selling novel into an anti-007 movie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The current incumbent of the Bond tuxedo, Daniel Craig, is cast against ladykilling, tough-guy type as Mikael Blomkvist, a cardigan-clad, crusading journalist for a Left-wing Stockholm magazine, who\u2019s in disgrace after a court\u00a0case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On his uppers, financially and spiritually, he agrees to write the biography of, and find the missing niece of, a wealthy industrialist (Christopher Plummer).<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2011\/12\/23\/article-2077830-0F3EED5E00000578-431_468x312.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"312\" alt=\"Hacked off: Rooney Mara as Lisbeth, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hacked off: Rooney Mara as Lisbeth, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Unlike 007, Blomkvist is physically awkward and needs rescuing by the female, but not very feminine title character Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), who doubles as his research assistant and occasional bedmate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u2018I\u2019m not sure this is a good idea,\u2019 he protests, as she starts to seduce him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But it\u2019s clear from her expression that his views on the matter are unimportant. He\u2019s the victim, not the predator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The one affinity Fincher\u2019s film has with the Bond franchise is an obsession with hi-tech gadgetry. Lisbeth\u2019s unique selling point is her experience as a hacker, which she uses to invade people\u2019s privacy with the ruthless expertise of a red\u2011top\u2019s private investigator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For a scrupulous journalist, Craig\u2019s Blomkvist seems curiously reluctant to emit even a mouse-like squeak of disapproval.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mara takes a more nuanced approach to Lisbeth than Noomi Rapace did in the original Swedish film. Mara shows the character\u2019s anxieties as well as her anger. She even asks Blomkvist\u2019s permission to go out and wreak lethal revenge on the principal villain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Craig is more charismatic than his Swedish predecessor, Michael Nyqvist, but his refusal even to attempt a Swedish accent makes him seem aloof from the material. Everyone else in the cast makes some effort to sound Scandinavian.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2011\/12\/23\/article-2077830-0F2C804000000578-957_468x386.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Grim: Daniel Craig plays Blomkvist with Rooney Mara\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Grim: Daniel Craig plays Blomkvist with Rooney Mara\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Style is more important in this version than emotion or story- telling. It doesn\u2019t make us care enough about the missing girl, and if you haven\u2019t read the book or seen the previous film version you may find it hard to follow the process of tracing her and the serial killer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Making the tone colder, more serious and less pulpy than the source material tends, paradoxically, to expose the story\u2019s sordid sensationalism and melodramatic excesses. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The movie suffers, most of all, from a stodgy pace and grotesque elephantiasis: two hours 40 minutes is very long for a thriller, especially one that isn\u2019t especially complex. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After the principal villain dies, Steven Zaillian\u2019s screenplay goes on to a very extended epilogue that feels slow and redundant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I\u2019m normally a fan of Fincher \u2014 especially his darker films such as Se7en, Zodiac and Fight Club \u2014 and he\u2019s deservedly built up a reputation as an auteur. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>This remake is more expensive and stylish than its Swedish predecessor, and that will endear it to many critics. To my mind, however, this is one of his lesser achievements, like The Game, Panic Room and Alien 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Audiences will spot the weaknesses of this, just as they cottoned on to the shortcomings of the critically praised Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>They\u2019ll spot the confused storyline, the lack of emotional involvement and, most of all, its monotony. Though not in monochrome, the film is so drained of colour that it could almost be in black and white. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And the tone throughout is so gloomy and solemn, the effect is the opposite of uplifting. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The master of the thriller genre, Alfred Hitchcock, knew that even the nastiest stories need light as well as shade. Fincher\u2019s too busy darkening his garish source material to care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>Original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-2077830\/The-Girl-With-The-Dragon-Tattoo-Mr-Bonds-dragon-tattoo-wont-leave-mark.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: Mr Bond's dragon tattoo won't leave much of a mark\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: Mr Bond&#8217;s dragon tattoo won&#8217;t leave much of a mark<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Chris Tookey Last updated at 12:54 AM on 23rd December 2011 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (18) Verdict: Grim, stylish&#8230; but a bit boring Rating: Right from its parody Bond-style opening title sequence, it\u2019s clear that David Fincher has decided to turn Stieg Larsson\u2019s best-selling novel into an anti-007 movie. The current incumbent of the Bond tuxedo, Daniel Craig, is cast against ladykilling, tough-guy type as Mikael Blomkvist, a cardigan-clad, crusading journalist for a Left-wing Stockholm magazine, who\u2019s in disgrace after a court\u00a0case<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: Mr Bond&#039;s dragon tattoo won&#039;t leave much of a mark - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/23\/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-mr-bonds-dragon-tattoo-wont-leave-much-of-a-mark\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: Mr Bond&#039;s dragon tattoo won&#039;t leave much of a mark - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Chris Tookey Last updated at 12:54 AM on 23rd December 2011 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (18) Verdict: Grim, stylish... but a bit boring Rating: Right from its parody Bond-style opening title sequence, it\u2019s clear that David Fincher has decided to turn Stieg Larsson\u2019s best-selling novel into an anti-007 movie. 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