I will continue by saying that I am also not, as a rule, a fan of American re-make of foreign movies.
I will continue further by saying that I think Noomi Rapace embodied Lisbeth Salander perfectly in the Swedish Millenium Trilogy. She is my current, and strongest, girl crush.
Given these parameters, it's kinda funny that every time I see the poster for the American version for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, I just about have a mental orgasm:
The pirated trailer for the US version was compelling enough, but this poster? Omg, omg, hawt!
Daniel Craig looks as weasely as ever--not to mention possibly constipated--but seriously? He is so much better to portray Mikael Blomkvist than this dude:
I'm a ladies' man, yeah! No one is impervious to my charms.Lest I be accused of being a typical shallow American, with no concept of beauty outside our narrowly-defined standards here in the big ol' US of A, I will say this:
Uh, well, maybe guilty as charged. But! I simply don't see how the Swedish version's Mikael Blomkvist could possibly be so appealing, and it strained credibility. In addition to lacking physical appeal, I just don't see how he even offered any sort of charismatic je ne sais quoi that Larsson's character possessed. Vaguely rodent-like though he is, I think Craig's a pretty good choice for our American remake. Not conventionally attractive, but still--there's something so elementally raw and sexy about him (at least in the movie poster) that no amount of feigned dyspepsia can diminish.
Psychologically, the poster is hot. I can't even begin to go into describing how, exactly, without giving you (and perhaps me, too) an unwanted picture of my psyche. But even that movie picture pales in comparison to the uncensored (that's right, it gets hotter) version:
I will, however, lament the lack of Noomi Rapace in the American version. Have I mentioned she's my current girlcrush and I would happily let her kick my ass and steal my lunch money? Yes, plz!
Let's just save some time. You give me your lunch money,
and I won't have to kill you dead. I have piercings that could impale you.
Uh, well, maybe guilty as charged. But! I simply don't see how the Swedish version's Mikael Blomkvist could possibly be so appealing, and it strained credibility. In addition to lacking physical appeal, I just don't see how he even offered any sort of charismatic je ne sais quoi that Larsson's character possessed. Vaguely rodent-like though he is, I think Craig's a pretty good choice for our American remake. Not conventionally attractive, but still--there's something so elementally raw and sexy about him (at least in the movie poster) that no amount of feigned dyspepsia can diminish.
Psychologically, the poster is hot. I can't even begin to go into describing how, exactly, without giving you (and perhaps me, too) an unwanted picture of my psyche. But even that movie picture pales in comparison to the uncensored (that's right, it gets hotter) version:
I will, however, lament the lack of Noomi Rapace in the American version. Have I mentioned she's my current girlcrush and I would happily let her kick my ass and steal my lunch money? Yes, plz!
Let's just save some time. You give me your lunch money,and I won't have to kill you dead. I have piercings that could impale you.
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