Dec. 11, 2011 at 8:00am with 9 notes
the girl with the dragon tattoodavid fincher
Over supper in New York recently David Fincher, the director of the film, said that he’d be happy if it sent new readers back to the book, but that he was more concerned about the people — in America, eight and a half million so far — who have already read the novel. While remaining generally faithful, his movie ventures to alter what is for many a text practically as sacred as the Harry Potter novels. Among other things, it changes the book’s ending, renders one of the two chief villains more creepy and seductive, and makes Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist who is one of the story’s two main characters, less of a male bimbo. That the movie also enlarges and deepens the role of the book’s other main character, Lisbeth Salander — an androgynous, punkish computer hacker with a photographic memory and a shortage of social skills — will probably come as welcome news to most fans of the Millennium trilogy, of which “Dragon Tattoo” is the first volume. But Mr. Fincher said that he still fretted over how viewers will react to his “reimaginings, compressions and reductions.” “My balsamic reductions,” he amended, laughing. Obsession, Reignited By Charles McGrath | The New York Times

Over supper in New York recently David Fincher, the director of the film, said that he’d be happy if it sent new readers back to the book, but that he was more concerned about the people — in America, eight and a half million so far — who have already read the novel. While remaining generally faithful, his movie ventures to alter what is for many a text practically as sacred as the Harry Potter novels. Among other things, it changes the book’s ending, renders one of the two chief villains more creepy and seductive, and makes Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist who is one of the story’s two main characters, less of a male bimbo.

That the movie also enlarges and deepens the role of the book’s other main character, Lisbeth Salander — an androgynous, punkish computer hacker with a photographic memory and a shortage of social skills — will probably come as welcome news to most fans of the Millennium trilogy, of which “Dragon Tattoo” is the first volume. But Mr. Fincher said that he still fretted over how viewers will react to his “reimaginings, compressions and reductions.”

“My balsamic reductions,” he amended, laughing.

Obsession, Reignited By Charles McGrath | The New York Times

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