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Outch. I better never let you downsf2la wrote:He's slipping to 2.1Germangirl wrote:Hey, have mercy with your No 2sf2la wrote: Agreed, showing the rapist's penis wouldn't have added anything except maybe to further show how disgusting he is. I believe it's Fincher's call, not the actor's. I think they know going in if nudity is required of them. I say failure to Fincher for positioning the corner of the pillowcase too perfectly.
Jeez, have any of these idiot "journalists" read the books. Blomkvist is not an action star. He is not James Bond for blep's sake. Stating that Connery would never do this kind of love scene is so seriously ignorant. As the one intelligent comment noted, this is "acting." Jeez.caramel wrote:Why Daniel Craig, Not Rooney Mara, Is the Real 'Girl' in 'Dragon Tattoo'
What happened to 007?
In “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” the swaggering, lady-killing Daniel Craig is practically a damsel in distress.
As investigative reporter Mikael Blomkvist, Craig leaves the gun-slinging and bare-knuckle beating to his sleuthing partner, Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara).
[SPOILER ALERT]
In a pivotal scene, it is Craig who is tied up by a serial killer. The film implies that he would join a long list of victims were it not for a golf club wielded by Salander. Throughout the ordeal, he barely puts up a fight.
It’s left to Salander to ask as the villain escapes from his torture chamber, “May I kill him?”
Over the course of the nearly three-hour mystery, Salander will also beat up a hapless mugger and exact gruesome revenge on a rapist.
In contrast, Craig’s Blomkvist is shot at, nearly vomits at the sight of a mutilated pet, and never lifts anything more dangerous than a pen -- which in David Fincher’s adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s crime novel is a lot less mighty than the sword or even Salander’s cursor.
In a refreshing change of pace, Craig's female cohort is physically and mentally superior. Too often, it seems, mainstream movies force actresses to twiddle their thumbs until their male costars can save or seduce them.
Not this time.
As David Denby notes in his New Yorker review of the film, “In this movie, [Craig] is modest, quiet, even rather recessive. It’s Mara’s shot at stardom, and he lets her have it.”
It’s as if he’s playing, in sexist movie terms, "the girl." The frequently shirtless Craig almost seems to be doing penance for all of his chasing after women as James Bond. This time, the British actor allows himself to be the object of desire.
In a twist that would be unimaginable for say, Sean Connery, Craig lets Mara drive the love train when it comes to their between-the-sheets encounters.
It’s she who seduces him, while he raises a few mild objections about his age and the impact a hook up might have on their working relationship.
That differs from Larsson’s portrayal of Blomkvist. In the book, the journalist is much more sexually promiscuous. Although the movie retains Blomkvist's affair with his editor Erika Berger (Robin Wright), it jettisons his other sexual liaisons.
That was a deliberate choice, screenwriter Steven Zaillian said in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly.
“I'm a fan of the book -- I like it very much -- but when I was reading it at a certain point I thought, am I reading 'Shampoo?'” Zaillian told the magazine. “Is this Warren Beatty or is this Mikael Blomkvist? I didn't drop those things in order to make him more sympathetic.
It was really just that they were unnecessary to the story."
Carnal relations aside, Craig does piece together some important clues early in the mystery, but his investigation is more or less at a dead-end until he enlists the computer hacking, motorcycle straddling Salander. In short order, Salander is able to link a series of apparently disconnected murders with a few clicks of the cursor and a couple of visits to Swedish police stations.
In one scene, a kindly police officer asks Salander if she’s had anything to eat before she looks at photos of a savage murder scene. He’s concerned, he says, that she might be sick.
As Mara’s butt-kicking Salander demonstrates throughout the Nordic thriller, there’s no reason to worry.
Craig’s Blomkvist, on the other hand, better look at those pictures on an empty stomach.
http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/w ... ttoo-34047
I read it differently. I thought it merely points out how different his char is compared to the action figure he is known for. I didn't see it as snarky.tampa wrote: Jeez, have any of these idiot "journalists" read the books. Blomkvist is not an action star. He is not James Bond for blep's sake. Stating that Connery would never do this kind of love scene is so seriously ignorant. As the one intelligent comment noted, this is "acting." Jeez.
Me too. I read it as a compliment to Daniel.caramel wrote:I read it differently. I thought it merely points out how different his char is compared to the action figure he is known for. I didn't see it as snarky.tampa wrote: Jeez, have any of these idiot "journalists" read the books. Blomkvist is not an action star. He is not James Bond for blep's sake. Stating that Connery would never do this kind of love scene is so seriously ignorant. As the one intelligent comment noted, this is "acting." Jeez.
But the comment about Connery never playing a part like this did strike me as snarky. True it did quote the positive New Yorker comment about DC's performance. OK. I'll back off a bit. But I still felt the article was kind of slanted to get attention and it is being widely spread on the web.sf2la wrote:Me too. I read it as a compliment to Daniel.caramel wrote:I read it differently. I thought it merely points out how different his char is compared to the action figure he is known for. I didn't see it as snarky.tampa wrote: Jeez, have any of these idiot "journalists" read the books. Blomkvist is not an action star. He is not James Bond for blep's sake. Stating that Connery would never do this kind of love scene is so seriously ignorant. As the one intelligent comment noted, this is "acting." Jeez.
But the comment about Connery never playing a part like this did strike me as snarky. True it did quote the positive New Yorker comment about DC's performance. OK. I'll back off a bit. But I still felt the article was kind of slanted to get attention and it is being widely spread on the web.sf2la wrote:Me too. I read it as a compliment to Daniel.caramel wrote:I read it differently. I thought it merely points out how different his char is compared to the action figure he is known for. I didn't see it as snarky.tampa wrote: Jeez, have any of these idiot "journalists" read the books. Blomkvist is not an action star. He is not James Bond for blep's sake. Stating that Connery would never do this kind of love scene is so seriously ignorant. As the one intelligent comment noted, this is "acting." Jeez.
It's the now familier refrain, comparing and referring what Daniel does to Bond rather than assess any new role he does on it's own merits. Okay , perhaps fair enough to make it once in a review because the presence of Bond (apparently) cannot be ignored, but then to go on about it says to me either lack of imagination or laziness on the part of the journalist".tampa wrote:
But the comment about Connery never playing a part like this did strike me as snarky. True it did quote the positive New Yorker comment about DC's performance. OK. I'll back off a bit. But I still felt the article was kind of slanted to get attention and it is being widely spread on the web.
Totally agree with you, but all those scenes were relevant and needed in the storyline, even The Hunger. There was very little room to convey the predatory nature of the women without Jerry getting treated like that. Anything less would have watered down the point.tbossmc2000 wrote: In the US we would consider Hunger soft pron same as OFOTN. Daniel has done some pretty exposed sex in front of the camera.
Can't speak for LITD never saw that one. Sylvia is artistc in the nude scene.
HS making love on the flower sacks was artistic as well. Both were really beautiful love scenes with passion and gentleness. Love watching Daniel so graceful with a woman.
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