The Artist and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

[ericadawn16]

There's something that has to be slightly ironic about being in a theatre built in 1926 where you're watching an audience watching a film in 1927. Now, it was fancier than Tampa Theatre. It had the full orchestra instead of just an organ and a lot more people in the audience but still, when you're surrounded by 1926 oppulence...I was amused. It was clear that the filmmakers were expecting you to see it at a Multiplex where the contrast between movie going now and movie going there would be easily seen.

Still, I LOVED The Artist, not as astounding as Hugo but worthy of all of its accolades. Would you have ever thought John Goodman...in a Best Picture film?

But you can't see The Artist at Tampa Theatre tomorrow at 3 PM because...
They're showing The Muppet Movie!
I wish I could go but I have to work. :(
If you do go, try to spot Princess Leia:


Also, we went on Christmas so the organist played Christmas carols. It was beautiful, like church but without the sermonizing.

Okay, if anyone has read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I have some questions.

In the book, does she...?

Keep deferring to Google?
She's a hacker. Shouldn't she be using a metasearch engine? I mean, I do because Google annoys me with their search results. It's my back-up search engine.

Eat Happy Meals?
I love kids meals. They're cheap and have nice portions but the way they kept showing the box and McDonalds...it distracted me and took me out of the moment. I suppose it could have been symbolic of her arrested development or to contrast with the serious nature of what was happening, BUT...

Both Google and McDonalds just came across as blatant product placement, eww.

So, tell me I'm wrong and both were in the book. Also, Erik better not become evil in The Avengers because aside from Thor, my mom is convinced that Stellan only plays bad guys. First, he kills Norrington. Now, he tries to kill Daniel Craig.

Also, there were major changes from book to screen about the ending but no one will tell us what they were. My mom was also concerned about whether they get back together. I told her Wiki said they did by the end of the series.

I'm also excited about Daniel Radcliffe hosting Saturday Night Live TONIGHT!!! Woohoo!
I hope they don't waste him.

Comments

[amerally.livejournal.com]

No and no, neither were in the book. I haven't seen the American version, but I saw the Swedish one, which was really good. I recommend watching the Swedish movie over reading the book to anyone who asks, which is unusual because I almost always prefer a book to a movie based on it.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I have been sort of curious about the originals since I saw the new Sherlock Holmes movie. My mom still says they should have gotten Noomi to reprise her role since she was just so awesome in Game of Shadows...I think she might have had to turn down Game of Shadows if that had happened.

[flamingo-bandit.livejournal.com]

I do remember some overt mentions of McDonalds throughout the books, though not Happy Meals; she stopped at least once as Irene Nesser and dined upon Big Macs occasionally, but preferred to live off sandwiches and microwave pizza. But yeah, I agree that the product placement was pretty . . . yeah.

Honestly, I kept hearing about these big dramatic changes between the book and the movie ending, but all it was is that in the book, Anita WAS living in England and made a call to Harriet in Australia, which they tracked. That and Anita stayed single so that Harriet could marry; in Australia Harriet and her husband had a sheep ranch, and H had a few kids.

In terms of getting back together [spoilerspoilerspoiler] they become friends again, but not so much romance. Which I like better, 'cause I loves me some platonic relationships, so.

[lunawho.livejournal.com]

They were both product placement. She doesn't use search engines in the book, and she was much more of a pizza eater in the novel than a McDonalds one. They do, however, have a lot of McDonalds in Sweden, so they were probably just utilising that.

And the Wiki is not really right about Salander and Blomkvist getting back together. They do make amends after everything he goes through to help her in the second and third novels, but they're never really a "couple," which was a nice switch I think from how most stories would take it.

And yes, there were some major changes, but nothing really to worry about. It's already been acknowledged by the writers of both the Swedish adaptations and the Fincher team that the sole purpose of that was to ensure people could read the book after seeing the film and not be bored by it.

And I definitely *do* encourage reading the books. Some of the most engaging modern novels I've read in years, and Larsson wove a lot of true life experience and things he saw as a journalist himself into the story that's not really noticeable if you see it only on visual media.

[zakath-nath.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed The Artist it's really good.

Did you try to see the OSS 117 movies by the same team Hazanavicius/Dujardin? Not exactly the same kind of movies, but very funny.

Speaking about Daniel Radcliffe, I can't wait for The Woman in Black!

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't heard about the OSS 117 movies.

I'm going to see it. I thought maybe it won't be so bad because it's PG-13 but it looks like it could still be pretty scary!

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the Hollywood version, but I'm annoyed that they remade it. The Swedish version was a world success, after all.