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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Book Vs Movie

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“The Girl with the dragon tattoo” is a novel written by Stieg Larsoon, a Swedish journalist, which was published in 2005 and became an international bestseller. A Swedish company production created the film version in 2009. For study purposes, to compare and to analyses the similarities and differences between the book and the movie, both were read and watched. The plot has Mikael Blomkvist a Journalist and part-owner of the magazine Millennium as a main character, that by request of Henrik Vanger, a CEO of an industrial Corporation, starts an investigation to solve what happened to Henrik’s grandniece, Harriet, that went missing years ago. Lisbeth Salander, a computer hacker, ended up helping Blomkvist to solve the mystery of Harriet’s disappearance. …show more content…

On the book the author takes a couple of paragraphs to introduce who is the character, taking time to describe the background, story and physically describing the character, while in the movie, throughout the story the viewer gets the understand of the story of each character and the movie being a visual tool, within the first scene that a character is presented, the viewer already knows how he is physically. For example, Lisbeth Slander, in the book it is much more detailed her characteristics as in “…, but she dyed her hair raven black. She looked as though she had just emerged from a week-long orgy with a gang of hard rockers” (page 38) or when Larsoon describe her lack of emotions. Lisbeth Salander in the book is much more mysterious than in the movie, and the author in different chapters of the book, gives a little more of information about who is Lisbeth. I think that in the book, Larsoon explored much more of the character, and while in the movie I felt a more aggressive and vindictive Lisbeth, in the book I interpreted a strong and smart woman, that acted the way she did more because of precaution to do not get hurt. In the book, I see more a message of how some women suffer with sexual violence, the author worked to show this side of Lisbeth. About the others characters, for example Harriet in the book is a natural brunet, while in the movie she is blonde. In a general analysis, the …show more content…

It is understandable that a book with almost 600 pages, has a lot of details, and I think the producers of “The girl with the dragon tattoo” movie did a great job when creating the movie based on the book. The movie is about two and a half hour long and to squeeze 600 detailed pages on it, they did a good production. Of course, that the movie is visual, so they don’t need to work with description, thing that Larsson does in the book. Larsoon, creates the atmosphere of mystery, describing how is the village, the bridge, the houses, how the family behaves. Lisbeth says in some part of the book that “everyone has secrets”, and what I feel it is that Larsson knew how to create the story to grab the reader in the mystery that involves the Vanger Family. The good thing of reading the book before watching the movie it is that with all the details of characters and the scenario, when watching the movie, the comparison is inevitable. For example, in the book Lisbeth and Mikael get to meet each other after Mikael decided that he needs an assistant and Frode tell about the work that Lisbeth was doing investigating Mikael, while in the movie, Lisbeth sends an email to Mikael with the meaning of the numbers that he found in the journal and he goes to her house. In the book, Larsoon takes pages and pages to describe and tells a story of some event or

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