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Yes.

That's all.

Loved the novels as well as the original films and am seriously annoyed at the remake. Having said that, who am I kiddling? I'm in.

So we can add Rooney Mara to the pile of evidence which suggests that if you can make a competent actor/actress out of someone whose major qualification is to have a semifamous father with money, the "craft" of acting is vastly overrated?

idiosynchronic,

Can't say I've seen enough of Craig's work to make a judgment. All I know is, every year (it seems like) there's someone up for an Oscar who is 14 years old or who never acted before (I'm thinking like Gabourey Siddibe) who may be a "natural" but that kind of is my point: I don't want to hear about how "hard" the "craft" is when children are up for Oscars.

And I bet I would like such a book. I'll try to remember to root around for it the next time I'm at the library.

@, you're talking about the "Craft" of acting and discussing Oscars? They give Oscars to people like that cuntflap Paltrow, and Tom Hanks. Oscars are for movie stars and people who cover Vogue.
There are actors who inhabit roles, and start to wear them like a skin. Daniel Day Lewis being one obvious example. That's Craft.
There are actors who basically memorize lines and read them back. They end up in roles that, were their life a little different, they may have ended up living. Tom Hanks works for FedEx and crashes on an island! Sandra Bullock is nice to a black kid! Oooh, aren't they so likeable. Here's an Oscar. Better luck next year, Winslet.
Awards mean nothing, but Oscars mean extra-nothing.

,: some people are fantastic musicians by an early age. Would you say being a musician's not hard based on that evidence?

I've been a staunch defender of Rooney Mara from the start, but seriously... no eyebrows?

I'm pretty sure she's written as a rather slight, anorexic-looking punk girl. It's mentioned a few times.

Having just read the book and then watched the movie immediately afterward, I have to say that I didn't like some of the ways the film changed things, especially the relationship between Salander and Blomkvist. This looks like they got everything a lot closer to how it was written, particularly the scene where he barges into her apartment. The Swedish film treats that scene completely differently. It's the lynchpin in their relationship. It's why she trusts him when she really doesn't trust anyone.
The other trailer also seems to show they've filmed the whole ending.

@Pfft:

She has them. They are just very, very blonde.

Based on this trailer it looks truer to the book than the Swedish version. I still don't plan to rush out and see it because I know everything that happens but when I catch it at home later I think I'll end up liking Fincher's version more.

I don't know if I'm just too snobbified, but the orignal's Blomkvist is too old, fat and ugly to be pimping it out with as many women as in the book. I also feel rather snooty when I say the Swedish version is just to...Swedish. As in not Hollywood. I know... it's just, I dunno. Prolly just spoiled on slickness. I think Craig makes a more believable Blomkvist and I'm glad they seem to be bringing in the whole story with his editor. And the other things they changed/left out.

Chiming in with ",". Whenever I see outtakes of a movie, even a serious one, with everyone laughing, I turn to Mr. Julien and say, "there's no heavy lifting".

On the other hand, it's like the old Woody Allen joke: Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right. I think the same applies to acting and musicianing in that it can be elevated to art, just as anything can, if it is done incredibly well.

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