I’ve seen a few threads about The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; but not one specific to the entire Millennium Series
I enjoyed both the Swedish movies and the books that I wanted to be part of a thread talking about them both; what you liked, what you didn’t like; how well you felt it was adapted to film, etc.
I’ll start off by saying that while I enjoyed the 3rd book the most (The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest) I have to say it was my least favorite movie. I felt like it was the one that strayed most from the script in ways that I didn’t like. For example; after being under death threats Erika Berger wants to stop publication of the magazine! The Erika in the books would have never let death threats stop her from publishing a story. It was also a minor annoyance that there was no scene about her taking the other job at SMP. However that’s easy to forgive because the movie was already 2 1/2 hours long. It wouldn’t have even been a minor annoyance except they kept the part in about her receiving threatening emails. That was related to a side story about her taking the job at SMP. They were from an old classmate of hers. Did I miss something or did they never explain the origin of those emails in the movie? Last I heard was that Mikael had Plague looking into it. Unless I missed something, I guess we were supposed to believe it was scare tactics about their involvement with the Salander case.
I’ve rambled enough for now hopefully someone will jump in here and give their insight as well.
Well, I suppose I’ll bite since I just read the books and watched the Swedish movies.
Things move so quick at the end of the third movie that I’m not quite sure, but I think they definitively said the e-mails were coming from The Section. I think what they had happen was while Plague was looking into them, he either stumbled across the Jonas meeting or that they were going to whack Mikael maybe? I didn’t really like the whole thing where Erika refuses to publish either, but I also thought the sub-plot with the SMP in the book was mostly superfluous so I can definitely see why they left it out. Maybe they put in the modified threatening E-mails in the movies because they had to give Erika something to do-- we don’t really see much of her in the first two movies and with the SMP plot out we wouldn’t see much of her in the third, and she’s supposed to be a major character.
I wonder if the extraneous SMP plot was somehow setting up something for one of the future books. The classmate that is perfectly respectful and friendly to her face, but really some sort of sexually-charged stalker seemed like another classic Larsson villain, but he just sort of slinks off and disappears. I would guess he was going to turn up again had there been more books.
So maybe to try to keep this discussion going, what other undeveloped plots or clues did people notice? I think the big one was Salander’s sister, who I think was mentioned in all three books but never turns up. I also thought something was going to happen with them repeatedly mentioning that Neidermann’s condition where he couldn’t feel pain was genetic, and then having Salander reading up on genetics in the hospital. Maybe Salander’s sister was going to be another painless juggernaut? Or maybe Salander herself had it, but was hiding it from people just like her photographic memory?