The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by Agent Cooper

The first film is great and the best, while the sequels come pretty close. I seriously recommend go see it if possible.

One thing though - the first film was made for a theatrical release and was shot in 35mm and presented in glorious cinemascope, while the sequels were initially made for television and have a more rough look in widescreen.

Lisbeth Salander is a great character - a fourth book is being prepared from a manuscript left unfinished by Stieg Larsson.

The fourth book seriously annoys me. Larsson left an unfinished manuscript on his computer for the fourth book, and his common law wife of 30 years has control of it. She's stated that she will reveal it and have it published, against the wishes of the family. I'm disgusted by it. I certainly know nothing of the marital relationship, but it seems obvious that she merely wants to profit from it. There is no way Larsson knew he would have a massive heart attack and suddenly die, so it seems unlikely that he would have left instructions for her regarding the fourth book. I know many people who have read the third book and have stated that it concluded very well (NOBODY SPOIL IT IF YOU HAVE READ IT). Unfortunately, this seems to be a similar case as with Vladimir Nabokov's last manuscript (author of Lolita) entitled the Original of Laura, which was published last year based solely on his 130 notecards.

As much as I love the books, and trust me I'm obsessed with them, I don't want an unfinished book released or a ghostwriter used to finish it. I want the novels to end in the way that he intended, after the third book (which was meant to be the first trilogy in Salander's story).