Hollywood has a long tradition of
making films based on books. When Stieg Larsson's novel The Girl
with the Dragon Tattoo became a
best-seller and then a successful Swedish film, there was no doubt
that Hollywood would take a crack at a film adaptation. The biggest
difference between telling a story in text versus telling a story in
film is imagery. While a book can spend paragraphs describing the
intricacy of a piece of clothing or a hand carved desk, a movie can
just show it to you. Because of a busy work schedule, I read The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
slowly over the course of a few weeks. Seeing the events of the book
take place over the course of a couple hours was a little shocking.
“He's on Hedeby already?” I thought to myself, but looking back
the brisk pacing was just the director's choice to expedite the story
to get the good stuff at the end of the story.
