There is only one Lisbeth Salander!

Rooney Mara is the actress who are portraying Lisbeth Salander in the Hollywood remakes of the Swedish film-trilogy based on Stieg Larsson's books.

It is, as usual that Hollywood can not leave perfectly good films alone but has to come along and ruin them it hurts when you see one of your favorite fictional characters becoming someone you do not recognize.

Noomi Rapace will alway be the Lisbeth Salander loved by those who like the movies.

Haven't we seen Hollywood ruin enough movies for us now?

I wonder why there even is a remake market for foreign films. As I see it, they do the remake, and people forget the original, or don't even know there is a original film. Is this because Hollywood is so scared that they will loose their status within the film-industry? Or are Americans to lazy to read the subtitles?

I doubt that any country ever will have as enormous film-industry as there are in Hollywood, even if they stopped doing remakes on foreign films.

While Noomi Rapace looks like a bad ass, as Lisbeth is, Mara looks like a wannabe-rock star.

Lisbeth Salander is not just dark clothes and lots of make-up, Lisbeth is a broken person, and that's the most important part, I doubt anyone could do that as good as Noomi does.

Also, this is bothering in the question: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/10/hm-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo.html. Why do one need a clothes collection to look like Lisbeth Salander? (I guess the american version of her). 

After watching the trailer one wonder, have they actually changed anything, or is it exactly the same, and in that case, wouldn't it have been cheaper to subtitle the original film? Is it really such a bother for American people to watch something from another culture than their own? Is it so hard to understand the context of objects and people, as we always have to do as most of the films shown worldwide are recorded in an american context, even though the settings might be from somewhere else?

No, there is only one, Lisbeth Salander.

(I will most probably come back to this subject when the remakes have hit Sweden around Christmas)

Personal trivia:

I have known for a while that the film was going to be made, and I hated the idea, always wondering what idiot director that's going to ruin my love for films this time. Today (27th October 2011) I checked, and realized that the director of this film is the director of many films I dislike, and he is using Brad Pitt in many of them. This can not become more horrible...

Also, I dislike Daniel Craig, he ruined James Bond for me...

*Edit 30/10 -2011*
http://www.aftonbladet.se/webbtv/noje/film/article13666143.ab
One of the trailers for the film.
The dialog are awful! I mean really, really awful!
Thank you Hollywood, for ruining a perfectly good film! It's appreciated.

Bright Star

Bright Star is directed by Jane Campion and released in 2009.

Plot

Bright Star is a film about the love-story of poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne and it is based on the book with the same name.

John Keats, a poet of the 19th Century, living with his friend Charles Brown in the outskirts of London. Trough Brown and the Dilkes family, Keats gets in touch with the Brawnes, and their daughter Fanny. Keats being a mediocre poet, does not dare to get to close to Fanny, even though he is drawn to her, because he can not offer her wealth or a steady life. At the same time as he tries to understand his feelings for Fanny and write, he is also taking care for his sick brother. 

Brown tries all he can to keep Fanny and John from each other, but he does not succeed. He tries to kick him out, and send him away, but in the end, Fanny and John becomes lover. After a trip to London, though, John becomes sick (most probably from the same illness his brother had), and some of his friends decides that a trip to Italy is the best way to make sure he gets well. Meanwhile, the maid in the Brawne house, becomes with child, and Brown accepts to pay for the child, and this makes it impossible for him to accompany Keats to Italy, instead, he will be the one who reads the letter from Italy to Fanny and her mother, which tells them of the death of the poet. 

Opinion

The film was a lot better than I thought it would be. I do not like the actors that much, but they are bearable. I have not seen anything made by Campion before (no, I have not seen The Piano before either), but she seems as looking at what other films she had done, to like this poetic kinds of film.

I was a bit suspicious, Keats being alongside Byron and Poe, one of my favourite 19th Century poets, on whether I would like the film or not.

I did like the use of poems trough the film, as I guess, to show emotions the no one could put words to, in hint things. Fanny using literature and poetry in a way to come close to the one she loves, even though there is obstacles in the way, she wanting to know everything about the interests of her love, even though her own interests lies elsewhere. 

If you want to look at a  sad romance film, this is the film to watch, so don't assume it is a film on the life of John Keats, then you will be annoyed on how they only care for the love story and his love poems.