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Yesterday we invested three hours into watching the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Having recently seen the Hollywood version, we were interested to see how the original would be and why they had needed to remake it.
Certainly at the beginning of the film, it was a really eerie feeling because of how similar the films are. The sets are almost identical, the casting is strangely similar. There are two things that made the Hollywood version different - it had cut more out of the film which I have to admit is understandable when you consider that the original lasts three hours and is presented in two parts. The other difference is the ending which is in a way closer to the book but still not identical.
I was left with the feeling that Hollywood had just done the remake to appeal to a wider audience - first of all, through the obvious language benefit of no dubbing and secondly through the use of more popular, widely known actors. In many ways there seems to have been little need for a remake and I was a little disappointed. So we have the other two films to watch and luckily the viewing won't be spoilt in constant comparisons!
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