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| Re: The day I met Mahesh Rajendran [message #537802 is a reply to message #537801] |
Sat, 31 December 2011 08:10   |
John Watson
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Anyone seen the new version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo yet? I thought the books were excellent (I read the English translations) but I'm a bit worried that Hollywood might have decided to ignore the story and the characters in favour of sex and violence.
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| Re: The day I met Mahesh Rajendran [message #539696 is a reply to message #538714] |
Wed, 18 January 2012 02:34 |
John Watson
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Update re The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo:
Saw the Hollywood version with a buddy yesterday, we both thought it was excellent but that if you haven't read the book it would be seriously confusing. The sex and violence (sometimes combined - you have been warned) is mostly necessary to the plot rather than gratuitous.
I'm getting to like these Nordic writers: Larsson, Mankell, Jo Nesbo. Any others?
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| Re: The day I met Mahesh Rajendran [message #539732 is a reply to message #539696] |
Wed, 18 January 2012 05:29 |
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I haven't seen the movie, but why change the title that dramatically? The book is called "men who hate women" dammit. I didn't even know it was based on that book until after I read about the movie on Wikipedia. I think anyways I would have to read the book in Swedish before seeing the movie. (I'm Norwegian myself, so it shouldn't be too difficult to understand.)
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| Men who hate women [message #541713 is a reply to message #539765] |
Thu, 02 February 2012 00:08 |
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The other day I watched Swedish version on TV. This weekend, I'm going to the cinema and watch Hollywood version. Didn't read the book, yet.
I bought two other books, though (The Girl Who Played With Fire & The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest). Quite a lot of reading (small fonts!) - looking forward to it!
Recently, I had a chance to watch several Swedish movies. There was a TV-series on, Irene Huss. Swedish? Right, the main role is played by Angela Kovacs - smells like Hungarian surname; there are MANY Kovacs people here, where I live. Probably because I can see Hungary from my window. For you, who are interested in it, "kovacs" is - translated - a "blacksmith".
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| Re: Men who hate women [message #542877 is a reply to message #541842] |
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I watched the Hollywood version as well. Balckbandit5 said it all ... very similar to Swedish version.
However, I preferred the "original". Why? Because some scenes were better (such as Lisbeth fighting bad guys in the subway with a broken glass bottle, the way she could have saved Martin when he crashed with a car (but rather left him burn)).
Furthermore, the film is based on a book written by a Swedish author. Places, streets, names are Swedish and they sound so much better when Swedish people pronounce it than non-native speakers.
If you wonder how come (that I'm such an expert in Swedish language) - I'm not. But: in a village where I come from, our neighbours lived in Sweden. Father left (former) Yugoslavia during 1968 (hint: Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia) as he didn't want to go to the army and, possibly, war. His girlfriend followed, so they stayed in Sweden and won't ever come back. They got kids and used to visit their homeland during Summer holidays. Now, that grandparents died & children grew up, they sold a property they have had and don't come here any more.
Their son was/is a wonderful guy; he worked for Ericsson all over the world - I remember he went to Japan, then he married a Canadian woman and they lived ... huh, in Dominican Republic or somewhere that exotic, in a villa with a swimming pool, great garden & backyard, had a nanny and all things that common people don't have (at least, not here where I live).
That's how I had a chance to listen to Swedish. Don't remember a single thing, but - somewhere back in my head, sound of it still rings a bell.
In a film, I think that just once I heard a TV-speaker pronouncing his (Mikael Blomkvist's) name the Swedish way. The rest was either pure (American) English or a bad Swedish copy.
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| Re: Men who hate women [message #543052 is a reply to message #543038] |
Mon, 13 February 2012 00:15 |
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I'm in the middle of a process of purchasing that book.
Seems like I'm going to send a shuttle to the Moon, at least ... the fact is: I don't read Swedish, so I'm going to buy Croatian translation. There are - as far as I know - three prints. One is paperback (4 EUR), another one looks prettier (and probably includes eyes-saving feature (printed in larger font than tiny paperback), but costs 20 EUR. Finally, a luxury edition (covers covered with linen) which contains all 3 books (impossible to buy separately) and costs 90 EUR.
So I'm trying to buy that 4 EUR one, but - it's out of stock. They promise they'll get another edition "tomorrow", but tomorrows won't come these days.
In the meantime, I'm reading the second book - The girl who played with fire. Me, stupido, missed Swedish films on TV (hopefully, they'll be re-run), while the Hollywood version is to come in 2013 (unless I'm wrong).
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