Lisbeth Salander's Wardrobe Malfunction
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 4:21PM The internet is very excited today by this snapshot of a poster image for David Fincher's take on the popular property The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, in which Daniel Craig embraces gothic Rooney Mara from behind.
It's a great image but it immediately gave me an acid flashback to Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson's infamous Superbowl calamity. Perhaps Janet Jackson paved the way, martyring her career, so that decorative nipplage could one day wallpaper the land in movie poster form? Well done, Janet!
The Playlist, who posted this image, suggest that David Fincher won a marketing war with this, but I can't imagine that this is the poster that will actually be up all over movie theaters... at least not in the USA where nudity is verboten... and this is tame for a European poster but it's still neat and grim looking.
The tagline is fun but no match for the "THE. FEEL. BAD. MOVIE. OF. CHRISTMAS." Here's the cleaned up red-band trailer to follow that camcorder version.
and now the American teaser poster (notice the order of the dates changes)
Reader Comments (7)
As someone who has, until now, been totally apathetic toward the whole Girl With the Dragon Tattoo thing, I must admit that the marketing is impressive to me. The trailer is well done (I do think that whole hand-held gimmick was just that), and the poster is good too. As far as it actually being in theaters. As someone who's worked customer service for many years, I would not want to be the theater managers who had to deal with all the complaints it would attract.
Off-topic: the use of German words in the (American) English language is always fun and delightful to me: "Nudity is verboten" that one's new to me...
I'll shut up after this, I promise, but one has to appreciate the irony of having Salander's breasts on a poster to sell a movie based on a novel called Men Who Hate Women and that is in a great part about trafficking of women and/or abuse, just to sell tickets. But yeah, Fincher is the other Nolan-to-be-worshipped so it doesn't matter.
So very, very, very excited to see Fincher's take on the series! I saw all 3 of the Swedish films earlier this year and I'm a bit mixed on them: it was awesome to see the books come to life, but they were just so unnecessarily long and started to drag, in particular Hornet's Nest which I almost didn't finish since that court room scene felt like it took about 2 hours out of the 3 hours of that movie (exaggerating, yes...but it definitely felt that way). Loved loved loved Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth and thought Michael Nyqvist was solid as Blomkvist, but the three films just...I don't know, something felt "missing."
Judging from the awesome, awesome, awesome teaser which I had to have watched about 50 times now in the past few days, it really looks like Fincher's going to inject the right amount of kick-ass and grungy-ness into this one.
iggy -- good point. if i had not been in the throws of moulin rouge obsessing when i posted this i might have thought that through a little more. You're so right!
I am very exceptical about how will be received Fincher's film in Europe, we must remember that the original trilogy was pretty well received here and we europeans, don't like "remakes" even if they are directed by great directors.
I don't really like the poster- I'm not a fan of the whole naked woman, clothed man thing. I'd be more ok with it if she was on her own or if he was equally unclothed.