Unless you stare really hard, you probably won't recognize her - at least for now. There are no tattoos, nose rings, spiked hair or a stay-away-from-me glare. On this day, anyway, Noomi Rapace doesn't remind you much at first of Lisbeth Salander, the tough, tomboyish heroine of Stieg Larsson's global best-sellers. But she has won raves and even Oscar talk for her portrayal of the thorny character in the three Swedish film adaptations - "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and, opening today, "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
NEW YORK - It took Rooney Mara two and a half months and five screen tests to land the sought-after role of Lisbeth Salander. The competition for the fierce heroine of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" included some of the biggest names in Hollywood. The director, David Fincher, is well known for his extreme attention for detail - which Mara had witnessed firsthand in her small but memorable performance in his "The Social Network." He shot her largest scene, the opening verbal volley between Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and his girlfriend (Mara), in 99 takes.
Her name, as much of the world knows, is Lisbeth Salander. She is the great feminist superhero of modern fiction. Instead of a cape and brightly colored comic book tights, Lisbeth is a motorcycle-riding Goth chick with studs in her face and a dragon tattoo down her back from the nape of her neck to her rump.
I believe that if Stieg Larsson, author of the popular Girl With a Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, were still alive, he'd be applauding Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.org as real-world analogs of his fictional muckraker heroes, Mikael Blomkvist, Lisbeth Salander and Millennium magazine. Of course, in neither case were they exactly popular with the subjects of their revelations. Richard Khanlian
She's back, that strange enigma of a woman with a dragon tattoo, who has played with fire, and in her latest adventure has kicked a hornet's nest in Sweden's national government. It may be the last time we will enjoy the story of the sphinx who is Lisbeth Salander, and it is difficult to imagine anyone who wouldn't relish her adventures. Even close to death in the hospital, she remains a force to be reckoned with. Mr. Larsson wrote three riveting thrillers before his untimely death, and it was a demonstration of his literary skill that he linked them together by one remarkable character. Lisbeth Salander is a unique and brilliant creature who still lives with the brutal pain of her childhood and her savage impulses of revenge. There was nothing in Salander's world that was kind or gentl...
After finishing Eva Gabrielsson's new memoir, "There Are Things I Want You to Know about Stieg Larsson and Me," you do indeed know certain things about Stieg Larsson, her partner of 32 years. For instance, had the Swedish writer lived to see his Millennium Trilogy published instead of dying of a heart attack at age 50 in 2004, his books probably would still be best sellers in the United States, but Lisbeth Salander wouldn't be known as "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
'DRAGON TATTOO' now at naro; 3RD BOOK in series due tuesday Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist are here on the big screen. Will they be as good there as they are in print?
I. Warshawski, Stephanie Plum, Kinsey Millhone, step aside. Lisbeth Salander is going to kick your butts. The tattooed, diminutive computer hacker -- possibly the most interesting, and certainly the toughest female character ever to come along in crime fiction -- stars in the international best-selling Millennium trilogy by Swedish author Stieg Larsson. The first book, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," is The Buffalo News Book Club's June selection for beach reading.
Lisbeth Salander may be the most memorable Swede since Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman. Not bad for a fictional character. Salander, a computer hacker and loner, is the heroine of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," the first book in Stieg Larsson's best-selling trilogy, and soon of a new film, starring newcomer Rooney Mara. She also inspired H&M's Dragon Tattoo Collection by Trish Summerville.
It was bound to happen. In the wake of the stunning success of Stieg Larsson's "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" comes a thriller by an American writer whose protagonist is drawing comparisons with Lisbeth Salander.
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