“Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”

“Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
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The new full-length movie trailer for the American version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo shows the ludicrous lengths that Hollywood goes to in order to spoon-feed lazy American movie goers. It’s a shot-by-shot, line-by-line remake of the original Swedish film, using actors (Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara) who were chosen because of their resemblance to the Swedish leads (Michael Nyquist, Noomi Rapace).

The only difference is that the new movie is in English, whereas the original had English subtitles. Play both trailers at once and see if you can spot anything substantive that director David Fincher has added to Niels Arden Oplev’s original:

The U.S. version:

Is it really so hard for Americans to figure out that the Swedish for “professional hacker” is “professional hacker”? An economist would note the inefficiencies and waste of duplication. For some reason, all good foreign movies must now be made twice — once in their countries of origin and then painstakingly copied for the massive U.S. market. It’s almost as Hollywood has some sort of full employment act for American directors.

Consumers are at fault, too. In 2000, the Chinese movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon smashed box office records for a foreign film in the U.S. and may thought that perhaps Americans were broadening their horizons. Not so. Research shows that Americans have become more insular in their viewing habits:

In the 1960s, imports accounted for 10 percent of the U.S. film box office,” says Toby Miller, coauthor of Global Hollywood. “In 1986, that figure was 7 percent. Today, it is 0.75 percent.”

If you’re interested in the next movie installment of the late Stieg Larssen’s thriller franchise, here’s the trailer for The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. Unfortunately, it’s in Swedish with English subtitles, so you might want to wait three or four years until a version fit for Americans is released.