Mara plays the role of a serial hacker to a fault
Iisbeth Salander, a disturbed 26-year-old computer hacker, with piercings on her lip and eyebrow, a dragon tattooed on her back and a wasp tattooed on her neck, hates men who hate women. After Noomi Rapace played Salander so convincingly in the Swedish adaptation of Steig Larsson’s bestseller, Rooney Mara had rather large leather boots to fill. Mara, who had a small yet integral role as Mark Zuckerberg’s girlfriend in David Fincher’s The Social Network (2010), does justice to Salander’s character in Fincher’s English remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (TGWTDT). She even looks the part — decidedly unattractive and, at times, like a teenage boy.
Salander, a researcher, is hired to dig out the background of Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist who’s recently been convicted of libel. Industrialist Henrik Vanger wants to hire Blomkvist to find out what happened to his niece Harriet, who disappeared from the island 40 years ago. Henrik believes that she was killed and the killer was someone within the huge Vanger clan. Salander joins Blomkvist in his quest. Over the course of the next few months, as they track down a religious serial killer, they become friends, and later, lovers. Mara plays the silent, brooding, socially awkward girl with a photographic memory to a fault. However, her nomination may come to naught, given the competition — Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, Glenn Close and Michelle Williams.
Iisbeth Salander, a disturbed 26-year-old computer hacker, with piercings on her lip and eyebrow, a dragon tattooed on her back and a wasp tattooed on her neck, hates men who hate women. After Noomi Rapace played Salander so convincingly in the Swedish adaptation of Steig Larsson’s bestseller, Rooney Mara had rather large leather boots to fill. Mara, who had a small yet integral role as Mark Zuckerberg’s girlfriend in David Fincher’s The Social Network (2010), does justice to Salander’s character in Fincher’s English remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (TGWTDT). She even looks the part — decidedly unattractive and, at times, like a teenage boy.
Salander, a researcher, is hired to dig out the background of Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist who’s recently been convicted of libel. Industrialist Henrik Vanger wants to hire Blomkvist to find out what happened to his niece Harriet, who disappeared from the island 40 years ago. Henrik believes that she was killed and the killer was someone within the huge Vanger clan. Salander joins Blomkvist in his quest. Over the course of the next few months, as they track down a religious serial killer, they become friends, and later, lovers. Mara plays the silent, brooding, socially awkward girl with a photographic memory to a fault. However, her nomination may come to naught, given the competition — Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, Glenn Close and Michelle Williams.
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