Since I covered that budget YouTube red-band trailer over the holiday, I thought maybe you guys would be interested in the official (green-band) trailer. The same song is used – Karen O and Trent Reznor’s cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song”. Same fast cuts, showing too much for those of us who know the story. But this trailer does show “less” than the previous one. Here you go:

Here’s the thing: this looks very focused on the Blomkvist/Daniel Craig character. The first book had a lot of Blomkvist too, but it feels like David Fincher is maybe pushing Lisbeth Salander and her story line to the secondary plot? Maybe it’s just how the trailers are being cut, so that people will see Daniel Craig and go see the film, because no one knows who the hell Rooney Mara is. But it feels like Lisbeth Salander – one of the most interesting heroines (or anti-heroes) of modern literature is being pushed aside. That, and my increasing worries about what they’re going to do with Lisbeth’s sexuality and the violence against her… ugh. I’m very, very concerned.

And by the way, in the last post, I noticed that some of you film snobs were bitching about the Swedish films, calling them low-budget and horrible. I disagree. While I thought the last two films in the trilogy had their problems, I though the first film, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, was a really wonderful adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s work, and it’s my favorite of all of the films. I found it very well-made, and well-constructed too. Part modern noir, part old-fashioned detective story, part violent action-drama. And besides all of that, if the Swedish film was so budget and horrible, why did David Fincher steal so many of the shots and setups?

Photos courtesy of W Magazine and WENN.