If Rooney Mara ‘s fearless turn as Stieg Larsson’s goth-punk hacker heroine Lisbeth Salander teaches us anything, it’s that you should never, ever cross a woman with fire in her heart and vengeance on her mind. But the titular Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is just the latest in a long history of utterly human movie heroines who remind us how ferocious and unrelenting a woman wronged can be. Celebrate the fictional ladies who have helped teach society not to fuck with the so-called “fairer” sex, and let their righteous fury be a lesson to us all during this warm and fuzzy holiday season.
The American adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opens in theaters tonight at midnight, and while you’re probably not surprised to hear star Rooney Mara makes her nude debut (duh, she’s topless on the poster ), thanks to our Skin Skout we’re gonna get all Lisbeth on you and dig in to the dirty details. But don’t worry, we aren’t going to hack your laptop…God knows what we’d find on there! Rooney’s nudes begin on a decidedly unpleasant note as she bares butt during a graphic anal rape scene 54 minutes in. Then 4 minutes later, we see her pierced boobs for the first time, as well as her bruised cheeks, as she washes herself off afterwards. They did say it was going to be “The Feel-Bad Movie of Christmas”… Luckily, the rest of the movie’s nudity is in a consensual context, with Rooney showing snookers to a lez-be-friend she picks up at a nightclub 1 hour, 16 minutes in, then going AC/DC by baring boobs, butt and strawberry blonde bush in the sack with Daniel Craig 1 hour, 39 minutes and 2 hours, 14 minutes in. Want a sneak peek of Rooney’s boobies? You’ll be The Guy with the Raging Hard-On when you see our The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo page right here at MrSkin.com!
‘It’s nice to hear that people like the film,’ actress tells MTV News. By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Rooney Mara Photo: MTV News After a long debate, the MTV Movies team chose David Fincher’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” as the Best Movie of 2011 . To celebrate the occasion, MTV News’ Josh Horowitz presented its star, Rooney Mara , with a trophy and congratulated her for the accomplishment. Mara graciously accepted the award and shared her excitement. “That’s so amazing. That’s so cool. Thank you, MTV,” she said. Given the chance to thank MTV for the honor, Mara expressed her real wish for the film: that people see it and love it. “So many people worked so hard on this film. It was just a year of really hard work. I feel like we put so much work into it,” she said. “That’s all we really want, for people to love the film and to go out and see it and fall in love with these characters the way we did. Of course, it’s nice to hear that people like the film.” The honor may have come as a surprise to Mara, since her director, David Fincher , dismissed any awards chances for the film a few weeks ago, but as the film’s release draws closer, it is creeping further and further into the awards conversation. Mara just earned a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander. Mara said she believes the film should get more awards attention simply because of Fincher’s work. “I think anything David does deserves to be in any conversation. I think there’s nothing he can’t do,” she said. “He elevates everything that he does. … He really made it about these two characters. I think he did an incredible job.” Stick with MTV as we count down the Best of 2011 , including the top Artists , Songs , Live Performances and EDM Artists of the year. Check out everything we’ve got on “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos Best Movies Of 2011 Debate
The formidable creative team behind the new adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo reconvened today in New York, where director David Fincher, screenwriter Steven Zaillian, and stars Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer and Stellan Skarsgård talked things over with a few dozen members of the press. Movieline was there to capture a range of revealing back stories, true confessions and amusing — if slightly harrowing — anecdotes from the shoot. Read on for the full report.
Still reeling from this week’s installment of Oscar index , Movieline’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics has had a rare Thursday open for business. Blame the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the shadowy swag goblins behind today’s predictably headscratching slate of snubs, surprises and subplots also known as the 69th Golden Globe nominations . So far the Institute has chosen 10 worth investigating, but feel free to weigh in with your own as well:
Critics have been raving over Rooney Mara ‘s transformation into goth girl Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , and it appears that notoriously OCD director David Fincher did think of every last detail. No, really, every last detail : “There was a lot of discussion that went into my merkin for the movie, because I was naked quite a lot,” Rooney says in a new interview with Metro . “And I don’t think a lot of people will notice all of the attention that went into that. But there was a lot of discussions around that.” See, in the book Lisbeth dies her hair black, but her natural color is strawberry blonde, so “We had a special merkin made that was, you know, strawberry-blonde so that it would fit, ” Rooney says. A key detail of Lisbeth’s character are her tattoos and piercings, including one in her nipple that caused quite a ruckus when it was featured on a teaser poster for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (left). While the tattoos are fake, Rooney did go under the gun to get real piercings for the film: “I thought, ‘She has it in the book, and she should have it [in the movie],'” she tells Allure about her new hardware. “Because of all the tattoos and the makeup and the piercings, and the physical transformations my body has to go through, it would always feel sort of like I was in costume, even if I was naked. It just felt like a good one to get — a necessary one to get.” The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opens in theaters December 20 , but you can catch up with star Rooney Mara right here at MrSkin.com!
Moviegoers won’t be able to take their eyes off the American actress’ Lisbeth Salander, critics rave. By Eric Ditzian Rooney Mara in “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” Photo: Columbia Pictures Rooney Mara owns “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” That is to say, while the film shows off David Fincher at his meticulous, moody best and Daniel Craig delivers yet another stellar performance, but the beating heart of the picture — or, if you will, the exposed pierced nipple — is Mara as the spiky-haired hacker, Lisbeth Salander. For all the shortcomings of “Dragon Tattoo”— and there are a bunch, from a pacing that sometimes drags to Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s deeply unsatisfying ending — you walk away unable to shake what you’ve just seen from Mara. Alternately vulnerable and vicious, her Salander is an entirely different creature from the one presented by Noomi Rapace in the Swedish version of the film and, what’s more, an entirely different creature from anything Mara offered in “The Social Network” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” Let’s stop right there, before we go from gushing to outright hero worship. At least we’re not alone. With the “Dragon Tattoo” review embargo officially lifted, critics have been celebrating Mara’s performance. The Transformation “Rooney Mara’s blazing, uncompromising performance is the film’s center, practically its reason to exist. … Eyebrows bleached blond, hair jet black and scowling constantly, Salander has deliberately modeled herself as the opposite of the feminine ideal, and though Mara digs into her humanity and even sensuality, she never lets down Salander’s guard for the sake of the audience sympathy.” — Katey Rich, Cinema Blend The Chemistry “Mara and Craig make an indomitable screen pair, he nominally leading their intense search into decades-old serial killings, she surging ahead, plowing through obstacles with flashes of phenomenal intellect and eruptions of physical fury.” — David Germain, The Associated Press The Sex Scenes “[It’s] Mara’s movie for the taking, and she snatches it up in dramatic fashion. … Fincher’s belief in her is borne out in a dominating performance of submerged rage, confidence and defiance. Baring all in the several sex scenes, both coerced and consensual, she goes all the way in a performance that compares favorably to that of Noomi Rapace in the Swedish version and its two sequels. She comes across here as the real deal.” — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter The Awards “Mara, I feel, gives Salander a sadder and more vulnerable aura and a more emotionally readable quality than what Noomi Rapace delivered in the Swedish trilogy. You might compare the two films down the road and say, “Nope, don’t see it…six of one, half-dozen of the other” but I know what I felt from Mara’s eyes, and there’s a lot going on inside her, I swear. Tremors and feints and glances and looks that say “stay away, I don’t want you near….wait, maybe I do.” There’s enough in this performance, I feel, for Mara to be counted among the year’s Best Actress nominees.” — Jeffrey Wells, Hollywood Elsewhere The Final Word “You can’t take your eyes off Rooney Mara as the notorious Lisbeth Salander.” — David Denby, The New Yorker Check out everything we’ve got on “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo:’ A Closer Look
The notorious embargo on David Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has officially been lifted, and thus you can expect a frenzied film-culture commentariat to weigh in with raves, rumblings and other reactions all day. Things are no different here, where a few first impressions are making the rounds.
The notorious embargo on David Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has officially been lifted, and thus you can expect a frenzied film-culture commentariat to weigh in with raves, rumblings and other reactions all day. Things are no different here, where a few first impressions are making the rounds.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Tumblr Mouth Taped Shut recently unearthed a startling artifact: A vintage segment of the investigative news program Hard Copy exploring the case of one Harriet Vanger, a teenager who went missing decades ago from her family estate in Hedeby Island, Sweden. Watch the unsettling VHS -era report after the jump, complete with your favorite commercials from ’80s primetime television.
