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I have to say, looking at these pictures scooped on RooneyMara.net, that I still don’t get it.This girl doesn’t look like Lisbeth—physically or metaphysically. She looks ‘nice’ and like you could snap her like a twig, or with one.
The site does note that they have no idea if this is how Rooney Mara will portray Lisbeth in the Hollywood adaptation as shooting just began this last week, but last we saw (in pictures all over the net) she was blondish with long hair—and here she is with short black hair…so you do the math.
Could Sony have made that big of a mistake? Only time will tell. But, so far, it’s like they’ve substituted a young waif for the Mona Lisa, when that mysteriously smiling woman played the part oh so well.
Can’t help but wonder, did they pick ‘Rooney’ cause it kinda sounds like ‘Noomi’???
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NO, we don’t.
It is early days yet. Judging the final film, and Rooney’s performance in it, is like judging a house when the contractors have just broken ground.
Fans of a book are always quick to sour predictions when they hear their beloved is going to be made into a film. And they are often right. I have tried to write screenplay adaptations and it is damned hard. Some of the book must be cut. Some of the characters must be played by an actress who, even with makeup magic, can never look like they way they appeared in reader’s imaginations, And so on.
But on rare occasions cinematic lightning strikes.The perfect combination of director, cinematographer, writer, actors, set designers, costumiers, and so on click. And we get a “Doctor Zhivago”. Or a “The Devil Wore Prada”. Or “In Her Shoes”. Or ….
I’ll bet you can think of better examples. Want to try?
I think that the worry about Rooney is that Noomi Rapace is now the face of Lisbeth Salander and she portrayed her in such stunning fashion, that it will be difficult to see anyone else in that role. Of course, there is the problem of Daniel Craig, too . . . . I will probably relent and see the “American” versions but I have to say I am not too excited about the casting.