MILLENNIUM TRILOGY APPRECIATION POST

Hej :) (this is "hi". In Swedish.)

 How are you doing? I'm not really on the mood to write, but I'm writing because I promised it yesterday. But it's not a big deal, indeed.

 The point is: this trilogy is awesome.

 It was written by Stieg Larsson (who died in 2004) and the story is about a 24-year-old girl called Lisbeth Salander, who has a photographic memory but is (almost) completely antisocial and an investigative journalist  called Mikael Blomkvist, who's the editor of a magazine called Millennium.

The books:

1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor) (2005)

2 .The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) (2006)
3 .The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Luftslottet som sprängdes) (2007)

 When Larsson was 15 years old, he witnessed the gang rape of a girl, and he never forgave himself for failing to help the girl, which led to his lifelong abhorrence of violence and abuse against women. It inspired the themes of sexual violence against women in his books.

 In writing the series, Larsson was also influenced by two murders: Melissa Nordell, a model killed by her boyfriend, and the Honor killing of Fadime Sahindal, a Swedish-Kurdish woman killed by her father.Both women were killed at the hands of men or as victims of honor crime.     To Larsson, there was no difference and the "systematic violence" against women highly affected and inspired him to take action against these crimes through his writing. Eva Gabrielsson, Larsson's longtime partner, wrote that "the trilogy allowed Stieg to denounce everyone he loathed for their cowardice, their irresponsibility, and their opportunism: couch-potato activists, sunny-day warriors, fair-weather skippers who pick and choose their causes; false friends who used him to advance their own careers; unscrupulous company heads and shareholders who wangle themselves huge bonuses... Seen in this light, Stieg couldn't have had any better therapy for what ailed his soul than writing his novels."

Films:

Swedish
The Swedish film production company Yellow Bird has produced film versions of the Millennium Trilogy, co-produced with The Danish film production company Nordisk Film and television company, which were released in Scandinavia in 2009. In 2010, the films were shown in an extended version of approximately 180 minutes per film as a six-part miniseries (each film divided in two parts of 90 minutes) on Swedish television. This version was released on July 14, 2010 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in three separate sets and on November 24, 2010 as aComplete Millennium Trilogy box set with an extra disc.
Originally, only the first film was meant for a theatrical release, with the following ones conceived as TV movies, but this was changed in the wake of the tremendous success of the first film. The first film was directed by Niels Arden Oplev and the next two by Daniel Alfredson, while the screenplays of the first two were adapted by Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg, and the last one by Ulf Rydberg and Jonas Frykberg. All three films feature Michael Nyqvist as Mikael Blomkvist and Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, released on February 25, 2009.
The Girl Who Played with Fire, released on September 18, 2009.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, released on November 27, 2009.

American films
Yellow Bird and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer partnered with Sony Pictures to produce an English-language adaptation of the first novel. The film is written by Steven Zaillian, directed by David Fincher and produced by Scott Rudin, with Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander. Along with Dragon Tattoo, Fincher and Zaillian have signed a two picture deal to adapt The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, which may be shot back to back. In January 2012, it was announced that Sony was "moving forward" with the adaptation of The Girl Who Played with Fire, with Zaillian in the early stage of scripting it for a planned release in late 2013.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Released in North America on December 21, 2011, and in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2011.

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_trilogy )

That's it, I hope you like it :) Lisbeth is my favorite character ever ºwº

BTW, a friend of mine came back from Canada and she bought cool stuff there:

(A manga she borrowed me and a postcard I asked for)

(A manga I asked for - Mushishi isn't published in Brazil)

(Of course she didn't bought my cat there, but I had to post this pic. I mean, look at this! He is sitting!)

And yeah, I still wanting to study Swedish again.

See you,

Hej då