What happened to the boobs?
Lis got a boob job at the end of Book one. What happened to them?
shareSeems like they could have taken a walk and end up in your head.
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They made the decision not to include that side plot in the movie. Just use your imagination.
shareBut did she not walk off at the end of the first movie all glam and shapely? Maybe we just imagined the boobs because she had had them in the book.
shareI don't think it's just your imagination, but the scene in the movie could correspond to the period when - in the books - she posed as Irene Nesser, or whatever, using fake boobs. To my memory she bought them in a shop for transvestites in Copenhagen.
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(2)Stieg was supposed to be a big liberal, women's rights supporter, but parts of his book come across as male fantasy BS. Especially the details given as to why Lisbeth got the implants.Why? Does BS stand for something that would be replaced with stars if spelled out? share
Yes -- B.S. stands for Bull S**t.
This is hardly the only part of the story that comes across as male fantasy BS -- his relationship with Figuerola (the 6 foot tall, Olympic class gymnast) also came across that way.
I'm not a man so I need somebody to tell me what male fantasies are. ;)
But more to the point, I see people commenting this way, suggesting of course these are Larsson's fantasies, that he is hypocritical, or just meaning it with tongue-in-cheek. Maybe they are right, but - being Larsson's defender ;) - I must say that I feel it's overly simplistic. Why do I think so?
Most, probably not all, such male fantasies have a critique somewhere in the book (like Blomkvist's jumping from woman to woman is critiqued by Annika, Lisabeth's boob job is critiqued by Mimmi). Others, like Figuerola, could probably be disputed regarding how much of a male fantasy they really are. The way Larsson describes it anyway, is that men were mostly intimidated by her. They didn't like her being more muscular, stronger than them, and basically quite independent. Is it that he was and Monika/Mikael relationship is really a typical fantasy of an average man? Of course, different men might have different fantasies, but I have my doubts that relationship between Mikael and Figuerola would be a typical male fantasy.
Actually, I would be interested to hear Eva Gabrielsson commenting such statements. She probably knows more than any other person alive what was on Larsson's mind. Lately she said that Larsson's books got lost in the whole industry created around them. On the 4th of December there will be a premiere of a play "Men Who Hate Women" in Nørrebro theater in Copenhagen. Gabrielsson had her part in creating the script. It will lay more stress on the group description, history of society, and also on the psychological aspects, internal demons in a person, and what happens with a person who was violated. She said that MWHW were not meant to be an action story with a heroine which sells, but that it's a book about oppression and violence against women, and a story about disintegration of societal norms.
Here is a picture of Mikael and Lisabeth from the play and the Swedish article about it:
http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/scen/gabrielsson-gor-millenniumteater-1.1 207156
Yes -- B.S. stands for Bull S**t.
This is hardly the only part of the story that comes across as male fantasy BS -- his relationship with Figuerola (the 6 foot tall, Olympic class gymnast) also came across that way.
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A women never having felt comfortable in her body is a BS male fantasy reason to get implants? In my mind, that's the only good reason to get them, but I am a male, so...
share"A women"? And why would a woman feel uncomfortable with her body unless the standards of a male-dominated society didn't dictate a preferred shape, i.e. fuller boobs are "better"?
With that logic, males should never feel self-concscious around women. And for Lisbeth, she wasn't getting fuller boobs; she was going from, in her own words, no boobs at all, to an average size. It's not like she got double d's or something. And there would be no reason for Mara to get implants in the American version because if Lisbeth's chest was her size, she wouldn't have felt the need for implants.
shareLiberal? All the 1st movie is quite pathetic in portraying an alter ego of the now dead author having women at his feet and being the hero he is. The trilogy can have some side meaning, but the 1st book is really a male erotic fantasy. And a bit disturbing one, too.
'What has been affirmed without proof can also be denied without proof.' (Euclid)
why do care?
shareA lot was cut from the books to fit the story within the time frame for the TV episodes. The episodes were cut even more for the movie. Lisbeth's breasts was one of the things cut.
I'm coming in very late to this thread, and I haven't read the book, but . . . it has been well known for 80 years that criminals on the run have plastic surgery to alter their appearance, making it much harder for police to find them. Lisbeth stole the money at the end of the first movie, and a more shapely blonde, rather than the tiny gymnast with no female figure, would be harder to find.
shareI've never read the books, but could someone tell me why a boob job was relevent to the story? I don't see how it would fit in.
shareI read the books, and thought her getting the implants was utterly unnecessary and actually not in alignment with Lisbeth's character. It is not something she would do. I didn't get it when I read it, I just thought, "wtf?" and then dismissed it.
shareI suppose that's why it doesn't appear in the films then.
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