Talk:The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (film)

Differences from the book
Lots of small changes, some necessary and reasonable simplifications. A very short and cleaned up version of this list might be added to the article later but better to discuss here first and try get a consensus to pick out no more than 5 of the most important differences.

Some differences from the book:

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.236.97.120 (talk) 03:47, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Niedermann attempts to visit the hospital. This is not in the book at all.
 * Mikael postpones publishing the magazine
 * in the book he is unequivocal about publishing on the 3rd day of trial and it is part of their legal strategy to prevent any attempts to exclude classified material by having already made it public
 * the court strategy is not a cleverly prepared trap but only comes together at the last minute
 * Teleborian computer is not hacked until during the trial
 * in the book it is hacked well in advance of the trial and they learn he wrote a psychiatric reevaluation before he had even talked to Lisbeth
 * Lisbeth calls Teleborian a "fucking pig" during the trial and is admonished for not using proper language
 * in the book she calls him a pig and a bastard and calmly, logically, and unemotionally explains why this is a fair description
 * Lisbeth is not released before the trial is over, they insist matters be completed and Lisbeth be allowed to go free without obligation
 * As Annika drives Lisbeth home they do not discuss why Lisbeth stopped talking to Mikael and Lisbeth does not make the step to trust Annika with where she lives
 * Blomkvist doesn't bring bagels when he visits Lisbeth at the end.
 * In the film, Erika doesn't go to work for SMP - she stays with Millenium the whole time. Accordingly, the brick through her window is not thrown by somebody from her past who works at SMP. Instead, we are led to believe that it is The Section that is behind the brick and the threatening emails.
 * In the book, Lisbeth decides not to murder Niedermann with the nail gun. In the film, she tries to nail him in the back but runs out of nails.
 * Erika's husband isn't in the film at all.
 * Blomkvist doesn't get together with Figuerola in the film.
 * When the hitman comes for Blomkvist, the reason he bumps into him is that he's going to the phone because Figuerola has called the restaurant to warn him. In the book he's going to the toilet.


 * I don't think Lisbeth stopped shooting Niedermann with the nail gun just because she ran out of nails; it looks like she just thought of a better way to have him killed. She could easily have killed him herself if she'd wanted to. Barsoomian (talk) 02:33, 9 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I didn't get the implication that the Section were behind the brick and the threatening e-mails when watching the dubbed English version - was it made clearer in the Swedish original ? I finished the film with the idea that the explanation might have ended up on the cutting-room floor. RGCorris (talk) 15:27, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

How did Lisbeth know that the bikers were looking for Niederman? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.183.104.231 (talk) 18:32, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Swedish critics
If anyone can provide translations of what the top Swedish critics said about the film that would be great. -- Horkana (talk) 03:20, 5 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Good idea. I've added a paragraph based on Svenska Dagbladet's review of the film, and another from Dagens Nyheter's - they're the two big national dailies. Neither terribly enthusiastic, they much preferred Dragon Tattoo. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:44, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Literal translation of the title different then that of the book
The page for the book says that the literal translation of "Luftslottet som sprängdes" is "The pipe dream that was blown up", but the page for the film says it's "The Air Castle That Was Blown Up". Anyone know which translation is more accurate? Loserpenguin15 (talk) 08:36, 10 February 2011 (UTC)


 * It really depends on what you mean by literal translation. It might be preferable to avoid using the (ambiguous in this case) phrase "literal translation", and keep pipe dream. Then again, since we have a source for "Air Castle", Wikipedia policy suggests that we prefer that. But it is suboptimal in my opinion. The English reader of this page wants to know what the book's Swedish title means. She is probably not interested in the details of the idioms which are used. Jsolinsky (talk) 21:23, 16 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, "there's no such thing as a literal translation." 'Luft' means air, and 'slott' means castle; and "castles in the air" is an English idiom which APPROXIMATES to the Swedish meaning; pipedream, pie in the sky, etc would also be quite reasonable translations but obviously hopeless as titles. Since you can't blow up a pipe dream, I'd go for the castle. If we're into aesthetics, "Air castle" sounds like one of those bouncy yellow plastic things at school fetes. There's no easy answer. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:32, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Should this page be moved?
I just moved the books page from hornets' to hornet's. This is definitely correct for the book. Is it also correct for the movie? Jsolinsky (talk) 21:23, 16 December 2011 (UTC)


 * We had it as Hornets' which matches the English (UK) book and film; I see that the US version had Hornet's, basically a solecism but there it is. Since neither is "right" (or both are) - it's the Swedish title which is the original - we might as well leave it as it was, which happens to match the traditional saying (stirring up a hornets' nest, etc). In any case we have a redirect from Hornet's, so both names are now searchable and lead to the same article. Shame about the muddle but it can't be helped. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:53, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Section 'Home media' cut from article
The following uncited section was in the article. If you think it worth having, please add it back with suitable citations. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:25, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

" The DVD and Blu-ray were released in Scandinavia on 12 March 2010, and in North America on 25 January 2011. The extended miniseries Millennium version was released on DVD and Blu-ray in Scandinavia on 30 July 2010."