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Scenes of explicit sexual violence essential to "Girl with Dragon Tattoo"
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's" director and star talk about the Swedish thriller's explicit scenes of rape and revenge.
"They were brutal, but they had to be," says director Niels Arden Oplev about the twin scenes in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo that deal with the rape and torture of the title character, played by Noomi Rapace, and then her moment of retribution: turning the tables on the man who sodomizes and abuses her. These are pivotal moments in Stieg Larsson's international bestseller, revealing much about the pysche of Lisbeth Salander – the book's 24-year-old cyber-hacking genius misfit heroine. And Oplev and Rapace, bringing Larsson's thriller to the screen, felt it was essential to honor the late author's intent.