Lisbeth Salander
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Oct 21, 2026
Jeff OstermuellerHOST
They don't even mention Noomi Rapace in this.
Jeff OstermuellerHOST
They don't even mention Lisbeth Salander.
Jeff OstermuellerHOST
I fucking hate this one.
Jeff OstermuellerHOST
I hate it.
speaker_13HOST
To solve this cold case, Henrik hires Mikael Blomqvist, a disgraced financial journalist whose career has just been destroyed by a libel suit.
speaker_13HOST
And Blomqvist ends up crossing paths with Lisbeth Salander.
speaker_12HOST
Lisbeth Salander, one of the most iconic, fiercely debated characters in modern fiction.
speaker_12HOST
She is a world-class hacker with a deeply checkered, dramatic past.
speaker_12HOST
She operates completely outside the bounds of polite society.
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speaker_12HOST
So we've covered immense ground today in this deep dive.
speaker_12HOST
We've gone from the backseat of Mickey Haller's Lincoln to the polite, lethal diplomatic halls of Kenya.
speaker_12HOST
We've ridden shotgun with bug montage to understand the pull of the flow state, cleaned up crime scenes with Corridé to examine toxic enmeshment, spiraled into media madness with Nick Dunn, questioned the mechanics of sanity on Shutter Island, and blasted foundational power structures with Lisbeth Salander.
Ellen E JonesHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lemn SissayGUEST
Lisbeth Salander.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm not a child.
Mark KermodeHOST
No, you are not, but you were.
9 MINS LATER
Lemn SissayGUEST
So your memory inside your family, you know, is one thing and, and mine is another, but I'm not gonna be quiet about mine because somehow mine is supposed to-
Ellen E JonesHOST
Mm
Lemn SissayGUEST
... spoil the party, and this is why I love Lisbeth Salander.
Lemn SissayGUEST
Because of the guts and the fight-
speaker_3HOST
It's a great setup.
speaker_2HOST
But while Blomkvist is the entry point, the real heartbeat, the absolute engine of the story is the person he eventually teams up with, Lisbeth Salander.
speaker_3HOST
Lisbeth Salander is one of the most vital characters in modern fiction.
speaker_3HOST
She is a brilliant hacker, yes, but more importantly for the thematic weight of Larsson's work, she is a survivor.
speaker_2HOST
Yes, she is.
speaker_3HOST
Larsson's thesis is that the only way that cycle of protection is broken is not through polite procedural investigation.
speaker_2HOST
It can't ask nicely.
speaker_3HOST
The cycle only breaks when someone as relentlessly stubborn, angry, and uncooperative as Lisbeth Salander simply refuses to play by the established rules of that protection.
Stuart FernieHOST
Wennerstrom is clearly unscrupulous, devious and willing to sacrifice the freedom of others in order to further his cause and to protect himself, and this episode constitutes an introduction to the themes of abuse of power and the inadequacy of the justice system that will be further explored in the film.
Stuart FernieHOST
Eventually, Mikael is joined in his investigation by Lisbeth Salander, a troubled, rebellious and intelligent young woman with a checkered past, who has highly developed skills in the field of cyber security, poorly developed social skills, and is utterly determined to see justice done, at least in her eyes.
Stuart FernieHOST
Mikhail's investigation into Harriet's disappearance quickly reveals Nazi connections within the Wenger family, as well as links to unsolved murders.
Stuart FernieHOST
It transpires that Harriet was brutally abused by her father Gottfried and her brother Martin, and she uncovered links to a number of murders, putting her own life in danger, so she disappeared or escaped, leading her uncle Henrik to believe she may have been murdered.
Stuart FernieHOST
Many years later, and in a situation that echoes that of Harriet, Lisbeth is savagely abused and raped by a man in a position of trust and responsibility, her legal guardian assigned by the courts, who is willing to exploit his status and influence to indulge personal desires at the expense of those in his care.
Stuart FernieHOST
It appears that, despite the facade of civilisation, ideals and equality in society, misogyny, brutal abuse and criminality are alive and well across all strata of society, and this is confirmed and emphasised by the experience of both Harriet and Lisbeth Salander.
Stuart FernieHOST
The clear implication is that morality and ethics need not apply, as some rich men or some in positions of authority act as they wish, gratifying themselves without considering the consequences for or impact upon their victims.
Stuart FernieHOST
And the law, there to protect the innocent and the abused, applies only to those willing to conform, or those not powerful or affluent enough to cover their tracks.
AaronHOST
I haven't seen the fiction one in a while, but I'd be really happy to see another go at it because I don't remember loving many of these movies.
MayGUEST
I love Elizabeth Salander as a character.
MayGUEST
Yeah.
MayGUEST
I think
Griffin NewmanHOST
You...
Griffin NewmanHOST
Oh, I've also forgot, you auditioned for Lisbeth Salander, but that was such a big casting call
David SimsHOST
...
David SimsHOST
they, in, in Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and I pierced my nipple-
Francis NealeHOST
Uh, so the Swedish version, uh, you know, to the extent it can be, uh, re- remains quite faithful to the text.
Francis NealeHOST
The American version has flipped much of the focus away from Lisbeth, uh, Salander, the main character, to- The male, uh, investigative journalist, um, Mikael Blomkvist, he's, he's the man, he's the centerpiece of it, and she kind of does his bidding to some extent and is, you know, wishes that he was more interested in her, which is a, a, a completely different sense, let's call it, of that relationship than, than is in the original book and in, and in the Swedish version of the movie.
Francis NealeHOST
So there's no doubt that from a cultural point of view, I don't know if that was inevitable or whether the screenwriters of the English version thought, "We better reassert a little bit of the, of the US gender preferences in these relationships, uh, uh, to the one which, um, Stieg Larsson, mm, conceptualized in, in, in the book."
Mia ToddHOST
Mm.
Patrick RedfordHOST
The Swedish publishing house Nordstedts was hard at work on the fifth installment in Stieg Larsson's Millennium series, better known as the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books.
speaker_6NARRATOR
They were international bestsellers with millions of fans following the brilliant hacker and outsider, Lisbeth Salander.
speaker_6NARRATOR
Two years ago, Larsson's estate tapped Swedish journalist and writer, David Lagerkrantz, to continue the series.
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This book
Lee FordHOST
Do you think it's not being done
Andy MeakinHOST
to death? Well, we've had the series, the original adaptation in the Swedish language films, which did the three parts and launched the career of Noomi Rapace as Salander.
Andy MeakinHOST
And then we had David Fincher's marvellous re-adaptation of it with Rooney Mara from 2011.
Andy MeakinHOST
But we never got to see what Fincher would have done with the second and third parts in an English language version.
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