Episode 150: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

The BTS team discusses Fincher's take on the original Swedish novel and film, how it efficiently delivers story and character exposition, and when a perfectionist's touch can go too far...

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:08.4	The podcast for each episode, we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
0:13.6	Today we are talking about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo written by Steve Zalian and
0:18.3	directed by David Fincher.
0:20.4	I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Rand.
0:23.4	Hello, everyone.
0:24.5	Brian Bittner.
0:25.7	Hey, hey.
0:27.0	And Alex Gallegos.
0:28.4	Oh, it's perfect.
0:29.7	Why did we think of that?
0:31.0	Why did I just, God.
0:33.2	You make us look bad, Brian.
0:35.2	Okay, so before we dive in, our Patreon vote for our patron exclusive episode for January was finished.
0:44.2	We did a little movies that could vote, putting together a bunch of indie films that blew up and became hyper successful.
0:51.8	We used a ranked voting system this time, which I think
0:55.7	really made a difference for all you voting system nerds out there. And the patrons voted for
1:01.6	Little Miss Sunshine. So our episode on Little Miss Sunshine is available now in the Beyond
1:06.4	Screenplay Patreon. Head over and give it a listen. It's a really good episode, probably, when we record it in the future.
1:14.2	I can't believe you said that thing, though, like 30 minutes in.
1:17.4	It was crazy.
1:19.0	I know.
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