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Lisbeth Salander & Mikael Blomkvist and other Misfit Odd Couples That Create Movie Magic

Lisbeth Salander & Mikael Blomkvist and other Misfit Odd Couples That Create Movie Magic

In The Girl With the Drago Tattoo, the efficient and sideshow romantic relationship between the handsomely weathered Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) and the prickly cyberpunk sprite Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara) has taught me one thing about odd couples: people LOVE them. Throughout the years, movie audiences gobble up characters that have polarities that spark when...

‘Going the Distance’: A Fictional Exploration of Long Distance Relationships

Long and Barrymore in ‘Going the Distance’ Photo credit: Warner Bros. Pictures When I say that Nanette Burstein’s romantic comedy, Going the Distance is a fictional take on long distance relationships – I mean exactly that: it’s fictional. I am not saying that they never work nor am I speaking from first-person experience; I am...