Best Of 2012: Less Lee Moore
Published on December 31st, 2012 in: Best Of Lists, Feminism, Movies, Music, TV |
Noomi Rapace and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander
2012 was the year of the woman. Women dominated the best of music, film, and TV.
The most significant figure for me in 2012 was Lisbeth Salander, the Steig Larsson-created character of the Millennium trilogy of novels, who also appears in the original Swedish film series and David Fincher’s newest film incarnation. Critics and fans may fight over who was better, Noomi Rapace or Rooney Mara, but both were outstanding at portraying my personal favorite female character of the last couple of decades. (Ms. Rapace had the added distinction of playing the more than worthy successor to Ellen Ripley when she inhabited the role of Dr. Elizabeth Shaw in Ridley Scott’s misunderstood but brilliant Prometheus.)