The Golf Blog: Life imitates art?–Tiger Woods accident eerily similar to golf club scene in Swedish book/movie “Girl with Dragon Tattoo”
The Golf Blog says: The No. 1 bestseller in trade back and paperback is the deceased Swedish author’s Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” The book is the first in the Millennium trilogy (the 3rd novel just came out in the U.S. and sits atop as the No. 1 bestseller for hardbacks). We loved the book and the movie!
But something funny happened in the movie, although by accident–pun intended. In the Swedish movie “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” the climactic scene involves the petite female protagonist (Lisbeth Salander) hitting the villain with a golf club and then chasing him with the golf club as he flees in a Range Rover (we won’t reveal what happened at the end). As the car speeds away, the petite woman smashes one of the car windows with a golf club. Sound familiar?
When we watched the movie, people started lauqhing during this climactic scene. Yes, laughing! No doubt the laughter was the result of the eery similarity between the scene in this Swedish movie and what many believed happened when Elin Woods reportedly smashed out a window in Tiger Woods’ Escalade as he tried to speed away.
What makes the similarity even more tantalizing is that the author, Stieg Larsson, was from Sweden. So is Elin Woods. Larsson, however, died in 2004, so he couldn’t have possibly used the Tiger Woods accident as inspiration for his climactic scene, or used a golf club as a key part of that scene because of Elin Woods. (The Swedish movie came out early in 2009, so the filmmaker couldn’t have possibly used the Tiger Woods accident as inspiration.)
Hollywood plans on making a U.S. version of the book. Here’s some friendly advice: don’t use a Cadillac Escalade in the scene. Even though a golf club is used in the book, we would also advise the studio to use some other instrument. The golf club smashing the SUV car window will inevitably draw laughter from the audience!
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