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What Can We Learn About Dragon Tattoo From the ‘Immigrant Song’ Video?

Remember that first, totally rad The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trailer, the one with Karen O and Trent Reznor’s cover of “Immigrant Song� Well, this new David Fincher–directed video for the track will apparently serve as the movie’s title credits. Given that it was lovingly assembled by music video veteran Fincher, and that it’s a part of the movie itself, we can pretty safely assume that the “Immigrant Song†video contains secret clues about Fincher’s Dragon Tattoo adaptation. Which means: time to speculate wildly! Herewith, a short list of observations and guesses, based on a close reading of the video.

  • Cascading blue liquids (or maybe molten lava) will feature prominently.
  • There will be many computer wires and USB cords (this actually makes sense, what with the hacking).
  • At one point, a woman’s eyes will open.
  • Someone will be careless with a match, resulting in many giant explosions.
  • Sea creatures will show up. (We really can’t even begin to explain those tentacles, if they are tentacles.)
  • Underwater tulips?

Okay, it’s your turn! Guess away.

What Can We Learn About Dragon Tattoo From the ‘Immigrant Song’ Video?