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Topless posters create movie buzz for 'Dragon Tattoo'

Nathan Hager , wtop.com

WASHINGTON - Girl who played with fire, indeed.

The American film version of the best-selling Swedish crime thriller "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" won't arrive in theaters until December, but buzz is building to a fever pitch thanks to an online marketing campaign that appears to be openly courting controversy.

A poster for the film is available to download through the movie's website , but in order to see it, you have to verify your age.

The reason: the stark, black-and-white image shows star Rooney Mara, as the heavily pierced anti-heroine Lisbeth Salander topless. In Internet parlance, the image is NSFW: Not Safe For Work.

"It's something relatively new to use the Internet in this way," says Alan Silverman, movie critic with the Hollywood Bytes Radio Entertainment News Service, noting that this viral campaign began with a (intentionally?) leaked red-band trailer that swept the Internet.

"'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' could be an interesting test to see if it goes beyond that Internet campaign, or if that will be enough for it, whether it will raise enough interest," Silverman says.

The American adaptation of the late Stieg Larsson's "Millennium" trilogy will debut in theaters less than three years after the Swedish films hit the big screen. For many American fans of the series, Noomi Rapace's portrayal of Salander is iconic.

That may be why the online marketing for the American films seems to be breaking taboos on purpose -- to set them apart and get them attention.

The message from "Dragon Tattoo" distributor Sony Pictures may be, according to Silverman, "Even if you do know the books, and even if you have seen those three original films from Sweden, that you're going to see something more from this Hollywood version."

The explicit poster also offers a rare peek at how movies are commonly advertised overseas. Silverman says he wouldn't be surprised if the poster were hung inside multiplexes in Europe.

"In France, and even in the UK, there's a lot more leeway for showing parts of the anatomy on movie posters than is allowed by the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America)," says Silverman.

The MPAA, well known for setting film ratings, also regulates how movies are advertised in the U.S., including posters.

In the past, the MPAA has rejected posters for the "Saw" movies because they appeared to show severed fingers.

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