Rooney Mara'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'transformation in W Magazine sexualizes Lisbeth Salander

Rooney Mara's"Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"transformation has shocked Hollywood, but if the photos in W are any indication, it pales in comparison to the original big screen Lisbeth Salander, Swedish actress Noomi Rapace.

In recently released photos fromW Magazine'sFebruary issue -- an exclusive first look from the set -- the U.S. version of Lisbeth Salander appears as haute couture's answer to a punk-rock hacker with virtually none of the grit of Swedish cinema's feminist take on the heroine from Stieg Larsson's best-selling novel.

While Mara is decked out with perfectly bleached skin, stylized hair, flawless black eye makeup and Burberry and Balenciaga threads, Rapace's Lisbeth  always appeared as though she subverted her beauty with smeared eyeliner and a DIY mohawk.

Sweden's Lisbeth hid her feminine curves beneath masculine leather duds while Hollywood's Lisbeth debuts on the cover of W pulling open her leather jacket to reveal her cleavage, with artfully applied blood on her fingers.

Within the pages of the magazine, Hollywood Lisbeth's sexiness is ramped up further. One photo shows a shirtless Mara looking off into the distance, her hands covering her chest; another image has her leaning over a bike -- al-la Megan Fox in"Transformers"-- to get her a rear end tattooed as a cigarette dangles from her mouth.

Though author Stieg Larsson has been criticized for fetishising the abuse his heroine undergoes, Rapace made up for it on screen by creating a Lisbeth who takes no prisoners, sleeps with whoever she wants and never allows herself to be objectified.

It's a far cry from the tutu-wearing Agent Provocateur-underwear flashing sex bot that appears in W's February issue.

Hollywood should realize that it takes more than bleaching eyebrows, chopping hair and piercing various body parts to catch the spirit of Salander. Though Rapace's wish has apparently come true as she told Deadline in November that she hoped"Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's"U.S. director David Fincher would"do something far away from our films."

Fincher told the magazine he made Lisbeth more aggressive for the American version of story, but that doesn't quite mesh with his rather precious description of the character as a"goth Pippi."

Hopefully the Hollywood version of the Swedish thriller will not turn out to be another"Point of No Return,"in which Bridget Fonda transformed Luc Besson's French butt-kicking "La Femme Nikita" into a flimsy clothes horse.

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