![]() ![]() Dormer thus had good reasons for wanting to kill his accidental victim. ![]() But some important additions are made, most significantly the fact that the senior detective Will Dormer (Al Pacino) and his younger partner Hap Eckhart (Martin Donovan) are under investigation by the LAPD's Internal Affairs Department for rigging evidence and Hap was preparing to cut a deal. ![]() No equivalent can be found for the jokes about Skarsgård being a Swede working for Norwegians and the plot device about a Swedish cop covertly carrying a gun in Norway, where the police are unarmed, has to be dropped. Up in the 49th State an arctic summer prevents the hero from distinguishing between 10 in the morning and 10 at night, trapping him in a blinding light that challenges his notion of the world as a place of varying shades of grey. The American version sticks closely to the original, substituting Los Angeles and Alaska for Oslo and Trondheim. He accidentally kills his partner during a stake-out, attempts to cover it up, and falls into the blackmailing hands of the prime suspect, a cool psychopathic author of popular crime novels. His initial dislocation is compounded by the absence of night, his natural habitat. In Erik Skjoldbjaerg's original 1997 film, the setting is a small community inside the Arctic Circle in northern Norway where a troubled cop (played by the low-key character actor Stellan Skarsgård) comes from Oslo during the white nights of summer to investigate the brutal murder of a 17-year-old schoolgirl. ![]()
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