It was never revealed, although I had my suspicions. Or did I miss something?
"Trying is just the first step towards failure."
The big bad super secret government agency sent them. The old guy and the bearded guy discuss it when they mention that it's time to play "hardball". Honestly, I figured Plague would have revealed that sooner.
Also, Blomqvist never assumed that his office was bugged? Riiiiight.
That's why the book is better I think. The movie left a lot of things out because of lack of enough time.
"That was a courtesy flush. I'm not actually done yet"
I, too, had read the book first, and thought they handled the e-mail thing quite poorly. I guess you're supposed to infer that it was the government, but it's never really resolved in the movie. The book of course, clearly deals with this.
shareThe movie left a lot of things out because of lack of enough time.Yes. It's comes with the territory when you're adapting 700 page books to the screen. share
I have read the three books, and my criticism is about the complete TV versions in 6 parts, not about the abridged "theater versions" (that I didn't see).
I don't really understand why they kept these "anonymous emails" scenes in the movie, as in the novel it's part of a complete and lenghty subplot involving characters and situations that are NOT in the filmic adaptation. It's total nonsense.
This being said, I rather liked the TV-series, and I also like the American adaptation of the first story.