Adapted from Gillian Flynn's bestselling novel by the author herself, David Fincher's "Gone Girl" isn't a movie that screams "aspirational" in the way that a show like "Ted Lasso" does. However, for a certain breed of cinephile — someone who prefers dark dramas to rom-coms — "Gone Girl" might be the only date movie you'll ever need.
Yet brought 10 Oscar nominations for "Mank," Fincher's long-awaited feature-film follow-up to "Gone Girl. The same streaming service hosted Rosamund Pike, the "gone girl" herself, for her return to thriller territory in with "I Care a Lot. With her perfectly styled kitchen hair, Pike's "Gone Girl" character, Amy Dunne, does hold a warped yet weirdly aspirational view of marriage.
She wants herself and her husband, Nick Ben Affleck , to be their best selves around each other. Nick doesn't understand or appreciate Amy's full depth, and the ending of "Gone Girl" might scan that way for some viewers. Pick out the right clothes. Put on your best face. Make a commitment to your spouse or partner in crime, and make a commitment to "Gone Girl. As "Gone Girl" rolls into its final hour, Nick and his sister, Go Carrie Coon , deliver a helpful recap of the film's plot to Nick's attorney, Tanner Bolt Tyler Perry, cast against type in a black-hearted Fincher film.
He tells Tanner:. Tanner thinks their best strategy is to find Amy. Meanwhile, in the Ozarks, Amy's campground neighbors rob her of her money belt. With nowhere else to go, she turns to Doogie Howser, or at least the actor who played him: Neil Patrick Harris also cast against comedy type.
Here, Harris embodies Amy's high school not-so-sweetheart, Desi Collins, who's still a pushover for her. In a riverboat casino, Amy gains Desi's sympathies by lying and saying she was pregnant but "lost the baby" due to Nick's abuse. She tells Desi, "Knowing you were out there was the only thing that's kept me going these past few years.
In the lake house, Amy sheds the weight she gained to disguise herself, all the while plotting her escape. In the movie, after Amy accuses him of rape, he pleads down his sentence. Nick finds him jobless and dateless in New York since he must legally identify himself as a sexual offender. In the book, he and Nick talk on the phone rather than in person and Tommy says Amy dropped the charges against him.
In the book, a young reporter named Rebecca talks Nick in the bar and gets him to say he loves Amy. The interview wins him back some public favor. This scene is missing from the movie.
Leave it to David Fincher to make an already-gruesome scene even more disturbing. In the book, Amy drugs Desi before cutting his throat and murdering him.
In the movie, she does it mid-sex with blood spilling all over her, her white bra and the white bed. In the book, Amy poisons herself with anti-freeze and then vomits it up and saves it.
And then the book ends. There's something poetic about the ending of the novel, but that doesn't make it particularly satisfying.
That's why it was so exciting when the Gone Girl author and screenwriter Flynn announced that she had written a new third act of the story for the film, which fans assumed meant a new ending and therefore different fate for Nick. But don't get your hopes up like I did — Nick's fate is sealed. The differences between the ending of Gone Girl, the film, and Gone Girl , the book, are miniscule. The film concludes with Amy and Nick going on television to announce Amy's pregnancy, as opposed to in the book, when it's a more private matter.
But did Flynn actually lie to us about altering the ending of the novel?
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