Also it’s not mentioned in the film but I’m pretty sure that in the book, when they move back to Missouri Nick doesn’t even look after his sick mom!! Amy ends up being the one taking her to doctors appointments and chemo!! Add that to his list of crimes! If Nick has zero haters I’m dead
I never liked Nick to be honest. But I also didn’t like Amy either. The whole point of this movie was to trick us into believing that we should be rooting for the lesser of two evils. Until you reach the climax and then you start to wonder, “Was there really?”.
That "Cool Girl" speech is so iconic, and shows how Amy and Nick never really got to know each other as their "real selves", since she was always putting on an act, and pretending to be a Lad's Girl, a perception that doesn't even exist. She even sat through Adam Sandler for him.
The "Unreliable Narrator" trope is very effectively utilised here. Initially, since Nick is the first viewpoint character, we may be inclined to side with him, until we learn that he's been cheating on Amy. Then, when we see Amy's perspective, where she discuss her and Nick's crumbling marriage, we start siding with her, until it's revealed that her diary was a complete lie, and that she's been playing both the characters and audience like fiddles.
tbh, I feel like that's why the twist is more effective in the movie. Love love love the book, but I feel like because of the way Nicks chapters are structured, it's hard to think of him as a truly unreliable character. We have total access to his internal monologue, while we only hear of Amy through her diary entries for the first half. In the film, we only see Nicks actions, which are generally shitty and suspicious - while we see Amy through her emotionally vulnerable diary entries, which gives us a stronger connection with her
Absolutely, all respect to Julianne Moore bless her but she won that because she was long overdue instead of her performance at that time. If I was the Academy, I would've gave Moore's Oscar for Far From Heaven which is the best performance she has given so far and Gone Girl for Pike
I truly believe the movie came out so well also because the author was directly involved in everything. The essential parts were kept, while certain things were expanded on (like the "cool girl" speech and the ending with her pregnant), great additions to the movie narrative. It's tricky to do what the book did, going back and forth between Nick and Amy's POVs (her first ones being the diary entries and the laast ones being her actual thoughts), and it could've came across as very tacky or predictable, but it didn't. Both the book and the movie are amazing.
I can't believe Gone Girl came out 10 years ago. 10 freaking years and i absolutely miss the hype when it came out. Rosamund Pike as Amy Dunne was everywhere at that time and she truly changed the world in playing Amy Dunne. This was the role of a lifetime that she deserves after being typecast a lot in supporting roles
The "unrelying narrator" factor never counted for me in this movie simply because I was 100% supportive of whatever batshit crazy stuff amy was up to so I didn't really care if her pov of their story was a little fake at times
I remember reading Gone Girl a loooong time ago and it honestly changed my life. Specifically because of the “cool girl” passage that ended up going viral on tiktok years later. It put into perspective how women often change themselves for a man, but men seldom even THINK of doing the same. Even when it’s for the better. She gave him everything and he cheated. End of story. We stand for Amy in this household
Especially because Nick knew from the beginning she was too good for him. He first wanted to better himself for her, but then after his career went down he just... made it her business? Resented her for growing up rich? Let their relationship strain and then cheats on her with a student so he can "feel like a man" again? Oh, please. His weak mindset, lack of care and indecisiveness caused all this in the first place. Amy loved Nick so much it took him cheating for her to actually take action on a plan that involves her OWN DEATH, and it only took him apologizing for her to KILL a man to go back to him. But Nick's also so self aware that he needed Amy in his life, that he saw no other option than to go back to her, even after everything she did. The book and movie are able to tie these characters in a way that the only possible outcomes are the ones Amy wanted: Her dead and him ruined, or them getting back together. That man was so uncapable of thinking for himself that even choosing divorce was a product of her ultimatum/ plan to keep him without an alibi.
I'm so obsessed with that scene where she crawls towards the camera. The first time I saw it was a really formative experience & I honestly think it changed me as a person. I love this movie sm
Go, Nick's sister, was possibly the most sympathetic character by the end, having to watch him stay married to a psychopath for the sake of his unborn child. While Go may not be as charming as Amy, she is far more authentic as a person.
Bc she's not a psycho like her brother or his wife. She's always been on Nick's side until she finds out he was cheating, and with a student! She genuinely gets mad and disappointed at him because it's one thing to complain about certain stuff in your marriage, but cheating is a whole other thing. And she's also horrified by the lengths Amy goes to, and how Nick just... stays. I really like her character
My only problem with girlbossifying her is the lying about abuse and faking sexual assault. Maybe some of you don’t agree and that’s okay. I do love this take, I just think some of the things are kind of crazy to defend haha
That’s why this movie blows for me. They couldn’t just write an evil woman villain: she has to lie about assault. It’s so frustrating bc I want that catharsis of watching a woman bury a man. Nick GENUINELY sucks in this movie, but all the valid hatred of him is immediately narratively made shakey when she fakes an assault
@@smallspidersad78yeah it kinda overshadows how shitty Nick is when she's pretended to have been assaulted before. It would be different if we found out that she was assaulted and the guy was lying, but we know that isn't true bc of her later actions. Ig they're just both supposed to be pieces of shit rather than one being good and one beind bad in the end.
Rosamund Pike freaked me out in this movie to the point if i ever meet her in person, i'd probably run away and scream like a man not because i'm a fan of her but she literally traumatised me in Gone Girl 😂 Bless her heart, she know what she went through with this material and she knocked it outta the park. I wish she could've won that Oscar 😢
Something interesting that I never see people talking about is how when Amy returns home, her dress is covered in Desi's blood - you know, she dress that unzipped and removed before getting down and then killing Desi. Did she roll around in his blood before heading home to make her "escape" look more plausible? Food for thought.
The cool girl monologue honestly changed my life, because I’ve always had tons of female friends and more “feminine” interests, so I didn’t realize I tried to become a specific genre of the cool girl for the guy I used to be with. Never again!!!
I hate the phrase ‘ahead of its time’ I think this came out at the perfect time, but also indicated the current discussion of ‘married single mothers’ there are so many couples who really don’t know each other, they live separate lives, they sleep next to each, May have breakfast, go to work, have dinner and watch tv and that’s it. I also love the commentary on the worthy/ sympathetic perfect victim, how the media rips apart people grieving the ‘proper’ way
Love you. Ive been waiting for this video all my life. On dates, I love making men watch this movie with me and when it’s over, I slowly look at them and go, “this is my favorite movie” 🥰
I just realized that this movie shaped the way i see ben affleck in my mind. Like i never realized i truly believe that in his personal life, ben affleck is nick dunne😭😭
Found you because of Nicole and I really appreciate discovering a fellow Amy Dunne supporter ❤ also the fact that you refer to everyone by their character name except Emily Ratakowski 😂
I haven't seen the movie, but I have watched The Vile Eye's video "Analyzing Evil: Amy Dunne from Gone Girl" He's an awesome youtuber if you haven't heard of him.
as a (hot) fincher fan, I was so shocked when I first watched the girl with the dragon tattoo bc like no way that’s the same director like the treatment of women in that film was so disgusting and nothing had to be that explicit
Maybe its because of the books the movies were based? One was written by a man and one by a woman. (idk tho i havent seen girl with the dragon tatto in like 10 years but i remember the book was very much explicit and had another vibe than gone girl the book)
One of my favorite things about this film is how much it scares men 😂 Women are constantly subjected to seeing terrifying movies with gender-based violence, but Amy Dunne kills one guy and manipulates another, both of whom are bad people, and these boys are shaking in their boots.
i haven’t finished the video but you gotta read the book or even listen to the audiobook (i did both) cuz it switches between their point of view before the big reveal. The ending of the movie feels more satisfying in the movie but book Amy is still girlboss-ing to the moon and back in the book. Spread the good word 🫶🏽
I mean, a big part of Amy's character is that she is prideful and calculated. Despite that, she actually fell for that man and changed her ways, and then Nick destroyed the life they build together. Amy was not only mad at him, but mad at herself for letting her guard down. Ruining him with this elaborate plan was her taking back her power as the cold person shes always been, while choosing to kill herself initially was Amy knowing she could never move on from this, and from him. That's also why she got back to Nick once she watched the interview. I'm sure you know all that, I just wanted to rant about it lol
And what's refreshing is that this was the first time the world saw a different side of her as an actress. It was her first leading role and she was cast against type. Sure actresses like Nicole Kidman or Charlize Theron could've nailed it but we kinda expected them to nail it because we know their talent. Pike was super unpredictable because not too many people knew her at that time and this role was unusual for an actress like her, it subverted our expectations that there's a new fresh face who can deliver a good villain role like that. God damn, me commenting this made me miss Gone Girl hype so much back in 2014
I love ben affleck in this movie so much every single time he reacts to any news about any likr her being pregnant or that she lost a lot of blod "oh my god 😮" its so funny. Hes the perfect man for the part
