How Gillian Flynn Created Amy Dunne for Gone Girl 

Gone Girl always seemed more like a cautionary tale to me, about what happens if you never stop trying to pretend to be someone your not to fit in.

“Marriage as a long con” is a very interesting concept

When he whispers "you bitch" I lost it. Such an amazingly simple yet complicated scene.

This story had one of the most interesting, original plots and characters I had ever seen. I truly did not know where the story was going. Apparently, this book and its movie adaption have already become legendary and highly influential.

Wow “unreliable narrators” absolutely genius

One of the best modern writers

If you've seen Sharp objects, you can tell she hates small town people lol

That Dora the Explorer story is hilarious 😂

Great stuff, thanks for the video

Love 💕 this movie. Rosamund Pike she’s the best actor❤️❤️💚💛🧡💜💓💞💕

Great video~‼️

Well done!

Wow I love that I saw this

Gillian Flynn said she loves that "feeling of unease you get", but I personally don't like feelings of unease in a movie. I keep being afraid something bad will happen!

Amy Dunn a villain no doubt but genius not quite Moriarty but close.

9:25 Again (see my previous comment) the stuff we show to others through social media is only an exaggerated version of our successes and happiness if we choose to do that. A lot of people prefer to do what some of us call "real Facebook" (probably there are similar ways of behaving on Instagram or whatever). I post what's really going on in my life. I think I do my friends no service by pretending that I'm always happy and successful. On the contrary, I try to be modest about my successes in my social media posts, and I turn to my social media friends for solidarity and support when really bad things happen in my life. I feel like if I open up about things that people don't usually talk about in public, I'm helping to create an atmosphere where we can all be more honest and open with each other about the dysfunctions and difficulties we all deal with and our families and personal lives. So it's a matter of how authentic a person chooses to be. True narcissists like Amy Dunne and narcissistic people like the husband in the movie--they choose not to be authentic and probably don't even know how to be, so they get their false lives through their choices, though in a way they're not entirely to blame because they are doing what they have learned to do. (Though Dunne's behavior is straight up evil. People tend to forget that she killed her patsy ex boyfriend in cold blood!!) People tend to think of narcissists as evil and they can do *very evil things,* but fundamentally it is a mental illness. There's not much free will involved I suspect. People who are willing to see this problem in themselves can recover. (They are rare. I've known only one narcissistic person who realized he was ruining his life and decided to change.) But virtually all narcissists, like Amy Dunne, never see that they have a problem and therefore they never improve. They just wreak havoc and destruction on the people around them.

I just noticed the chin covering thing also looks like hes shooting himself. maybe that means something.

To me book Amy was way scarier than the movie version.

This view of marriage is apparently too pervasive. I don't con nobody unless I'm fooling myself prior to this person. I just release myself as time goes without projecting anything to replace the parts yet to be revealed. I'm too lazy to do all that work plus you know it couldn't work so why start? I eventually will start releasing things to see if the person will be turned off. I want someone to actually know me to love me and visa versa. I enjoyed the movie but I have known to many people like the husband and a few like the wife. I think they are best suited for each other because if the husband survives and is halfway smart that experience will make him less like his worse parts by the end just to avoid being like her.

A man always gets the wife he deserves!

Not ripping the film, but I really wanted the female detective to catch her in a mistake.

There is quite a bit of product placement in Gone Girl. I couldn't help but notice.

That makes sense. She did not like nick. Her background in entertainment wroting also explains alot. Casting well, was the icing on the cake. Nick was an absent character. These, among Rosamond Pike's performance have a one sided appeal.

They liar on screen

I like listening to the author talk, but the female actress is heavily projecting she’s like “faking” or “an illusion”. The male lead looks so much like Peterson that it’s creepy. And the fact that so many women are killed by men they are in relationships with is staggering (and yet rarely discussed or portrayed in Hollywood). I don’t like them. The idea of comparing things to an episode of this or that is very American Psycho as well...the concept of a detached reality and/or inability to perceive it accurately; not feeling things in the moment, potentially not actually feeling anything at all. THE DIRECTOR thinking that way is due to her CREATIVE TALENT, which makes a giant difference in a husband doing that. Women so rarely actually “disappear” that it’s important to find the cases where they did to gain a better understanding of why they MIGHT do such a thing. It’s not that easy of a thing to do, if you’re going to continue to lead a normal life in the real world (as opposed to being held hostage etc), and women are particularly (by case studies) driven by children and/or attachments to other people like family & friends. Again, making them even less likely to “disappear” as grown people.

Gillian Flynn is obviously a talented writer who crafted a compelling story--but marriage is only "a long con" where each person "puts their best self forward" and then "falls for that facade" if you're that sort of person. Usually it is in fact narcissists who do this. They lure people into relationships by creating a very false self. An idealized version of themself. What the other person seems to want and need. Being a con artist is in some ways synonymous with being a pathological narcissist. Like Flynn's protagonist--the wanton murderer Amy Dunne. I actually go out of my way to be my most authentic self, including the sides of myself that might be a little hard to take, in the courtship process. Because I don't want to end up in a relationship where I have to be someone *I'm not.* Sometimes I **am** a "cool girl," genuinely. Sometimes I'm high maintenance. Or fragile. I'm more opinionated in intimate relationships than I am with friends because that's my truer, intimate self. I make sure that anybody who claims to love me has ample opportunity to know who I really am. Otherwise it's *not really me that they love*...

Dk - got herself a bullet-point list of psychopathic traits & got cracking?

spoiler alert! lol.

Think to women she is not that evil....

This movie should be called ''American Psyko 2'' or ''How to not do police work'', FBI in this movie are so misrepresented and made stupid that it's almost comic. In reality the psyko girl left so many evidence and so many dumb mistakes she would have landed in prison within hours.

Amber Heard

Hollywood, stop hiring British/Aussie actresses. There are American actresses.

AfflecK and JLo married, two ego maniacs.

thankyou for the annoying music overlay for 14 minutes- i ended up fast forwarding and realising it never lets up- learn to produce a video and try again.