Being the cool girl means i am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like shes hosting the worlds biggest culinary gang bang while. From beginning to end, gone girl is a spellbinding, cutthroat page turner. The movie is a commentary on the roles we all play to function in society, that image that we create for ourselves that determines how we will be treated by the community. The film version of gone girl, which hit theaters this weekend, follows the novel closely. Gone girl, by gillian flynn, is a twosided contest in which nick and amy dunne tell conflicting stories. Millions of you flocked to gone girl over the weekend, and you saw finchers ending.
Earlier this year, many fans of gillian flynns 2012 thriller gone girl were dismayed to learn that the author had changed the storys ending for the film adaptation. I just finished the book last night and found the ending unsatisfying and unsettling as wellbut with this kind of a book, i dont think there could have been a settled ending. Gone girls ending is different from the book in these. Whereas in the book there are some changes from that of the movie. We texted back and forth as she had a hard time getting into it while i loved it from the start. The movie, which i saw on opening night last week, is also excellent. I would recommend this movie to all with a warning that the adult rating is well earned but especially those with a dark sense of humour. Spoilers ahead first, the death of desi collingsin the book i. Gone girl introduction once upon a time, there was a beautiful woman named amy, who was practically perfect in every way, just like mary poppins. The ending of the book or from amys disappearance on seem like the author just lost her focus. Obviously, this post includes many spoilers about the gone girl movie and book. But dont be surprised to see some changes in the onscreen adaptation of the beloved gillian flynn book. Heres how gillian flynn defended the ending of gone girl in 2012.
Men always say that as the defining compliment, dont they. The book version of gone girl, so ive heard, is a crime novel. I just finished listening to the audio book gone girl and am disappointed in the ending. Boy meets girl, girl is a secret sociopath, girl fakes her own death, and.
This is a wonderful and terrifying book about how the happy surface normality and the underlying darkness can become too closely interwoven to separate. Read on for flynn s explanation as to why gone girls ending is the only one that would have worked. These book club discussion questions will help your reading group explore the plot, themes, and ideas raised in the novel. If you somehow did not read the headline of this post, we will restate this is a discussion about the ending of gone girl the movie. Though the middle of the book moved along at the speed of a freight train, the final chapters seemed to lose steam, concluding the novel with a tragic, almost epiloguelike ending. The film stars ben affleck, rosamund pike, neil patrick harris, and tyler perry. The differences between the ending of gone girl, the film, and gone girl, the book, are miniscule. When amy rosamund pike says, of her plot against her husband, nick. Gone girl is deeply interested in the rift between personal experiences, but in the book, we are privy to both nick and amys concerns.
Ive never thought that any type of book should have to end in a certain way. Is gone girls movie ending different from the book. So no, gone girl isnt any more antimen than any other david fincher film, or any more antiwoman than any film noir. Anyway, im curious as to how other people felt about the ending and what it possibly entails. The movie stays pretty true to the book, although some characters. Gone girl movie plot ending, explained the cinemaholic. Gone girl by gillian flynn was one of the big suspense novels of 2012. With less than a month to go until gone girl hits theaters, clues about the movies ending are piling up like those amy dunne leaves for her husband, nick. Major differences between the gone girl book and movie. The ending of gone girl is a big point of contention for a lot of readers. An epic build up over seven books and the ending was equivalent to a. If you are not prepared to have literally everything spoiled for you, do not read this post.
Dark places, is the thrilling equal of her later book, gone girl it might be even better. One friend began reading the book at the same time i started listening. As gone girl rolled through production, there was talk about director david fincher and screenwriter gillian flynn tinkering with and possibly changing the ending to the authors bestselling novel. Spoiler page for gone girl by gillian flynn book journey.
I love the end of notes on a scandal, also a book i love. Movie plot holes explained the oscar nominee for best actress is what rosamund pike of the james bond fame earned for this role of hers. Many fans, including myself, were disappointed by the gone girls conclusion. She was the coolest girl aroundfunny, fabulously wealthy, and feminine, all while still being one of the boys. Yes, this is about to be filled with spoilers some people are puzzled as to how one mrs. On the page, there is absolutely no mystery about what amy. Gone girl is a story of the trials and tribulations that a couple, nick and amy dunne go through in their young marriage. In the book, at least desis mother goes to the police, hysterical, saying that amy killed her son even though shes whisked away, theres the faint hope that maybe the case is reopened. If youve already read gone girl, or if you dont mind swimming in a sea of. Maybe thats true, but theres more to flynns title choice than meets the eyeand in a lot of ways, its actually describing amy herself. What could possibly have compelled nick to go back to living with amy, the lying, killing sociopath who tried to frame him for murder and came very close to getting away with it. Amy elliottdunne rosamund pike wound up pregnant in the gone girl. The biggest differences between the gone girl movie and the book. Want to talk about changes the film made to the book especially.
Gone girl is an example of mystery, suspense, and crime genres. Thats a fair nonspoilerish description of gone girl, based on the 2012 book of the same name written by gillian flynn. The main character, amy, is just way too methodical to make such a mistake like getting robbed. Gillian flynn responds gone girl ending the no charge. With all things breezy at first, life eventually hits hard and things spiral out of control as problems in their marriage and individual selves surface. Everything wrong with gone girl in 16 minutes or less duration.
Both the book and the movie versions of gone girl are highly enjoyable except for the ending, which is impossible to believe. I really enjoyed the whole book, but the ending just had me in disbelief. Dark, vicious, morbidly funny and utterly brilliant, gone girl is an absolute mustread. Lets discuss that twisted ending justin theroux, left, and emily blunt appear in a scene from, the girl on the train. But it is antimarriage at least, in terms of how that union affects women. David finchers movie of gillian flynns bestseller is released this weekend. Same as that of the movie the writer gillian flynn has a strong liking for such endings. But far from just being a mindless thriller, gone girl is a literary pageturner that is smart and witty. On wednesday, the new york times published an interview with ben affleck, who plays nick dunne in the highly anticipated david fincher adaptation of gillian flynns bestselling novel. Despite the fact that flynn wrote the screenplay for david finchers new film, there are a. Heres how gillian flynn defended the ending of gone girl.
Nick and amy hate and love each other like most couples, but more important. The ending at the start of the year, gillian flynn reported that shed written a new ending for her screenplay, apparently at the request of david fincher, whod been disappointed by returns on his. Gone girl is one of those movies that, in the hands of a lesser director, could have ended up rather trashy. At first glance, it seems like it would be pretty obvious whats up with gone girl s titleits a book about a girl who disappears, which means shes, well, gone. The direction is slick, the story is faithfully adapted. Gone girl is a 2014 american psychological thriller film directed by david fincher and with a screenplay by gillian flynn based on her 2012 novel of the same title. The true story of two sisters who vanished, the father who kept searching, and the.
Usually, when hollywood decides to change the ending of a bestselling novel for the benefit of its film adaptation, the news is met with outrage. Brunda i just finished this book and honestly my first reaction to the ending was to flip the next page and double check if i skipped a chapter. What actually happens at the climax of gone girl, and how. There will be spoilers for both the book and the movie. Classic literature, original gangster s4 e11 gone girl by gillian flynn thug notes book summary and analysis. Gone girl s ending is different from the book in these specific ways. The first part of the novel centers on nick dunne and his wife amys marriage.