If you are considering seeing David Fincher’s new mystery thriller “Gone Girl” this fall staring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, and your not quite convinced by the critics praise and positive review. While I hate to rely on anything reviews of the majority of film critics, I can safely say that this film deserves every ounce of its praise that it has been getting. This film is not only one of the finest films of the year, but it could also be one of the best modern mystery thrillers of our time. David Fincher is not unfamiliar with the mystery thriller genre, with films like Seven, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Social Network, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Remake. So if you were a fan of Fincher, you would know that each frame and angle; …show more content…
His talent of incorporating his knowledge of the very language of cinema, is exactly why most of his films are either box office blowouts or in cases like “Gone Girl”, instant classic status. With Fincher’s impeccable style and his familiarity of the mystery genre, Gone Girl is not only one of the films best thrillers of the year, it could be up in the list of one of the greatest mystery thrillers in film. Gillian Flynn’s highly successful book ‘Gone Girl” is now told on the screen with the help of David Fincher as the director, and the plot is quite simple. The film is focused on a couple Nick and Amy, starring Ben Affleck and the beautiful Rosamund Pike. On the day of their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick’s wife Amy has gone missing. With a set of clues found around the house and other locations pointing to a wide array of possibilities about her disappearance, the police, the media, and even close friends start to get suspicions that Ben Affleck may have something to do with her disappearance. If you are a fan of the book, you are going to enjoy this complex, multilayered story that you loved from the book, displayed by Finchers impeccable style on the screen. The film begins as Nick finds his wife missing in the home with items in the living room destroyed. When the officers get involved, they get a sense of struggle in the incident, and they start to get suspicious by Nick’s demeanor towards the situation. When the begin to have …show more content…
With the spotlight now pointed at Nick by the police and the media circus, doubts start to be raised by his friends and family, even you as the audience. With the visually stunning qualities of Fincher, and the pulse-pounding soundtrack Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, really adds up when you combine it with the duplicitous nature of the story and characters, this film holds no problems of truly getting under your skin leaving you cold and restless. This film is scary at times and it is not by any jump scares or clichés, but by the very tone set by all of those involved. Its very hard not to get into the goods of the story without revealing or just insinuating any spoilers if you haven’t seen the film, but I’ll just say that this film unfolds in ways that will leave you second guessing a lot. There are times where you might think that Nick is responsible for the disappearance and there will be scenes that will suggest clues to make you think other wise of possible scenarios. The qualities of Gillian’s novel are apparent, but Flinchers direction only heightens the experience for the audience, sucking you in immediately. The story is very meticulously detailed, giving you a juxtaposition of the points of views of the main characters, laying out all the clues and facts to leave the audience guessing for possibilities. Nevertheless, even with most of the clues and back-stories laid out, Fincher does a great job of making sure that the audience is unsure of
Nick is the narrator and observer of the story. The only information about him is that he is Mels best friend, Laura...
As much as generous and honest Nick Carraway is, he still needs a few important improvements in himself. Nick went to Yale, fought in world war one and moved to East of New York to work in finance. After moving to New York, Nick faces tough dilemmas throughout the story such as revealing secrets, and witnessing betrayal. His innocence and malevolence toward others was beyond his control. He did not have the ability or knowledge to know what he should have done in the spots he was set in. He seemed lost and having no control of what went on- almost trapped- but indeed, he had more control than he could have ever known. Because of the situations he has experienced and the people he has met, such as Gatsby, Tom, Jordan and Daisy, his point of view on the world changed dramatically which is very depressing. Trusting the others and caring for them greatly has put him in a disheartening gloomy position.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo is a thrilling film filled with mystery and suspense. However, Hitchcock left many unsolved issues at the end of this film. In contrast, when comparing Vertigo to more recent films of similar genre’, mysteries are usually always solved and thoroughly explained by the end of the film. Ironically, Hitchcock’s failure to explain everything to the audience in Vertigo is one of the film’s best attributes. This lack of knowledge allows the viewer to use their own imagination and speculate as to what might or might not have become of certain characters.
The book overall is a very hard book to understand because of the way it was written and the time frame in which the book was taking place in and the complexity of the characters the book has. Nick Caraway is particularly difficult because he is not only a major character to keen into he is also telling the story a year later and reflecting his thoughts on how he behaved. Nick holds the qualities of slow judgement on people he meets but he only does this because it was infused in him at a young age by his father and he is very practical with what to do and how to do it also he has some integrity to him and knows how to handle himself as a man. Nick must be understood because he is not only the man caught in the cross fire
Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck star in this mystery/thriller that dabbles in psycho-analysis and the troubles of the mind. Constance Peterson is a renowned psycho-analyst, whose ability to analyze data is unquestionable, but who has no life outside of her work. This all changes the day the new Chief of Staff, Dr. Edwardes (Peck) arrives. It is love at first site, and Constance’s barriers break down in a flash.
Often times, suspense leads the audience on to watching or reading more about suspense. “The Landlady” was an amazing way to express suspense and it’s techniques by bringing up some of the most suspenseful techniques. For example, mood, dramatic irony, dilemmas, and foreshadowing. Since the film and story both brought up all the suspense techniques that they used to make the scenes suspenseful, the audience will question and wonder it's where beings and will continue to drag audience members deeper into the investigation. Suspense is brought up plentiful of times within different types of techniques within films which makes the audience filled up with tension and curiosity. Suspense is all around us, which makes suspense more real. We value suspense because it brings excitement and emotions into our lives more. Suspense creates a platform where suspenseful films and books can make filmmakers and authors use their techniques as well. The idea of suspense is an amazing thing that shall be spread amongst everyone, for suspense techniques are more valued within quantities of films and
People flock to horror movies each year. Usually to be scared. Another is to solve the question of Who done it? Unfortunately, a lot of these horror movies fail to scare people or make the killer so obvious the audience gets bored. Occasionally, there are a few horror movies that stick out. Scream, directed by Wes Craven, is one of them. Wes Craven is always toying with the viewer's fears. Always finding ways to scare the audience at every turn. He also plays with the viewer's head, and has them second guessing themselves. How does he do it? Well, as one of the characters in the movie exclaims, "There's a formula to it. A very simple formula. Everybody's a suspect!" This paper will discuss how Craven uses sound, camera shots, and mise en scene
“Thriller” is a film, literary, and television genre that contains elements of suspense, anxiety and excitement. Within the thriller genre, there are multiple subgenres such as the mystery thriller, crime thriller, horror thriller, erotic thriller, psychological thriller, and the list still grows today. Many thriller films contain elements from multiple subgenres, which in turn helps to create the core elements with more potency and variety. Silence of the Lambs is undoubtedly within the thriller genre and moreover can be placed into several of its numerous subgenres. However, there are two thriller subgenres that Silence fits into like a perfectly tailored suit of human skin: crime thriller and psychological thriller.
He brought her into his home and at first seemed to truly love her. Not soon after, it was obvious that she was trapped in his home with no hope of escape. A small bump in her plan of being reunited with Nick, but she was prepared to stop at nothing. She injured herself to appear as she had been brutally raped.
The casting of both Leonardo DiCaprio and fresh-faced Claire Danes influence how the film is viewed. Baz Luhrmann is smart in using young, attractive characters to make the adaptation more appealing to a more adolescent
When it comes to David Fincher’s adaption of Gillian Flynn’s novel, Gone Girl, it’s important to remember the famous quote, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” When I first watched the movie I experienced very odd emotions. For example, I went from wanting to find Amy’s “kidnapper”, to wanting her husband Nick Dunne prosecuted for her murder, to finally rooting her on for the hell she made him go through due to his infidelity.
... that you see this action filled thriller. Liam Neeson’s portrayal of Bryan Mills was courageous and inspiring. Only a father’s love could drive a man as far as he went to save his only daughter.
A Beautiful Mind may have been developed to be a crowd-pleaser as well as a tear-jerker, because you know this is a man’s life without falsities. It is blatant and true, that’s all. This film proves that there are still instances when Hollywood-produced, big budget movies are worth a viewer's investment of time and money.
...n (Director) mistakenly seems to believe can carry the whole film. On the strength "based on a true story", he has rejected attention-grabbing characters, an imaginative plot, and unforgettable villains.
The music is so creepy, that it is almost scarier than the film itself. When I first watched the film, a few parts left me confused, especially the end. I thought about possible theories and a logical answer of what the ending scene meant. I think the viewer needs to watch this movie multiple times in order to understand every hidden detail; because there are a lot of them. When I re-watched the movie, I noticed that Jack Torrance said something along the lines of “It feels like I’ve been here before.”