Gone Girl Comparison

Picture for a moment, the morning of your 5th anniversary your wife goes missing, or what cops suspect was a murder. Automatically, you, the husband, are assumed guilty. Now, before you start expecting the routine dull ending: the husband is proven innocent and the cops find the wife, and they live happily ever after. Just stop! This movie is entirely different and unique. Gone Girl takes you on a wild roller coaster of disturbing, yet intriguing twist and turns, played by the perfect cast. Picture for a moment, the morning of your 5th anniversary your wife goes missing, or what cops suspect was a murder. Automatically, you, the husband, is assumed guilty. Now, before you start expecting the routine, dull ending: the husband is proven innocent and the cops find the wife, and they live happily ever after. Just stop! This movie is entirely different and unique. Gone Girl takes you on a wild roller coaster of disturbing, yet intriguing twist and turns, played by the perfect cast. As you may know, the movie is based off a novel. Unlike majority of novel-based films, Gone Girl follows the sequence of events chronologically how they occurred in the book. Every small detail was followed perfectly.

Not one character stood out from the other, because each actor had their moments and spotlight. In addition the actors were properly dressed and equipped to match their roles, as described in the novel. That's not all though. The actors are phenomenal at what they do. Nick Dunne, played by Ben Affleck, captured his character as a lost, confused, emotionally detached perfect husband. Then there’s Rosamund Pike, who plays Amazing Amy, otherwise known as Amy Elliott. She mastered her role as a psychotic, uptight, devil minded perfect wife. Without the actors truly understanding and performing their roles the way they did, the plot would not be able to