The Role Of Women In The Film 'Gone Girl'

“Cool girl is hot. Cool girl is game. Cool girl is fun. Cool girl never gets angry at her man. She only smiles in a chagrin, loving manner” (Gone Girl). The description of a “cool girl” by the main character of the film “Gone Girl”, Amy Dunne, directly applies to the modern-day depiction of a cool girl as seen through the music of female artists such as Halsey and Tove Lo. Both women bring a new approach to the term cool girl and change the images of females in the music industry using their lyrics and style. Using their femininity, they dispute the idea that the music industry is male dominated and they are breaking the expectations of what topics are appropriate for women to discuss in music.

Cool girls originated when the glamour of early Hollywood took America by storm. These women became famous during a time when women began to gain freedom and

As the 1920’s began, the liberation of women by the introduction of new rights gave them newly found confidence to move to cities, become independent or live with other women, and experience life in a new way. This introduced the Flapper era, when women broke social normality’s and became less lady like. Without having to live by the rules, women could experiment more with makeup, dancing, and clothing, all ways of expressing themselves, as opposed to prior to the 1920’s when expectations of women’s appearances and behavior were high. This increasingly expressive woman became the cool girl. A woman who was “always utterly un-self-conscious and perfectly indifferent and unaware of anyone’s interest in her” and who allowed life to come easy was the cool, calm and collected girl most people would