When thinking about making Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn into a movie you have to think about the
thick plot she has created throughout the entire book. Every page turn the plot
gets thicker and thicker. That in itself is a huge challenge a filmmaker will
have to face when turning this fantastic book into a movie. I have finished the
whole book and I loved it, so having to pick three specific scene to keep is difficult.
I believe that most of the scenes that happen in the book are so important to
understand what is going on in the book.
One scene you would definitely need to keep is where
Nick discovers Amy missing from their home. Nick was at The Bar, the bar his sister and him own, and he gets a call from
his neighbor explaining there was something not right about their house. So, he
came home and discovered the front door opened, cat outside, the iron on, the
living room messed up, and Amy gone. That is where the craziness of the book
starts, it’s like a snowball effect in my opinion. Another scene I think that
needs to be in the movie is when Andie comes into the picture. Nick and his
sister Go were talking about the day’s events in Go’s living room. Go then goes
to bed and Nick is laying on the couch to sleep and his disposable phone rings.
He answers it, the person on the other end tells him to come outside. It’s
Andie, his mistress that he has been with for over a year. This a turning point
in the book because it explains Nick’s weird behavior of hiding things. A third
scene that for sure needs to be in the book is when Amy decides to show the
real Amy to the audience. She is running from Nick to teach him a lesson and is
framing him for her murder. She is staying in these cabins, until these two
people, that she became friends with, figured out who she was. That is when she
changed the plan. She murdered an old friend, Desi, when he came to rescue her.
She told the police a completely wrong story. This point in the book is when
the audience sees the true Amy, a psycho woman.
Now it’s time to think about the parts to cut. Oh
man that’s hard because above I didn’t even talk about all the parts that need
to be in the movie. But I guess one part that could be cut is when Nick
describes how he looks at Amy. The book starts out with how he looks at her, he
looks at her head and just really her head nothing else. And in the big picture
of things the movie could go on without that part. A second part that doesn’t need
to be in the book is all the detail of their past. It could briefly be in there
but not in so much detail. It’s not that important, but in the end of the book
Amy wants what they use to have at the beginning.
