Did you check out the film adaptation of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl yet? David Fincher's twisted adaptation has been hyped for months on end and took in a cool $38 million in its opening weekend. Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike have made the promotional rounds to encourage viewers to fill theater seats to watch the love story of Amy and Nick Dunne unravel and turn into a murder mystery with a bunch of twists and turns. While reviews of a film adaptation will always be mixed, with some fans instantly preferring the book, this time the Oscar buzz is already loud.
Some bookmakers are reportedly placing odds on Pike, Affleck and Fincher's odds of being acknowledged next winter for their work on this film. Pike loves that her character of Amy was tough to read and get a handle on because it made everything exciting.
As for Affleck, he explained how the complexities of how people are in relationships drew him to the character of Nick.
"It's about role playing. It's about what women ask of men and men ask of women, and in the way we kind of show one another half of ourselves and not the whole self," he said.
"He feels like he is unfulfilled and he is being asked to do more than he should, and he is frustrated and he resents his wife.," he continued. "She resents him. It was trying to get into that mindset of recrimination and resentment, which was dark and tough and ugly."
Oscar voters themselves were not initially giving Gone Girl an A+, but it is the kind of film that stays with and haunts you just enough to make it memorable. How it will hold up compared to movies set for release in the next few months remains to be seen, but it will take a strong project to displace the overall impact Gone Girl has made.
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