Movie Review : Gone Girl

Movie adaptations are widely produced in our modern cinematic world. Many book lovers criticize movie adaptations, proclaiming that it kills the spirit of the story, misses out on critical key themes, and eliminates the reader's and viewer’s imagination. The Great Gatsby movie, directed by Baz Luhrmann and released on May 1st, 2013, is a film adaptation of the book The Great Gatsby, written in 1922 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The time lag between the movie and the book made some things unacceptable in our society. These changing societal proprietorship motivated Baz Luhrmann to alter the movie to be more suitable for current viewers. Consequently, there are many differences to be found between the book and the movie adaptation, which ultimately led to Luhrmann's movie being critiqued many times by the book’s fans, saying it was nothing like the actual book. Despite the fact that the movie adaptation of the Great Gatsby book follows the overall plot, it fails to show the racism, sexism, and abuse some of the characters withhold. The movie also fails to show the significance of the American dream, the condemnation of the lifestyle of the very rich, and it also annihilates reader’s imagination.

Has it ever happened to you that you go to the theater with friends, and in the middle of the movie someone exclaims, “That was not in the book!”? When a book comes to life on film, the expectations double: not only must film makers satisfy the demands of the author and other people involved in the creative process of the text, but also they have to please an already established fan base that expects for the movie to do justice to its written counterpart. It is definitely a challenge to meet those expectations, but if presented with an exceptional literary work, the job of film makers gets easier. In this case, such a piece comes in the form of Hugo Award winner “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” a short story written by Ursula K. Le

For this assignment, I've chosen to analyze the movie, Gone Girl and television show, The Office. Gone Girl, a movie still in theaters, stars Neil Patrick Harris and Ben Affleck and is based off a 2012 book. The book, written by Gillian Flynn, has since been a New York Times' Best Seller. The Office was a television show spanning from 2005-2013 and earned multiple awards.

Over the years, there have been many great movies filmed that have received critical acclaim and awards. Of those movies, the ones that have received the most acclaim and awards are the movies based on praised books. When adapting a book to the big screen, it can be a challenging process because either the viewers love the movies take on the book, or they absolutely hate it. It is important for these movies to have a solid fan base from before the movies release to ensure success. Another factor that is important in success for these movies is doing the book justice in the transfer from paper to the big screen. Book nerds everywhere love and will praise a movie based off their favorite book that is well made. This year, there have been many

When reading fiction novels it’s sometimes hard to follow what going on without have predictable plots. While reading I’ve learned that it’s always a great idea to look for reviews or rating to help get an idea of what you’ll enjoy. Now I will be explaining my favorite book that I picked up on accidentally

Rosamund Pike said, “When the eyes are on you for the first time, you can 't believe that people aren 't criticizing you,” and after her fantastic acting performance as Amy Dunne in Gone Girl no one should criticize her. Gone Girl is full of brilliant acting by many of the characters, but the actress that stood out the most to me was Rosamund Pike as Amy Dunne. The theme of the movie is that everyone has to conform to some stereotype deemed “okay” by society in order to be liked. We all have to put on a face and act to be someone we are not, and Rosamund Pike as Amy Dunne portrays this beautifully. She is always acting, acting like the cool girl, acting like the victim but underneath it she is someone very different; she is not a female stereotype deemed fit by society but a psychopath. She therefore creates a multidimensional character with many layers.

The movie being reviewed is a classic romantic comedy entitled Pretty Woman directed by Garry Marshall in 1990. Pretty Woman takes place in Los Angeles, California where a kindhearted prostitute Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) meets an out of town millionaire Edward Lewis (Richard Gere), and they find true love despite their differences in true fantasy fairy tale fashion and live happily ever after. This film is particularly relevant to many aspects of our American Popular Culture class because it addresses the differences in class system, morality, materialism, and even gender and feminism roles.

People are always looking for good ways to entertain themselves. Over the past few hundred years, several art forms have become a commonplace in society, such as plays, music, drawings, books, and, more recently, movies. Books and movies are two that have stomped their way into society with no remorse. They have been great ways to express people’s opinions, make social statements, and most importantly, entertain audiences. Both of these have had a profound effect on the world, whether it be through changing a way of life or just by making time pass for a few hours. Certain books and movies have played great roles in the world and had many influences. The Lord of the Rings has had a massively positive effect on both literature and film. Its creation has led to many positives and in doing so has become one of the most influential stories ever created. It has also led to some major impacts outside of literature and the film industry as well.

The Hunger Games is a fantasy adventure love story about a young girl from a poor district who volunteers to take her sister place to fight to the death in the 74th Annual Hunger Games in the country’s capitol city. “Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the evil Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games.  A twisted punishment for a past uprising and an ongoing government intimidation tactic, The Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which "Tributes" must fight with one another until one survivor remains.” (www.thehungergamesmovie.com) Prior to being a film, The Hunger Games was an

There is no doubt that Jazz has become one of Japanese cultures, which was once linked to Japanese American and European cultures, and now, it could also represent Japanese culture itself. Jazz certainly has a major influence on Japanese music styles. This influence also affects Japanese society. Jazz is like a pot of wine with continuous fermentation, spreading its flavor to different generations of Japan. The love of jazz is very enthusiastic, people from kids to elders are all aware of this genre and many of them participate in school bands, society bands and other groups that perform jazz music. Here is one track of a Japanese high school band performing “ How high to the moon”. Second track is a Japanese film trailer “ Like Someone In Love”, the background jazz music was exceptionally charming, and has an indescribable appeal.

Gone Girl is a physiological thriller, written by Gillian Flynn, that depicts what happens when Amy Dunne, the wife of, Nick Dunne, goes missing the morning of their fifth wedding anniversary. This movie is filled with outstanding characters, the soundtrack is rather unusual but for this film is suitable and overall a great plot.

From Jane Austen to Rick Riordan, countless popular novels have been developed into movies. However, despite the anticipation of seeing the visual representation of a beloved novel, reading enthusiasts and authors often end up feeling disappointed in the movie adaptations. The movie version never seems to be as enthralling as the novel. Novels are more satisfying than their movie counterparts because they leave more room for imagination, allow for better understanding of characters, and have no limitations.

In ‘Gone Girl’ and ‘Daddy’, both authors explore the idea that one can never truly be free, and that even once freedom is believed to be gained; one is still not completely free. Although the idea in Plath and Fincher’s texts are similar, there are some clear differences in their portrayal. While Fincher creates his film with a cyclic nature to illustrate how Nick is unable to be free from his relationship, Plath uses holocaust allusion to emphasise how the speaker of her poem ‘Daddy’ felt trapped by her father’s looming figure, just as the Jews were by Hitler. Fincher begins his film with Nick stroking his wife’s (Amy) hair, and questioning what she is thinking, and concludes the film in the same way, even after Nick’s constant struggle throughout the film to escape the “failing marriage”; alluding to Nick’s inability to escape. Plath’s reference to her father as a “panzer-man” with his “Aryan” looks and his “Luftwaffe” brutality forces the reader to understand the extent in which she is trapped by her father, consequently minimising the shock when the speaker of Plath’s poem uses mythical imagery to refer to the “model of [her father]” that she married in an attempt to be from the restraints of her father. Plath’s use of mythical imagery to illustrate her partner is used in a similar way to how Fincher used [metatext/intertextuality/text within a text??] to portray Nick’s inability to escape from his marriage to Amy. After the speaker in Plath’s poem ‘Daddy’ escapes her father, she is still unable to be free from him, as she ends up creating a substitute for him by marrying a man who “drank [her] blood for a year”, the vampire allusion a metaphor for him draining her life and her freedom, in the way a vampire would literally drain the blood of their victim. This inability to escape due to marriage is also strongly reflected in Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’. Unlike Plath, Fincher employs the use of a [text within a text?] to portray how the protagonist, Nick, is unable to be free from his relationship with Amy. ‘Amazing Amy Gets Married’ is a children’s book that is written by Amy’s parents, which results in pressure being placed on Nick to quickly marry her, so that Amazing Amy is no longer one step ahead from the

Even though films and novels are equally important to society, novels are greatly underappreciated. A film is a set of actions recorded by a camera that would later be processed into a story. On the other hand, a novel is a narrative book that represents characters and actions that might or might not have realism in it.  Major studios are making millions off of movies that are watched by people across the world (Box Office Mojo, 2016), while book publishers and writers are not making as much (Dennis, 2014). There are several distinctions between novels and films, including the age of those interested, profit, how the advancement of technology has affected both, and the benefits, all of which will be discussed in this essay.

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