Gone Girl Analysis

Gone Girl is a thriller film which was given an award for being favourite thriller movie. What I found was the most effective part of the whole film that made it very popular for the audience where the unique and powerful shots that were chosen. Some of these shots had hidden meaning behind them too, creating a more in depth film from the beginning and throughout. As this film was mainly a Mystery Thriller there were many opportunities where the producers could get creative with their shots and put more meaning behind what they are filming and how they film it. An example of this would be the very beginning and very end of the film, this is because both shots/scenes connect and have a deep and mysterious meaning behind it. Here are the scenes;   

After watching both of these scenes it is clear that they are almost the same shot, this is clear from things like; the same angle being used for both (Close up shot of Amy's face as she looks up at Nick). In addition to this she also pulls a very similar expressions in both scenes, which were quite mysterious and leaves the audience questioning what is going through Amy's head. Another aspect of these scenes that are very similar is the use of dialogue, some of the script in both scenes is the same, an example of this would be when Nick says "What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other?". Nick says this at the very beginning and also at the very end of the film. The main aim for this repeated scene and dialogue is to influence the audiences realisation of the different perception and view of the character Amy in the beginning compared to the ending (after all that has happened during the film. This is all because for the majority of the audience their opinions of Amy and maybe other characters in the film have changed completely, making the unexplained ending of the film much more disturbing for the audience. Nick in both of these scenes is stroking Amy's hair, increasing the disturbing feeling the scene is already giving.

After seeing this scene from gone girl as a group we were able to do something similar to/inspired by the beginning and ending scenes of Gone Girl. We did this by filming two scenes in two different locations but using the same type of shot. These shots would be for the ending of the final flashback and the shot straight after the scene. Meaning the flashback scene (in the garage) finishes with an extreme close up of just my eyes looking very frightened, then we plan to cut straight back to the park to begin another scene with the same type of shot of my eyes, still looking frightened as it is the aftermath of the 'Lydia' having the flashback. This makes the audience feel slightly disturbed as to what 'Lydia' has been through whilst also helping the opening flow well from scene to scene. Even though these so clips were not separated like Gone Girl but we were able to capture this unique and powerful shot, which also emphasizes the thriller theme even more, which is an obvious important aim for our group.