Research - Gone Girl

I saw Gone Girl when it was first released in cinemas, and for a while after it was my favourite film because of how it was presented. It was a hugely gripping film which had me thoroughly invested from the beginning until the end. I'm a fan of the thriller genre anyway, and David Fincher is one of my favourite directors so perhaps I'm slightly bias. However, the film scene to scene was almost perfectly presented to the audience. The novel itself put forward a great story line and it seems perfect for David Fincher looking back at the film version of the novel. Something I loved about this film is how intense everything was, there was shocking scenes out of the blue, that could be something about psychological thrillers that I like so much, the unpredicatable nature of the characters for example. There's a lot of scenes in the film that when I think about the film as a whole really stand out to me because of the impression they left on me the first time I watched it. One scene in particular was when a main character is seen around half way through the film at a major turning point, almost like a plot twist but in the centre of the film. The editing and charisma that was placed into this scene through the pacing of the on screen events was great to watch and incredibly impressionable. It's also worth mentioning that the film wouldn't be what it was without the score composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. More recently in David Fincher's films, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have produced the score for The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and more recently Gone Girl. The sounds they produce fit perfectly for the tense uncertain nature of Fincher's films and even as stand alone tracks their music is atmospheric and great to listen to.

There are aspects to the film which is very representative of Fincher's work. For example the film includes a lot of include low key lighting with different colour temperatures, often green and blue tints that give the scenes a very hazy surreal feeling. There is also a notable use of fading transitions between scenes in the films, one of the key things that I see Fincher do more than most other directors. Watching this film iin particular where the director put so much emphasis on getting the right shot, (I read somewhere that he did up to an average of fifty takes per shot) made me appreciate the amount of consideration and effort that had been placed into making sure that everything was as good as it could be. I think it was around this time too that I found myself becoming more interesting in shot framing and direction in general due to what we were looking at in class at the time.