Normally, book readers get to be all smug about their nonreader friends reactions, but in the case of gone girl everyone seems equally confused. There are spoilers for both the book and film versions of gone girl ahead. Its just that there are so many stories to choose from, which you already know if you, like millions of other readers, rapidly inhaled novels like gone girl and the girl on the train over the. She tells him shes the same cunt he fell in love with. What to pick up after finishing the book or movie that changed when amber frey, a massage therapist, told the. While gone girl was a better example of how to condense a book into a film, you might still have found yourself wondering exactly what gillian. One friend began reading the book at the same time i started listening. The reallife murder mystery with gone girl ties time. Is gone girls movie ending different from the book. This is the films real ace and where finchers aims really lie. Gone girl s ending is different from the book in these specific ways.
Earlier this year, many fans of gillian flynns 2012 thriller gone girl were dismayed to learn that the author had changed the storys ending for the film adaptation. Heres how gillian flynn defended the ending of gone girl. Ben affleck in gone girl 20th century fox ending gone girl differently. Gone girl teasers and casting announcements leak every week or so, and to make sense of what we know, and what we dont, weve assembled all the facts in one place. The ending of gone girl is a big point of contention for a lot of readers. Amy elliottdunne rosamund pike wound up pregnant in the gone girl. Gone girl movie ending may not be so different from the. But there are a few things that author gillian flynn. By the end of its first year in publication, gone girl had sold over two million copies in print and digital editions, according to the book s publisher. Classic literature, original gangster s4 e11 gone girl by gillian flynn thug notes book summary and. Amy is a personality quiz writer and the inspiration for her parents book series amazing amy, and she meets nick. The book version of gone girl, so ive heard, is a crime novel. The biggest differences between the gone girl movie and the. The biggest differences between the gone girl movie and.
The new ending accomplishes what so many other parts of gone girl do so well, and what so many novel adaptations fail at spectacularly. Major differences between the gone girl book and movie huffpost. Gone girl is a thriller novel in the mystery and crime genres, by the american writer gillian. Read on for flynn s explanation as to why gone girls ending is the only one that would have worked. In an excellent essay for vulture on why gone girl the film is a sucky adaptation of the book read it, amanda dobbins writes. Gone girl study guide contains a biography of gillian flynn, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. When the highly anticipated adaptation of gillian flynns book gone girl comes out this october, readers of the book can expect to be surprised by the ending, because it.
Despite the fact that flynn wrote the screenplay for david finchers new film, there are a few small plot twists that didnt make the cut. In the end, nick deletes his memoir and chooses to stay with amy for his childs sake. The ending at the start of the year, gillian flynn reported that shed written a new ending for her screenplay, apparently at the request of david fincher, whod been disappointed by returns on his. On the page, there is absolutely no mystery about what amy.
I just finished listening to the audio book gone girl and am disappointed in the ending. Gone girl has been widely praised in numerous publications including the new yorker, the new york times, time, publishers weekly, entertainment weekly, chatelaine, people, and usa today. The film concludes with amy and nick going on television to announce amys pregnancy, as opposed. Gone girl is deeply interested in the rift between personal experiences, but in the book, we are privy to both nick and amys concerns. This was a bit of a sideswipe for me, as id planned to discuss the differences between the two endings of gone girl and determine whether the new, cinematic conclusion worked better, worse, or the same as that of the. Millions of you flocked to gone girl over the weekend, and you saw finchers ending. Spoiler page for gone girl by gillian flynn book journey.
The movie stays pretty true to the book, although some characters. Also, like dunne, she was laid off after many years at the same job. Yes, this is about to be filled with spoilers some people are puzzled as to how one mrs. Heres how gillian flynn defended the ending of gone girl in 2012. The differences between the ending of gone girl, the film, and gone girl, the book, are miniscule. It explains visually the conflict of the storys conclusion. And yes, despite rumors to the contrary, the film does having the same ending as the novel. Thats a fair nonspoilerish description of gone girl, based on the 2012 book of the same name written by gillian flynn. The gone girl movie has a different ending than the book. When amy rosamund pike says, of her plot against her husband, nick. Maybe thats true, but theres more to flynns title choice than meets the eyeand in a lot of ways, its actually describing amy herself. At first glance, it seems like it would be pretty obvious whats up with gone girl s titleits a book about a girl who disappears, which means shes, well, gone. Gone girls ending is different from the book in these.
Gone girls ending is different from the book in these specific ways as gone girl rolled through production, there was talk about director david fincher and screenwriter gillian flynn tinkering. At the same time, gone girl seemed like one of those experiences to which the. Ill add the conclusion to the end of that sentence as well. It is amys deception that sucks us in, and her angry reveal that.
If you somehow did not read the headline of this post, we will restate this is a discussion about the ending of gone girl the movie. Minor tweaks aside, nick still chooses amy, and amy chooses nick. I love the end of notes on a scandal, also a book i love. Original gangster s4 e11 gone girl by gillian flynn thug notes book summary and analysis.