A new clip from David Fincher’s Gone Girl has been released. The new clip shows Ben Affleck as Nick, meeting Rosamund Pike’s Amy for the first time at a bar.
It shows the two flirting as Nick chats Amy up, asking her, “Who are you?”. Amy replies, teasing him with a multiple choice option, “A) I’m an award-winning Scrimshander. B) I’m a moderately influential war lord. C) I write personality quizzes for magazines.”
Watch the clip below. Gone Girl is released October 3 and opens the New York Film Festival.
Am I the only one who can’t take my eyes off Rosamund Pike in that clip? Her stare captivates me.
“real Americans”??? wtf?
Bryce, Dargis hardly “blasted” it — Jesus, hyperbole, anyone?
I thought Gatsby was a mess and that Maguire and Debicki were the only noteworthy performances in it. The same doesn’t seem to apply to Gone Girl, so I feel as though I will probably like it.
Looks great, one of my most anticipated of the fall.
I will say, with Fincher’s habit for dozens of takes, it does somewhat bother me that the continuity is messed up in this scene, watch Amy’s hand on the bottle neck as they go to the reverse shot, it doesn’t match up. It’s a small and unimportant thing, but puts a little bit of a damper on what should be an exciting clip reveal.
Keifer,
I’m glad to see people speaking up for The Great Gatsby. To me, it wasn’t terrible, but it didn’t live up to my expectations, which is something that dissapoints me. I should give it another view. I liked Leo in it, and even Joel was good. Really my only main complaint is Tobey Maguire. Just like people should see American Hustle again now that enough time has passed.
“Like what happened with The Great Gatsby.”
Sorry, Al. I thought it was one of the best films of 2013. I realize it wasn’t everybody’s “cup of tea” . . . but I thought it was really brilliant in every respect – acting, storytelling, direction, production design, music, etc.
Serious Question: Who’s excited? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbSl-SPyHtg
Looks soo dope, I don’t know, like, everything about it.
Bryce, I’m relieved to hear that Fincher has stayed true to the book, even though I haven’t read it. I always feel anticipatory to see how Fincher films will be received. What it really comes down to, is that I get nervous for how good it is, since critics see it, and give it their reviews before I have a chance to see it myself. Once I see a movie for myself, then I drown out all other criticisms.
Al, some of the best Fincher movies didn’t have unanimous praise upon release, far from it, and to this day a few vocal detractors of SE7EN, FIGHT CLUB, and ZODIAC still go on about them. THE SOCIAL NETWORK was the only one who everyone loved from day one. So that hardly means anything. Manolha is one of the few (less than half a dozen) critics I pay attention to, that’s why I pulled those quotes. What I do get from this review and a few others I just read is that Fincher remained rather faithful to the book, like, very, very faithful…and stuff about they changing this and that was grossly exaggerated. We’ll see. I love that real Americans won’t have to wait for this one and find out if what they’re saying is true.
This should go without saying, but my biggest fear is not that the movies will not get nominated for Oscars, it’s that they won’t be as good as I hope. Seeing something I have looked forward to for a long time, only to have it be “eh” to “ugh” would really suck. Like what happened with The Great Gatsby.
But despite what some critics say, I think I’ll will like Gone Girl, and the other ones too.
I have to remind myself that a critic’s job is to be trained to spot things they don’t like. If Manolha Dargis found things she didn’t like about Gone Girl, then more power to her.
Whoa Manolha Dargis blasts GONE GIRL!
“At its strongest, “Gone Girl” plays like a queasily, at times gleefully, funny horror movie about a modern marriage, one that has disintegrated partly because of spiraling downward mobility and lost privilege. Yet, as sometimes happens in Mr. Fincher’s work, dread descends like winter shadows, darkening the movie’s tone and visuals until it’s snuffed out all the light, air and nuance.”
“By the movie’s second half, you may wish that Amy would stay gone. Ms. Pike has some fine scenes in this section [which] suggest that the movie is about to go deeper, that it will surprise you or stir you or say something, anything, maybe by making good on its scene-setting images of empty American stores. That never happens, and instead, the movie just hums along like the precision machine it is, even after it shifts tones again and enters Grand Guignol territory, with a flashing knife, gushing blood and surveillance footage of a seemingly tortured, horrifically abused and screaming woman. It’s a ghastly vision, although not for the reasons that this movie would like.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/movies/ben-affleck-in-david-finchers-gone-girl.html?_r=0
It’s great how you can just place the scenes and the dialogue {not just here} to the book. I know that sounds obvious when it is adapted form a book, but we all know some adaptations don’t quite translate this well. Ben Affleck and {especially} Rosamund Pike look terrific.