Post #4: Adaption "Gone Girl"

If I were to be asked to be the director of the adaption of Gone Girl I would have to make sure I have the right actors/actresses to take be the characters. This is important because the characters in Gone Girl are very complex and they have many different side to them. They are good at lying, and cheating, and twisting their words and actions. They are conniving, and sly, and enchanting all at the same time. When I think of a good actor for Nick Dunne, I think of Dylan Walsh from the movie The Stepfather. He would be a good fit because in The Stepfather he was a completely different person than he was acting to be and I thought he did a very good job as a lying, deceiving character. Another decision I would have to make are what scenes are essential. Obviously when adapting the movie it is hard to get every single itty-bitty detail into the movie. But I think some of the most important parts of the book would be all the press interviews. It is important to still keep the concept of the book and still keep all the special details the author of the book put his/her time into including to make the book so successful that it should be turned into a movie. The third, and last, important decision I would have to make would be is what to change about the movie. I think in order for the book to be more exciting (*heads up here’s a spoiler alert*) and thrilling is if in the end Amy and Nick don’t end up together. Everyone who reads the book knows that there is no way Nick and Amy would end up together and maybe that is the whole point of writing a fiction novel is that there is no way that that would ever happen. But I think the movie would be more successful if the ending got a bit creepier because that is what people will remember when they walk out of the theater. The end is their last impression and what the viewers are going to talk about on their way home.