This book is favored by American director david fincher. In 20 14, he adapted and made a film with the same name as Gillian Flynn, and won the Best Film and Best Screenplay Award in 18 Hollywood Film Awards.
The main story of Gone with the Wind Girl is basically the same as the movie, centering on the disappearance of the heroine Amy.
While pursuing the truth of the "missing" incident, they also have one secret after another, such as economic problems, husband's infidelity, marriage crisis and so on. Even the whole disappearance case was a "murder case" directed, performed and carefully designed by Amy.
When Nick repented on TV and confessed to her, and played the image of a perfect lover in Amy's mind again, Amy resolved the sudden crisis with her own wisdom, and escaped by luck and returned to Nick.
Gillian Flynn's novels can be said to be feminist reading that challenges the authority of men, which is of great significance to the rise of women.
The reinterpretation of male director david fincher seems to weaken the disturbing feminist charm to some extent.
The success of this film lies not only in the wonderful presentation of the foggy stories in the novel to the audience, but also in the challenges and bold attempts of the original work in many aspects, which makes many readers who have seen the original work still have great interest in this film.
Film is a comprehensive art, a synthesis of other art forms, its means of expression and even artistic thinking. The theme of film and television works is narrative art, and having a good story and choosing the best narrative way to tell it is one of the indispensable factors of a good film.
Gillian Flynn's novel The Lost Girl has been highly praised by many famous foreign magazines:
"Wonderful reading and thrilling plot are comparable to Hitchcock. This touching novel goes straight into the darkest corner of people's hearts and will give you goose bumps all over. You have to put your heart in your throat and know the last page. " -People magazine
"Uncover the essence of identity step by step and describe the secrets of terror one by one-even between the closest couples, these secrets will still erupt and thrive." From the beginning, The Girl in the Distance introduced a mystery, as if waiting for the reader to discover the identity of the murderer, but at the moment when the book was closed, you couldn't help but re-examine the proposition of identity. "Leo Grossman of Time magazine.
Whether it is a novel or a movie, the plot of the story itself is a major feature. Director david fincher made the film consistent with the original in characters and narrative structure, and reinterpreted the environmental atmosphere, characters and ending connotation of the story with "david fincher style".
After the story that aroused the audience's taste was finished, the truth slowly came to light.
Inheritance of the original work
Gillian Flynn's third novel, The Lost Girl, published on 20 12, has topped the best-seller list in The New York Times for eight consecutive weeks.
Reese witherspoon, the producer of the film, bought the rights to the film. 20 1410.3, the film "The Lost Girl" directed by david fincher was released in the United States, and won the best film award in the annual Hollywood Film Awards in the same year/kloc-0.0/0.
The success of the novel Gone with the Wind stems from the author's ingenious conception and interlocking suspense, while the success of the film Gone with the Wind is not only due to the excellent script, but also due to the director's visualization of the characters in the novel, which maintains the narrative style consistent with the original novel and fully embodies the inheritance of the original novel.
Visualization of role design
The film "The Girl Who Slipped" was very successful in role selection. According to Amy's description in the novel, she is "tall", "has the temperament of an only child" and "smart and mysterious". "Whenever I think of my wife, I always think of her head. The first thing that comes to mind is the outline: the first time I saw her, I saw the back of her head. The head is beautiful, like shiny and solid corn, or fossils on the river bed. "
The director finally decided to play Amy by sasha jackson Rosemond Parker.
Reese witherspoon originally bought the copyright of this film, and she wanted to play the role herself, but after many screenings, rosamund pike beat Natalie Portman and Emily Blunt to become the heroine.
Rosamund pike, with a height of1.74m, is in line with the tall figure that can be compared with the hero's four eyes in the novel. Her exquisite appearance in Leng Yan Golden Hair is 90% consistent with Amy's description in the novel.
"Amy has a blonde hair today, and her ponytail is swinging happily like a skipping rope …" "In Victorian times, people would praise her' elegant head', and you can immediately think of the shape of the skull".
The temperament of "talented woman", "cool woman" and "only daughter with superior family" in the bones is exactly the same as that of "little witch Amy".
In order to play the role of new york woman "Amy", she easily changed her British accent into an American accent.
David fincher said that when she looked back at Jack the Hero starring Tom Cruise and rosamund pike, she was very confused. She looks like 22 or 32. She seems to stay young forever, just like a naive child spoiled by the entertainment circle. I decided to contact her and sent her a book called The Disappearing Girl. Maybe Finch took a fancy to her temperament, but he couldn't say what it was. One day, Finch asked her, are you an only child? Rosamand replied, yes. Finch suddenly realized: because Amy is the only child expected by her parents. "
Ben Affleck's temperament is also very close to the hero in Gillian Flynn's novels. "He puts on a high-spirited temperament", "This man seems to be always rolling among women, and he is a wanderer wandering among flowers", "Nick's smile is charming, like a cat. Seeing the way he smiled at me, he should have coughed up another yellow bird hair. "
Judging from his face, the deep beauty gap on Ben Affleck's chin doomed Nick's choice to be himself.
People with beautiful chins are often artistic, emotional and have a good relationship with the opposite sex, but they are more likely to have marital problems than others, just like the protagonist Nick.
Ben Affleck also grasped Nick's unique personality and interpreted the weakness of a cowardly man in the face of a series of events.
Unified narrative structure
The film The Lost Girl not only follows the story frame of Gillian Flynn's novels, but also maintains the narrative structure consistent with the original work, adopting the Hollywood classic linear narrative structure.
David Selznick, a famous Hollywood producer, once said: The worst thing about movies is the lack of clarity. No wonder the classic Hollywood narrative structure principle takes linear narrative structure as the backbone of film narrative, and the causal relationship of conflict becomes the basic basis of story arrangement. "
Gillian Flynn's original novel is the best, which is why there are so many suspense. The author adopts a double-line narrative structure with changing perspectives, showing the fact that husband and wife are suspicious and cheating each other, and guiding readers into the emotional world of panting marriage.
David fincher also brought this narrative structure of "distrust" into the film.
The main line of the film runs through "a narrative thread arranged in chronological order, which is a series of investigations and development processes of Nick's wife's unilateral life and cases after her disappearance."
The second line is from Amy's first-person limited perspective.
"In the first half of the film, the director took an Amy diary as the second flashback narrative clue, and inserted each diary into the narrative main line in chronological order, forming the narrative structure of the first half of The Girl in the Distance."
In the second half of the film, the subtitle is changed to Amy's present tense narrative from the first-person perspective, which subverts Amy's image in the diary and their sweet marriage life repeatedly recorded in the diary in the first half of the film.
Compared with the interweaving of the main line and the auxiliary line, the two clues support each other and contradict each other.
This means that the audience should constantly overthrow their previous experience of the film, thus establishing another reality in the process of watching the film, reconstructing the events and the film, and finally judging the organization and morality of the story.
Let the audience really get involved in the film while enjoying it, and make in-depth thinking and interaction, thus guiding the audience to explore the truth and giving the story a unique tension.
From Gillian Flynn's original novels and david fincher's films, we can easily find that they are thrilling because the double-line narrative structure with different perspectives is used incisively and vividly.
A reinterpretation of the original
David fincher adapted the original novel The Lost Girl into a movie, but it is not static.
Many readers who have seen this novel say that this film not only inherits the essence of the novel, but also reinterprets it in many ways with "david fincher style", showing the audience the relationship between husband and wife different from the original.
Ambient atmospheric difference
At the beginning of the novel, Gillian Flynn described the morning when Nick wanted to divorce Amy as:
"Just after six o'clock, the summer sun came out from behind the oak tree, generating a domineering face. The sun casts a reflection on the river, and the light shines on our house, just like a shiny long finger, piercing the thin curtain of the bedroom and pointing at me, as if accusing' you have been exposed in broad daylight, and you will eventually be exposed in broad daylight'. "
The beginning of the novel sets the tone of the story on a hot summer day. Not being depressed means that Nick's little plan is "exposed to the sun", which reveals more subtly the fact that Gillian Flynn tried to push Nick into Amy's murderer.
But first, the film shows us a series of environmental shots of a quiet town, and then an upward shot shows that the clock points to 6:55 and Nick is already standing on the street of the town.
The beginning of the film presents us with a half-dark and half-bright morning, giving the story a gloomy tone and giving people a feeling that they can't breathe.
Of course, both sunny days in Gillian Flynn's works and gloomy mornings in david fincher's pictures have laid a solid foundation for characterization.
The shapes of the characters are different.
Amy, the heroine in Gillian Flynn's novels, is smart and full of personality, but she is still an ordinary person who will be wronged, bullied and accommodating to others.
When Nick told Amy that his mother was very ill and they had to move back to Missouri, Amy reluctantly agreed to Nick's request.
After returning to Missouri, Amy was able to adapt to the life in the small town, driving her mother-in-law to see a doctor, doing chemotherapy and so on. Instead of being ungrateful, my mother-in-law took Amy to donate blood in order to earn "the private money that girls should have."
Amy can only swallow her pride. "A burst of anger welled up in my mind, and I quickly swallowed it. I thought to myself: I used to have a lot of private money, but I gave it to your son. "
However, in david fincher's films, Amy's main action is not to show kindness to her mother-in-law after she moved, but to express her dissatisfaction and criticism of Nick's various behaviors.
Amy in Gillian Flynn's works, although occasionally complacent, but never arrogant.
For example, when Amy secretly lived in a country house, one day after playing golf with a man and a woman, "I sneaked around the corner and took out a zipper pocket from under my T-shirt. Who knows that I turned around and saw Greta following me? I haven't had time to put it back in my pocket, and everything has fallen into her eyes. "
This scene is david fincher playing golf for three people. Amy jumped high because the ball went into the hole. At this time, the wallet hidden in the T-shirt fell heavily to the ground. A man and a woman are distressed to see this scene.
Just by changing a tiny detail, david fincher created a new Amy different from the heroine in the original novel. She is beautiful and smart, but she is destined to clean up the mess for her arrogance.
Of course, the most changing and frightening scene is the passionate sex scene between Amy and her first boyfriend Desi, and the scene where Desi and Amy are strangled by Amy during sex.
In the movie, Amy hid the knife under the pillow. Daisy threw her head back, closed her eyes, pulled out the knife from under the pillow, put her hands on her chest, pulled it out instantly, and cut his throat. Blood suddenly gushed out, staining the white sheets and Amy's whole body.
Amy in david fincher's movies has no fear and hesitation, and the cruelty of killing will never be lost to any evil criminal.
However, the description of murder in Gillian Flynn's novels is that Amy first gives Dessie a sleeping pill and then waits for Dessie to fall asleep.
Compared with Amy in the novel, Amy in david fincher's works is stronger, more cold-blooded and more terrible.
On the contrary, while strengthening Amy's cold-blooded character, david fincher weakened Nick's irresponsibility and lewdness.
In the film, Nick's attitude towards his lover Andy after the accident was not mentioned too much. Only in the 42nd minute of the film, when Andy came to Nick's sister's house to look for him, he simply said that Nick wouldn't answer her phone, and then they ignited a passion at Nick's sister's house.
In the novel, Nick's disposable cell phone rings many times. "At this time, my mobile phone rang, and it was a disposable mobile phone-I really couldn't figure out where to put it, so I took it." "At this moment, the disposable cell phone in my pocket rang. I don't think it was turned off just now, but it rang again. ""The disposable mobile phone shook immediately, and I ignored it. I have to find a place to hide this damn thing. "
All this shows Nick's cowardice after the accident.
In david fincher's films, Nick's irresponsibility is not mentioned as in the original novel. On the contrary, he was portrayed as a "Mabao man" with no definite view and timid heart, who was always led by Amy and kept in the dark.
Compared with Nick in the novel, Nick in the film is more likable and wins people's sympathy, thus eliminating the uncomfortable strong feminist color in the original novel.
The change of ending connotation
When the roles of Amy and Nick portrayed in the film and described in the novel begin to go their separate ways, it means that compared with the original novel, the film will have a new ending and realize new connotations.
At the end of the novel, Amy goes back to Nick. Nick resisted at first, but after much consideration, she finally accepted Amy voluntarily. Nick chose to stay with her, continue to play games with her and become his accomplice.
However, Nick in the movie is even more helpless, and everything is done under the pressure of Amy.
Gillian Flynn shows readers the formation of the dark marriage relationship through the original novel, while david fincher tells how a perfectionist genius controls the marriage process at all costs. Perhaps this is the true story that david fincher tried to convey to the audience through movies.