Both the book and the movie Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn have captivated both readers and movie-goers alike. Both versions of the story do an excellent job of keeping its audience in suspense. Although Gillian Flynn wrote both the book and the screenplay, she does a much better job as a writer in developing the characters and the plot in the book version. The film version omitted a few characters that could have greatly aided the main characters development. I felt these omissions should have made it to the screen. Flynn, however, does stick to the main plot points of the story in the movie. .
The most important part of the book and the overall structure of the book remain (Harris, 2014). Amys background story remains the same as well (Harris, 2014). Shes a personality quiz writer brought up in a wealthy home that provided everything she needed save attention and affection (Harris, 2014). Amy meets Nick at a party; date and fall in love; they move to Missouri where Amy, using her inheritance, buys him a bar that he runs with his sister, Margo (Harris, 2014). As in the book, the first half of the movie follows Nick Dunne, portrayed by actor Ben Affleck, in his attempt to find his wife Amy Dunne, portrayed by Rosamund Pike, who has mysteriously disappeared. After she has gone missing, we see the events surrounding the search for his wife primarily, though not entirely, from Nicks point of view and her reading of her diary entries before the story reveals one of the climactic points in the plot: that Amy has faked her death (Harris, 2014). At this point in both the film and the book, the story is shown mainly through Amys eyes as she witnesses her husband being taken apart in the national media. She eventually runs into her ex-boyfriend, Desi Collings, kills him and making it look like she had escaped her captor (Harris, 2014). .
The overall structure of the book and major plot points have been successfully transferred onto the screen by screenwriter Gillian Flynn and filmed masterfully by director David Fincher (Internet Movie Database, 2014).