She hates women, both others and herself. But Amy, while powerful, could never be called a feminist. She grows tired of playing by society’s rules. She discovers herself in a marriage where everything she’s been taught about how women should act is not rewarded. What makes the story so evocative is that it keys into the anger I have carried for so long about the kind of woman you must be to be considered “desirable.”Īmy Dunne is angry about being desirable and then losing it.
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The book and the movie both understand this. I’ve tried to be her, and so have a lot of women. Cool girl is one of the guys, while still being fuckable. By moving the monologue to the moment the audience realizes Amy is alive, movie Amy’s Cool Girl monologue is even more filled with vitriol.Ĭool girl is hot. Unlike the movie, in the book, this monologue comes surprisingly early, in Amy’s fake diary, as some of her real self bleeds into her false narrative. In the film, this moment is glorious, angry, and beautiful. To examine what makes Gone Girl so compelling, here’s one perfect example: the Cool Girl monologue. What makes Gone Girl innovative is that it takes that trope to its furthest level and then shamelessly calls on you to root for the villain, addressing something deep in the core of women’s roles.
I’ve done it, and so have women across the world and in pop culture. Woman is hurt, woman is angry, woman uses sex to hurt men (spoilers?). But historically, it’s not a particularly nuanced one.
What is it about Gone Girl that made it such a phenomenon? The femme fatale and vengeful woman aren’t exactly new tropes. Gone Girl has been on my list for a while literally everyone in my life who has read it has said to me at some point, “You know, this is just your kind of book.” My “kind of book” loosely means a story made up of angry women, murder, and fun twists. Over the course of quarantine, I’ve accomplished a few things I’ve been meaning to get done: learned some archery, finished The Americans, and maybe most crucially, finally read Gone Girl.
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