Boy Movies #17

The romance issue: Gone Girl and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, feat. Bailey Herdé

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Fincher February: Week 2

Happy Valentine’s Day to that one frame from Gone Girl.

I see Gone Girl as one of three girl movies David Fincher has made, following the anomaly that is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and the more Fincher-esque The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. An exploration of his films isn’t complete without touching on his girl movies, and I’ve always looked at Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl as spiritual siblings. Different, but similar enough to warrant comparison: In 2011’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, he adapts the first novel in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy into a tense thriller about the partnership between hacker Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara) and disgraced journalist Mikhail Blomkvist…