Episode 9: Gone Girl
Beyond the Screenplay
Michael Tucker
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2019
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
The LFTS team discusses how Gone Girl came to be the first video on the channel, how the film cleverly reveals its information to the audience, and the complexities of navigating political context and controversy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Michael and this is Beyond the Screenplay. |
| 0:08.8 | Today we're talking about the 2014 film Gone Girl and I'm joined by the lessons from the |
| 0:14.5 | screenplay team, writer Trisha Arand. |
| 0:16.8 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:18.0 | Writer Brian Bittner. |
| 0:19.1 | Hello. |
| 0:20.0 | And editor Alex Cayeros. |
| 0:21.7 | Hi. |
| 0:22.1 | So Gone Girl is an interesting movie because it was the movie for the first video of the channel. |
| 0:28.0 | Like the first video I released was about Gone Girl. |
| 0:30.4 | So it's kind of interesting revisiting it now and going back to it. |
| 0:34.0 | I kind of began with Gone Girl because I'm a huge Fincher fan. It had come out relatively |
| 0:40.1 | recently when I started the channel. So the channel began May or June of 2016. And when Gone |
| 0:46.9 | Girl came out, I was obsessed with it. I love crime films. I love mystery noir films. And so I'd |
| 0:52.7 | already read the screenplay. |
| 0:59.6 | And as I was trying to figure out, okay, what are some fun videos to talk about screenwriting from? |
| 1:00.1 | It was like, okay, I love this movie. |
| 1:01.7 | I've already read the screenplay. |
| 1:02.7 | I have a bunch of notes. |
| 1:04.0 | So let's start with this. |
| 1:05.2 | And in my head, it was like, this is going to be like a small movie. I'll start with a small movie that some people might like click on the video for. |
| 1:13.0 | And then the next video I'm going to do Independence Day and it's going to blow up and everyone's going to love it. |
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