Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 193 minutes

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Summary

“Amazing Amy” meets “Awkwardly-Smiling Affleck” in Fincher’s darkly comic masterpiece - an instant classic from that first shot of Rosamund Pike’s pretty head. The delightful Esther Zuckerman (who will definitely NOT “gone girl” her boyfriend) joins us to discuss this impressive work of adaptation. We’re asking all the big questions - is “Amazing Amy” actually a good children’s book? Did Tyler Perry take any directing tips from David Fincher when he made BOO! A MADEA HALLOWEEN? Would this movie work as well with Reese Witherspoon and Jon Hamm as the two leads? Why haven’t we gone long on the career of one Benjamin G. Affleck yet?

Guest Links:
Buy Esther’s Book Beyond the Best Dressed
Pre-Order Esther’s Book Falling in Love at the Movies

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0:00.0	Like Jack with Griffin and David.
0:05.0	Black Jack with Griffin and David
0:09.0	Don't know what to say or to expect.
0:12.0	All you need to know is that. to expect.
0:13.0	All you need to know is that the made of the show is a blank check.
0:22.0	You fucking podcast. I'm the podcast you married. The only time you liked yourself was when you were trying to be someone this podcast might like. I'm not a quitter. I'm that podcast. I killed for you. Who else can say that you think you'd be happy with a nice
0:35.3	Midwestern podcast no way baby I'm it that's what I thought you were going to do. Thank you. Man.
0:43.0	I couldn't do all of Cool Girl.
0:46.0	Despite the fact that it will disappoint some people.
0:49.0	You doing Cool Girl would, I would have actually quit the podcast.
0:52.0	You would have quit. Yep, would have been a, podcast. You would have quit. Yep.
0:53.0	Not because it's too long. Hey. Because the idea of you saying some of that
0:57.7	it would be a little tough. You married this podcast. You can't quit.
1:01.3	I quit. I would quit. In that moment I know I'm like, no no no I quit I quit. I'll go to jail. It's fine. Jail. Jail for me.
1:08.0	You're not in Missouri. This is the podcast you fell in love with David. You can't get out of it now.
1:13.0	No, Missouri does have the death penalty.
1:15.0	No, I said you're not in Missouri.
1:17.0	Yeah, but New York also has the death penalty.
1:19.0	This is Blank Check with Griffin and David.
1:22.0	I'm Griffin. I do it. It's a podcast about filmographies, directors who have massive success early on in their careers
1:28.0	and are given a series of blank checks to make whatever crazy passion projects they want.
1:32.0	Sometimes those checks clear and sometimes they bounce.
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