David Fincher's Gone Girl is one of my all time favorite movies. And then last year we had the unexpected pleasure of witnessing Paul Feig's wickedly delightful A Simple Favour. These films have many similar elements so it was very easy to come up with that pair for Visual Parallels. We have a cunning, beautiful woman who decides to make a life for her husband difficult, we have a sweet, naive character who unknowingly helps her with her plot, we have a disturbing murder sequence and we have worrisome past of our cunning villain revealed.
Both films have wonderful performances - Rosamund Pike is brilliant as Amazing Amy and Blake Lively truly shines as Emily. While Gone Girl is a pure thriller, A Simple Favour is both a mystery and a comedy. And both films are insanely entertaining and rewatchable. Here are the similarities I noticed.
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Oh wow I didn't realize there were so many comparisons. Great post!
ReplyDeleteI really want to watch Gone Girl again. I can't believe I don't own that DVD.
Thank you! I watch Gone Girl at least once a year :)
Deleteyes! I definitely got a Gone Girl vibe from A Simple Favor but I loved both movies. The end of Gone Girl still infuriates me, but it was brilliant. great parallels!
ReplyDeleteAmy could do better than this dude :D
DeleteGreat post! Like Brittani, I didn't notice there were so many similarities between the two.
ReplyDeleteThank you! It was a lot of fun to put it together!
DeleteReally great parallels here. I haven't seen Gone Girl in a while so I keep looking at your post thinking okay who was more disturbing (disturbed?) of the two? I think I'd give the edge to Amy. Emily seemed, at least with her sister, more conflicted and emotional than Amy was. Great characters none the less!
ReplyDeleteOh definitely Amy :)
DeleteI haven't seen either films, but the similarities between the two is so uncanny! I always love your visual parallels posts!
ReplyDeleteThank you! You should watch both, they are awesome!
DeleteAhh! This post is so beautiful! I never even realised how similar the two movies were. I absolutely love them both <3
ReplyDeleteYou have great taste! :D
DeleteI haven't seen A Simple Favour, but this post makes me want to watch it!
ReplyDeleteYou need to see it!
DeleteI can't wait to watch a simple favour now!
ReplyDeleteI think you'll like it! :)
DeleteWell spotted comparisons! I know both use unreliable narrators but I haven't seen A Simple Favour-I heard the movie is an improvement on the book.
ReplyDeleteYou should check it out, it's so much fun!
DeleteMy gosh! This kind of blew my mind. It took a sharp eye to nail all of the comparisons but they are undeniable. So cool!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! :)
DeleteAmazing post! I didn't realize how many similarities there were between the two. Great job putting this together! I want to watch both movies now.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! I rewatch those so much but I am always in for another rewatch :)
DeleteFor real, sometimes I forgot what movie was on what side - that's insane! I need a rewatch on Gone Girl asap, as I forget how good that movie is (but I never forgot how hot Pike is, my goodness).
ReplyDeleteOh, and much appreciation for some of those Kendrick stills. Yowza.
Yes I suspected some of the guys may like those :)
DeleteI cannot tell you how much I love Visual Parallels. The similarities you find in the chosen films is so damn impressive. More excellent work here, as usual. This really made me want to rewatch Gone Girl!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! And Gone Girl should be rewatched all the time, especially since Fincher is torturing us and there is no new movie from him in sight :/
DeleteGoddamn sati this is just.... fuckin amazing. I can't imagine how long this took you!!!
ReplyDeleteNot that long :) I practically know both those movies by heart :)
Deletestill.... you seriously must have a superhuman memory! I'd never be able to do this something like this, and if I did and knew the movies, it'd still take me days!!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to re-watch Gone Girl, I can't believe I haven't watched it again yet.
(oh and another 'PS', i meant to ask you when you did the captain marvel sound track thing, I used to a thing called 'Monday at the Musak' but stopped because of my health. I am feeling a lot better these days, let me know if you'd like to pick a soundtrack each fortnight or month, I reckon that'd be cool.
Just an idea :)
What is that? You mean a segment on your website?
Deletesorry for the uber late reply, computer problems and again health issues.
DeleteYeah I had a sort of segment that I'd do on Mondays, I did Arrival and Ex Machina I think, It Follows, I actually had Nat from writerlovesmovies write about that amazing Under the Skin score.
I also did Inside Llewelyn Davis. I was doing this nearly four year ago, when I was posting much more regularly. I'm finally back on my feet mentally after trying medication after medication, and finally have the right med. Yay!
I'm feelin' good now and if you'd like, it'd be suuuuuper cool if say we both agree on an OST and then both write our thoughts about it (while trying to get some vids in there that won't be pulled down). We can post it on here since you actually have an audience.
Just a thought. After reading this blog for so so long its clear to me that you like your soundtracks! =]
oh I forgot to paste an example. I rant waaaaay too much in this one, but you kinda get the point if you read it all. I'd LOVE to hear your honest thoughts.
Deletehttps://epilepticmoondancer.net/2015/03/16/monday-moovies-n-musak-inside-llweyn-davis-part-i/
I'll check it out and think of something to write about when I have more free time :)
DeleteNo worries! Perhaps we could both write about the soundtrack from 'Us'
DeleteYAAS! LOVE IT!
ReplyDeleteScrolled through it when it was posted but of course I suck at commenting.
Anyway, I was so surprised about A Simple Favour. It was so good, and I expected nothing, because there was almost no buzz around it, and I feel like there should have been.
These posts are brilliant as always. Love them, would love more of them! :D
This makes me want to see both films again.
Paul Feig rarely disappoints and even when he does we get sexy Hemsworth scenes out if anyways :)
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