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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