Gone Girl's bloody sex scene was as meticulous as you'd expect from David Fincher

"Gone Girl" follows Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck), a teacher and bar owner who becomes the prime suspect in the sudden disappearance of his pregnant wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike). As brilliantly accentuated by Nick's unsympathetic and awkward behavior at press conferences and the revelation of his secret extramarital affair, the film is a reminder of the media frenzies surrounding real-life woman killers in the 2000s. (Scott Peterson immediately comes to mind.)

But the thing about "Gone Girl" is that Nick's wife is not an innocent victim. Not only does Amy orchestrate her own disappearance as part of a ruse to set up her husband for his planned death by suicide, but she manipulates a gullible ex-boyfriend, Desi Collings (Neil Patrick Harris), into giving her shelter, then brutally slits his throat. during sex. The scene is so unexpected and psychologically terrifying that if I had seen it as a kid I probably would have had nightmares about it the same way I had them about Norman's shower scene Bates.

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Neil Patrick Harris explained that filming the scene was a challenge because director David Fincher had him rehearse with Pike for two to three hours, and when they finally started filming, they had to redo the shoot after take after take. He clarified:

"David Fincher wanted us to do everything in exactly the same way every take, so that when we collapsed on the bed, he wanted to make sure we collapsed on the bed in pretty much the exact same way. position every Not three o'clock on the dial then 12 o'clock on the dial, but exactly two o'clock on the dial, so when he edits it he has several options."