![]() ![]() As I said, this lady is special, she spent a year developing an elaborate plan to frame Nick for her “murder”, that’s what I call a real punishment. So, when she found out that her dear husband was cheating on her, she decides to teach him a lesson. Amy is high maintenance and she won’t accept mediocrity. Why? She’s different, she’s not your average “scorned wife”. ![]() The original version of this speech from the 2012 book can be found here.Let’s say that, Amy Elliott Dunne really made an impression on me. She seeks a flexible identity – the kind that society denigrates in favor of fixed roles. She seeks an escape from her parental expectations, from Nick’s projections, from her own mental conception of self. But what happens when individuals choose to transgress these boundaries and move beyond these simple, singular narratives? Can a person be both “cool” and “not cool”? Or neither?Īmy here articulates the impossibility of a self successfully being both – and, over the course of the narrative (book and movie), Amy searches for a way to break free from the shackles of feminine identity. Women are expected to be cool and attractive, while men are expected to be manly (not “effete”). In this monologue, Amy points out several paradoxical demands that society makes of women. Here, Amy reveals that society’s unreasonable expectation that every girl acts like a “cool girl” have driven her to drastic measures. Gillian Flynn adapts the most famous speech from the original book into a monologue that caught every viewer’s attention in the theaters. ![]() The roads get smaller and smaller, til we hit dirt. Driving farther-a sign for Lake of the Ozarks. AMY (V.O.): But then it had to stop, because it wasn't me! I hated Nick for being surprised when I became me. AMY (V.O.): I was happier for those few years, pretending to be someone else, than I ever have been before or after. Back in the bathroom, she sheds her tight jeans, SIZE 2, and her spanx, and puts on the dress, SIZE 8. AMY (V.O.) (contd): And I made him smarter, sharper. Nick teased things out in me I didn't know existed: A lightness, a humor, an ease. AMY (V.O.): I couldn't have been Cool Girl with anyone else. She selects a cheap sundress from her stack. When I met Nick I knew that's what he wanted. For someone like me, who likes to win, it's tempting to be the girl every guy wants. AMY (V.O.): But it's tempting, to be Cool Girl. ![]() She eats a candy bar robotically, pinches flab at the top of the jeans she barely squeezes into. AMY (V.O.): Instead, women across the nation colluded in our degradation! Pretty soon every girl was Cool Girl, and if you weren't, then there was something wrong with you. She steps outside the restroom, packs her Amy Hair. And then we'd say, yeah, he's a cool guy. and make out with each other while we leer. She picks up and deposits the long blonde hair cuttings into a Ziploc marked AMY HAIR. AMY (V.O.): I waited patiently-years-for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, organize scrapbook parties. The brown dye sits like a glob of crap on her head. Go ahead! Shit on me, I don't mind, I'm the cool girl. Cool girls never get angry at their men, they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner. while remaining a size 2, because cool girls are above all hot. loves threesomes and anal sex and jams chilidogs into my mouth like I’m hosting the world's biggest culinary gang-bang - Squirt of the hair dye onto her hair. AMY (V.O.): Being Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker and dirty jokes, who plays videogames and chugs beer- The hair is flying, she is sawing it off with a VENGEANCE. Takes out scissors and begins angrily sawing off her hair. INT-BATHROOM-DAY She looks at herself in the warped mirror. ![]()
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