He is one of the greatest filmmakers today, as brilliant as he is a perfectionist. But that doesn’t stop him from letting some false connections slip through, as in “The Social Network”, “Gone Girl” and “Zodiac”.
His name is synonymous with perfectionism. It’s even a signature, which makes each new feature film by David Fincher a work as awaited as it is analyzed, like The Killer, which also marks the great return of Michael Fassbender and which arrives directly on Netflix this week .
Who says perfection(ism) says absence of false connections? This is what the technical specialists at AlloCiné wanted to verify by analyzing three of its greatest films. In the video above, Michel & Michel share their findings with you, between very visible anachronisms, poorly erased lining, shaky calculation, unassigned telephone number, magic cup and notable reflection. Their field of investigation? The Social Network, Gone Girl and Zodiac.
Released in 2010 and considered one of the best films of that decade, The Social Network revisits the creation of Facebook through the portrait of Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and his associate and friend Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield). A feature film whose opening scene required more than 100 takes (!) and which could perhaps have a sequel!
Three years before, David Fincher revisited the investigation of the police and journalists to track down the Zodiacthe infamous serial killer who spread terror in the San Francisco area at the end of the 1960s. A dark, exciting film… and frustrating since it provides no conclusion on this cold case.
Finally, in 2014, the filmmaker delivered the disturbing Gone Girl, which took the viewer between certainties and doubts surrounding the disappearance of a woman. Led by Ben Affleck and an incredible Rosamund Pike, the feature film still haunts those who saw it, ten years later.
Three (great) films, fifteen false connections, it’s heavy, very very heavy!