Deep Water Perfectly Reverses Ben Affleck's Gone Girl Role
WARNING: Spoilers ahead for Deep Water!
Ben Affleck’s second psychological thriller, Deep Water, brilliantly reverses the circumstances of his character in David Fincher’s Gone Girl. Deep Water’s erotic thriller tells the story of the manipulative marriage of Vic (Affleck) and Melinda Van Allen, who play increasingly dangerous mind-games with one another as Vic attempts to keep his family together. Unsurprisingly, the underlying premise of 2022’s Deep Water has been frequently compared to the Ben Affleck-starring 2014 filmGone Girl, which similarly depicted the twisted marriage of Nick and Amy Dunne.
While David Fincher initially cast Ben Affleck in Gone Girl because of his often awkward public smile, the role ended up being perfect for Affleck in playing the apathetic husband of a wife who mysteriously goes missing. Gone Girl’s twists reveal that Amy initially framed Nick for her murder, even working to expose his affair with one of his students. By the end of the film, Amy decides she wants to keep her family with Ben Affleck's Gone Girl character together, revealing herself to be alive and pregnant, with the couple reluctantly cementing their manipulative marriage in Gone Girl’s final scene.
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In both Gone Girl and Deep Water, Ben Affleck’s character is caught in a lethal game of cat-and-mouse with his wife, with each film kicking off as audiences guess whether he’s actually a murderer. However, there’s a major difference between Ben Affleck’s roles in Gone Girl and Deep Water in that he proves to actually be the more twisted character in the latter. In Gone Girl, Nick never actually murdered anyone, with his wife playing vengeful games
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