The Kubrick Stare In Amy Dunne's 'Gone Girl'

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The Kubrick Stare. After hours of research into what the look that Amy Dunne gives the camera in "Gone Girl" that is what I have learned it's called. It's described as a look from under the eyebrows and into the camera; out of all the various female characters I've read and watched she is my favorite. While her actions and justifications are deplorable, she has reached a level of pure evil that I have craved in a female character for nearly half my life. Literature is riddled with male characters of the same variety, and yet this is one of the few times a woman has been portrayed as this level of evilness. I consider Amy Dunne to be a perfectly created character, so thoroughly unlikeable because she is so self-aware. For the first time I realized

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