Sex & Food in Cinema Series
"You've got to see this."
The Sugar Kiss Scene.
David Fincher (“Seven,” “Zodiac,” “The Social Network”) directed this 2014 blockbuster (box office $370 million) adapted from novelist Gillian Flynn’s best-selling psychological thriller “Gone Girl.” *No Spoilers here, if you haven’t seen it.* In this scene, Nick (Ben Affleck) is performing a sugary seduction to Amy (Rosamund Pike), who he’s just met at a party. The sequence is a brief magical twinkle in a film filled with double and triple reveals. For music fans, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross punched in for the eerie soundtrack.
Clip notes
Gone Girl – Shooting Scripit, August 29, 2013, by Gillian Flynn
Sugar Kiss Scene, pps 6-7.
INT. APARTMENT ELEVATOR – NIGHT
They head down: tipsy, not touching, but thinking about it.
AMY
So if you write for a men’s magazine , does that make you an expert on being a man?
NICK
In theory, I know what men drink, what men wear-
AMY
How men bullshit.
NICK
Not with you.
Amy laughs: ha, ha.
NICK (CONT ‘D)
I’m serious.
She stops, studies him.
AMY
It’s hard to believe you. I think it’s your chin .
NICK
My chin?
AMY
It’s quite villainous.
She places a finger over his chin. Tests the view. *
NICK
No bullshit. 100% truth.
EXT. BROOKLYN – NIGHT
They are huddling together, walking to hail a cab.
NICK
I love New York parties because I get to leave and walk out into New York. The Great What Next?
They turn the corner and step into a cloud of powdered sugar as it’s funneled into a bakery. A SUGAR SNOWSTORM.
Nick grins: Like this!
NICK (CONT’D)
You know I have to kiss you now.
AMY
Is that right?
NICK
I would be a fool to let you walk through a sugar storm unkissed.
The sugar floats all around them. A fairytale. They lean in.
NICK (CONT’D)
Hold on.
Nick brushes her lips clean. They kiss.
[end scene]