Gone Girl unleashes battle of the sexes at New York film festival

Chilly woman at heart of David Fincher drama is a new kind of screen heroine, says film's star Rosamund Pike at the movie's world premiere

The main character in Gone Girl, the new film from director David Fincher, is controlling, duplicitous and potentially deadly, an angel of vengeance who runs effortless rings around her cheating husband. Most viewers would be forgiven for regarding icy Amy Dunne as a nightmarish villainess. For actor Rosamund Pike, however, the woman is a new kind of screen heroine.

"My reaction to her goes beyond like or dislike I understand her," Pike told reporters as Gone Girl premiered at the 52nd New York film festival. "In other films, a strong female character is only shown as being strong because she's like a man. But the thing about Amy is that she could never have been a man. She's purely female. People don't like me saying that, but it's true."

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