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The Great Gatsby
Rosella 2022-04-21 09:01:08
Like many, I read the book years ago in a high school english class, and didn't particularly enjoy the material. The movie rendition of The Great Gatsby definitely takes a different approach from the book as it focuses on the love story between Daisy and Gatsby, instead of what they represent. While the book utilizes this relationship to characterize the motifs, the movie does everything completely oppositely, and it works surprisingly well. All the motifs instead works to accentuate the relationship and it somehow works albeit in a complete different way as the original book. As a result, the movie lacks a certain punch or push in the middle stages, but the movie is lifted towards the end thanks to a very solid storyline. One of the most pleasant feature of the film is the wonderful sound track throughout,and how it captures each scene and staying true to the jazz era while giving it a modern facelift. The Great Gatsby is a good movie, even though it may be completely different to what Fitzgerald had expected.
Extended Reading
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Cristian 2022-03-23 09:01:08
The performance is a little worse, the others are very delicate, I fell in love with the song young and beautiful after watching the movie
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August 2022-03-24 09:01:08
It's really hard to see to a certain extent, completely ruining the original series, Carey Mulligan is ugly to look like this and still play Bai Fumei Daisy? Compared to the stable one in the 1970s, this great Moulin Rouge filmed is almost like a clown.
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Nick Carraway: I expected him to be...
Jordan Baker: Old and fat?
Nick Carraway: Yes. Young men just don't drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island.
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Tom Buchanan: Daisy, can't you see who this guy is, with his house and his parties and his fancy clothes? He is just a front for Wolfsheim, a gangster, to get his claws into respectable folk like Walter Chase.
Jay Gatsby: The only respectable thing about you, old sport, is your money. Your money, that's it. Now I've just as much as you. That means we're equal.
Tom Buchanan: Oh, no. No. We're different. I am. They are.
[points to Daisy]
Tom Buchanan: She is. We're all different from you. You see, we were born different. It's in our blood. And nothing that you do or say or steal... or dream up can ever change that. A girl like Daisy...
Jay Gatsby: [Knocks contents off bar-top & grabs Tom with a raised fist] You shut up! Shut up! You shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
Nick Carraway: [Voice-over] Gatsby looked, in that moment, as if he had... killed a man.