The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a common piece in a student’s high school experience because a large majority of students read the book. This novel is the¬¬¬ mysterious story of the lust between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, narrated by a neighbor to Gatsby and cousin to Daisy, Nick Carraway, considered a classic among generations. Nearly all classics eventually become an overdone and painful-to-watch film version; therefore, The Great Gatsby is no exception. This rule stays true not just to the 1974 version, but again with a remake in 2013.
Both film versions of The Great Gatsby were expensive cinematic productions, but the aura of the $10 novel is much better than the quality of the remakes. For this reason, in a review of the …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald’s novel… The willingness to spend so much time and energy on the exterior effect while never penetrating to the souls of the characters,” (Ebert 1). The 1974 film seems to be just a recitation of the novel without getting into the deeper meanings that had Fitzgerald intended, merely shown as “memorials to a novel in which they had meaning,” (Ebert 2). Directors are looking to cover all content that was in the book, but in doing so, they cannot reach the book’s full meaning. Even with this, in the 1974 version of Gatsby the director, Jack Clayton, decided to cut the book’s famous ending, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (Fitzgerald 180). Maybe Clayton wanted to surprise the viewers with a fun rendition of “Ain’t We Got Fun”, but to those who know the novel, it almost seems wrong not to include it. While reading, people empathize with Nick. …show more content…
To the younger generation, the new Gatsby is an interesting interpretation of the novel, which they believe is one big party. Maybe it is because teenagers are becoming alcohol-obsessed and that the “Dionysian whirls of booze, lust and hero worship, minus the sense that things are ebbing and flowing as they would at a real party,” (Seitz 2), draw in a young viewership, this adaptation of Fitzgerald’s work is seemingly popular among teenagers. Critics advise readers of the original novel to “put aside whatever literary agenda you are tempted to bring with you,” (Scott 1) and to try to enjoy the movie on its own. Luckily, this edition stays truer to the novel than the first did. The director’s, Baz Luhrmann’s interpretation of this great novel still does not compare to reading the original. In Luhrmann’s version Nick is narrating his past as a form of therapy while in an asylum, this interpretation seems to hurt the narrator’s ethos by portraying him as a crazy alcoholic who viewers cannot trust. Not all of Luhrmann’s portrayals of scenes in the novel make the viewer feel as upset in the adaptation, such as the climactic suite scene at the Plaza Hotel. This scene itself helps the movie stand apart from the alcoholic, party-driven plot that the director created but “The scene stands out in a movie that is otherwise gaudily and grossly inauthentic. Jay Gatsby is too, of course. He
Both film versions of The Great Gatsby were expensive cinematic productions, but the aura of the $10 novel is much better than the quality of the remakes. For this reason, in a review of the …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald’s novel… The willingness to spend so much time and energy on the exterior effect while never penetrating to the souls of the characters,” (Ebert 1). The 1974 film seems to be just a recitation of the novel without getting into the deeper meanings that had Fitzgerald intended, merely shown as “memorials to a novel in which they had meaning,” (Ebert 2). Directors are looking to cover all content that was in the book, but in doing so, they cannot reach the book’s full meaning. Even with this, in the 1974 version of Gatsby the director, Jack Clayton, decided to cut the book’s famous ending, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (Fitzgerald 180). Maybe Clayton wanted to surprise the viewers with a fun rendition of “Ain’t We Got Fun”, but to those who know the novel, it almost seems wrong not to include it. While reading, people empathize with Nick. …show more content…
To the younger generation, the new Gatsby is an interesting interpretation of the novel, which they believe is one big party. Maybe it is because teenagers are becoming alcohol-obsessed and that the “Dionysian whirls of booze, lust and hero worship, minus the sense that things are ebbing and flowing as they would at a real party,” (Seitz 2), draw in a young viewership, this adaptation of Fitzgerald’s work is seemingly popular among teenagers. Critics advise readers of the original novel to “put aside whatever literary agenda you are tempted to bring with you,” (Scott 1) and to try to enjoy the movie on its own. Luckily, this edition stays truer to the novel than the first did. The director’s, Baz Luhrmann’s interpretation of this great novel still does not compare to reading the original. In Luhrmann’s version Nick is narrating his past as a form of therapy while in an asylum, this interpretation seems to hurt the narrator’s ethos by portraying him as a crazy alcoholic who viewers cannot trust. Not all of Luhrmann’s portrayals of scenes in the novel make the viewer feel as upset in the adaptation, such as the climactic suite scene at the Plaza Hotel. This scene itself helps the movie stand apart from the alcoholic, party-driven plot that the director created but “The scene stands out in a movie that is otherwise gaudily and grossly inauthentic. Jay Gatsby is too, of course. He