The two films, Midnight in Paris and The Great Gatsby, are effective to the novel because their characters parallel each other and they have similar concepts in both stories. However, the more effective movie was The Great Gatsby movie since it does represent the novel. In the movie, it has some real scenes that would have happened when it played out in anyone’s head and made it come to life. To make a book into a movie, it is not always accurate and not as straightforward to how it plays out because the director wanted the audience to feel all many emotions during the movie to make it “great”. Therefore, the director tweaked or changed some scenes to add for more action during the movie than the book. As for The Great Gatsby, it did a marvelous
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She did not want that even though she was fooling around with another dude named Paul who was sweet and nice to her but she still wanted to be with Gil, which is very strange to me. He left the room after she said to leave and her parents were there witnessing the whole situation and thought it was best to split. In addition to the end, the ending was the worst out of all the scenes because Gil walks with a woman named Gabrielle who says her name at the end and he takes her home but then it ends there with the credits rolling. Someone would think that is it? That is how it is going to end? The soon-to-be bride, Inez from the Midnight in Paris is a parallel to Daisy because she was technically the golden girl in the story, but she was mean and a bully to Gil and made her also seem like Tom. Both Gatsby and Gil are not satisfied with the present, they want to continue living in the past but this only makes matters worse, and it brings tragedy upon themselves. In the movie and in the novel, Gatsby said “Can’t repeat the past…Why of course, you can!” While, Gil claims “I was trying to escape my present the same way you are trying to escape yours, to a Golden Age,” and he also says, “The past is not dead.” Jay Gatsby is trying to win Daisy back away from Tom, which ends with him killed because of the consequences. Gil talks as if he was in the 1920’s arguing with Inez and intensifies his relationship with his fiancée. Gil believed the Golden Age was the 1920’s, Adrianna thought it was the 1890’s and others thought of earlier times were the important
She did not want that even though she was fooling around with another dude named Paul who was sweet and nice to her but she still wanted to be with Gil, which is very strange to me. He left the room after she said to leave and her parents were there witnessing the whole situation and thought it was best to split. In addition to the end, the ending was the worst out of all the scenes because Gil walks with a woman named Gabrielle who says her name at the end and he takes her home but then it ends there with the credits rolling. Someone would think that is it? That is how it is going to end? The soon-to-be bride, Inez from the Midnight in Paris is a parallel to Daisy because she was technically the golden girl in the story, but she was mean and a bully to Gil and made her also seem like Tom. Both Gatsby and Gil are not satisfied with the present, they want to continue living in the past but this only makes matters worse, and it brings tragedy upon themselves. In the movie and in the novel, Gatsby said “Can’t repeat the past…Why of course, you can!” While, Gil claims “I was trying to escape my present the same way you are trying to escape yours, to a Golden Age,” and he also says, “The past is not dead.” Jay Gatsby is trying to win Daisy back away from Tom, which ends with him killed because of the consequences. Gil talks as if he was in the 1920’s arguing with Inez and intensifies his relationship with his fiancée. Gil believed the Golden Age was the 1920’s, Adrianna thought it was the 1890’s and others thought of earlier times were the important