Regarded as one of the most exceptional novels of the twentieth-century and deemed a classic, Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” portrays a veracious painting of what American life was during the early 1900’s. The story reflects on the promising American dream and the zealous Jay Gatsby who yearned for the eternal love of the golden-girl Daisy Buchanan. Thereafter, eighty-eight years would elapse before director Baz Lurhmann would take charge of adapting the pages of Fitzgerald’s novel into a major motion-picture film. However, as visually appealing and meaningful the film appears to be, its interpretations indeed lack certain aspects that caused sensation in the book. Furthermore, these differentiations involve the narration of
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Commonly, this is attained by adding more electrifying moments to grasp the audience’s attention or perhaps emphasizing on a particular emotional scene to cause the audience to conjure a cheerful smile. Furthermore, Lurhmann decided to add pizazz when Gatsby was a victim of Wilson’s bullet. In the novel Gatsby swivels in his lavish pool on a laden mattress awaiting Daisy’s call, however the call is never made and Gatsby’s hopes dissolved gradually as the time passed. “No telephone message arrived…Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared” (Fitzgerald 161). Additionally Gatsby was finally opening his eyes to reality and it devastated him as he, “…looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is…” (Fitzgerald 161). Contrarily, Lurhmann actually allows for a phone call to be made moments before Gatsby’s death and as the phone’s repeated ringing reaches Gatsby’s ears, his stern expression gradually transcends into a champions smile. Indeed, Gatsby’s smile is product form the idea that the person behind the other end is no other than Daisy Buchanan. That is to say, Lurhmann added this moment to give Gatsby’s determined character a hopeful and determined heart until the very end, and in consequence allowed for …show more content…
Whether or not the narrator’s story is the same, a character is portrayed differently, or the emotional factors impact much greater or less, “The Great Gatsby”, was product of a marvelous tale both in film and novel. The reader must take into account the visual and imaginative portions of film and novel will always need to be adapted differently in order to portray a particularity similar message. In Lurhmann and Fitzgerald’s case, they indubitably had differentiations in ideas but were parallel in envisioning “The Great Gatsby”
Commonly, this is attained by adding more electrifying moments to grasp the audience’s attention or perhaps emphasizing on a particular emotional scene to cause the audience to conjure a cheerful smile. Furthermore, Lurhmann decided to add pizazz when Gatsby was a victim of Wilson’s bullet. In the novel Gatsby swivels in his lavish pool on a laden mattress awaiting Daisy’s call, however the call is never made and Gatsby’s hopes dissolved gradually as the time passed. “No telephone message arrived…Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared” (Fitzgerald 161). Additionally Gatsby was finally opening his eyes to reality and it devastated him as he, “…looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is…” (Fitzgerald 161). Contrarily, Lurhmann actually allows for a phone call to be made moments before Gatsby’s death and as the phone’s repeated ringing reaches Gatsby’s ears, his stern expression gradually transcends into a champions smile. Indeed, Gatsby’s smile is product form the idea that the person behind the other end is no other than Daisy Buchanan. That is to say, Lurhmann added this moment to give Gatsby’s determined character a hopeful and determined heart until the very end, and in consequence allowed for …show more content…
Whether or not the narrator’s story is the same, a character is portrayed differently, or the emotional factors impact much greater or less, “The Great Gatsby”, was product of a marvelous tale both in film and novel. The reader must take into account the visual and imaginative portions of film and novel will always need to be adapted differently in order to portray a particularity similar message. In Lurhmann and Fitzgerald’s case, they indubitably had differentiations in ideas but were parallel in envisioning “The Great Gatsby”