Baz Luhrmann while changing some key aspects of the novel captures F. Scott Fitzgerald’s vision in his 2013 film The Great Gatsby. The novel The Great Gatsby written in 1925 by American Author F. Scott Fitzgerald. This short novel captures the roaring twenties and the time of prohibition extravagantly. The story takes place the summer of 1922, Nick Carraway moves to West Egg district of Long Island. His neighbor is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who throws huge extravagant parties every weekend. Gatsby is hopelessly in love with Daisy Buchanan who is married to Tom. Nick Just so happens to be cousins with Daisy which Gatsby swiftly discover and invites Nick to one of his parties, Nick is the only person who has ever actually been invited
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While the novel feels like it is a product of a particular time period. When Nick and Gatsby Have lunch with Mr. Wolfsheim, Luhrmann takes the audience through a secret door inside a barbershop which leads to a speakeasy, full of women dancing, and slightly corrupt men. To prove his point of corruption, Luhrmann places the police commissioner in the scene enjoining himself with the dancing women at the speakeasy. By the end of the film Tom Buchanan become a super villain in the eyes of the audience. He paints a murderous image into Wilson’s head, convincing Wilson him to do the bad deed killing Gatsby. Luhrmann changes Tom from an unlikeable guy into a ruthless villain which seems to be cheap behavior for Tom’s character, However making Tom into a nasty villain character is convenient to the plot. Most of the dialect between Gatsby and Tom when Tom Verbally attacks Gatsby in the hotel room in New York. Although, when Gatsby begins to lose control in that hotel room, and he begins to realize that Daisy is in the room physically but may be out of his grasp, his face is described as a face that could kill a man. Gatsby morphs into this childish freak he even begins to scream “Shut up.” at …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald’s vision in his 2013 film The Great Gatsby. It is difficult to satisfy fans of a novel while interpreting it into a film. This is because everyone, especially the super fans who have read the book multiply time has their own precise vision of the novel and how they would portray it. You must keep in mind that the novel was written in 1925 leaving an eighty-eight-year gap between Fitzgerald’s novel and Luhrmann’s film, given this large difference in time and culture it would be an extremely difficult task for anyone to interpret this novel into a good movie. Some people may disagree but I believe that even with the key differences between the novel and the 2013 movie, Luhrmann was successfully able to capture Fitzgerald’s vision of The Great
While the novel feels like it is a product of a particular time period. When Nick and Gatsby Have lunch with Mr. Wolfsheim, Luhrmann takes the audience through a secret door inside a barbershop which leads to a speakeasy, full of women dancing, and slightly corrupt men. To prove his point of corruption, Luhrmann places the police commissioner in the scene enjoining himself with the dancing women at the speakeasy. By the end of the film Tom Buchanan become a super villain in the eyes of the audience. He paints a murderous image into Wilson’s head, convincing Wilson him to do the bad deed killing Gatsby. Luhrmann changes Tom from an unlikeable guy into a ruthless villain which seems to be cheap behavior for Tom’s character, However making Tom into a nasty villain character is convenient to the plot. Most of the dialect between Gatsby and Tom when Tom Verbally attacks Gatsby in the hotel room in New York. Although, when Gatsby begins to lose control in that hotel room, and he begins to realize that Daisy is in the room physically but may be out of his grasp, his face is described as a face that could kill a man. Gatsby morphs into this childish freak he even begins to scream “Shut up.” at …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald’s vision in his 2013 film The Great Gatsby. It is difficult to satisfy fans of a novel while interpreting it into a film. This is because everyone, especially the super fans who have read the book multiply time has their own precise vision of the novel and how they would portray it. You must keep in mind that the novel was written in 1925 leaving an eighty-eight-year gap between Fitzgerald’s novel and Luhrmann’s film, given this large difference in time and culture it would be an extremely difficult task for anyone to interpret this novel into a good movie. Some people may disagree but I believe that even with the key differences between the novel and the 2013 movie, Luhrmann was successfully able to capture Fitzgerald’s vision of The Great