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The Great Gatsby - Another gorgeous Baz Luhrmann Film

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Baz Luhrmann's version of The Great Gatsby with Leonardo Dicaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire is set for release at Christmas. The trailer was just released and it looks AMAZING!


Officially excited!

:D
 
Re: The Great Gatsby

I had just watched the Sparknotes video review on the book yesterday. I had thought the movie came out earlier last decade or so.

The trailer seems really nice. Hopefully it does well; not sure how 'historical' movies do at the box office or with the audience.
 
Re: The Great Gatsby

there is another Gatsby movie that came out couple of decades ago with Robert Redford.

I'm excited for this movie, sucks that I know the ending -.-
love the song :)D
 
Another gorgeous Baz Luhrmann Film (Gatsby)

Very excited about this:


and not to take away from Leonardo Dicaprio's film presence and talent, but he is one of the most beautiful men I have ever seen.
 
The trailer makes it look really good.


It has a great book to live up too.
 
Uhm, no. No, no, no, no, no. Blasphemy!

The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite novels, and the 1974 Robert Redford original one of my favorite films... one of the most perfect translations from book to film I've ever seen. It caught that peculiar tone of restrained hysteria of the Fitzgerald novel, Redford perfectly portrayed the mysterious blankness of Gatsby, Farrow perfectly portrayed the veneer of vapid sweetness over an empty soul as Daisy. I thought Tom Buchanan could have been cast better (Bruce Dern was far too weak-looking), and they used the wrong Newport house for Gatsby's mansion (but perhaps Ochre Court wasn't available and Rosecliff and Marble House were), but those are the merest quibbles.

This movie is going to have to be viewed as one of those "loosely inspired by" types of deals. One rather expects that of Baz, but he's pissing on one of my legends here and I am finding it difficult to not be angry about it. It has been infused with dazzling passion on its every surface instead of the misty brittleness of the novel; it's glitzy and glamorous and hot... a Baz Luhrmann movie. I might be able to enjoy the film (it certainly looks interesting) if I can completely divorce it from the source material in my mind. I mean, Leo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire are certainly nice to look at; but they simply are not Jay and Daisy and Nick. They just aren't.
 
Swellegant said:
Uhm, no. No, no, no, no, no. Blasphemy!

The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite novels, and the 1974 Robert Redford original one of my favorite films... one of the most perfect translations from book to film I've ever seen. It caught that peculiar tone of restrained hysteria of the Fitzgerald novel, Redford perfectly portrayed the mysterious blankness of Gatsby, Farrow perfectly portrayed the veneer of vapid sweetness over an empty soul as Daisy. I thought Tom Buchanan could have been cast better (Bruce Dern was far too weak-looking), and they used the wrong Newport house for Gatsby's mansion (but perhaps Ochre Court wasn't available and Rosecliff and Marble House were), but those are the merest quibbles.

This movie is going to have to be viewed as one of those "loosely inspired by" types of deals. One rather expects that of Baz, but he's pissing on one of my legends here and I am finding it difficult to not be angry about it. It has been infused with dazzling passion on its every surface instead of the misty brittleness of the novel; it's glitzy and glamorous and hot... a Baz Luhrmann movie. I might be able to enjoy the film (it certainly looks interesting) if I can completely divorce it from the source material in my mind. I mean, Leo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire are certainly nice to look at; but they simply are not Jay and Daisy and Nick. They just aren't.
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Your opinion, not fact.
 
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Swellegant, have you seen the 1949 version with Alan Ladd?

People say that classic plays like Shakespeare and classical music can be interpreted in different ways to suit the current day. I don't know. I sort of enjoyed the 1970s Jack Clayton/Robert Redford version. But I'm wary of what the vulgar Luhrmann will do to mess up this American classic.

The sets look good in the new version but I'm very wary of the manic, camp Luhrmann. I don't understand why it will take eight months to edit the raw footage for Gatsby. His crass movie Moulin Rouge was ruthlessly over-edited to make it incomprehensible and unwatchable.

(I wonder if those eight months will be spent eliminating all those moles on Daisy; there about eight of them on the face, neck and arms)
 
I'm with Swellegant on this one.

When I saw the preview and heard the music at the beginning my first thought was, "Oh, yeah. When I think of Gastby I think of hip hop."

Towards the end is a remake of U2's "Love is Blindness." Whilst the song is powerful, it is so because of those who played it and the manner in which it was played.

Oh, well; another 'must-see' movie on which I'll pass... anyway, what's for tea?
 
Well, I look forward to this film. Ive enjoyed Moulin Rouge as well as Romeo + Juliet, so perhaps this film was made with the youth in mind....meaning to bring another generation to the novel. Not going to lie...Im 23 and this trailer made me go grab the book off of my book shelf.
 
I hate the great gasby in book and movie form. However....I will say that the original movie will be hard to beat. It's not like there was a real need to remake it. It's not like there was some horrid CGI in the original that could be replaced with more modern technology...

(i.e. Clash of the Titans from back in the day ... definitely needed to be remade with that horrible special effects feel to it.... Great Gatsby...not so much).
 
Swellegant said:
Uhm, no. No, no, no, no, no. Blasphemy!

The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite novels, and the 1974 Robert Redford original one of my favorite films... one of the most perfect translations from book to film I've ever seen. It caught that peculiar tone of restrained hysteria of the Fitzgerald novel, Redford perfectly portrayed the mysterious blankness of Gatsby, Farrow perfectly portrayed the veneer of vapid sweetness over an empty soul as Daisy. I thought Tom Buchanan could have been cast better (Bruce Dern was far too weak-looking), and they used the wrong Newport house for Gatsby's mansion (but perhaps Ochre Court wasn't available and Rosecliff and Marble House were), but those are the merest quibbles.

This movie is going to have to be viewed as one of those "loosely inspired by" types of deals. One rather expects that of Baz, but he's pissing on one of my legends here and I am finding it difficult to not be angry about it. It has been infused with dazzling passion on its every surface instead of the misty brittleness of the novel; it's glitzy and glamorous and hot... a Baz Luhrmann movie. I might be able to enjoy the film (it certainly looks interesting) if I can completely divorce it from the source material in my mind. I mean, Leo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire are certainly nice to look at; but they simply are not Jay and Daisy and Nick. They just aren't.
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Completely agreed and the trailer shows yes some great visuals, but some people don't even know what the story is, and every trailer should have a small synopsis of the storyline, but it showed me nothing.
I found this quote on tumblr
"i’m glad leo is playing gatsby,
he never achieved the american dream the same way leo is never going to win the oscar" lol.
The trailer is not a very good representation of the story or movie, Leo really didn't seem that meant for the role but whatever I don't know. Not looking forward to people asking me to see it.
 
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