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But as we arrived at their mansion, staffed by white-tied escapees from a Ferrero Rocher advertisement, it became clear that realism was low on Luhrmann’s agenda. And with each change of scene, the frantic cutting and transparently fake settings betrayed the fact that Luhrmann had failed to grasp the essence of the novel—that Gatsby is the still point of a turning world, with a timeless dream which is the antithesis of the frantic Jazz Age. With the film hurtling from one piece of gimmickry to another, it was impossible to see how any suggestion of genuine feeling—let alone wondrous romance—might creep in. My irritation at Luhrmann’s obtuseness gradually turned to fury at his self-indulgence.

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THE FIRST TEN SECONDS WERE FANTASTIC | More Intelligent Life

Last one, I promise.

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The Wire gets The Great Gatsby. I endorse watching The Wire instead of The Great Gatsby.

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adamusprime:

an interesting development

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newyorker:

Richard Brody’s review of “The Great Gatsby”: Try Again, Old Sport http://nyr.kr/15vCLn6

“ The simplicity of Luhrmann’s conception filters into their portrayals.”

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The Late Christopher Hitchens on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

vanityfair:

“Fitzgerald’s work captures the evaporating memory of the American Eden while connecting it to the advent of the New World of smartness and thuggery and corruption. It was his rite of passage; it is our bridge to the time before “dreams” were slogans. He wanted to call it Among the Ashheaps and Millionaires—thank heaven that his editor, Maxwell Perkins, talked him out of it. It was nearly entitled just plain Gatsby. It remains “the great” because it confronts the defeat of youth and beauty and idealism, and finds the defeat unbearable, and then turns to face the defeat unflinchingly. With The Great Gatsby, American letters grew up.”

Read more from Hitchens here.

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This will clearly be the worst thing ever. I’m almost fascinated by it. Like a gruesome car wreck. Who…who thought that Leo would be a good Gatsby?* The man…in this one gif set alone, he is doing the same upset face we have seen throughout Inception and Shutter Island and all other Leonard DiCaprio Is Pretty Upset About That movies. Also, Carey Mulligan as Daisy? Yes. Like…the girl who can’t stand up straight or speak without playing mumblepeg is going to play the girl whose voice is full of money convincingly? TRAIN WRECK.** oh PLUS TOBEY MAGUIRE who even casts Tobey Maguire anymore.

*side note that the earlier film adaptation of The Great Gatsby also didn’t follow by casting Robert Redford, but a good close reading of the book suggests that Gatsby (actually “Jay Gatz”) is probably Jewish, which ties in to the book’s complicated examination of class and the racial lines/logic along which class gets drawn, and vice versa, and the conflation of the two into really the same thing, and … anyway, all I’m saying is that Leonardo DiCaprio would not be my first choice.

**additional side note: it makes me happy, knowing how much Ernest Hemingway loved the book F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote (yes I just read A Moveable Feast), to imagine Corey Stoll as Hemingway punching Baz Luhrmann in the face.

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nevver:

“Anything can happen now that we’ve slid over this bridge,” I thought;
“anything at all… .” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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On the set of The Great Gatsby, November 18th

Well this already looks god-awful. Punch me in the face.

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I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

It’s about the right time of year to read (or re-read) Gatsby. Why not go check it out? We have at least 153 copies throughout the boroughs…

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I saw that the novel, which at my maturity was the strongest and supplest medium for conveying thought and emotion from one human being to another, was becoming subordinated to a mechanical and communal art that, whether in the hands of Hollywood merchants or Russian idealists, was capable of reflecting only the tritest thought, the most obvious emotion.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, in “Why Everyone’s Worried About the New ‘Great Gatsby’ Movie” - Hampton Stevens - Culture - The Atlantic

Number one: Fitzgerald summarizes all my recent grumpiness. (I obviously like movies more than he does, but I’m grumpy.)

Number two: The mere thought that Carey Mulligan will be slouching and smirking her way through Daisy Buchanan makes me cry at night. Also Leo as Gatsby? I just can’t see it.

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