The Great Gatsby

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uh, xp

baz luhrmann's ulysses

h4a otm. I didnt mind Moulin Rouge but Australia idk wtf that even was

i know this isn't what luhrmann's australia is but i would def watch an enormous batshit terrifying all-stops-pulled movie about the colonization of australia

i really cant get over how wild + inappropriate yet appropriate baz's camera is in this film, it's really quite inexplicable.

haha i was arguing with a friend that everything i could see him doing was perfectly explicable, the way the camera moves, the use of 3D, the arrangement of the actors in space, its all kinda on-the-nose at all times. although i did like how they were constantly recording themselves on film during the various amazing party montages, its 2013

yeah for sure, the party was pure busby berkeley, also made me feel really anxious because at real parties someone invariably knocks the punch bowl into the pool

at real parties now someone invariably passes a bowl

i think that happens too

there's room for zefirelli, branagh, and baaaaz, not just for shakespeare, but for eveeeeerrrrrryyyyythhiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnngggggg~~~~~~!!!!!

is how i break it down to an extent

so when will Gatsby be musicalized? inevitable, no? propose song titles.

John Harbison's The Great Gatsby, 1999

the last few movies i've seen have all been very 'stately, plump buck mulligan came from the stairhead' in their camerawork

i find this claim suspect

Also http://northernballet.com/index.php?q=the-great-gatsby

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2013/3/6/1362572480464/Great-Gatsby---Northern-B-009.jpg

pretty regretful that I never got to see Gatz, hope they revive it at some point. I'd make a trip for it.

乒乓's lush descriptions of this though have removed any need I might have had to actually see this movie

feel like I will be able to navigate thru both literary & cinematic discourse with only the book and this thread under my belt

http://i.imgur.com/rxmKw8N.jpg

^^ i approve of this adaptation, better than the original

The new Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?

Pride and Psyduck

for whom bellsprout tolls

http://i.imgur.com/eH73hnX.png

I keep thinking about this film? I actually really like Carey Mulligan's performance - I think it's super successful at suggesting a different & more feminist reading of the story.

I wonder what this movie would be like if you just removed Toby Macguire competely.

This trailer is so so good - love this kinda nonchronological buildup style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqxmhJU4nk4

just saw this, the first 20-30 minutes are ultrabad, like "hmmm maybe i could sneak into the next theater and watch the internship" level bad. it does sort of come together after that, decaprio is really quite good, and tobey mcguire alternates between being prtty decent whan actually acting with humans, but awful when doing voiceovers, like crazy awful. other than the party scenes, the apartment party in particular, and the car scenes, luhrmann is oddly subdued a lot of the time, and there are other bright moments as well (the floral arrangements in the daisy/nick/gatsby tea scene is a pretty howlingly funny moment actually). most of the female leads are better than expected, although carey mulligan is pretty flat. tom is very well cast and works really well in the part. its def flawed, but much better than i expected while still somehow not being great in any way. music is mostly (with a couple notable exceptions) buried and unobtrusive thank god. weird organ player dude annoyed the shit out of me. no leguizamo.

so yeah theres my review

weird organ player dude annoyed the shit out of me. no leguizamo.

plz say this is supposed to be read in the manner of the problematic "no homo" idiom

haha

http://i.imgur.com/SHiFzUl.jpg

dicaprio is actually a genetic mutant who has double the number of facial muscles that a normal human would have

As if he were Hollywood's bully whippet...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7287/8739186504_4fe7f2a405.jpg

http://vimeo.com/68451324

The first hour is the comedy of the year. Best moment: Tom's slo-mo slap of Myrtle; CUT TO black guy playing trumpet.

I'm disappointed that as Leo said "we're goign to meet Meyer Wolfsheim, one of the city's most distinguished businessmen" we didn't get CUT TO HUGE SILHOUETTE OF WOLFSHEIM'S QUIVERING JEWISH NOSE instead of THE EYES OF DR. ECKLEBURG or whtaever

I'm about halfway through and jjjusten is otm, first 20 minutes made me want to tear out my own eyes...but it has kinda surprised me so far. Like, it's not as horrible as I expected. I'm pretending not to hear most of the music. *barf*

Tobey McGuire's narration is distractingly bad. From the initial voiceover I thought I was going to see him in horrible old-man makeup because he sounded so frail and doddering. And the line readings are really weird, strange pauses in weird places...cmon dude

But I dig Leo's Gatsby. He's good with the facial stuff, the way his eyes belie the confidence he's trying to project, it's pretty spot on.

Anyway back to the movie.

Wtf was dayo talking about? It's so not a love story!

why did you watch this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZh6xSV-12c

I'm talking about the book haven't seen the movie

I'm talking about the movie haven't read the book

you should it rules

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Also unperson says the author is actually previously published by an actual publisher? Which is the most surprising thing.

it could be good if it punctures the smooth facade/babe in the woods schtick he and many other narrators use, like uncover some buried rage that he studiously evades in his narration of 'gatsby.' probably bad though.

The summary reads like the pitch was "I've got it, I'll turn this Fitzgerald character into a Hemingway one."