The Great Gatsby

Movies are never as good as books, unless the book is bad to begin with.

Writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald (novel), Baz Luhrmann (screenplay),

And we've already got a film version of the Gatsby story: Citizen Kane.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 8:57 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also the other versions of the great gatsby

just watched kubrick's lolita the other night and hated it, not looking good for film adaptations of my favorite books. maybe that paradise lost thing won't suck, assuming that ever gets made

i'm actually a big fan of kubrick's 'lo' (tho the book is better) but it's sort of one of those extremely unlikely things that somehow worked out (for me anyway) -- 'lolita' the book seems even less suitable for filming than 'gatsby.'

Movies are never as good as books

Tangelos are never as good as nectarines

Films are made FROM, not OF, books

plus gatsby would p. much have to be a completely unknown but staggeringly charismatic actor, which could never happen.

we're still recovering from the effects of our Gatsby president Ronnie Reagan.

gatsby is sort of like the little red-haired girl in 'peanuts' -- if you actually see him/her, it ruins the mystery, and the mystery is the point.

cant they just make a modernized one where everyone works at facebook

anyway, here ya go Londoners:

http://elevator.org/shows/show.php?show=gatz

i had to go back and re-read some of my favorite passages, lest the film version be the one to remain in my memory. i thought he totally messed up the scene at the schiller house, and thought most of the humor was (inevitably) lost in translation. and that it was generally rushed. and that Q was a cartoon character.

objectively it wasn't awful i guess, but i just recently finished the novel and am kind of still emotionally attached to certain parts of it

xp JD

why would you expect a film made in 1962, financed by Hollywood, to replicate the particulars of Nabokov? Not meant to be seen in conjunction with the novel.

Sellers is pretty bad though

no i know, i tried to make it clear that most of my objections were pretty subjective. i adored the book and i probably watched the film too soon after finishing it

Number Rong

I like him in other things. His appearance in Lolita is grating and self-indulgent (although i'm sure it amused Kubrick too)

I'm fine with the Kubrick film succeeding as a collection of lurid tableaux based on the Nabokov novel.

So back to this trailer

ugh I hope that's not really what the soundtrack is like

Yeah, was wondering that now that I had a proper chance to look at it. Who was doing the overwrought U2 cover there?

It was so bad it inspired E.L James's next book.

xp Jack White

i wish baz lurhmann nothing but ill

like his-children's-children-will-also-be-cursed ill

there are no third acts in baz lurhmann films

great going, gatsby

so we beat them, Baz Lurhmann's children, borne back ceaselessly into nothingness

the drake gatsby

can't believe Kubrick's Lolita failed to replicate the novel, blame the screenwriter imo

haha

as this was filmed in Sydney, it really should be titled "The Great Gazza"

can't believe Kubrick's Lolita failed to replicate the novel, blame the screenwriter imo

― melodic yew (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 09:49 (2 hours ago) Bookmark

funny and all, but Kubrick made some pretty radical changes to Nabokov's original script

yeah, Nabokov's script basically wasn't used, that's my understanding.

can't wait for the sequel 2 Gats 2 Curious amirite guys

I lolled

Waiting for "The Great Gatsby: West Egg Drift" here.

Gatsby 2: Electric Jitterbug

Gatsby 2: Greater, Bigger, Dandier

hahahaha this trailer

not that you can probably tell over the luhrmann, but tobey maguire looks like he's stinking the joint up as nick.

There's been a 7-hour stage version that had a couple diff runs in NYC in the last year, in which the actors read every word on an office set.

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 8:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a great show, partially because the language of the novel is so lyrically beautiful (i believe the same company tried a similar thing with a faulkner novel and it wasn't the same kind of sensation) but also partially because the guy who plays nick is amazing.

http://elevator.org/shows/show.php?show=sound_and_fury

yeah, kicking myself that I missed it. xp

yeah thats playing in london soon, kinda tempted

lol i hope the whole movie is scored by frank ocean

you should absolutely see it.

xp

who was singing that version of "love is blindness" in the trailer? whoever it was was terrible.

jack white, apparently

lol okay

"Mahalo, Gatsby"

In case the original link to the trailer gets taken down, I found this mirror site:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAHj3IsSuT0

so help me i just bought a ticket for the 8 hour GATZ in london. in real real 3d! in your face luhrmann.