kill it with fire
Would rather see a high-school Gatsby by the guy who directed Brick.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
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), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
this is a gatbsy that speaks to the way we live today though, morbs
― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
leo actually might not be terrible
― twittering spinster (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
i imagine it'll be hard to tell
― Number None, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
zebra in the pool you know it's gonna be a party
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
If anything, I give Baz credit for persuading Leo to shave that scraggly fuzz off his face. That's as far as I'm going, though.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
this is a baz lurhmann movie
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
and it'll be that
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
more over the top than ever before, etc etc
ugh.
― jed_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
i really cannot stand carey mulligan
don't know why
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
Baz Lurhmann films have a built-in audience (of people who've seen previous Baz Lurhmann films) and little more. This won't flop, but it won't be a blockbuster either and will probably max out at some costume and cinematography nominations come awards season.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
she was good in that episode of Doctor Who. It's all been downhill since though
― Number None, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 8:31 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
tomorrow we'll run faster, stretch out our budgets farther. . .
― twittering spinster (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
Carey Mulligan is a good actor BUT she's doing contemporary Hollywood films, so suckage.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:33 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
Have we forgotten Australia so quickly?
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know if it was just me but it seemed like there was a lot of cgi going on for no good reason.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
Scrunchy Face might work if cast as Daisy.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
and 3D!!!!
― jed_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
'gatsby' just doesn't make for good film material, IMO.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
ugh I hope that's not really what the soundtrack is likenot sure if I have a crush on Tobey Maguire anymore either
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
well yeah -- it's like filming "The Eve of Saint Agnes" or "The Bridge." I don't know who'd want to watch this beside masochists thinking "I want to see the train wreck."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
there's much more action in that 1.5 minute trailer than there is in the book.
i kinda want to see this train wreck.
― jed_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 8:48 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
particularly not these days - it could probably be a pretty good low-key, black and white movie, but that'd be box office suicide
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
― twittering spinster (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
Just needs to be Gatsby! the musical instead.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
yeah for real it already looks like Chicago (musical)
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
besides its lyricism the novel's innovation lies in its structure. Film could reproduce the structure but not without attenuating the momentum -- and there's now way to render even in filmic terms what Fitzgerald accomplishes.
And we've already got a film version of the Gatsby story: Citizen Kane.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
Ten minutes of a camera shot of a big pair of eyes on a billboard.
"Art!"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
Movies are never as good as books, unless the book is bad to begin with.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
Writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald (novel), Baz Luhrmann (screenplay),
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
― 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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
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.'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
Movies are never as good as books
Tangelos are never as good as nectarines
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― jed_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
we're still recovering from the effects of our Gatsby president Ronnie Reagan.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
cant they just make a modernized one where everyone works at facebook
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
anyway, here ya go Londoners:
http://elevator.org/shows/show.php?show=gatz
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
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
― twittering spinster (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
Sellers is pretty bad though
― Number None, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:14 (eleven years ago) link
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
― twittering spinster (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:16 (eleven years ago) link
Number Rong
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:16 (eleven years ago) link
I like him in other things. His appearance in Lolita is grating and self-indulgent (although i'm sure it amused Kubrick too)
― Number None, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
I'm fine with the Kubrick film succeeding as a collection of lurid tableaux based on the Nabokov novel.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
It was so bad it inspired E.L James's next book.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
xp Jack White
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:32 (eleven years ago) link