The Great Gatsby

this is a gatbsy that speaks to the way we live today though, morbs

leo actually might not be terrible

i imagine it'll be hard to tell

zebra in the pool you know it's gonna be a party

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.

this is a baz lurhmann movie

and it'll be that

more over the top than ever before, etc etc

ugh.

i really cannot stand carey mulligan

don't know why

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.

she was good in that episode of Doctor Who. It's all been downhill since though

more over the top than ever before, etc etc

― 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. . .

Carey Mulligan is a good actor BUT she's doing contemporary Hollywood films, so suckage.

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, May 23, 2012 12:33 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

Have we forgotten Australia so quickly?

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.

Scrunchy Face might work if cast as Daisy.

and 3D!!!!

'gatsby' just doesn't make for good film material, IMO.

ugh I hope that's not really what the soundtrack is like
not sure if I have a crush on Tobey Maguire anymore either

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."

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.

'gatsby' just doesn't make for good film material, IMO.

― (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

Just needs to be Gatsby! the musical instead.

yeah for real it already looks like Chicago (musical)

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.

Ten minutes of a camera shot of a big pair of eyes on a billboard.

"Art!"

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