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
i wish baz lurhmann nothing but ill
like his-children's-children-will-also-be-cursed ill
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 02:22 (eleven years ago) link
there are no third acts in baz lurhmann films
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 02:25 (eleven years ago) link
great going, gatsby
― buzza, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
so we beat them, Baz Lurhmann's children, borne back ceaselessly into nothingness
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
the drake gatsby
― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 08:03 (eleven years ago) link
can't believe Kubrick's Lolita failed to replicate the novel, blame the screenwriter imo
― melodic yew (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 08:49 (eleven years ago) link
haha
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 09:16 (eleven years ago) link
as this was filmed in Sydney, it really should be titled "The Great Gazza"
― Gentlemen Take Instagram Photos (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 11:19 (eleven years ago) link
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
― 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
― Number None, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 11:29 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, Nabokov's script basically wasn't used, that's my understanding.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 11:40 (eleven years ago) link
can't wait for the sequel 2 Gats 2 Curious amirite guys
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 11:44 (eleven years ago) link
I lolled
― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 12:33 (eleven years ago) link
Waiting for "The Great Gatsby: West Egg Drift" here.
― Gentlemen Take Instagram Photos (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
Gatsby 2: Electric Jitterbug
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
Gatsby 2: Greater, Bigger, Dandier
― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
hahahaha this trailer
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
not that you can probably tell over the luhrmann, but tobey maguire looks like he's stinking the joint up as nick.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:54 (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), 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.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://elevator.org/shows/show.php?show=sound_and_fury
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link