The Great Gatsby

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.

lol i hope the whole movie is scored by frank ocean

Surely there's no way in hell Baz has been able to resist Lana Del Rey?

My girlfriend really wants to that play but I've vetoed going with her on the basis that it's EIGHT HOURS LONG. Also, kinda expensive. I'm kinda curious but at the same time, no.

Surely there's no way in hell Baz has been able to resist Lana Del Rey?

thank you for this, now I can convince my wife not to go see this

http://www.shokwaves.co.uk/images/anilaser.gif

EIGHT HOURS LONG

better than what i normally do for eight hours a day tbh. (taking a 1/2 day off work for it.)

Look, counting the dinner break I think it's less than 6 hours. I'm amazed they can get every word in that quickly, in fact, I remember the book being longer.

that is, removing the intervals and meal break

its a p short book

The book isn't that long but it's still a lot of words. There was something in London recently when they read out the whole of Moby Dick out in a church and that took literally days.

it ends up being like 8 hours with the intermissions and the dinner break. IT'S A JOURNEY.

ledge, you are in for a treat

the woman who played jordan played some moments a little broad for my taste, but that's my only real criticism, and it's hard to blame the company; presumably they felt like they had to punctuate all the subtly-inflected reading with some broad moments.

the way they stage the party at tom's mistress's house in the early part of the book is amazing.

maybe i will go to london and watch it again

I really wanted to go see Gatz, I should keep an eye out once I have some money again.

i befriended my seatmate who i guess had worked as a producer in new york theater before he got priced out or something? it was fun; he gossiped with me about rando philistine producers who left before the show was over.

dicaprio's voiceover is hilariously awful and i will see the hell out of this movie

it ends up being like 8 hours with the intermissions and the dinner break. IT'S A JOURNEY.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:10 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's not a book it's a RIDE

Strap yourself in and feel the Gatsbys...

tbh I'm just imagining this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL3Dp6Oh3Fw

I would ride the hell out of a Great Gatsby roller coaster

haha wait a minute that's tobey maguire doing the VO right? i can't tell who's been dooly appointed and who hasn't

at any rate mumblecore seems somewhat the wrong tone to take with gatsby and the temple of doom

gatsby and the temple of doom

Tobey as Short Round...