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
yeah, kicking myself that I missed it. xp
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
yeah thats playing in london soon, kinda tempted
― just sayin, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
lol i hope the whole movie is scored by frank ocean
― max, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
you should absolutely see it.
xp
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
who was singing that version of "love is blindness" in the trailer? whoever it was was terrible.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
jack white, apparently
― max, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
lol okay
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
"Mahalo, Gatsby"
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
In case the original link to the trailer gets taken down, I found this mirror site:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAHj3IsSuT0
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
so help me i just bought a ticket for the 8 hour GATZ in london. in real real 3d! in your face luhrmann.
― the fey monster (ledge), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
thank you for this, now I can convince my wife not to go see this
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.shokwaves.co.uk/images/anilaser.gif
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
EIGHT HOURS LONG
better than what i normally do for eight hours a day tbh. (taking a 1/2 day off work for it.)
― the fey monster (ledge), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
that is, removing the intervals and meal break
its a p short book
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
it ends up being like 8 hours with the intermissions and the dinner break. IT'S A JOURNEY.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
ledge, you are in for a treat
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
maybe i will go to london and watch it again
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
I really wanted to go see Gatz, I should keep an eye out once I have some money again.
― raw feel vegan (silby), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
dicaprio's voiceover is hilariously awful and i will see the hell out of this movie
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
― horseshoe, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:10 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's not a book it's a RIDE
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Strap yourself in and feel the Gatsbys...
― Hare Kinsey (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
tbh I'm just imagining this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL3Dp6Oh3Fw
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
I would ride the hell out of a Great Gatsby roller coaster
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
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
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
gatsby and the temple of doom
Tobey as Short Round...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
Meryl Streep as Molo Ram
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
And so we whip on
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
no time for love dr. t.j. eckleburg
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
"Hold on to your potatoes, old sport."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
"Tom...prepare to meet KALI. In MANHATTAN."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
"Fortune and glory, Mr. Carraway. Fortune and glory."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urgedits way towards the drain at the other. With little ripples that were hardly the shadows of waves, the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool. A small gust of wind that scarcely corrugated the surface was enough to disturb its accidental course with its accidental burden. The touch of a luster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of a compass, a thin red circle in the water, followed by his ripped-out heart on fire.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
Kate Beaton's Gatsby adaptation is still the best: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=259
― misty sensorium (Plasmon), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
all three leads look terrible in this, but at least this thread reminded me to go play the NES video game version of gatsby again
― producer / dj / humanitarian (reddening), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know, i think dicaprio seems kind of okay in that trailer. i think i might be some kind of dicaprio stan. :/ (nothing else about that trailer is okay.)
i wonder if he and maguire drew on their experience as leaders of the "pussy posse" in the 90s to help dramatize the jazz age.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
Amitabh bachchan is in this, that's kind of cool
― horseshoe, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 7:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
hah, i didnt even think of that
― Hungry4Ass, Thursday, 24 May 2012 07:17 (eleven years ago) link
i didn't know that about bachchan! i am probably going to watch this thing and then i will be so boringly, predictably angry afterward.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link