The Great Gatsby

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...

Meryl Streep as Molo Ram

And so we whip on

no time for love dr. t.j. eckleburg

"Hold on to your potatoes, old sport."

"Tom...prepare to meet KALI. In MANHATTAN."

"Fortune and glory, Mr. Carraway. Fortune and glory."

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.

Kate Beaton's Gatsby adaptation is still the best: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=259

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

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.

Amitabh bachchan is in this, that's kind of cool

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, May 23, 2012 7:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

hah, i didnt even think of that

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.

bachchan plays meyer wolfsheim!

i didn't even recognize him!

I have still never seen the '49 Alan Ladd version, which apparently is a gangster noir.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/16/entertainment/la-et-classic-hollywood-20120416

But this 1949 version starring noir icon Alan Ladd as Gatsby leaves the Jazz Age behind for the rat-a-tat-tat of tommy guns, thugs, fisticuffs and dark shadows. ("Gatsby" was reportedly Ladd's second favorite film after his 1953 western classic "Shane.")

I want to see this now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kJnt9_8ZM0&feature=player_embedded

Better than the original.

This is the most bizarre reading of Gatsby I've ever seen. It is so conservative it could have run in the National Review.

Is "The Great Gatsby" a rousing homage to the American dream or a disillusioned takedown of that same dream? If Fitzgerald, who died in 1940, were alive today, would he be clinking champagne glasses with CEOs and hedge fund managers or pitching a tent at an Occupy Wall Street outpost?

This kind of breathless desperate contemporaneity is what makes journalism loathsome. Too bad it didn't fade with the slow death and retirement of print reporters.

otoh Reagan has always parsed best as a Gatsby figure: born in Nowheresville, recreates himself, still a nullity even as prez but animated by weird green lights at the end of the dock.

The tragedy that befalls him — we're treading delicately here, to avoid the dreaded spoiler — is based on a misunderstanding, and could've befallen anyone. His fate is almost beside the point.

I hope this is a joke.

the reagan comparison is actually pretty inspired!

I'm rereading The Great Gatsby now. I started it on June 7, i.e. exactly 90 years after Nick's initial visit to Tom and Daisy. (It usually doesn't take me that long to read such a short novel, but I set it aside for a while.) Anyway, it's fantastic -- and incredible how modern it feels.

(The only other time I read it was in high school.)

Just reread it myself this week on vacation. (Odd, never mentioned finally reading it the first time a couple of years back.) I was vaguely disappointed on the first read then, so I'm glad the reread worked more for me, probably because since there was nothing to spoil per se I could luxuriate a bit in the telling. For all that it's a short novel, I found it something best for lingering rather than racing through.

Interesting catching the bits of descriptive detail that did end up in the trailer (like the group in the car racing across the bridge near the start) but so much of that trailer, admittedly due to the edit and soundtrack, is so skew-whiff to how the novel simply feels.

I should reread this. only ever read it in high school under the tutelage of my worst English teacher of all time.

Maybe second-worst. Didn't really stop me from enjoying it at the time though, at least.

yeah I probably should re-read it too. I was a bit underwhelmed the first time.

Maybe it's time I gave Fitzgerald a full-blown shot...

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