The Great Gatsby

the crated catsby

a couple years old -- Bilge Ebiri on mistaking TGG for a 'star-crossed romance.'

When people talk about the lack of chemistry between Redford and Farrow in Clayton’s film, I have to laugh, bitterly: Any honest depiction of this story pretty much ensures that there will be no chemistry between them.

http://ebiri.blogspot.de/2010/11/its-gonna-be-hard-for-me-to-keep-my.html

We got new trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7AFnJbETLw

this is going to be gatsby with pitchfork music isn't it. ffs.

very little gravitatsby indeed

I'm not sure why film makers think people want to see period clothes, cars, and interior design but somehow can't handle period music.

I know Nick is not an old character but Toby Maguire seems like a babe in arms compared to the considerate & understanding character in the book. Or maybe I'm just lol old, the police are getting younger every day. I think Leo could actually pull off a decent Gatsby in a less flamboyant production.

it actually looks good visually but i really don't think there's any need for some pop version of gatsby at a time when people are so obsessed with drama from that era.

People are really into the 20s right now?

somehow can't handle period music.

1) Last film version had period music, bombed

2) it's Luhrmann (in the vapor trail of Tarantino)

saw the trailer to this before django oh the lols and oh my eyes

is this thing getting dumped?

Man, never realised Ben Affleck was in the running to play Tom Buchanan.

I re-read this last year. It's great, the words are wonderful and poetic, it's a well put-together piece of literature. But it is basically all about rich people that have nothing to do but lay around all day drinking and smoking and getting into drama. It's basically a literary forerunner of celebrity-based reality TV.

I kept reading, thinking "Oh, wow, that's a great phrase" every so often but mostly wondering WHEN IS SOMETHING GOING TO HAPPEN. And by the time it does i don't really care about any of these people.

So is there a movie coming out

Quit reminding me.

Filter will always remind you

And as noted:

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

― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 7:56 AM (11 months ago)

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, May 23, 2012 7:57 AM

And yes, she's on the soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5snA5TEse9w

ILM vivisection beginning:

The Great Gatsby soundtrack from hell

A tale of two covers.

Will this version at least let Nick be gay?

letnickbegay.tumblr.com

ugh, I normally shrug at movie tie-in book covers but the original Gatsby one is so classic

apparently hemingway thought the original gatsby cover made it look like a 'bad science fiction' novel!

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/04/26/business/media/Gatsby/Gatsby-popup.jpg

The new cover looks like the blonde woman is waiting for Giant Leo to take her from behind...

...but all of a sudden all these normal-sized people appeared between them, and she's like "What the fuck, who are you?!"

Just waiting for the "green light."

Clearly the soundtrack should have had Leo covering "Permanent Green Light."

Oh no: http://www.thedailybeast.com/videos/2013/04/09/jake-gyllenhaal-reads-great-gatsby.html

i'm totally in favor of this movie, btw, even though i'll probably never see it. kill yr idols

he died in 1940

well technically he died as soon as he sent the final manuscript to the printers

lol pp

I re-read this last year. It's great, the words are wonderful and poetic, it's a well put-together piece of literature. But it is basically all about rich people that have nothing to do but lay around all day drinking and smoking and getting into drama. It's basically a literary forerunner of celebrity-based reality TV.

terrific insight, thank you

did Jake say that

The Hills is the Great American Novel

the design theme for this movie kind of makes it look like an art deco Tron

http://basketball.themarsreel.com/nba/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/enhanced-buzz-696-1353704553-2.jpg

OMFG: http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2013/05/gatsby_in_3-d_is_a_manic_three.html

Nick is the readers' surrogate, our guide as we observe the almost unimaginable swirl of wealth and privilege and carelessness surrounding Jay Gatsby and Daisy and Tom Buchanan.

Nick is the outsider looking in, and he is telling his story to us. Directly.

So imagine my surprise to find, when I saw Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of "The Great Gatsby" (opening Friday), that in addition to bringing his trademark over-the-top, three-ring circus atmosphere to the movie -- not to mention the 3-D effects, which I fervently wish I had not seen -- Luhrmann has made a critical change in the narration.

In this version, Nick is writing "The Great Gatsby" as therapy. Under orders from a psychiatrist.

Nick is back in the Midwest, but here he is in a sanitarium, drying out and recovering from the experiences he had with Gatsby and the Buchanans back East. He begins telling the doctor about it, starting with the famous opening, "In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice . . ."

But not too long into it, he stops: "I don't want to talk about this, doctor."

"Then write about it," the doctor says.

"Why would I write about it?" Nick asks.

"You said yourself writing brings you solace," the doctor says. Then he hands Nick paper and a pen that -- thanks to the 3-D -- seems to float, defying gravity and glowing like a magic sword being handed to a comic-book superhero.

ARRGH

I think I might actually have a stroke if I watch this movie.

yessssssss #nodads

Buh.

Xpost Lol. Universal Studios presents the great gatsby

i am not seeing this

lmao

I mean, I dislike the 1974 Great Gatsby but it sounds like a masterwork compared to this.

this sounds incredible

Guys, guys, we're missing the key point about what's going to happen here, surely -- the big pair of eyes will COME TO LIFE. And at the end of the movie, they will stare...at YOU.

I keep telling friends that it's probably going to be an amazing clusterfuck of horribleness that is entertaining

Yeah im seeing this opening night. I like how its not just sort of in bad taste, but just all out, over the top insane