The Great Gatsby

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

Okay, I'll see it if someone keeps the spirits of elderflower coming.

Comment from a friend in the office: "Coming soon, Baz Luhrmann's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It's a mockumentary."

The roundup thus far

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-baz-luhrmanns-the-great-gatsby

Wise words from Robert Towne on turning down writing the '70s version: "I felt it was a very chancy thing to attempt. A lot of what was in the novel was by suggestion. So much of it was in prose and so much of it was utterly untranslatable, and even if you could translate it, I thought it would be a thankless task and you’d just be some Hollywood hack who fucked up a classic. I felt that I had a lot to lose and very little to gain. That whole book is a mirage."

I can't wait for Luhrmann's adaptation of Swann's Way:

He begins telling the doctor about it, starting with the famous opening, "For a long time I used to go to bed early. . . ."

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?" Marcel asks.

"You said yourself writing brings you solace," the doctor says. Then he hands Marcel 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.

Wise words from Robert Towne on turning down writing the '70s version: "I felt it was a very chancy thing to attempt. A lot of what was in the novel was by suggestion. So much of it was in prose and so much of it was utterly untranslatable, and even if you could translate it, I thought it would be a thankless task and you’d just be some Hollywood hack who fucked up a classic. I felt that I had a lot to lose and very little to gain. That whole book is a mirage."

Yes, that's completely otm.

Very.

makes me curious to see the '26 silent version actually

I couldn't remember yesterday how many times it's been adapted.