The Great Gatsby

uggggggh what part of fitzy's funny acid little story suggested that 6hr borefest xp

i saw the last tycoon and barely remember anything about it

There's a 70s PBS version of Bernice w/Shelly Duvall.

I checked out of the public library a loooooong time ago. She was fine playing a variant on her 3 Women character.

i just want to see a version of gatsby where everyone is exactly as terrible as they are in the book

The Australian director added: "The other night we had a premiere and completely out of the blue a woman came out of the audience. She was quite old and frail. She held me by the hand and said, 'I've come to see what you did with my grandfather's book.' And of course I went cold, because I didn't know it was Fitzgerald's granddaughter.

"She said, 'All his life he's been maligned because you can't transfer first person narrative into film and in my opinion you have done it, and he would be very proud'."

yeah this doesn't sound made up

Why would Gatsby's granddaughter think her grandfather had been maligned because you can't transfer first person narrative into film? Like wtf has this got to do with F Scott?

Sorry Fitzgerald's granddaughter

When director Baz Luhrmann went on “The Colbert Report” last week to talk about his new adaptation of The Great Gatsby, he mentioned that a “very regal woman” took him by the hands after the movie’s world premiere and told him she’d come all the way from Vermont to see what he’d done with her grandfather’s book.

That woman was Bobbie Lanahan, an artist, animator and filmmaker, and the daughter of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s only child, Scottie.

Why would Gatsby's granddaughter think her grandfather had been maligned because you can't transfer first person narrative into film? Like wtf has this got to do with F Scott?

it's bollocks anyway

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/58/Doom_movie_poster.jpg/220px-Doom_movie_poster.jpg

Why would Gatsby's granddaughter think her grandfather had been maligned because you can't transfer first person narrative into film? Like wtf has this got to do with F Scott?

ppl not necessarily makin sense shocker

people don't often make sense until they've seen doom the movie

i haven't seen doom the movie, fwiw

always a little weird when people act like somebody's descendants have some kind of unique insight into their work. i mean first-generation maybe, if it's a working relationship like vladimir+dmitri or jrr+christopher. if you're just scottie's daughter wtf would you know about the great gatsby.

(i mean, not weird in this case, cuz baz wants validation.)

i had fun at this movie. at the scene where gatsby was introduced and they showed leo's slick, smug face in slow motion framed by fireworks while nick talked about having "never seen a smile like that" i lost it, and started laughing, causing someone to kick the back of my seat. i think this movie suffers from the fact that the last time we saw leonardo di caprio in theaters he was also a multimillionaire lording over a massive estate, except he was a sadistic slave owner.

no, we didn't see that

did you see gatsby morbs?

I haven't seen DOOM. Is it any good? Does it have The Rock in it?

I just had a brush with death, Tship, I don't have 2-1/2 hrs for that.

feel you

Sorry to hear that Morbs. Hope you're feeling well.

thx i am, p much

I like that Scott Fitzgerald called his son Scottie. If they're smart they'll keep on iterating through the lineage so that his son is Scottington, then he begets Scottolas etc etc until you end up with great great great grandson Scottieottiedopaliscious.

lol

i don't have such a bad recollection of the '74 film but it's been since highschool

we got shown this in class too, but the discussion afterwards turned into an argument btwn me and the teacher about whether or not it was fuckin terrible

I like A.O. Scott comparing Alien/Franco amd Gatsby.

the only reason our Yr 11 English Lit teacher showed us the movie was because she had a crush on Robert Redford. We had JUST finished the novel and we all watched that movie just openly dismayed at how soft-focused and pastel and uggggggh it was, and the main cast were so wooden. We all yelled at her afterwards and she just hung her head and said, 'But Redford was pretty cute, right?"

And whenever I think of that stupid movie, I think of this Australian tv commerical - in my mind they're one and the same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLXkL46-Ml0

honestly teachers should prob just show 'citizen kane' instead.

teachers should be barred from inflicting their celebrity crushes on students. I had to sit through at least 2 Richard Gere movies in my first year Cinema Studies class because my lecturer just couldn't help herself. Ugh.

Due to the raging Peter O'Toole obsession I had as a teenager, which I put down to 'beautiful man who is really good at enunciating profanity', I edited Becket down to a classroom-friendly 90 minutes for extra credit in a European history class when we were doing a church v. state unit and persuaded the cinema teacher (who didn't need a ton of persuading TBH) to add The Ruling Class to his syllabus.

We had JUST finished the novel and we all watched that movie just openly dismayed at how soft-focused and pastel and uggggggh it was, and the main cast were so wooden. We all yelled at her afterwards and she just hung her head and said, 'But Redford was pretty cute, right?"

ha ha a part of my argument was that Farrow was awful & unnuanced and 90% of her performance consisted of biting the back of her hand, and the teacher was like "she's an Oscar-winning actress, you can't say that she's bad"

if only I had known she was not an Oscar-winning actress

suzy, Becket is one of the great homo-lust movies.

Farrow was actually well cast as Daisy! She was just badly directed.

yeah never seen the coppola gatsby but mia as daisy works for me, makes more sense than dipsy mumford or whatever

but her voice sounds money, it doesn't sound LIKE money

Somehow, my English teacher didn't know that Romeo & Juliet had been turned into a modern-day musical until I mentioned it one day.

So I apologize to the next 15 grades that came through her room and had to watch West Side Story.

west side story is awesome. at first i thought you mean william shakespeare's romeo + juliet which is also pretty awesome. i think i pretty much like any movie of romeo & juliet, i'm just a big romantic i guess. justdudethings.

<3 West Side Story, hate the film of it, could go on forever, won't.

love the West Side Story movie

you're testing my commitment to not ranting about this at great length

i would love to hear your rant! tbh I've never seen the stage version, I just have nostalgia for watching the movie with my Mum

yeah go for it silby i loved it when i saw it too

Well my core objection to the film is that it casts adults to play the teenaged/maybe early 20s characters, which doesn't play on film like it does on stage, where you can suspend disbelief. It wrecks the whole hotheaded lovesick teenage-aimlessness theme of the show.

Other objections include casting mostly Anglos to play the Jets, and dealing with it by painting them all an identical shade of brown, and the repurposing of "Somewhere" from an anonymous soprano solo sung during the nightmare sequence that unites the warring gangs in a hopeful dream for a more humane future into a fucking SEX DUET.

In sum America is a land of contrasts and West Side Story is great when performed by high school students or Schlong.

Same English teacher showed us the 60s version of Romeo & Juliet, and jumped up to stand in front of the screen during the (5-second?) scene with nudity.

Also the prologue to West Side Story is like 20 minutes long.

Our teacher just fast forwarded the nude scene.

sex duet <3

our teacher screwed that up, to our stunned satisfaction

As he sings, the walls of the apartment begin to move off, and the city walls surrounding them begin to close in on them. Then the apartment it self goes, and the two lovers begin to run, battering against the walls of the city, beginning to break through as chaotic figures of the gangs, of violence, fail around them. But they do break through, and suddenly-they are in a world of space and air and sun. They stop, looking at it, pleased, startled, as boys and girls both sides come on. And they, too, stop and stare, happy, pleased. Their clothes are soft and pastel versions of what they have worn before. They begin to dance, to play: no sides, no hostility now; join, making a world that Tony and Maria want to be in, belong to, share their love with. As they go into the steps of a gentle love dance, a voice is heard singing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80-DtChQ39U