The Great Gatsby

What a great formulation, from N.!

yeah, like three times. what i meant was unfilmable in the sense that it wouldn't make a very good film.

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Is that you in the middle, Ned?

the later jack does, but i think JN c. chinatown could've pulled it off - gatsby needs to have that spark of obsessiveness, which robert redford couldn't really do.

plus now that i've mentioned it i can't imagine anyone but JN not sounding silly saying "old sport."

Nicholson could never pull this off. His penchant for injecting irony into the most commonplace of utterances would give the game away.

has anyone seen the 1949 version with alan ladd?

imdb on the 1926 silent version: "No prints of this film are known to survive. Check your attic."

With respect, Alfred, 'thusly' is a 'ly' too far. I am reminded of the Amises' dentist: 'Open widely'!

For a moment I thought that J.D. was saying not that only JN could pull off Gatsby, but that ... only JtN could!

They'd have to have harassed him Kubrick-style, making him say the lines so many times he dropped the Nicholson affectations. Even then, I'm not sure he'd have been the best pick. Redford was reasonable, but the main problem was he looked like he belonged with the prestige and money. Gatsby was supposed to be more suspicious.

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With Tim Hopkins as Gatsby?

I went looking for my copy of tender is the night to run through that another (a sixth? a seventh?) time but I must have given it away again (the sixth time? the seventh time?)

must pick it up again today

I read 'the last tycoon' a while back and it read as you'd expect: a touch bitty and piecemeal, not entire

a dizzylingly great writer

But Gatsby: a classic, a masterwork, etc. I had to read it in high school then again for a college course, but haven’t revisited it since. Will have to correct that.

Something interesting that a college prof pointed out when we were studying Gatsby was the fact that Fitz endlessly employed the word “careless” and its variations to describe Daisy.

New movie version by...Baz Luhrmann. Hm.

i've really been meaning to reread this. can't imagine it making a good film, though.

oh goody it'll be a campy genre-bending epic

I reread it every couple of years and it's different each time, if you know what I mean.

obv Hugh Jackman will be Gatz, right? Musical or not?

I couldn't help but picture Robert Downey Jr. in the role when I read it.

which role?

Daisy Buchanan.

Gatsby = RDJ

Tom Buchanan = Puddy from Seinfeld

Read Gatsby in 11th grade, but don't remember if I liked it or not. I actually liked the Robert Redford adaptation of the book.

One of the worst movies ever made --- top ten bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rARN6agiW7o

or Apple Trailers: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/thegreatgatsby/

ugh ugh make it go away

Tom Buchanan = Puddy from Seinfeld

that said this would have been genius casting

i had never read this book, but then i read it the other day, p good, glad i got in in time to be outraged @ new vers

haha

way too much COLOR imo

kill it with fire

Would rather see a high-school Gatsby by the guy who directed Brick.

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.