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- A polarizing film among critics, The Great Gatsby received both praise and criticism for its visual style, direction, screenplay, performances, soundtrack, and its interpretation of the source material.
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May 9, 2013 · DiCaprio’s Gatsby is the movie’s greatest and simplest special effect: an illusion conjured mainly through body language and voice.
Apr 3, 2017 · Why Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ Is an Underappreciated Modern Classic. With new episodes of Baz Luhrmann's "The Get Down" about to premiere, we sing the praises of the director's...
Jan 8, 2015 · Consensus: The Great Gatsby is a love-it-or-hate-it proposition, but if you have any interest whatsoever in the material, you should see it for yourself — if only to be a part of the heated...
May 9, 2013 · The Gatsby plot is framed by an appalling bit of business in which the narrator, Nick Carraway, is holed up in a sanitarium for recovering alcoholics, and writes his story as a kind of personal...
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- Initial Reception
- The Soundtrack
- Cinematography
- Final Denouement
This concept of fidelity in congruency with literature is both tired and dull. No work is guaranteed a place in the literary canon, and to suggest that some texts due to their perceived intellectual weight should be treated in a certain manner during the adaptive process is laughable. A director should, and must, interpret and represent a text as t...
Many critics have noted their umbrage with the soundtrack. It’s a bizarre critique with many seemingly suggesting that any piece set in a specific era cannot feature any idiosyncratic notes without losing its purity. Given that this is an approach that Luhrmann has adopted before, most notably in Moulin Rouge, it seems even stranger that it was met...
In addition to the successful use of music, the film’s strength lies in the almost hyperreal cinematography. Luhrmann uses colour to highlight the affect that Gatsby has upon Carraway. Spending time with Gatsby means that Carraway’s view and perspective is suddenly infused with hope and excitement. Compare these scenes, in which the colour palette ...
That is not to suggest that the film is without faults. The film certainly has its issues, largely in the form of the entirely unnecessary framing narrative. Depicting Nick Carraway as retelling his experience of Gatsby as a form of therapy is clichéd and fairly dull, but this error is not enough to undermine what is, in actuality, an engaging and ...
The Great Gatsby is a 2013 American historical romantic drama film based on the 1925 novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film was co-written and directed by Baz Luhrmann and stars an ensemble cast consisting of Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke, and Elizabeth Debicki. [4]
May 5, 2013 · The Great Gatsby: Film Review. Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan star in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. While secondary characters wore the majority...
