The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Re: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I read during high school; only didn't like it because, well, required reading does that. But I need to read it again, to appreciate its themes more.
As for the movie...insert joke about Leo and his Oscar here.
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Back to the original topic though, I pretty much adored The Great Gatsby. Much less pretense than This Side of Paradise.
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True the movie did a really good job portraying the 'roaring' quality of the twenties and the party scenarios a re faultless in the portrayal of the frenetic,desperate pace of the era right before the Crash of the NY stock Exchange.Certainly the movie is very very good Leo as usual does not dissappoint .I wonde if anyone has seen the Robert Redford movie? Redford's Gatsby I would say is timeless I think.Leo wasnt half s convincing as Gatsby and well Daisy was portrayed by Mia Farrow to the T! the production might hve been less dramatic but the characters were spot on. The new movie of course picked up on other tropes in the novel and was a great production but i couldnt help comparing it to the subleties of character portrayal that Redford and Farrow so effortlessly presented while Leo and Mulligan were somewhat stunted I thought.gabbycalametti4 wrote:Loved Leo as Gatsby! he captured all Jay's imperfections and showed how troubled he was! But I wasn't a big fan of Daisy. I liked her a lot more in the book than in the movie! But I thought Maguire did a great job portraying Nick! He was innocent and confused to perfection. The movie definitely portrayed the "Roaring 20's" to a point where i wish I had a time machine to go there! I do think the book is better for many reasons; character traits, more information, and scenes not in the movie- but the movie was still enjoyable!
of course the book's linguistic flow is exceptionally beautiful. The atmosphere is so so wonderfully pictured in the hot summer afternoons while this human drama plays out...Gatsby is simplistic,...obsessed with Daisy and I get the feeling he wants to own Daisy but actuall its her husband Tom who really gets her.Regrettably Gatsby does'nt and its so sad that he doesnt see this at all...He's romantic but unrealistic,single minded in pursuit and tries to bully Daisy into leaving Tom. The part where Tom talks about the things he has shared with her is like a door shut into Gatsby's face but he's too stubborn to accept this.
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Totally agree with you re the Robert Redford version (as I think I said in an earlier post) & for me the languid & shallow nature of the society Daisy & Tom occupy is better depicted in the older movie. IMO the more recent version, while certainly glitzier & flashier, does not portray the ennui & vulgarity of the "nothing to do & all day to do it" nature of the post war society of the nouveau riche set.
I don't agree that Gatsby is "simplistic" - he is a man in a time warp, still in love with the girl he first fell for & with the concept of the "perfect love" he believed they shared & that he believed Daisy would sacrifice everything for. He fails to see or understand that she is now a different person & that what he took for "innocence" has in the older adult Daisy become manipulation & self-interest or perhaps just a realism. In that sense Tom certainly understands the adult Daisy in a way Gatsby never can. Great book
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Lfrock wrote: Surprisingly, this time my focus was one the devastating heartbreak of the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy. What hit me was that the different stages of my own life gave the same novel different meaning to me and regardless of what that was I found it engaging each time.
now surely that is the mark of a truly great artist ....the timeless ability to touch differently each time...and the reader says wonderingly '' yes this is how i feel...''