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| Year of first release: 2013 | |
| Director: Baz Luhrmann (Australia, Moulin Rouge, Romeo+Juliet) | |
| Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic, The Beach), Tobey Maguire (Spiderman 1-3), Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton | |
| Country: AUS, USA | |
| Genre: Drama | |
| Conditions of visioning: 26.05.2013, Schauburg | |
| Synopsis: Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await. | |
| Review: The movie shows more the love in Gatsby and less the gossip of the NY society and the weaknesses of Daisy than the book, according to my remaining traces of the novel. Carey Mulligan does not make much, but she looks beautiful in the 20s style. The scenery had one brilliant idea. Using modern party pop music to show the atmosphere in parties of the jazzy 20s. The dialogues and the scenery show this way a bit the message of the movie on the acceptance of new rich, of new success stars in the establishment. After the two and half hours, I did not feel bored, and this is already something valuable. |
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Rating: 6 /10
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013
The Great Gatsby (2013)
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"Using modern party pop music to show the atmosphere in parties of the jazzy 20s" sound interesting...
ReplyDeleteI have watched The Great Gatsby on 09.03.2014 in SD VOD on my Home cinema. I liked the first part, with the party scenes you described and the mystery around the character of Gatsby. Once he is revealed in a great hide-and-seek scene, it started to become less and less interesting to me. Not that the actors are not good: DiCaprio plays very well and Mcguire also (even if he reminds me too much of Spiderman when he stands on a New-York balcony).
ReplyDeleteI realized that the story is quite classical (lost love) and does not seem to require all the flashy action (obviously made to look good in 3D) nor the excessive length of 2h20. Indeed I found some romance scenes at the end to be over-stretched.
I didn't read the book so I trust your opinion on this. I didn't know about it nor about the previous movies adapted from it, like the 1926 version (that has the highest raings on IMDb), the 1949 or the 1974 version with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow.