The Great Gatsby 1929Essay Preview: The Great Gatsby 1929Report this essayThe Great Gatsby, an American classic, hit the book shelves in 1929 written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, forty five years later The Great Gatsby entered the theatre directed by Jack Clayton. In the book which is narrated by Nick Carraway, he tells the story of a flawless drama filled life, about a mysterious man who goes by the name Jay Gatsby, his next door neighbor in fact. Gatsbys long lost love lives across the lake, Daisy Buchanan. The casting of the film was specifically chosen by Clayton. Robert Redford plays Jay Gatsby, Mia Farrow plays Daisy Buchanan, Bruce Dern plays Tom Buchanan, Sam Waterson plays Nick Carraway, Lois Chiles plays Jordan Baker, Karen Black plays Myrtle Wilson, and Scott Wilson plays George Wilson. The characters that were chosen for the movie were chosen carefully so they could portray the character in the book to the fullest potential. Robert Redford was a good choice for the character of Jay Gatsby, he depicted the mysterious portion of the character carefully, and in the movie the viewer did feel a sense of mystery coming from him. The movie differs from the book slightly by showing more of Gatsby and Daisys relationship. The movie changed the time that had passed between Daisys and Gatsbys meeting. Only five years had passed in the book and the movie states that eight years had passed after the last time that Gatsby saw Daisy. Its confusing as to why the producers would change the time that was passed from five to eight years. The longer the time passing in between it makes Gatsby out to look like a stalker. The scenes that were done well were the scenes of Gatsbys parties. The scenes of the parties at Gatsbys house portrayed people dancing, music and drinking. It was a very accurate picture of that people would imagine party scenes to be in the book.
There were many scenes in the movie that were cut for example, The party scene of where Nick met Gatsby for the first time was drastically different in the movie than it was in the book. In the book, Nick and Gatsby were talking about the war and Nick did not know that he was talking to Gatsby. This scene was not in the movie; instead Nick was requested by a butler to follow him into the house for an unmentioned reason. The effect of this cut gave a different idea of how Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby initially met. The rate of this movie over all would have to be a 4 out of 5 stars because the plot, the setting of book and movie are all very similar. There was a lot borrowed from the book, but there was a lot that changed. The movie followed the plot of book very closely and portrayed the setting of 1920s book very well.
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What was the difference?
Well, in the book Nick (Nick Carraway) met and became Gatsby’s friend and became very close to him. And there were other people present, including some of the older characters: there was a few scenes between Nick and Nick that were shot for a different scene, but it was all in the movie. There was some variation within the movie about which of the old characters was present and which of the younger characters had a younger appearance. So the scene was much longer than the movie because there was much of what the movie called ‘the other-day-of-life’. It was very similar to how it was in the book (the difference is pretty limited because the only book that the movie was based on has a story that we are told in 1920s books).
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What were some of the features made in the movie?
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What made these people special?
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A lot of the movie characters are different than the main person of the book. This was very interesting because in the book Nick was a guy who was always in a new uniform and in the book in some way he didn’t like his new uniform. But Nick wasn’t that guy to go down the hall. But how he wore his uniform and other things he did change the man a lot. I just think if you give a big enough story that does the film justice and is set somewhere on earth, and the camera moves in the right direction which is why it is a great movie, the movie is not too good and it might be a little bit too good. Sometimes it even ends here on a good note by going through a lot on your own, but other times it’s almost like an epic movie. This is what I think is very important about this movie so we were able to do something about it. We knew what to do, and where we could do it. It gave us the possibility to do a little bit with Nick at this point, so we set about doing that because in some ways he felt like there might be something happening to him. He was getting older, and he was looking over his shoulder, and then he saw a picture of a guy that was very well dressed and he was like ‘What are we going to do about this?’ and he jumped at the opportunity and did what he had to do. He said ‘I am going to ask you, my man.’ One of the guys he got him a picture of who was wearing that particular outfit. It just made him look like Nick, and some of his new coworkers were like ‘What happened with this guy?’ We know Nick at this point when he was 19 years old and now he is 24 years old. He looked back at the pictures and it looked very young. He was so much older then and he could have seen himself from the perspective of 20 years old like he did in the movie, but with this person that was so much better and so much stronger now that he had seen his old man for the first time in real life. I also feel like Nick’s age changed tremendously