Adaptation Of The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Eckleburg F. Scott Fitzgerald, he’s watching you Luhrmann…
Does Baz Luhrmann’s interpretation of The Great Gatsby adequately represent the themes and era that F. Scott Fitzgerald put forth in his novel? Jack Mizzi delves deep in to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s world of excess to find out.
Worthy of the label ‘The Great American Novel’ is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, coming in at number two on the Modern Library’s list of the ‘100 best novels of the Twentieth Century’ the film is evidently highly regarded, but why? The novel depicts a portion of a few tumultuous months on Long Island, New York, set in the summer of 1922, the era of the American Dream, enormous opportunity and material excess.
Baz Luhrmann’s transformation to the big screen retains the written aurora that projects from The Great Gatsby, which is the essence of Gatsby’s intriguing character. The lavish and grand images of the city and the parties that F. Scott Fitzgerald creates during the novel are recreated magnificently in the film. The audience’s senses are awoken to an array of colour, music and atmosphere, all in perfect unison. The viewer then reflects on their original interpretation of the novel, and starts being able to recognise the similarities that Luhrmann’s unparalleled screenwriting brings to life. However only so much celebration can be handed to …show more content…
Combined with her unhappy marriage and told through her cousin Nick Carraway. It is through the protagonist’s eyes, that his thoughts and perceptions shape and colour the story. However, the love story is a merely a surface layer to the coarse under tones of the true theme: the demise of the American Dream. A profoundly typical reflection of America and the tantalising turmoil that confronted the people in the 1920s. A dream in an era of extraordinary chance of success and material
Does Baz Luhrmann’s interpretation of The Great Gatsby adequately represent the themes and era that F. Scott Fitzgerald put forth in his novel? Jack Mizzi delves deep in to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s world of excess to find out.
Worthy of the label ‘The Great American Novel’ is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, coming in at number two on the Modern Library’s list of the ‘100 best novels of the Twentieth Century’ the film is evidently highly regarded, but why? The novel depicts a portion of a few tumultuous months on Long Island, New York, set in the summer of 1922, the era of the American Dream, enormous opportunity and material excess.
Baz Luhrmann’s transformation to the big screen retains the written aurora that projects from The Great Gatsby, which is the essence of Gatsby’s intriguing character. The lavish and grand images of the city and the parties that F. Scott Fitzgerald creates during the novel are recreated magnificently in the film. The audience’s senses are awoken to an array of colour, music and atmosphere, all in perfect unison. The viewer then reflects on their original interpretation of the novel, and starts being able to recognise the similarities that Luhrmann’s unparalleled screenwriting brings to life. However only so much celebration can be handed to …show more content…
Combined with her unhappy marriage and told through her cousin Nick Carraway. It is through the protagonist’s eyes, that his thoughts and perceptions shape and colour the story. However, the love story is a merely a surface layer to the coarse under tones of the true theme: the demise of the American Dream. A profoundly typical reflection of America and the tantalising turmoil that confronted the people in the 1920s. A dream in an era of extraordinary chance of success and material