Movie Analysis Of The Movie 'The Great Gatsby'
Dakota Gravitt
The Great Gatsby (2013) Movie Analysis
“The Great Gatsby” movie, made in 2013 featuring Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Carey Mulligan, is a film based on a book by the same name written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film is about Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), a bond salesman living in the 1920s, before the market crash, who moves near the shores of New York City over the summer and encounters his mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). His rich neighbor would constantly threw large parties at his mansion on the weekends and one summer day Nick is invited to one in which he eventually meets Gatsby personally (which not many of his guests are allowed to do) and begins to regularly attend his parties and events …show more content…
He doesn’t know if she didn’t have a good time or not, but insists that that is the case. Gatsby states also that Daisy has to tell Tom she never loved him. Almost as if it is required she do this. This is an example of another fallacy called faulty sign. Gatsby thinks the only Daisy can leave Tom is by telling him she never love him, instead of perhaps saying she no longer loves him. Gatsby shows that he really does mean this in the next scene where Tom and Gatsby argue about who Daisy loves and Gatsby tries to convince her to say she never loved Tom, which Tom then, using more pathos (emotional appeal) towards Daisy, convinces her otherwise by mentioning their past few years …show more content…
Her parents are lovely people, old sport. We’ll be married there. See, Daisy and I are going to start over just as if it were 5 years ago.” Gatsby here is once again using the fallacy of faulty sign. He believes that if Daisy leaves Tom, then they will get married in Daisy’s home. Not taking into account her children, her divorce and the effect it will have on her and what her parents would think. Gatsby is still thinking about the past. It is also important to point out that throughout the movie Gatsby uses the phrase “old sport” regularly, usually to sound important, almost to the point of belittlement especially towards Nick, someone much lower than him in class, and with Tom during their argument about Daisy’s love. Gatsby’s phrase “old sport” is a part of his ethos, or his own character/credibility, as well as his style, or the ways he presents himself, which plays a large part in how Daisy, Tom, Nick, and other characters in the movie act and speak around
The Great Gatsby (2013) Movie Analysis
“The Great Gatsby” movie, made in 2013 featuring Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Carey Mulligan, is a film based on a book by the same name written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film is about Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), a bond salesman living in the 1920s, before the market crash, who moves near the shores of New York City over the summer and encounters his mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). His rich neighbor would constantly threw large parties at his mansion on the weekends and one summer day Nick is invited to one in which he eventually meets Gatsby personally (which not many of his guests are allowed to do) and begins to regularly attend his parties and events …show more content…
He doesn’t know if she didn’t have a good time or not, but insists that that is the case. Gatsby states also that Daisy has to tell Tom she never loved him. Almost as if it is required she do this. This is an example of another fallacy called faulty sign. Gatsby thinks the only Daisy can leave Tom is by telling him she never love him, instead of perhaps saying she no longer loves him. Gatsby shows that he really does mean this in the next scene where Tom and Gatsby argue about who Daisy loves and Gatsby tries to convince her to say she never loved Tom, which Tom then, using more pathos (emotional appeal) towards Daisy, convinces her otherwise by mentioning their past few years …show more content…
Her parents are lovely people, old sport. We’ll be married there. See, Daisy and I are going to start over just as if it were 5 years ago.” Gatsby here is once again using the fallacy of faulty sign. He believes that if Daisy leaves Tom, then they will get married in Daisy’s home. Not taking into account her children, her divorce and the effect it will have on her and what her parents would think. Gatsby is still thinking about the past. It is also important to point out that throughout the movie Gatsby uses the phrase “old sport” regularly, usually to sound important, almost to the point of belittlement especially towards Nick, someone much lower than him in class, and with Tom during their argument about Daisy’s love. Gatsby’s phrase “old sport” is a part of his ethos, or his own character/credibility, as well as his style, or the ways he presents himself, which plays a large part in how Daisy, Tom, Nick, and other characters in the movie act and speak around