What Is The Difference Between The Great Gatsby Book And Movie
The Great Gatsby
In the book The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a man tries to get the love of his life back, and ends up dying because of it. Now some people think this is heroic but others think he was just plain stupid. The director Baz Luhrmann adapted the book into a movie and did a good job portraying some aspects of the book, like the characters and the overall plot. He also did a good job of adding new things into it to make the movie better, like Nick’s life after Gatsby.
The book has some strong characters, which can be hard for actors to portray. Luhrmann did a great job casting the character. Leonardo Dicaprio plays Gatsby. He was a great choice, he can show many emotions and it come off real. For example in the Plaza Hotel when him and Tom are in a fight Dicaprio does a great job showing anger and frustration . Another actor they did a fantastic job of casting is Daisy played by Carey Mulligan. She does an fantastic job of over exaggerating herself to sound happy when you can tell she’s not. There is only one actor they didn’t do a good job a casting and that was Myrtle played by Isla Fisher. She had a really bad fake accent that was way to overdone more obnoxious than anything. She would not be my first choice to play Myrtle. …show more content…
The movie went along well with the book.
Luhrmann did a great job of covering all the main events in the book in such a short amount of time. He made the sure to have all the parties and to make sure they were as big and grand as they are in the book. Luhrmann also made sure to incorporate Gatsby’s past in the movie which was covered in the book but it wasn’t that big of an event. He did an fantastic job of making it easy to understand and help the viewers make sense of how Gatsby became who he
is.
In the movie Luhrmann makes it so the character Nick played by Tobey Maguire is in an asylum with a doctor looking back at that time in his life. Talking about this time with Gatsby. I think this was a brilliant movie as a director, because in the book Nick is the Narrator and sometimes you forget he was there. So this really helps the viewers know who is telling the story. Also shows the effects that Gatsby had on Nick's life.
In the book The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a man tries to get the love of his life back, and ends up dying because of it. Now some people think this is heroic but others think he was just plain stupid. The director Baz Luhrmann adapted the book into a movie and did a good job portraying some aspects of the book, like the characters and the overall plot. He also did a good job of adding new things into it to make the movie better, like Nick’s life after Gatsby.
The book has some strong characters, which can be hard for actors to portray. Luhrmann did a great job casting the character. Leonardo Dicaprio plays Gatsby. He was a great choice, he can show many emotions and it come off real. For example in the Plaza Hotel when him and Tom are in a fight Dicaprio does a great job showing anger and frustration . Another actor they did a fantastic job of casting is Daisy played by Carey Mulligan. She does an fantastic job of over exaggerating herself to sound happy when you can tell she’s not. There is only one actor they didn’t do a good job a casting and that was Myrtle played by Isla Fisher. She had a really bad fake accent that was way to overdone more obnoxious than anything. She would not be my first choice to play Myrtle. …show more content…
The movie went along well with the book.
Luhrmann did a great job of covering all the main events in the book in such a short amount of time. He made the sure to have all the parties and to make sure they were as big and grand as they are in the book. Luhrmann also made sure to incorporate Gatsby’s past in the movie which was covered in the book but it wasn’t that big of an event. He did an fantastic job of making it easy to understand and help the viewers make sense of how Gatsby became who he
is.
In the movie Luhrmann makes it so the character Nick played by Tobey Maguire is in an asylum with a doctor looking back at that time in his life. Talking about this time with Gatsby. I think this was a brilliant movie as a director, because in the book Nick is the Narrator and sometimes you forget he was there. So this really helps the viewers know who is telling the story. Also shows the effects that Gatsby had on Nick's life.