What Is The Difference Between The Great Gatsby Book And Movie

The film The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann and produced in 2013 was a commendable representation of the book by F. Scott Fitzgerald that it was based off of. The roles of the main characters Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan), Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton), and Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) were played on point. The movie mostly kept the same feeling as the book or helped the viewer understand it more. Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan’s roles in the book were recreated almost perfectly in the movie. The two actors really helped the person watching come to their senses about the love that they had for each other. They showcased the dramatic affection that Gatsby had for Daisy numerous times. For example, Gatsby expressed his love in the scene when he took Daisy to Nick’s property and started kissing her when her husband was at the party looking for her. Gatsby made you realize from one of the very first scenes that he loves Daisy when he is sitting at the end of the dock holding his hand out to the green light at the end of her dock across the bay. For somebody that has read the book the actors help you pick up on
the little things about their love that you may not have gotten from the book.
It was hard to really picture the way Gatsby looked at Daisy, so to see it in the movie was extremely helpful because you saw just how amazed he was at her pure beauty. Daisy’s role was played really well too.
Daisy really showed how torn she was in the scene where Gatsby shouts out to Tom that Daisy never loved him (Tom) and that she always loved him (Gatsby). Daisy showed her frustration and humility that Gatsby just said that, sort of out of the blue, and for the viewer it made you contemplate whether or not she really did always just love Gatsby because she did have a child with Tom even though it only brings it up in the beginning of the movie. The only downside to the movie was the music that they played at the party and in the background. In the movie they played modern music which made me forget the time period that the book was based on. The movie should have had more time period related music that may have had a little modern taste in it but not to the extent in the movie. For a person that did not read the book and did not know the time period it would have been confusing, even though they rode in older cars, some may not have picked up on that. Which could have been minor to some but most people are really into music so they most likely would have noticed it. The next something that was really enjoyable about the movie was that it kept just about the same script as the book, meaning it stayed true. Right from the opening lines of the movie one of the main characters, Nick, reads the first lines of the book to lead us into talking about Gatsby. That was a plus because the writers of the movie did not really add or take away many scenes to change up the story, except some minor things that were not extremely noticeable. One of the major things that the movie helps you realize is that Nick is writing the book. Although it may have confused some people that have not read the book they may not have know that the story is being told by Nick and that it is his point of view. Overall the movie was good representation of the book. It did have its ups and downs, some good, some bad, but it was mainly on point with recreating the great pictures that the book puts in your mind. Without the actors that it had I do not think that it would have been as good and it would have been hard to make this much better of a movie.