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
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The era in which The Great Gatsby takes place was a unique time in American history. The 1920s were also known as the Jazz Age‚ a time when jazz was the most popular kind of music and was played live in clubs and speakeasies. Organized crime became an explosive problem in America during the 1920s‚ and the Italian mob played a large role in distributing alcohol to the people during Prohibition‚ a time when selling alcohol was banned but drinking it was not. Cars were made accessible to everyone‚ although
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John Spirikaitis Mrs.Calabrese English 11th CP November 16th 2014 The Great Gatsby by‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel that creates imagery almost around every corner. The book also shows how cupidity and duplicity can lead to chaos. As a human being in this world‚ its natural or a need to want things that our of reach: not caring of the ramifications along the way. The book The Great Gatsby has been produced into multiple films. The two that we are most aware of was an older version made in
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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
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February‚ 2013 The Great Gatsby ----comparison between book and 1974 movie The difference between the developing way of books and movies is magnificently huge because the way of emotion transmitting is different; the movie is based on vision‚ while the book is based on words. ADDITONS in plots: In the beginning of the movie‚ Nick is sailing a boat and then meets Tom at the dock‚ while Tom
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In the book & the movie Kidnapped what I found interesting in the movie was when the gun did not shoot when the captain tried to kill Alan and it worked when Davie shot the Captain I also found interesting was when the uncle of Davie said “Why are you here” with gun pointing at Davie. Another part that was interesting was blowing up the ship instead of cashing the ship. The finally part that I found interesting was when Alan killed the head of the Red coats the Red fox. I never thought Alan
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The Great Gatsby the novel and the movie have similarities and differences. The major differences the movie and the novel have is that Gatsby died thinking he was a winner‚ Jordan and Nick have something going on‚ and Gatsby makes an entrance. These are some examples of the differences between the novel and the movie of The Great Gatsby. There are many differences between the movie and the novel of The Great Gatsby. One difference is that Gatsby died thinking that he was a winner. It was the phone
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Essay for The Great Gatsby The plot and the setting of book and movie are very similar. There was a lot of thins borrowed from the book‚ but there was a lot changed as well. The movie followed the plot of book very closely and portrayed the setting of the book very well. A lot of the dialogue was borrowed and spoken directly as it was in the book. The movie did an excellent job portraying the 1920’s and the parties that happened at Gatsby’s house. “There was music from my neighbor’s house
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The Great Gatsby Comparison Paper The similarities and the differences between the book The Great Gatsby and the movie G are many in both accounts. The book The Great Gatsby was written and set in the 1920’s with all caucasion characters‚ and the proper talk and everyday life of the 20’s. The movie G is much different in this aspect because the writter’s and the director of the film decided to modernize the story and make it more catered to the new african america lifestyle
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The movie itself is very much different from the book. The story was also changed with some of the plot. The movie and the book are both still following the same story line. Along with the same ending. This is what I have noticed between the movie and the book. Number one is that the old man was cruel to the young man. Unlike in the book where it says and I quote “The old man had never wronged me”. That was huge difference. This change also gave him a different reason to kill the old man. That was
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