The Great Gatsby (2013)

[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

First movie thread started on location?

Starring Leonardo as JG, Spidey Maguire as Nick, Carey Mulligan as Daisy, Amitabh Bachchan as Wolfsheim. Directed by Baz Luhrmann.

Edited February 20, 2012 by Guest

[TransMonk]

Nice to see (read) you, SS!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Back and Spittin' on-set gossip. Nice.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Didn't Vincent Chase make this movie a few years ago?

Please do not quote any part of my post in reply.

Huh? And... oops!

[Frayed Knot]

Scheduled for a Xmas 2012 release according to IMDB, I'm actually sort of looking forward to this one for several reasons.
- I never saw any of the previous (at least four) versions
- the most famous is probably the Redford/Farrow one which oddly isn't available via NetFlix or through my local library system.
- the reviews on that one were only so-so to begin with anyway so I'm not all that jazzed to run out and purchase a mediocre and nearly 40 year-old flick just to see it
- the only release since that one was a made-for-TV version with even more tepid reviews

And, finally, I read the book for the very first time just a few weeks ago. No particular reason really, just though it was something I needed to get around to and somehow had never done all through school and whatnot.
Turns out that this F. Scotty guy's a pretty good writer, I'll have to look around to see if he's written anything else recently.

[Edgy MD]

Former member Bret Sabermetric was something of a Fitzgerald expert (but disagreed with the way GG was typically taught). I imagine Old Mole, if he wasn't a Fitzexpert already, became one while writing Nick and Jake.

So if you need any on-set script doctorin', let us know.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Mmmm...Carey Mulligan. I wouldn't blink when looking at her.

[TransMonk]

Upon seeing that pic, I immediately thought Romeo + Juliet.

I've enjoyed the book each time I've read it and will see this movie.

[Edgy MD]

Bazzy leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy DC wrote: Bazzy leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

This. I'd almost rather see an actual Scorcese version with real-life Adrian F*cking Grenier as our lead.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Read the book in Junior High School and then watched the Redford version at school. What I remember most is that all the boys had a crush on the actress who played Jordan.

[TransMonk]

I enjoyed Romeo + Juliet, but I haven't seen it in about a decade. Moulin Rouge!...not so much. I've never seen Strictly Ballroom or Austrailia.

[Guest themetfairy]

I LOVE Strictly Ballroom - a great little film.

[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

Edgy DC wrote: Bazzy leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Yeah, me too. Although he's toned down the "campness" for this, it seems he can't help himself sometimes;

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Mmmm...Carey Mulligan. I wouldn't blink when looking at her.

So damn classy. The way she walks. Isla Fisher (Borat's wife) is Myrtle Wilson. She's also a cutey too.

Edited February 21, 2012 by Guest

[Vic Sage]

I read GATSBY in HS and it was a life-changing experience. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." Indeed.

I saw the Alan Ladd version in college; not great, but pretty good. The Redford version is a complete snooze. Instead of being about the decadent corruption at the heart of the "American Dream", it's about costumes and art direction. Baz Lurhman, unfortunately, is the type of director likely to follow that rabbit down the same hole.

On a side note, despite (or maybe because of) its hysterical energy, like an acutely ADHD raccoon convulsing from Ritalin withdrawals, MOULIN ROUGE is one of my favorite movie musicals ever. I can't defend it, i just love it. It's one of the most heartbreakingly romantic movies I've ever seen.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Vic Sage wrote: I read GATSBY in HS and it was a life-changing experience.

So what fancy schmancy HS did you go to that included Gatsby on the student syllabus? Oh, never mind. I slipped through the cracks. Or maybe Gatsby slipped through my cracks. I read TGG for the first time ever, last Spring, almost a year ago. Not a bad line in the whole damn book, as they say. Until Frayed Knot's post, I would've guessed that I was the last person on this forum to have read TGG for the first time.

[Frayed Knot]

Vic Sage wrote: The Redford version is a complete snooze. Instead of being about the decadent corruption at the heart of the "American Dream", it's about costumes and art direction.

Excerpts from Roger Ebert's review: The movie is "faithful" to the novel with a vengeance -- to what happens in the novel, that is, and not to the feel, mood, and spirit of it. It would take about the same time to read Fitzgerald's novel as to view this movie -- and that's what I'd recommend.

[Guest themetfairy]

MK, a sophomore in high school, read Gatsby in school this past fall.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote: Former member Bret Sabermetric was something of a Fitzgerald expert (but disagreed with the way GG was typically taught).

Wasn't he the one who discovered that the location of the ash heaps in the novel is today on or near the site where our beloved Mets play? When this is film is ready to be released, a clever advertiser should put up a billboard near Citi Field depicting "The Eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg" and the opening date.

[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Wasn't he the one who discovered that the location of the ash heaps in the novel is today on or near the site where our beloved Mets play? When this is film is ready to be released, a clever advertiser should put up a billboard near Citi Field depicting "The Eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg" and the opening date.

It's funny cos I made the joke to Leonardo that if this was a modern day adaptation, and they could have scripted Gatsby as the owner of the Mets. His reply was "Sounds perfect".

[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

Trailer.

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Not feeling it.

Edited May 23, 2012 by Guest

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Yeah, I'm with you. But it could be a function of the trailer edit... and I'll have to reserve judgement, since Lord knows I'm not going to be able to not see this.

[Vic Sage]

Lurhmann can't help himself, can he?
At least it looks energetic and flashy, which ain't a bad atmosphere for the roaring 20s.
I still can't buy DiCaprio as a grownup, but Toby Macguire is always a good idea.

[Fman99]

I graduated high school 21 years ago and I read this book in either 9th or 10th grade. I haven't thought much about it since -- as a 15/16 year old it was over my head, and the Redford movie put me to sleep too.

[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

This is 2013 now.

Saw about � of an early cut. All I�m gonna say is that it's gonna get savaged by critics in the US, because the film takes liberties with the novel in the same way that Jason Voorhees takes liberties with cheerleaders.

Anyhow, found bits of script in my drycleaning. I�ll take it down after Vic Sage gives his thumbs down, in case we get a cease & desist and Edgy sends Lenny Dykstra round to my place.

[Vic Sage]

i would opine that posting a few pages of a script that's probably over 120 pages is a "de minimis" and "non-commercial" use, putting it within the fair use exception to copyright law. however, there may be "confidentiality" requirements for employees and others receiving the script that prohibits them from posting any portion of it, as a matter of contract.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I've been trying to avoid reviews, but I had something pop up on my Twitter feed about Baz Luhrmann-- by way of explaining his choice of the project-- saying he "couldn't resist an ill-fated love story." I'm guessing he's planning on tackling MacBeth next, because of all of the swashbuckling... or All Quiet On The Western Front, for the action scenes?

I'm going to see this-- I'm going to have to see this. But, CPF-associate involvement aside... this is going to be really awful, isn't it?

[Edgy MD]

You know, Baz Luhrman and his fabulous overindulgence (overindulgent fabulousness) have their defenders. But who out there is going out of their way to see Romeo & Juliet again?

[Vic Sage]

well i watch MOULIN ROUGE at least once a year.
so i'm going to see this.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I'm not saying he's without appeal.

I'm just saying, maybe the guy who tends to celebrate glamour/visual excess/aural excess as reflective of-- hell, in most cases, the truest expression of-- emotional interiors may not be the guy for a novel that has... some different ideas about the subject.

(Also, really? Once a year?)