Baz Luhrmann's Adaptation Of 'The Great Gatsby'

The Great Gatsby is a novel which critically discusses the ideals of the American Dream and recapturing the past. In the film adaptation, producer Jack Clayton stays very closely to the plot and even quotes the novel verbatim but fails to capture the essence of the themes portrayed in the novel. The text did not translate well into film; some facts are distorted, the depiction of the characters are different, the general ambience of certain settings do not match, and the movie is weighted towards the beginning of the book, with half of the movie based closely on the first two chapters of the book.

The Great Gatsby is based upon wealth in the “Roaring 20’s”. The novel itself contains not a single dull moment of the narrators experience in the East, as it reflects people’s aspirations corrupted by greed and money. In addition, the romance between characters can help relate the readers to the novel. The film does a great job capturing almost all the aspects of the novel; through colors and themes. It gives the viewer a clear understanding of how shallow characters get mixed up into complex

There are many differences to be discovered between Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, written in 1925, and the movie directed by Baz Luhrmann in 2013. Clearly, as time drastically changed between the two, it is easy to assume that some aspects of the story have as well. Scott Fitzgerald and Baz Luhrmann both captured the essence of the world in the 1920’s in different ways. These differences can be seen throughout the characters and themes of the story.

“What is better, the book or movie?” a commonly asked question by many individuals who are curious to know one’s opinion on a novel or film he/she is interested in. The book is usually always better than the movie because the book is more detailed, one gets to know the characters better, and it allows one to be more creative and have his/her own interpretation on what is occurring. In this case, The Great Gatsby is a remarkable 1925 novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which was made into various movie adaptions in 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000 and 2013. Each version takes place in drastically different periods, so each type has its own take on the film, also depending on the director’s vision. This goes to show that the cinema has been trying periodically to recreate F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic, but the attempts of the movies have mostly failed. In particular, the 1974 film decreases its effectiveness in representing the message that Fitzgerald was attempting to demonstrate in the book, which contributes to the book being significantly better than the film for various reasons.

Movie adaptations are widely produced in our modern cinematic world. Many book lovers criticize movie adaptations, proclaiming that it kills the spirit of the story, misses out on critical key themes, and eliminates the reader's and viewer’s imagination. The Great Gatsby movie, directed by Baz Luhrmann and released on May 1st, 2013, is a film adaptation of the book The Great Gatsby, written in 1922 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The time lag between the movie and the book made some things unacceptable in our society. These changing societal proprietorship motivated Baz Luhrmann to alter the movie to be more suitable for current viewers. Consequently, there are many differences to be found between the book and the movie adaptation, which ultimately led to Luhrmann's movie being critiqued many times by the book’s fans, saying it was nothing like the actual book. Despite the fact that the movie adaptation of the Great Gatsby book follows the overall plot, it fails to show the racism, sexism, and abuse some of the characters withhold. The movie also fails to show the significance of the American dream, the condemnation of the lifestyle of the very rich, and it also annihilates reader’s imagination.

All too often the film industry takes a book and changes it for movie purposes. The resulting film, no matter how good or bad it may be as a stand alone, is inevitably criticized with those all too familiar words “The book was better.” However, The Great Gatsby has found itself within a group of the select few book based movies that has very few changes from the book at all. In fact, most of the lines the actors used were straight quotes from the book. A good majority of the characters, settings, words, and events in both the film and the book are identical,but not perfectly so. There are still a few things that must be changed either due to translation from page to screen or due to stylistic choice by the director.

The movie and novel versions of The Great Gatsby are very different yet share the same core concepts. While the movie, directed by Baz Luhrmann, may have introduced new music and a much more chaotic and vibrant scenery, it only added to the wonder of Fitzgerald’s marvelous language. Yet through all of this, the core beliefs of The American Dream, jealousy, and obsessive love ring through like bells in the wind.

The Great Gatsby is a novel, written and published by F.Scott Fitzgerald and depicts a tale of a young man called Jay Gatsby attempting to find his lost love Daisy, but after finding out that she is already in love with someone else, he will go to any extent to get her back. The story is set out as a narration, spoken by Jay’s Neighbour, Nick Carraway. Nick tells the story based on the experience he had with his neighbour throughout his journey. The Great Gatsby was later adapted into a movie form in 2013, which was directed by award-winning Baz Luhrmann. This analysis will explore the adaptation of The Great Gatsby novel and film. Focussing on the changes through the adaptation process, the main key features that will be discusses are characteristics, omissions, and additions.

Undeniably, ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald and its film adaptation, which is set in the 1920’s and follows the storyline of the narrator Nick Carraway after he moves to West Egg on Long Island, were both great successes, with the book becoming widely recognized as an American classic, and the film making a worldwide gross of about $351 million and winning two Oscars. Although the movie is a satisfactory adaption with a lot of the plot being similar, there are still some minor and major differences between the film and the book between characters and the emotional roots and connection the audience has to the story. Separately both versions of the story are very impressive and entertaining, but some of the differences make the

The Great Gatsby, a renown novel authored by Scott F. Fitzgerald, describes the life of Jay Gatsby and his surrounding clique. Gatsby, a tycoon well known for his fabulous and extravagant parties, lives a quite interesting life during the roaring 20’s. The novel eventually became so famous, that it was translated into numerous languages, and even made it all the way to Hollywood. The novel first made the big screens as a silent film in 1924, then in the 70’s,and a few decades later it was reborn in 2013. Without a doubt, both films were a great hit, however the 2013 screening made the bigger bucks. Although the 2013 film contains ample similarities to Fitzgerald’s novel, there are definitely a couple of differences. One of few differences between the film of the novel, is how Baz Luhrmann presents Gatsby’s parties. Secondly, another difference between the film and the novel, is how Gatsby responds to the quarry he has with Tom Buchanan.

The novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an iconic representation of the roaring 1920s and the different social classes and trends of the time. The Great Gatsby displays how far one is willing to go for love. The 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald was so popular that it was recreated into a film in 1974 and then recreated again in 2013. Although all three versions of The Great Gatsby were very similar and followed a very close storyline and script, there were some notable differences as well. However, the characters personalities and the representation of the 1920s were portrayed differently between the three versions.

The Great Gatsby is a classic American novel that provides the readers with insights into people’s minds, a unique decade, and the American Dream. With such a classic novel, there are, understandably, many movies based on it. Movies aren’t often accurate representations of the novel. As such, it is a good experience to analyze the many movies based on a classic novel in order to better understand the story and the many ways that it could be interpreted. Although every movie about the Great Gatsby wasn’t watched, a comparison of even two to the novel in question may prove to give deeper insights to the story. Here we shall analyze the main elements of the Great Gatsby and compare the two movies, from 1974 and 2013, in order to determine

“The Great Gatsby” movie is based on a well-known book by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, a well-known author that wrote American fiction. Maurer wrote that F. Scott Fitzgerald was known for his imagistic and wonderful composition. He could analyze the inclination of his era during a politically complex time of American History (Maurer, 2016). There have been a number of reincarnations of “The Great Gatsby” in cinematography. Baz Lurhmann, a popular director of all times recreated the movie and took the story to a whole new level. Baz Lurhmann has adapted the story and fit his visual style of production similar to other recognisable Lurhmann films such as Moulin Rouge and Romeo and Juliet but he manages to preserve the core story.

The 2013 movie adaptation of ‘The Great Gatsby” certainly steps out of the cozy boundaries of the novella of less than two hundred pages by F. Scott Fitzegerald with its gaudy attitude and fast-paced scenes that at the same time is quite picturesque and full of details reproduced to match the prose that has been written. Some lovers of the classic might be horrified at the big top-esque film that Baz Luhrmann has made it into, for this director is no stranger to flashiness and taking risks, as shown in his past films “Moulin Rouge!” and “Romeo + Juliet”; and the same desire in the both of them is still present in his installment of “Gatsby”: the want to capture the contemporary audience, even if it

The 2013 drama/romance movie, The Great Gatsby, is the second movie adaption made based off the novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. Co-written and directed by Baz Luhrmann, this film received both glory and criticism upon its release. The Great Gatsby is well known for its “Gatsby era” as well as the love encircled between money and power. Without the glitz and glam of this story in conjunction with the forever love Jay Gatsby, a millionaire known for his magnificent parties, holds for Daisy Buchanan, The Great Gatsby would not be as acclaimed of a story. Baz Luhrmann makes sure to emphasize these characteristics throughout the film through his use of symbolism, irony, and imagery.