Compare And Contrast Daatby And The Movie The Great Gatsby

After Nick arrives home from a date with Jordan, Nick gets disturbed by Gatsby who tries everything to convince Nick to set up a date with Daisy. Nick finally agrees and invites Daisy for tea. By the time Daisy arrives it starts to rain, Gatsby enters to meet her but it is not successful until a while later they start to warm-up and have a good time. Daisy is the object of desire and passion for Gatsby, she has dominated his life for the past couple years. His original love for her has developed into a love for the idea of her that has let his imagination fill in the blanks which is just setting him up for disappointment. She didn't become emotional with Gatsby until she saw all of his processions, this disappointment will remind 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.

Chapter five starts as Nick returns to his house, only to see Gatsby’s house looking like Coney Island because he wants it to look really nice for Daisy’s arrival. As he walks to his house he sees Gatsby approaching him. Nick explains to Gatsby that he has agreed to invite Daisy to tea, and he wants to know when Gatsby wants to carry out his plan. Gatsby has trouble picking a date because he wants to make sure that Nicks house and lawn look perfect for the occasion. This event is very important to Gatsby, so he is going to extremes to make sure that it is perfect. I think it’s really sweet that Gatsby wants to do so much for Daisy, who he hasn’t seen in almost five years! On Gatsby’s big day it is pouring rain and he is wearing “a white flannel suit, silver shirt, and a gold-colored tie”. The rain and Gatsby’s clothes are symbols that I will talk about later on. As time closes in at four o’clock, Gatsby becomes worried that Daisy is not going to come, but in reality he is afraid of the possible outcomes of their encounter. When Daisy arrives she doesn’t immediately see Gatsby because he ran out of the back of the house into the rain. This action has a deeper meaning than you think, which I will talk about later. When Gatsby reenters the house and sees

Gatsby is soaking wet and appears to be almost mad. Huffing and puffing, he invites himself back in and fixes his hair, walks right into the living room, and then his eyes meet Daisy’s. There are flowers everywhere, the rain is pounding down on the roof, and they take each other’s breath away. They are “certainly glad to see each other.” When Gatsby and Daisy’s eyes meet for the first time the camera slowly zooms in from a long, establishing shots bordered with flowers, to a mid-shot and then slowly into a close-up of their faces. This is effective as it gives a sense of continuity and how their expressions change as they see each other. They go on to sit down and as Nick pours their tea, Gatsby and Daisy are very short worded and awkward interactions occur. We can assume Nick feels uncomfortable in the situation because he excuses himself, Gatsby follows him in panic and is rethinking the whole thing, saying it was a mistake. Nick talks some sense into him and Gatsby collects his thoughts and proceeds to go back to the woman he desperately craves. There then is a long-shot of Nick standing under a tree. He goes on to narrate, “I was guarding other people’s secrets.” This symbolizes the fact that Gatsby and Daisy are inside and Nick is protecting them from the outside world. Editing techniques are also used in the tea invitation scene of ‘The Great Gatsby’ in order to make it more effective. The scene has many moments where the camera

One of the most important difference between movie and book is that when Gatsby and Daisy encounter each other again, it doesn’t rain, while in the book, it’s some sort of emphasize the background of raining in order to show the feeling of Gatsby’s emotion. This may be due to the technology in 1974 make it impossible to shoot successful scenes in rain or the

“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.

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men are set in two close time periods, but give a different feel to the setting in each book. In both books, women have a status lower than men. Daisy, Jordan, Myrtle and Curley’s wife are seen as inferior, most likely due to society’s view of women during the time periods. In The Great Gatsby and in Of Mice and Men, the American Dream is often put aside, seen through the actions of women characters.

Romance, love, and destiny. Connections are formed like bridges built of various things; love, trust, money, fate. Some bridges are stronger than others and some bridges connect people who perhaps shouldn’t be connected. The movie “The Great Gatsby” better expresses the romantic relationships and connections between characters. Between Tom and Daisy, whose relationship may have more to do with survival than love, with Myrtle and Tom, the bridge between them connecting two souls searching for something more in life. And then there are bridges like the one between Jordan and Nick, filled with lies and a bridge not often travelled, and if you’re lucky you come across a bridge like Gatsby and Daisy's, which is made of love but filled with obstacles. These bridges play a key part in the story and the movie most definitely does a better job at expressing these connections between characters.

Before this altercation while Gatsby and Nick were waiting for Daisy to show up Gatsby begins to panic with no real

Jay Gatsby is one of the most eccentric and unique characters in canonical literature. His lavish lifestyle and drive to achieve his green light of Daisy Buchanan eventually leads to his tragic murder. Baz Luhrmann recreates, with high detail, the story of The Great Gatsby in his 2013 film. Many will argue that the film detracts from the book rather than enhancing it.

The movie I decided to analyze is The Great Gatsby both the original 1974 and the 2013 version as well. This movie is based on the novel by the same title by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The 1974 version was direct by Jack Clayton and the screenplay was written by Francis Ford Coppola. The two major stars of the original are Robert Redford who plays Gatsby and Mia Farrow who plays Daisy. In the 2013 version which was done by Baz Luhrmann with Leonardo DiCaprio playing Gatsby and Carey Mulligan playing Daisy. Both films follow the love story between millionaire Jay Gatsby and his obsession Daisy Buchanan along with other characters that come into play in this tragic love story. The setting of both the film and book is the roaring twenties which included flappers, jazz music and bootlegging; this was just before the great depression.

One of the major similarities between the book and movie is Gatsby’s love for Daisy. Throughout the entire novel, everything that Gatsby does is to impress Daisy. When Gatsby shows her his house, he is bragging about all the luxuries he possesses. After he boasts to her, he tell Nick that everything is for her. Jay Gatsby also bought a mansion directly across from where Daisy resides. He purchased the house in order to “keep tabs” on her. Gatsby also argues with Daisy’s husband, Tom Buchanan, over how she never loved Tom. Everything Gatsby does is to make Daisy happy.

Many similarities and differences can be found in The Great Gatsby: both the movie and the novel. One of the major differences between the two works is the initial meeting between Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway.

The tale of the Jay Gatsby is not only written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the novel, The Great Gatsby, but also directed and produced into a movie by Baz Luhrmann. Although thematically similar and entertaining, Luhrmann’s adaptation can hardly compare to the intricate and enchanting words written by Fitzgerald. Many differences fall alongside the similarities when comparing the novel and the 2013 movie of, The Great Gatsby, including characteristics of the narrator, relationships and Gatsby’s death.