F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Book Vs Movie

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 Great Gatsby film compared to the novel is very fast and busy. It zips through all the details that Fitzgerald puts into the novel at such depth. Luhrmann skips through all of the important stuff and instead focus on the parties and the material goods that the characters possess and not so much there relationships with one another. In the book Fitzgerald describes things very well, but in the movie they only brush the surface of what Fitzgerald was trying the say. The parties are also very loud and they don’t seem to belong in the 1920’s.

There are several differences in The Great Gatsby between the novel and the movie. Some things occur quite differently and some don't even happen at all. The movie and the novel both give us clear details about the characters but sometimes one shows more than the other.

The first difference that you can see is that the book was in first person and the movie was in third. This being said, there were scenes added into the movie that was not in the book. I wasn’t disappointed

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.

I: All throughout grade school and even high school, my teachers, parents, and even friends told me not to take the easy way out when it comes to books. Always read the book before the movie. I usually took the easy way out, watched the movie, and then skim the book. After doing this project I see what everyone was talking about. The book is much better than the movie, it gives you more of a sense of what is going on, a greater sense of when the story takes place, and it gives the characters more definition.

While cinema and literature are usually different mediums that conflict each other. People usually read the books and conclude that the movie doesn’t do it justice because it either changes things in the or just plain leaves them out. In the case of “The Great Gatsby” this is still may be true in some ways but, nevertheless, it is still a great example on how to make a movie from a book. It follows the algorithm that usually leads to successful adaptations. To name a few of the things the great gatsby does right: First, it can stand alone as its own piece of art and work.

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.

My purpose in writing this paper is to explain differences between movie adaptations, and the book The Great Gatsby. I will examine major differences such as setting, soundtrack, and wardrobe choices. In addition, I will discuss character developments in both the two movie revisions I have chosen, and the book. Furthermore, I plan to explain oxymorons used throughout the plot of the story, and how they were manipulated in films. This is important because many do not understand the deeper meaning of The Great Gatsby because they watched the recent adaptation. The Great Gatsby is a classic, and was not given the justice it deserves.

The differences between the movie and the book include time, setting, the visual aspect of the movie, differences in characters, and certain added or deleted

The most obvious departure from the novel arrives instantaneously at the beginning of the film, with a frame story in which Carraway, who is diagnosed as morbidly alcoholic, has checked into a sanitarium and is encouraged by a psychiatrist to write about his experiences he endured during his time in East Egg. The aforementioned could be interpreted as remarkable, since in the novel Carraway claims that he has been drunk just twice in his existence, which implies that his character in the film contrasts with his character in the novel. Moreover, the film’s final scene includes Nick adding ‘The Great’ to the title of his completed ‘Gatsby’ manuscript with a flourish. However, in the novel, this does not take place because the narrator reveals the story from the future, and leaves the reader at the end of the novel with the quote “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (Fitzgerald,

Movie adaptations usually never give the book enough justice, and Baz Luhrmann’s movie adaptation on The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of them. Although it is a great movie overall, Baz Luhrmann fails to accurately depict the same message that Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby as it focuses too much on visual splendor. Gatsby’s introduction to the narrator, Nick, and to the audience is the quintessential example for this difference in portrayal of scenes. In the book, Fitzgerald waits until the third chapter to formally introduce Gatsby to the readers.

I am right now writing about the differences between “The Great Gatsby” Novel, and movie. To me the movie is so much better because you can actually see it, but in the book you have to visualize it. Yes the book had more detail, but I love movies, I really don’t like to read. The Great Gatsby I believe has an amazing story line that catches your attention right off the bat. I love the lavish life, shiny things, and the 20’s style. Women were known as flappers in that day, which means they were women who wore shorts skirt and had short hair, they made it known they didn’t care about others opinions. This story line is a drama, and a romance, my two favorite things. To start off in the book, Nick meets Gatsby by chance while

There are several differences and similarities between the classic novel, The Great Gatsby, and the recent remake of the movie version. In fact, the movie version is close to identical to the book; it even uses exact quotes from the book in the movie. Overall, the most recent movie, with Leonardo DiCaprio is a great representation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s exemplary novel.

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.