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

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.

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,

Kenedi Facey Mrs. Ciarrocca English Honors/Block B 13 February 2015 The Great Gatsby Book vs. Movie It is extremely hard to make a movie to compete with a novel's brilliance, especially with F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby's movie producer, Baz Luhrmann was fortunately able to accomplish the original novel's complicated plot and frame story by positively tweaking the 1920's glitz and glam, and taking on a modern approach with the novel's storyline. Although there were a few controversial and arguable scenes made throughout the movie, it is safe to say Baz Luhrmann has done a decent job in conveying Fitzgerald's theme and message in the movie.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

Through Nick’s narration in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s possessive personality and his blind love for Daisy eventually lead to the failure of his American dream. When casting the movie of The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhramann may have changed some of the dialogue, but he does stay unflinchingly true to the spirit of the book and its morals, which I think is vastly more important. Thus, Baz Luhramann’s film is a successful adaptation to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, for it not only successfully demonstrates Gatsby’s ultimate zeal for Daisy, but it also includes a more visual and dramatic image of Gatsby himself and the harsh reality, in which everyone betrays him at the end, showing how his “American Dream” is a failure.

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

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.