Great Gatsby Movie Vs Book

Admittedly, even though Gatsby was living the American Dream, money could not make him satisfied. Gatsby used his wealth to make Daisy Buchanan fall in love with him but sadly died without her love. It is obvious that Gatsby’s money did not come from inheritance, but from organized crime. His shady “business” with Meyer Wolfsheim and the failure to explain what he works as shows his mysterious lifestyle. When Tom talks about Gatsby, he says that “He and this Wolfsheim brought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and there in Chicago…” (Fitzgerald 133). Gatsby illegally acquired enough wealth to win Daisy’s heart, ultimately thinking that money would help him obtain his goal. However, Gatsby is arguably admirable because he is loyal, especially during a time where people only cared about luxury. His loyalty strikes against the deceitful, materialistic, and dishonest American society. Even Though he gained his money illegally, lives in an extravagant mansion, and drives a Rolls-Royce, he is also loyal towards daisy and has a genuine love for her. An example of this is when Nick asks if Daisy was driving and Gatsby replied by saying “Yes...but of course I’ll say I was” (143). When Daisy accidentally runs over Myrtle while driving his car, Gatsby takes the blame for her. He certainly shows a courageous act of love and loyalty towards Daisy. Despite Gatsby’s wealth, he is candid

Gatsby does not realize that Daisy also represents the corruption that comes along with wealth. "Her voice is full of money, he suddenly said. That was it. I'd never understood it before. It was full of money--that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it. . . . High in a white Palace the King's daughter, the golden girl" (127). Gatsby becomes obsessed with Daisy and her voice that promised riches, but he does not realize that money was the only thing she offered. After listening to Tom, Nick describes Daisy and Tom as careless people who "smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made" (188). Daisy lets Gatsby take the blame for Myrtle’s death and shows no concern over Gatsby’s death showing her carelessness with people’s lives. Tom and Daisy’s actions indicate the corrupting effects that wealth can have on someone. They focus too much on appearance and materialism and ignore other people’s feelings and lives.

When Jordan and Nick are driving back to East Egg, they almost run into a pedestrian, and while Nick questions about Jordan’s ability as a driver, she obnoxiously asserts that it takes two people to cause a mistake. “You’re a rotten driver!” Nick protests, “They’ll keep out of my way, I hope I Never will (be careful), I hate careless people. That’s why I like you,” She answers. In this scene, Jordan’s response reflects her characters as cold and selfish; In addition, she sets an example of “old money” perceiving themselves to be more superior than lower-classes, and they can simply solve the problems with money without any consequences. The scene reveals the loss of humanity in that era that individuals are isolated by money, which prevents them from seeing what really matters. Similarly, Tom Buchanan shows his perspective about life as a trivial thing when Nick tells him that Gatsby's death. Tom exclaims “And if you think I didn’t have my share of suffering---when I give up that flat and saw that damn box of dog biscuits sitting there on their sideboard, I sat down and cried like a baby.” In my opinion, Fitzgerald uses simile and irony to depict Tom Buchanan as a cruel person that the loss of his apartment is more significant than Gatsby’s sacrifice; Tom's words expose the corruption of morals and humanity in that age. people think they are preserving the real value,

The movie certainly captured what made the 1920’s roaring. The movie caught the big parties and the elegant clothing fast cars and drunken joy. Baz Lumberman made the parties look real and like how Gatsby had them. The parties were bigger than life and they successfully made Fitzgerald's words come to life.

The Great Gatsby film in my opinion does not do the novel justice, the film uses music from recent years instead of from the 1920’s, they don’t have the best cast, and the film is very busy. The film isn’t a disaster but it could have definitely been done better than it was.

“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.

One value that was continually showcased in The Great Gatsby was materialism. Many characters portrayed deep fascinations for material things. Daisy, who had recently reconnected with Gatsby, begins crying when she realizes that she could have possessed an abundance more of material things if she had married Gatsby, instead of Tom. As Daisy cries she says, “They’re such beautiful shirts. I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before” (Fitzgerald 98). This showcases an overt appreciation for material things, as she is moved by all of Gatsby’s possessions more than she is impressed with Gatsby himself.

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.

Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, he turned himself from a farm boy to one of the richest men in America at the time and bought himself a beautiful mansion on West Egg, Long Island with the other new millionaires. In contrast to the newly rich, there is those who have inherited their wealth from family before them such as Tom and Daisy Buchanan. These people were lucky to be born into their lives and reside on East Egg along with other family’s with “old money”. Readers come to easily identify that despite their different upbringings, the wealthy characters all are very materialistic people. As a result of trying to win Daisy back, Gatsby has become very reliant on proving his worth through his spending of money. He buys beautiful shirts, shelves

Sitting in high school having to read classic books knowing that you hate to read, but you had to read. Yeah, that was me in high school. I hated to read in high school until I got this one English teacher my Junior year that I fell in love with. She made reading so much better than what I had dreaded all the years. Senior year comes around and at the end of it she introduced us to The Great Gatsby. At first, I didn’t think I would like it, but I fell in love with the book and movie at the end of it all. The Great Gatsby is really about a love affair between a husband and wife. The wife ends up running over the woman her husband was cheating on with. Gatsby at the end got shot because the man thought he had killed his wife. The Great Gatsby is very good in so many ways. The book turned movie has both similarities and differences throughout. But, most of all it shows the romantic side of everyone through the book and movie.

One of the major topics explored in The Great Gatsby is the sociology of wealth, specifically, how the newly minted millionaires of the 1920s differ from and relate to the old aristocracy of the country’s richest families. In the novel, West Egg and its denizens represent the newly rich, while East Egg and its denizens, especially Daisy and Tom, represent the old aristocracy. Fitzgerald portrays the newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste. Gatsby, for example, lives in a monstrously ornate mansion, wears a pink suit, drives a Rolls-Royce,

Wealth is an intoxicating spirit and drunkenly encourages some to acts of eccentricity. Tom and Gatsby are both respectfully rich, spending their fortune in bizarre manners. In Chapter 1, it’s noted that Tom’s family was “enormously wealthy”, that “freedom with money was a matter of reproach”, “for instance, he’d brought down a string of polo ponies for Lake Forest.” (CH 1) Tom’s wealth also affords him a second life, complete with fully furnished apartment, another pet, and an additional woman. Gatsby has quite a fortune as well, and his outlandish expenditures equally rival Tom’s. Gatsby’s parties are legendary and extravagantly catered with a seemingly unlimited supply of food, drink, and entertainment for its hundreds of attendees. This is made more absurd coupled with the fact that Gatsby

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 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.