Great Gatsby Movie Vs Book

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby ( Turvey, 2008) tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a rich young man, whose life is a mystery and becomes a friend with the narrator of the story Nick Carraway who is Daisy’s cousin the love of Gatsby’s life. Gatsby hosts a big public party and a lot of New Yorkers come to these parties to have fun and to drink a free liquor. After Gatsby meets the unhappy married Daisy in Nick’s house they fall in love again and have a great time with each other until they confess to Bucannan, Daisy’s husband with the truth about their affair and how it happened before Daisy met Tom. Tom has a fight with them and Daisy drives recklessly and hits Myrtle Wilson. Her husband accuses Jay Gatsby with the death

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.

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.

“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him”, said Bob Marley. In The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the appearance of some characters becomes more important than their integrity or the true reality of how their lives are. The Great Gatsby is about the lives of Jay Gatsby, Daisy and Tom Buchanan, and Nick Carraway, who are living in the 1920’s during the Jazz Era. The story is a mixture of a romance and drama novel that tells the life of Jay Gatsby and the incidents occurring in his life. The main characters in the novel, Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy mask themselves from the reality in many situations throughout their lives. However, Nick Carraway, the

‘The Great Gatsby’, is one of the classics, a novel that has transcended time causing it to still be relevant and adored by present and future generations. The novel was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the 1920’s and has been read by many generations, including ours. However; as time has passed we as a society have progressed into an age of digital media. An age where old classics and iconic pieces of literature are being reborn, reinvented and given a new sense of life through the medium of film. The list of such interpretations includes classic books such as Pride and Prejudice, Lord of the Rings, and last, but not least ‘The Great Gatsby’. It is often debated if such adaptions have the ability to live

F. Scott Fitzgerald, An American author, whose desire to produce “something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned” created The Great Gatsby.The Great Gatsby was big hit in the 1920’s and years later was adapted into a movie. Baz Luhrmann, the director of the 2013 film, The Great Gatsby, did a wonderful job at portraying Fitzgerald's work.The film is pretty good about following the book, but there are four key differences.

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.

Some people say that books are always better than their movie counterpart. Others feel that movies are more enjoyable than books. They argue that movies make it easier to visualize the characters and “feel” the emotions of the story. Regardless of what some say, books provide the most information, or detail about a story. Books give readers the opportunity to use their imagination, learn backstories, and understand the characters better. This is the case with The Great Gatsby. While this movie is visually entertaining, the book gives the reader more information.

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was set in the 1920s in which the 19th Amendment was recently constitutionalized and an era of wild parties and breaks from the traditional norm began. The story beings from a first person perspective recollecting memories from his past. The so called “Great Gatsby” was the neighbor Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story. Gatsby was introduced as a mysteriously wealthy man who squanders all of his money on ravenous parties every weekend. As the storyline progresses his true characteristics are revealed. Gatsby was a bootlegger who fell in love with the wrong person. Unfortunately his actions work as causation for his unfortunate demise. Fitzgerald cleverly takes upon himself the role Carraway in which he explores the inner or

A vivid scene that was intriguing and I found interesting is the Great Gatsby's Murder scene. These scenes from the book and the movie were two different styles of showing the reader what was going on. The plot was the same, Tom told Wilson it was Gatsby that murdered Myrtle and Wilson wanted to get revenge. This scene was a very important part of the book and I would think the director’s would want the scene to go exactly how the book told it to be. There was a couple scenes that was brought to my attention when watching the movie. According to the book Gatsby had a inflatable pool raft with him in the book, “He stopped at the garage for a pneumatic mattress that had amused his guests during the summer, and the chauffeur helped him pump it up.” In the movie he just ask one of his servants to get a raft, but it was nowhere to be found in the pool when he died.

Throughout reading, and watching the movie Great Gatsby, we have been introduced to a variety of characters and setting in which these character express many traits about themselves. Even though these characters express their feelings towards one another it may only happen in a selection of settings. Each of these things together differ between the novel and the movie. Throughout the novel and movie we meet Nick who in the book provides a smart, tolerant, caring, and flawed persona.

I found The Great Gatsby to be a really good movie. It was very similar to the book as it depicts the way Gatsby sees the green light as a representation of Daisy, while on the other hand the audience and readers sees it as the ever moving American Dream. The luxury of Gatsby’s parties, the 1920’s music hits mixed with the modern day hip hop, are all aspects that are wisely used by the director of the film to enhance the story. We keep in mind that this book is nearly 100 years old, but when you bring in the modern day society’s best music hits, it helps us connect better to this era. In other words we understand more when it relates back to what we are familiar with.

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

According to the evidence found in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s original text and the 2013 Baz Luhrmann film version of The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, the first-person narrator in the film and the movie depicts his story in different tenses. For instance, the thoughts, actions, and experiences in Fitzgerald’s novel and the film director’s adaptation were both depicted through the eyes of Nick Carraway. The film has Nick Carraway’s voice explaining events from his point of view (Luhrmann). Likewise, the novel is also explained from the eyes of Carraway and it is only known what Carraway knows (Fitzgerald). Thus, the film and the novel depict every detail through the thoughts and experiences of Carraway. His descriptions, because they are the only