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The Great Gatsby: Film Analysis
The movie The Great Gatsby is set during the roaring twenties in Manhattan New York City. Where the young protagonist Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) is narrating his life story when he moved to New York. He introduces a young playboy millionaire by the name of Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his obsessive love for Daisy Buchanan (Carey Milligan). This movie is the most recent adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald classic American novel, directed by Baz Luhrmann who does a fantastic job with the visuals of the movie. In the film the director shows the lavish mysterious life of Mr. Jay Gatsby through the use of visuals, lighting and music to captivate the audience.
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Gatsby. This is first shown when the director reveals Mr. Gatsby face during nick’s first encounter with him, using fireworks and a lot of bright lighting to shine on Mr. Gatsby entire face when smiling. This shows Gatsby hopefulness and his inviting nature as nick states “he understands you like how you would want someone to understand you”. The director uses visuals to always compliment the lighting and when the fireworks are going off and Mr. Gatsby is smiling at nick and is standing above everyone, showing his superiority. In one scene Mr. Gatsby invited Nick out to lunch in his yellow sports car, where the director is trying to convince the audience you understand this man as well as he understands you with bright lighting being shown on his face during their drive. But, Mr. Gatsby has a lot of secrets Nick has yet to find out about. When they finally arrive to their lunch spot it seems to be a barber shop disguised as an underground club. A secret door opens in which Nick and Gatsby start entering the room and the lighting goes from very bright to complete darkness. This is showing the mysterious dark side of Gatsby life which Nick never knew about showing all his illegal business friends, he has made over the last few years.
Third the director made a very bold choice when selecting the music in the film. Film critics might find the soundtrack not to fitting for the film because it happens to be set in the jazz age. But to tell his view of the story the

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