The Great Gatsby Book Vs. Movie

Leonardo DiCaprio who played Jay Gatsby character wasn't fleshed out as much as he could have been, and no one showed up to his funeral. In the book Gatsby's father comes to give Nick some vision into the real Jay Gatsby something the movie didn't show but could

All too often the film industry takes a book and changes it for movie purposes. The resulting film, no matter how good or bad it may be as a stand alone, is inevitably criticized with those all too familiar words “The book was better.” However, The Great Gatsby has found itself within a group of the select few book based movies that has very few changes from the book at all. In fact, most of the lines the actors used were straight quotes from the book. A good majority of the characters, settings, words, and events in both the film and the book are identical,but not perfectly so. There are still a few things that must be changed either due to translation from page to screen or due to stylistic choice by the director.

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 major characters’ behaviors were left unaltered in the movie adaptation. Gatsby is still a flamboyant and extravagant man who loves to host parties, Nick is still a quiet young man, Daisy is still an immature woman, and Miss Baker is still a deceitful cheater. In contrast, some of the minor characters were completely omitted in the movie. Even though these characters had a meager role, their effect on the main character was tremendous. An example of such a character in the book would be the deceased millionaire named Dan Cody. Dan Cody was a friend and mentor for Gatsby. In the book, Gatsby was a “steward, mate, skipper, secretary, and even jailor” (Fitzgerald 100) to Cody. Gatsby was very close to Cody, and even after Cody’s death, Gatsby commemorated him by hanging a picture of him in his bedroom. After Cody’s death, Gatsby was supposed to inherit some money from him. As Nick mentioned “And it was from Cody that he [Gatsby] inherited money – a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars” (Fitzgerald 100). Unfortunately, due to legal reasons he did not receive even a single penny from Cody’s inheritance. This event had a crucial role in shaping Gatsby’s life. Gatsby realized that not everything in life would be as promising as it seems. He then set out to make a fortune for

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.

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.

“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.

While The Great Gatsby has been made into a movie by a number of people, none have done as well as Baz Luhrmann’s did. He has “broken the curse” (Mazmanian). It is a very good movie but some

There were a few characters that were missing from the movie. Owl Eyes, who provided comic relief was not in the movie and there was no party car accident scene in the movie, either. The movie tells nothing about Gatsby’s past because all mention was left out. There was no mention of Dan Cody, who gave Gatsby his start, in the movie. There is never any mention of Gatsby’s real name being James Gatz. The only mention of Gatz is at the end of the movie when Mr. Gatz corrects Nick after he called him Mr. Gatsby. The scene in the book where Daisy hits Myrtle with the car was completely left out of the

The Great Gatsby was published in 1925 by author F.Scott Fitzgerald, multiple films have been made from the book, including the 2013 film of the same name directed by Baz Luhrmann. The story is about a man named Nick Carraway, who had just moved to the east coast, and his interaction with a man named Jay Gatsby. The movie follows the story that Fitzgerald wrote. However, there are some differences between the movie and the book about what the main focus of the story is. The biggest difference between the book and the movie is that the movie seems to be about the tragedy between Gatsby and Daisy, while the book is more about the tragedy that happens to Nick.

The Great Gatsby Movie Review F. Scott Fitzgerald never got to see his novel The Great Gatsby take the form of a movie. There have been multiple movies based off his book, however, the two most popular are Jack Clayton’s 1974 version starring Robert Redford, and Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 rendition starring Leonardo Dicaprio. Both movies follow the love torn Gatsby as he pursues Daisy, his only love. Gatsby pulled himself out of poverty and into riches in order to win back Daisy’s love from her now husband, Tom. Both movies follow Gatsby from the perspective of Nick Carraway, a friend of Tom and a cousin of Daisy.

The funeral of Gatsby was not as heartbreaking in the film as it was described in the book. His father showed up and was proud of his accomplishments “he had a big future in front of him” (Fitzgerald 172). Gatsby’s closest friend refused to appear and the “owl-eyed man” out of everyone no one had the dignity to pay his respects (Fitzgerald 175). Even though the adaptation was good compare to other novel adaptations it did not bring as much joy as the book

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.

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.

In both, Gatsby is awaiting the call from Daisy telling him that she was going to leave Tom and run away with him. In the book, Gatsby is floating in his pool but “No telephone message arrive[s]” (Ch.8) and Gatsby is killed knowing Daisy has chosen Tom instead. Contrastly, the movie takes a more flashy approach instead, as Gatsby takes a dive into the water and steps out as the phone rings. It is here where Wilson takes his shot and Gatsby dies thinking that Daisy was calling to confess her love. Ultimately this changes Gatsby’s death completely, as he dies lonely and depressed in the novel whereas in the movie he dies thinking he won Daisy’s love which in turn changes the theme slightly as Gatsby’s death is no longer symbolic used as a conclusion for Gatsby’s life but rather a cliffhanger where he is taken away from his chance to achieve his