The Great Gatsby Movie

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.

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is told from the perspective of one of the main characters, Nick Carraway. Nick tells the story of a man named Jay Gatsby, who is his neighbor in the West Egg. Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as a man who everyone wants to know and copy but deep down are very envious of him. Gatsby trusts few people and those whom he trusts know his life story. To everyone else, he is a mystery. Everyone seems obsessed with Jay Gatsby. For this reason the novel revolves about rumors of Gatsby rather than the truth.

After the war, Gatsby’s only goal was to posses enough wealth to bring Daisy back. He acquired millions of dollars from businesses he did. “Gatsby bough this house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (78). His love for Daisy was the only thing that made him the man he was. He was intelligent, rich and even famous, all because of her. He threw big parties were many celebrities went and were thousands of dollars were spent in liquor and food just to call Daisy’s attention. “I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night…” (79), recalled Jordan, Gatsby’s friend, one night. All that Gatsby possessed was only and exclusively to show Daisy he could give her the life she wanted.

The main thing that is different between the two men is their wealth. In the Great Gatsby, George is not wealthy. He is a working normal class guy.

The great Gatsby is different but the kinda have there some reason because they both have there freedom which they both but one of the stories went left people started to kill each other people was cheating on eachother okay let's just get too it.

In Scott Fitzgerald’s book version of The Great Gatsby, we can find many differences within the characterizations. Gatsby is portrayed differently in the book than in the movie. For example, in the book, Gatsby was frightened and aware of the fact that Daisy would never be his. In the book he was worried saying, “No telephone message arrived…” This quote shows how he seemed anxious from not hearing from Daisy. In the quote, “Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is too concerned with conveying a picture of 1920s American society to have relevance to modern readers.

Money has never meant to make people happy in its nature, and the more of it one possesses the more dependent one will be. The Great Gatsby tells a story of Jay Gatsby, mysterious young man, trying to be wealthy to resume the romantic relationship with Daisy Buchanan, his beautiful but spoiled partner before the war. In the book, Gatsby and Daisy represent “new rich” and “old rich” respectively, and Gatsby tries as hard as possible to win Daisy back despite the fact that their perspectives of society and life are far from the same. At the end, Gatsby chooses to sacrifice himself to protect Daisy after she sits Myrtle Wilson, but he is still unable to change Daisy's mind about leaving her husband. Throughout the novel, the author establishes

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel about a rich socialite, Jay Gatsby, who tries to win back his love, Daisy Buchannan. Nick Caraway, Daisy’s cousin, is the narrator who brings the reader through the time of the roaring twenties to tell the story of Jay Gatsby. The 1974 film of The Great Gatsby, directed by Jack Clayton, follows the detailed storyline closely by mirroring it, but also adds and takes away some aspects of the story. There are many comparisons that can be made as well as contrasts through the actor, scenery, music, and script choices for the film.

The major similarity between the two stories were the characters. To begin, the protagonist of the story is very much akin to each other. In The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway is seen as a character

In The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Film adaptation are very similar with key differences. The Great Gatsby is about the tragic story of Gatsby trying to get the girl of his dreams,Daisy. Unfortunately he is held back by a preexisting marriage. The Clash with Daisy’s husband, Tom is a struggle for Gatsby, bringing out the worst in him. This is an uphill Battle for Gatsby ultimately leading to his death. The Great Gatsby in the 2013 film adaptation has a less in depth view of The Great Gatsby, whilst being able to conjure a more emotional reaction from the audience.

The 1974 and the 2013 Great Gatsby movies are both alike and different in many ways. The older movie is more accurate to the time, used more genuine music, filming, and less special effects. The new movie was more flashy, crazy, and captured the excitement and intensity of the novel. The characters were portrayed by different actors; therefore, their interpretations differ as well. In addition to these obvious disparities, both movies have various similarities as well. They are both based pretty closely on the book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and contain similar characters, quotes/lines, and scenes, along with scenery. As a whole; however, both movies are far more dissimilar to each other.

After watching and reading the novel, “ The Great Gatsby”, I learned that there are many differences and similarities between the novel and the film. Examples of differences are the characters behavior throughout the story, The American Dream, T.J Eckleburg Billboard, The Green Light. The setting of Novel is the same in the book and the movie. There are also three big main parties in the “Great Gatsby”. Each one of them are very different and similar in a variety of ways. The setting of the film and book took place in the same areas. The story took place in the early 1920s, Gatsby and Tom’s Mansion at East and West Egg, Long Island New York. ( Fitzgerald #1-4 )

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.

In both versions of the film, there were many characteristics and events that were extremely similar. Both took place in New York City. It had the same scene when George Wilson killed Gatsby. It also had when Gatsby, Tom, Daisy and Jordan going to the gas station. Also had when Myrtle Wilson Got hit by Daisy in the yellow car. Then when daisy hit Myrtle it showed Gatsby washing and cleaning the car. Gatsby having parties every week. Then also had Tom always cheating on daisy. Gatsby and Tom had the same cars. Nick always lived next to Gatsby.