The Great Gatsby Movie Vs Book

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the great American novels. Due to it’s popularity and fame, it has been adapted to film multiple times. The adaptation of Baz Luhrmann does a superb job of representing the novel’s plot and symbols. The differences in plot are minimal and most likely due to the transition from text to film. Despite how the film excels in this area, the deviations in the symbols are greater and have a larger impact on the overall feel of the film. In summary, the book and and the film are both similar and different, depending on what is being compared.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, is the story of the idiosyncratic millionaire Jay Gatsby. It is narrated by Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner from Long Island who later moves to Manhattan. Gatsby’s life is organized around one desire, Daisy, the woman he loved. This desire leads him on an expedition from poverty to wealth, reuniting with his old love, and his eventual death. In his novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald is able to portray the American Dream where people seek out self-gratification and pleasure. He captures the romance of the roaring twenties with the cars, money, illegal alcohol and the wildest parties one could imagine. Much like the character, Jay Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), wasn’t born into the upper class. While Gatsby is from the lower class, Fitzgerald from the middle class, both end up becoming exceptionally rich, fall into the wildest and reckless life, and use their fortunes to win the love and approval of the women they once loved.

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.

There are several differences in The Great Gatsby between the novel and the movie. Some things occur quite differently and some don't even happen at all. The movie and the novel both give us clear details about the characters but sometimes one shows more than the other.

The Great Gatsby novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby movie produced by Baz Luhmann are both examples of great productions in their own genre. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a novel which is known to be one of the greatest novels in American literature. Similarly Baz Luhmann took that novel and made it into a movie starring Leonardo Di Caprio, which allows such a timeless story to take another form. The movie allows the story to entice people nowadays in a different form that is more relevant to today’s society. Although Luhrmann does a great job of recreating The Great Gatsby into a movie, he does have various flaws in how he does it since he misses certain details.

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The Great Gatsby is a wildly successful novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and was published in 1925. It is seemingly a love story tacking place in the midst of the roaring twenties, but contains a much more serious and less romantic underlying theme. The film rendition of this novel produced by Baz Luhrmann was a ginormous box-office hit, that revenued about 351 million dollars. The film starts world renounced actors like Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire. Overall the film version of The Great Gatsby truly captured the theme that the American Dream is often not as attainable as it is made out to be which is presented in the book.

The novel The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. The novel is set in the 1920s in New York. The main character, Jay Gatsby, is on a journey to achieve acceptance in society. Fitzgerald uses motifs to emphasize that the characters Tom, Daisy, and Myrtle are indirectly responsible for Gatsby’s death.

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, provides a dark and pessimistic outlook into the American life style in 1922. Jay Gatsby, an American wealthy social identity, appears to have it all. But wealth, stature and an extravagant lifestyle seems not to be enough for Gatsby; he still yearns for his old idealistic love Daisy. In an ideal world this has the making of a great love story with a happy ending, but Fitzgerald chose to carry the story as a reflection of the American era the book is set in. An era consumed by appearances and excess and overall pursuit of the American dream.

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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.

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The Great Gatsby is a novel written during the realism period. The book was published in 1925. F Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel based in the roaring twenties about two star crossed lovers who go behind their loved ones backs to have an affair . It is full of lies and deceit. A recurring theme in The Great Gatsby is love and how it destroys and ruin one's life and how you can never be fully satisfied by love. Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship has a series of ups and downs where they lie to each other and neither of them ever being happy .Fitzgerald uses the two lovers to express his point of view on love.

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.