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The Great Gatsby - Remake in the Works

Chasseur

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Its like a train wreck I can't stop watching the trailer its so bad...

Rather than the Great Gatsby all the bad costuming makes me think of it is a porno that is supposed to be set in the 1920s with a budget supplied by the local Halloween shop. Especially Tom and Mrytle they looked like they just walked out of a 1990s adult film...

And it 3-D to boot...
 

sheeplady

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So it looks interesting to me, but I'm a little bit miffed by the idea of exploring Gatsby's past so much... I always thought that was left purposefully unclear in the book. We only know that he met Daisy while serving at a military base. Just like he stated he "went" to Oxford, not that he graduated from there- enough detail to give you a glimpse but not a full picture. Just like you had suggestions that he was involved in illegal activity, but no solid proof.

And, perhaps my reading is a little dusty, but I don't believe that Gatsby stated that he came from money so blatantly... but was master at avoiding those types of inquiries and just dropping hints. The appeal of Gatsby is in the mystery. You take that away and it's a very boring story if all your questions are answered.
 

mummyjohn

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I'm getting the idea that this film will be a lot like the new Camaros: they don't look stunningly like the originals, they're completely new designs that clearly echo features of the originals and have the same name, but from there it's all new.

Like those cars, this movie'll be good-looking in it's own right, but "inspired by The Great Gatsby" might be a better label than "based upon."
 

dot1021

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From the trailers I don't get the sense of Gatsby needing to fit in with the moneyed folks of Egg (or would it be Old Egg?). Throughout the novel he's always trying to be accepted by them, to be like them, and no matter how much money he's made, he's not "of them." His new money was never accepted by the old money. But I don't get that sense from the trailers. Seems to be slightly different emphasis in the plot.
 

lolly_loisides

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Did I see correctly in the news scroll this morning that Jay-Z is going to make the music?!?!

I saw this article today, here's a quote from Luhrmann, "The great thing about the hip-hop folk is that they are fearless and culturally blind," Luhrmann told the London Guardian in 2007. "I can be with a rapper called Canibus and he will tell me that he's going to take the soundtrack from Titanic, sample and make a song out of it. Their ability to steal from culture without judgment, without a decision about what is right or wrong or good or bad - it's just, 'Does it affect you emotionally or not.That blindness to pretension gets me going. I would like to think that, cinematically, that's the road we're going down."
 
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W4ASZ

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I saw this article today, here's a quote from Luhrmann, "The great thing about the hip-hop folk is that they are fearless and culturally blind," Luhrmann told the London Guardian in 2007. "I can be with a rapper called Canibus and he will tell me that he's going to take the soundtrack from Titanic, sample and make a song out of it. Their ability to steal from culture without judgment, without a decision about what is right or wrong or good or bad - it's just, 'Does it affect you emotionally or not.That blindness to pretension gets me going. I would like to think that, cinematically, that's the road we're going down."

Blindness to pretension ? This is the very definition of pretentiousness.
 

furious

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I just purchased what I think might be a first edition (1925, Scribners) from Amazon so that I can revisit this masterpiece properly before seeing the latest Hollywood remake.
 

resortes805

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I dunno, this movie looks fun to me. I grew up in the '90s and enjoyed the hyperactivity and ,well, the sheer 90'sness of Romeo + Juliet. I think his Great Gatsby will be that same sort of ride for this decade.

Sure it doesn't come close to capturing the 1920's, but this flick ain't Seabiscuit or L.A. Confidential, it is a two hour music video and you gotta approach it as such. If I want substance, I'll read Fitzgerald, if I want to see a flashy Duesenburg, I'll watch Luhrmann.

Also, I am really interested with what Jay-Z does with this, I wasn't as impressed with what he produced for American Gangster but this project intrigues me.
 
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resortes805

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....and it is funny to read people praise the '74 film as that movie has been the Fedora Lounge Whipping boy for how not to make a period flick for quite some time now.
 

vitanola

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I dunno, this movie looks fun to me. I grew up in the '90s and enjoyed the hyperactivity and ,well, the sheer 90'sness of Romeo + Juliet. I think his Great Gatsby will be that same sort of ride for this decade.

Sure it doesn't come close to capturing the 1920's, but this flick ain't Seabiscuit or L.A. Confidential, it is a two hour music video and you gotta approach it as such. If I want substance, I'll read Fitzgerald, if I want to see a flashy Duesenburg, I'll watch Luhrmann.

Also, I am really interested with what Jay-Z does with this, I wasn't as impressed with what he produced for American Gangster but this project intrigues me.

De gustibus and all that, but if I want to watch a two-hour music video I suppose that there is always "The King of Jazz", "The Hollywood Review of 1929" or "The Show of Shows".

How I'd love to be able to see Warner Baxter playing Jay Gatsby!

(Sigh!)
 

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