Feraud
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A guy tossing pastel dress shirts in 3D just doesn't do it for me.
Did I see correctly in the news scroll this morning that Jay-Z is going to make the music?!?!
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."
We must NOT have a sad Mae. That is a detriment to our collective society.
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.