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Film Versions Of The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Great Gatsby is a fabulous story of love, betrayal, and loss. Although several directors have brought the story to life and emphasized various aspects of the story, both directors knew it was important to keep Gatsby from doing anything to gain Daisy’s love back. This is significant because it shows that Gatsby is still in love with Daisy. He waited five years for Daisy. He worked very hard to provide Daisy with a luxurious lifestyle by throwing parties just to see Daisy and grab her attention. Also, Gatsby wanted to impress Daisy with his house. He did this by giving her a tour of his massive mansion. This shows that he is wealthy, and shows the ideal personality of a rich man. Gatsby thinks it's impressive because it shows how much money …show more content…

However, in the Leonardo Decaprio version, the audience feels more empathetic for Nick, because the director reveals that Nick had a hard time with what happened to Gatsby so much so that he needed to go to a psychiatric hospital to talk to a doctor to help him with that pain. This is impactful because, in the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby, the director chose to follow the same timeline as the book while the 2013 version of The Great Gatsby opened up with a flashing green light, being foggy out, and making its way to the psychiatric hospital where you can see Nick talking to the doctor. The 1974 version does not show you everything that happened in full aspect of what happened to Nick, while the 2013 version opens up to what had happened to Nick after Gatsby died. In addition, the director opts to use a modern style of music but it still feels like it came from the Roaring 20s rather than having Roaring 20s music like the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby. This is impactful because the modern music helps the audience feel like they are related to the story. Having modern music also helps bring the story back to life, like you are watching a brand new story unfold in front of your

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Throughout the story Gatsby's life revolves around trying to restore his relationship with Daisy, his previous love interest. He believes that by becoming wealthy and throwing extravagant parties will win Daisy's love back despite her being remarried. One of Gatsby's flaws is his inability to let go of the past. As said in the book “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion”. It is shown that even after everything that has happened between the two, his feelings for

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Throughout the entirety of the novel The Great Gatsby, the love triangle between Gatsby, Daisy, and her husband, Tom, put the readers through an emotional rollercoaster. Most people probably wonder who Daisy truly loves more: her husband, or her first love. However, the real question is this: is Gatsby truly in love with Daisy? Or does he just love the idea of having her after all these years? Years after he returned from the war that essentially ruined his relationship with Daisy, he is still madly in love with her.

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Gatsby purchased that house in that location in order to be closer to Daisy and easily show her he finally has the money she was looking for. Having that mansion also allows Gatsby to show off his fortune to Daisy by throwing parties. We are informed of this implication made by Jordan when she implies “I think he half have expected her to wander into one of his parties, some nights, but she never did” (79). Gatsby throwing all his ‘lavish parties’ is another example of him going to endless lengths to earn Daisy’s love. His enormous wealth is a symbol for the amount of work he has dedicated to impress

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The movie version of The Great Gatsby by Coppula is far less detailed than the book by Fitzgerald. In the first party that was thrown by Gatsby in chapter 3, many details were left out of the movie. These details were both minor and major, and left either a little or big difference o in the way the story was conveyed. The scene where Gatsby meets Nick for the first time is very different in the movie than in the book. Despite the differences that are displayed in the movie, the general plot and atmosphere of the party remain the same.

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In the book, Gatsby was a character with a lot of respect and integrity. He wasn’t the type of guy to let his feelings escalate out of control, but in the film we saw that he loses his temper and lashes out on Tom, when he starts making accusations that they are different. Another character that was portrayed differently was, Daisy Buchanan. In the book, the author wanted the audience to give no sympathy towards Daisy because of the way she left Gatsby. Daisy seemed to be shallow and selfish through the actions that she made, and didn’t seem to be interested in the relationship that was once there with Gatsby.

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Gatsby had bought that house so he could get close to Daisy, who was one of the few people that brought true happiness to someone for a little. While Gatsby could have just bought a cheaper house to get closer to Daisy because despite his wealth she never came to one of his parties. The money was thought to be the source of his happiness because of the amazing house he owned when instead the love of daisy was the reason he saw even a glimpse of

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The Great Gatsby is an iconic piece of American literature encompassing the 1920s era in American history. This story was written in 1923 by F. Scott Fitzgerald and was later adapted into a movie in 1949, 1973, 2000, and then once again in 2013. In the 2000 version of the movie the plot line was very similar to the book with only a few major differences and a few discreet ones as well. The movie however, also followed the book very well and even used direct quotes from the book helping you to understand the point Fitzgerald was trying to make. Markowitz the director made many good decisions in this adaptation as well as a few costly mistakes that made the importance of the book and plot line of Fitzgerald’s book.

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The entire plot of the movie “The Great Gatsby,” directed by Baz Luhrmann, is pretty much very accurate to the novel of the same name written by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. They both center around a man named Jay Gatsby who throws extravagant parties in hope that one day his love Daisy will wander in. Of course like all movies that are based off of books they all have their similarities and differences. Whether they be very small or very noticeable, sometimes even changing the entire story completely, they are still there. Sometimes the purpose of this could be that the director wants to add their own little twist to the story or it could be that they are going for a much deeper meaning or symbolism.

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Gatsby falls in love with Daisy the first minute he meets her and never stops loving her even though she has obviously moved on. Gatsby does everything he can to be closer to her like buying “that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (78). Gatsby knows that if he can get the girl of his dreams he will not feel lonely anymore. " He talked a lot about the past… he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was” (87).

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As much as Gatsby is seen as a romantic he could also be seen as though he is stuck in his own fantasy. Gatsby is so hung up on this old idea he has of Daisy from five years ago, that he can't see that she has moved on. “Can't repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”.

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