Stephan King once said, “Novels’ and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.” In essence, novelss and movies while they may share similar story lines, are quite different. Movie directors and screenwriters will always be challenged in making adaptations into film. The challenge is to maintain the novel’s theme, plot and characters while engaging the viewers and using sound, light, and visuals. In the 2013 recreation of the novel “The Great Gatsby “ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald the director Baz Luhrmann is challenged to adapt Fitzgerald’s most enduring and famous work of literature. Luhrmann utilizes a good use of adaptations by adding a character to the movie to help introduce viewers to the story. Luhrmann also makes a good adaptation by adding in modern music to help enhance the images of the party scenes as well as help convey some of Fitzgerald’s messages. Although Luhrmann does a exactable job making adaptations to maintain the novel’s character one aspect that took away from the novel was the casting roles. Luhrmann’s 2013 movie is a fine adaptation and uses stylistic tools to maintain the true meaning of Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, however parts of the casting fell short.
Fitzgerald’s novel and Luhrmann’s movie both share the same plot. Both are narrated by Nick Caraway, a man from the mid west who moves to New York in hopes fulfilling his American dream. Nick moves into a small cottage out in West Egg. Not far from New York City, West Egg is populated by the noveau riche, whereas East Egg is home to the
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This comes out most vividly in Fitzgerald’s depiction of Gatsby’s wild parties and ostentatious lifestyle, but also in Gatsby’s unrealistic and romanticized view of Daisy. For Fitzgerald, what America strives for, symbolically the green light, is not worthy and, like Gatsby, will ultimately end