Film Comparison Of The Great Gatsby And Midnight In Paris

Films intermittently have a rough time bringing out the full potential of a character, this could negatively affect the entire movie, in The Great Gatsby and Midnight in Paris this is not the case. The two films capture the era of the 1920’s, this provides for some shallow characters, everything that mattered during this period was money, such characters are difficult to depict. Throughout The Great Gatsby and Midnight in Paris, specific actors did a phenomenal job of portraying their characters. Baz Lurmann’s interpretation of The Great Gatsby was majorly effective in his portrayal of the characters, the majority of them were spot on. One character that was not done justice is Owl Eyes, he was supposed to be “God” throughout the story, but

An exceedingly representative character in Midnight in Paris is Gil, in quoting the moderns. In one scene he says “You can fool me but you can’t fool Hemingway”, to his judgmental wife. This a quote pulled straight from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, Wilson says “you can fool me but you can’t fool God”, and replacing God with Hemingway puts you in the correct setting of the movie. Another character that references The Great Gatsby is Inez, she exemplifies Daisy more than any other character. While Inez, Helen and Gil were out shopping Inez was going to buy incredibly expensive chairs and Gil refused, Inez responded with “cheap is cheap”. This demonstrates how materialistic Inez is, replicating Daisy. Paul, a manly know-it all, reflects Tom Buchanan’s personality. Paul, Carol, Inez and Gil were viewing art and Paul felt the need to overpower every fact anyone shared about the art, he always had something superior to say. This is something Tom often did throughout the novel, he was a dominant and overpowering male, identical to Paul. Ariana exhibits traits of Myrtle, not through her personality but through her role in the plot. She makes this clear when near her current lover, yet all her attention is focused on Gil,