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Great Gatsby Movie Review Essay

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The Great Gatsby Movie Review

The Great Gatsby is a romance film directed by Australian director, Baz Lurhmann and is based on F. Scott Fitzgerald 's novel. Fans of F. Scott Fitzgerald might be a little please to have Baz Lurhmann, the man who has produced critically acclaimed romance movies will be directing The Great Gatsby. Moreover, with the sparkling A-list cast consisting of Leonardo Dicaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan and Joel Edgerton. The anticipation for the movie increases with the presence of Bollywood 's legend, Amitabh Bachchan. The film was released on 10th of May 2013 in 3D and was one of the unusual films to use 3D cameras which were made for action film for a drama film.

Let 's move a few steps backward in time. The Great Gatsby has a long winding history from the early days where it was first created in the hands of F. Scott Fitzgerald and was last seen in the year 1974 of Robert Redford 's version. The book was originally labelled as a failure after its poor sales in its first publication. The book managed to sell a barely 20,000 in the first year and which made Fitzgerald believe himself as a total failure even until his death. It was until the World War II where the book began getting recognition and known as the Great American Novel. Soon after that, several films followed and as if …show more content…

It was wonderful for Lurhmann to keep the movie as loyal to the book. A great news for Fitzgerald 's fans. The cast, other than Dicaprio and Maguire did well except Carey Mulligan who portrays Daisy Buchanan. Carey managed to act as a damsel in distress Daisy with her Snow White likes tones but it wasn 't enough to be on par with Dicaprio 's performance as Gatsby. Her character was supposed to be a memorable one but in this film, she was overshadowed by Gatsby. She was not convincing enough to be the girl that made Jay Gatsby fall on

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