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What Are The Differences Between The Great Gatsby Book And Movie

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Waqar Ahmed Instructor: Michael Joseph Dowdy UCO 1200 – The American Dream Section 141 November 6, 2013 The Great Gatsby Response 2 In the 143 minutes movie, there were several things that were totally different what I had imagined while reading the novel. Also some key scenarios were missing from the movie. While filming a novel, there are some key factors which are not supposed to be changed i.e. general appearance of the characters and the time span. In the movie, they changed both things in one way or another. First thing that was different from the novel was the starting. In the novel, they followed the same flashback trend which is being followed by a lot of movies nowadays. They start the movie by showing the Nick as a person who is trying to recover from the highly drinking and sad life after the pitiable death of Gatsby while in the book, Nick said that he had drunk only two times in his life while in the 2013 movie, they portrayed him as if he had been drinking a lot and now had come to a doctor to recover. This thing is totally against the personality of Nick and does not …show more content…

In the book, Fitzgerald mentions, “Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared” while talking about the phone call from Daisy. So it was clear that before being killed, Gatsby knew that he was a loser as he could not get Daisy and he knew that he had wasted his life for waiting Daisy. But this ending was changed in the movie. In the movie, they showed as if Gatsby thought that Daisy had called him while actually it was Nick who called him to ask him Daisy had called him. That was a biggest thing that was changed as this was the main point of the whole story. But still I think this change in the movie was good making the movie more romantic and showing that Gatsby died with the feelings of a winning but showing the audience that he was actually not a

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Daniel Aguirre Ms. Tobias English III GT - 6th 12 January 2017 After analyzing both the movie and the novel, I have discovered similarities and differences. Ill try to compare and contrast the two since the movie does not depict the story exactly as how the novel does. Similarities There were still some similarities in the film that tied back to the book. One of the main ones is when Nick walks to Gatsby’s backyard and finds him standing at the edge of his dock reaching out to what was a green light.

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In the begin of the movie the lake or body of water that separates Daisy from Gatsby is very cloudy and grey like it is described in the book. The valley of ashes is very dust and look very old western and forgotten. The city at the begin is shown as very upbeat and the weather is nice and everyone is happy. The most noticeable change in the movie is at the end when Gatsby dies and nick is about to go to his funeral the sky is grey and it raining. No one is there but nick and a couple other people, and then nick is left alone in the empty house with all the good memories and the wind just moves through the house like there was no gatsby like nothing ever really

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In The Great Gatsby movie, Daisy, for example mostly spoke sweetly throughout the whole movie. In the book, her voice was described as ringing like money. Instead, in the movie she appeared to be an innocent person but was actually extraordinary selfish in her own actions. In the movie, Jay Gatsby had a violent, dramatic outburst at the Plaza Hotel when he was provoked by Tom Buchanan. Another difference would be that Jordan Baker and Nick Carraway did NOT have a loving relationship like in the book; they didn’t communicate in the movie as much as they did in the movie.

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There are many ways to portray one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best selling books, The Great Gatsby; one of which is from 1974, directed by Jack Clayton, and a more recent version from 2013, directed by Baz Luhrmann. Jack Clayton’s version could be said as more of a traditional style of film, while the Baz Luhrmann version is a lot more extravagant and has a newer music style and lots of CGI work as well. The two movies relate to Fitzgerald novel by having a very similar plot line, even though there are quite a few differences between them. Basically, there is a man named Nick Carraway who tells the story of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby, or more known as “The Great Gatsby”. Overall, I believe that Fitzgerald would like the newer 2013 version of the book for a few reasons: Things like Gatsby’s party and the overall environment of the world in the newer version is a lot more bright and colorful, and is a lot more pleasing to the eye.

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