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The Great Gatsby Movie And Book Comparison

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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. Maybe Baz Luhrmann wanted to make the audience …show more content…

For starters, there are similarities between the book and the movie. For the most part the the movie is very accurate with portraying all the symbolism that was portrayed in the novel. This includes the scene where we are first introduced to Jordan Baker and Daisy Buchanan, who are both wearing white and in a room filled with flowing white curtains just like in chapter one of “The Great Gatsby.” The color white in both the novel and film is supposed to represent innocence. There is also the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock that Gatsby reaches out to that represents his dream. In both the movie and book when Gatsby reaches out towards this green light he is reaching towards Daisy. This detail is important to be shown in the movie just as it is in the book because what that green light at the end of the dock represents …show more content…

Where was his father, the staff, or even Owl Eyes at Gatsby’s funeral? The only person there was Nick. By making no one except for Nick show up at the funeral it really truly showed how alone Gatsby was. When he was alive no one bothered to get to know who he was. People would just attend his parties and then discuss rumors that floated around about who they thought was Jay Gatsby. He spent most of his life reaching towards Daisy and in the end when he died there was not even a phone call or letter from her. There was no letter to Wolfsheim and no phone call from his own father. Nick was the only one who cared and he was the only one there at his funeral. Gatsby was all alone and the director portrayed that really well by not making anyone attend his funeral in the

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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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Emerson points out, “When the glare from the green light shines out, we are reminded that Daisy Buchanan is just across the bay, and we have hope, just as Gatsby does,” but in the movie Daisy was not the same person she was in the novel. In the movie, we almost feel pity for her in many of the scenes, but she was supposed to be, “an awful human being who inadvertently gets him murdered” (“Leonardo). Luhrmann’s choices of changing the novel in some aspects made the characters loose some of their main attributes. Although the movie was beautiful on its own, it was not the same story as the original The Great Gatsby.

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Gatsby is going through being alone and not being able to be with Daisy. I’ll get somebody for you”(Nick 127). Nick is trying to help Gatsby not be alone when he’s dead, since he was alone when he was alive. Gatsby lied about killing Myrtle for Daisy who didn’t even show up for his funeral. This quote shows that Gatsby died for Daisy, but he is alone.

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