Summary Of Baz Luhrmann's Adaptation Of The Great Gatsby

Overall, Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of the great Gatsby was great, but as all adaptations, it had its faults and its strengths during production. The song “100$ bill” by Jay Z for instance, was not incorporated well into the scenes as it could have been. According to Baz Luhrmann rap in a way was like a parallel to jazz in Gatsby 's period. Not to say that Jay Z’s music is not great, but the scenes that incorporated his music may have felt awkward to some modern day viewers. It just seems like on one hand Jay Z 's music may have been a good representation of rap in his time, but there was no sense of mysteriousness in his music as jazz was in Gatsby’s ago. On the other hand, the song “Young and Beautiful “by - (Lana Del Rey) did fit great in the scenes that the song was depicted as it captured the majesties of the scene and all of its emotions. The song was a great production for the movie because at Gatsby’s time most things were new, exciting, and full of thrills. The song further embroiled the actual emotion that would come out of a real life walk in the scene. One could argue that Baz Luhrmann 's intentions were not to get a sense of newness and mysteriousness by including Jay Z’s music in hopes of relating it to the music of Gatsby 's time. However though Baz Luhrmann specifically says that he was trying to relate jazz’s sense of freshness and, enigma to the people in Gatsby 's time to the music by Jay Z presently. The characters in Baz Luhrmann 's adaptation of The