The Great Gatsby Film Review

In this School Based Assessment, I have chosen to do a Film Review of The Great Gatsby which was released in 2013 and directed by Baz Luhrmann. The movie was based on the world famous book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald which was published in 1925 and is regarded as one of America’s most prominent novels. The story of The Great Gatsby is partially based on a real-life experience of F. Scott Fitzgerald. He studied at Princeton University but neglected his studies and joined the Navy, where he was assigned duty in Montgomery, Alabama. There he met 18-year-old Zelda Sayre whom he met and fell in love with. However, they belonged to separate social classes and Fitzgerald had to obtain higher social status to marry Zelda. Fitzgerald’s

On the page, the character is so mysterious, so much a projection of the book 's narrator, and yet Leonardo DiCaprio makes him comprehensible and real. The actor 's choices drive home the idea that Gatsby is playing the man he wishes he were, and that others need him to be. We see the questions and intentions behind his eyes, but we also believe that he could hide them from the other characters. Leonardo DiCaprio 's acting induces Nick 's description of his personality as "an unbroken series of successful gestures." Luhrmann cuts some scenes to make it seem as if the character really is all-knowing, as if he can see and hear for miles and read people 's thoughts and feelings and DiCaprio plays these moments with a mix of mysteriousness and delight, as if his character, Jay Gatsby knows something we don 't, but is too clever to say exactly what. The way in which Gatsby dies in the end of the movie hold some aspects that are loyal to the book, which include that he dies in his pool and that he is alone and disgraceful, the phone call is what makes it different. Where in the book the butler is awaiting the phone call from Daisy and as Gatsby tried to climb onto one of his pool floatation devices, the shots were heard by the chauffeur, in the movie, Gatsby dives into the water and steps out as the phone beings to ring, and

Carey plays the part effortlessly as she has the soft voice and sensual personality a person who read the book would imagine Daisy to have. The way she speaks softly for you to lean into her was flawlessly projected to someone who does not know the character of Daisy. She plays the part of a traditional woman in the early 1900’s. In these times divorce was something to never be mentioned and men were superior. Without a man, there was not much women could do on their own. This is shown in the way Daisy knows about her husband’s extramarital affairs with Myrtle Wilson and just lives with it. This is very ironic because Tom Buchanan (Daisy’s husband) has a relationship with someone else’s wife, but when someone who truly loves Daisy, and won’t have affairs in their marriage tries to take her, Tom has a problem and shows signs of jealousy, ironically feeling how Myrtle’s husband