The Great Gatsby Trailer

[romantico]

Posted: 5/22/12 at 10:49pm

Thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OULhlaX6JY4

[strummergirl]

Posted: 5/22/12 at 11:09pm

Not digging the music that I assume will not be in the film.

DiCaprio has not looked this interesting in years.

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 5/22/12 at 11:30pm

Well the trailer looks pretty, the trailer really tells you nothing and is not making me want to rush to see it.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Posted: 5/22/12 at 11:48pm

Is there anyone over 17 who doesn't know "The Great Gatsby?" What more does the trailer need?

It seems like Baz has found a style that visually complements Fitzgerald's. Had reservations about Leo, but that enigmatic Gatsby smile is there. Very impressed with Carey Mulligan as well. Looking forward to this one.

Updated On: 5/22/12 at 11:48 PM

[Kad]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 1:49am

It looks beautiful... but I have reservations about it as a whole. I just don't think The Great Gatsby is a book that can be effectively translated to film.

The trailer looks like a big collage of "more more MORE MORE!!"... I just hope the film can capture the pain and the hollowness of that excess that Fitzgerald could.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 1:51am

I love Luhrman's style and I think for a novel that's so beautifully written, you need a director who will be able to translate the aesthetic value of the novel to the screen. I much prefer this to a "traditional" approach, Luhrman is also perfect to capture the seediness of some of the parties Nick attends.
Carey Mulligan looks fantastic in this! She's a great actress. I agree that DiCaprio hasn't looked this interesting in a very long time.

[Kad]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 2:02am

I don't know, all of the parties in the trailer seem to be the biggest, most opulent 1920s parties ever. Even the modest luncheon with Wolfsheim looks like a showstopping affair.

[degrassifan]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 2:06am

Honestly, I have never read The Great Gatsby, so the trailer tells me nothing. I have no idea what it's about! Got through school somehow without ever having a teacher assign that book to me.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 3:12am

I'm a huge fan of the novel, and I didn't think the past two versions I've seen (the Redford one and that kinda bizarrely cast TV movie version in the 90s with Paul Rudd) were quite as awful as many others thought but

Kad said "I just don't think The Great Gatsby is a book that can be effectively translated to film." I agree. I admit I still find aspects of this odd--like filming in 3D, and the trailer is a bit more Moulin Rouge than I expected (and I loved--mostly--Moulin Rouge).

I get the fact that such a beautifully written and sorta somewhat abstractly written novel (that's not a good description but I can't think of the right word), really needs a great visual style to try to adapt that feeling to the screenb. For me--judging just from the trailer, this style isn't it. I can see it kinda translating some of the feel of the couple of party scenes, but that's not really what sticks with you--or at least what sticks with me--about the novel. But I admit, I'm curious to see it either way.

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 3:53am

Never read the novel either, and way over the age of 17. And I stand by my statement that the trailer tells you nothing!

[romantico]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 5:05am

Well, I love the overall look of the film. However, I said the same thing about Moulin Rouge (which I HATED) and Romeo and Juliet (which I loved)Here is the new Advance One Sheet poster

Updated On: 5/23/12 at 05:05 AM

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 5:15am

The trailer wouldn't tell you much if you didn't know the novel at all, you're right, but I assume it's trying to show the overall mood of the film. To be fair the novel is something of a mood piece--it would be hard to go through the initial plot points in a trailer (and rather un-Baz like...)

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 5:46am

Luhrmann’s style is often a hit or a miss, but this looks like a grand slam. I think it completely captures the shrine to excess that Fitzgerald wrote about. I love the “JG” crest always popping up in the trailer and the one-sheet!

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 6:36am

The style is there, and I think Luhrmann's choices serve the tone of the material well. I can't tell if the story is solidly there from the trailer, but I'm intrigued enough to see it in a theatre. I'm looking forward to it.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 9:49am

All that money, all that production design, all that work, and they couldn't be bothered to spell ZIEGFELD correctly. I mean really.

We'll see. Might be worth a look. Not looking forward to it, as I've never been a fan of the book.

[Kad]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 9:51am

I do like that one-sheet... I'm a sucker for Art Deco.

[Jon]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 11:13am

Wait a minute - whatever happened to the modern updated version Marty Scorsese was going to direct, with DiCaprio as Gatsby and Vinny Chase as Tom?

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 11:58am

I'm glad that Paris Hilton didn't get this part...there was talk of this back in 2002ish when people thought it was cool to carry a dog and say "that's hot".

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 3:36pm

Paris was never seriously considered... Was she??

My issue with the trailer is, while the parties are a key part of the book and were meant to be definitely ribald affairs, I admit I never envisioned them to be quite the massively huge, highly choreographed scenes in the trailer.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 3:37pm

*stupid lack of edit button*. For all its big moments, the novel to me has always seemed actually rather intimate.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 3:40pm

Well, exactly, Eric -- the novel is a very small scale intimate little work, with a lot of interior musings on the part of the narrator Nick Carraway. The movie, based on what is after all only a trailer, looks like it is going for full blowout excess.

We'll see of course.

[Kad]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 3:46pm

I also don't like the voiceover description of 1920s New York.

As if the decade can't speak for itself, and Fitzgerald needed a hand in describing it.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 4:04pm

I would have liked to have seen that Marty directed version, starring DiDi and VinVin.

Updated On: 5/23/12 at 04:04 PM

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 6:46pm

"All that money, all that production design, all that work, and they couldn't be bothered to spell ZIEGFELD correctly. I mean really."

A friend pointed that out when they posted the link on Facebook. Hopefully somebody will point it out to Baz. They have seven months to fix it, and I would assume it was a CGI composite shot, so it shouldn't be too difficult to repair.

[Addison D.]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 6:55pm

For me, the book was a 5-character play, with allusions to and descriptions of the larger, outside world. But we're meant to understand that, for Gatsby, the huge parties were meaningless. He was spreading a net to try and catch one, particular guest. When I think about the parties in 'Gatsby', they are always happening in the other room, or outside the window, on the lawn, while we are inside, observing intimate moments and private thoughts.

I've enjoyed Baz Luhrmanns films, but I would rather have seen him use 'Strictly Ballroom' as his precedent, rather than 'Moulin Rouge'. The frenetic chaos of M.R. captured the Romantics' enthusiasm about their revolution, but 'Gatsby' isn't a documentary about the roaring 20's. It explores the texture of the era through a very intimate lens. Or that's how I always read it, anyway.

Updated On: 5/23/12 at 06:55 PM