The Great Gatsby Trailer

Thoughts?

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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!

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.

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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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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