The Great Gatsby Trailer — Page 3

Lavish trailer, but meh.

I agree that the book is difficult to adapt into film. There's tons of symbolism in it and Gatsby's fascination with Daisy is hard to capture as well. He's often played as kinda nuts while Daisy is played as a ditz. That's a weird combo.

For all its big moments, the novel to me has always seemed actually rather intimate.

Yes, and, in fact, Gatsby calls off the big parties about halfway through the narrative, when Daisy says she doesn't care for them. There follows a series of scenes in a hauntingly empty mansion.

So marketing the film as an exercise in Jazz Age excess is either misleading or a bad sign. (FWIW, that's exactly how they marketed the early 70s version. I agree with Eric that it wasn't as bad as people tend to claim, but the parties weren't the best part of the film.)

Updated On: 8/7/12 at 02:07 AM

It's still coming out. They showed the trailer when I went to see "Les Miz".

Thanks Mister Matt!

I'm even less convinced/even more intrigued than before.

I'm heading out with the dog to play in the snow and then I'm coming home and watching 'Strictly Ballroom'.

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Right?

The mystery of Gatsby's past is apparently going to be ruthlessly, relentlessly explained to us in 3-D.

That was the "less convinced" part.

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Speaking of Moulin Rouge, seeing the trailer for Gatsby before Les Mis made me wish that Baz would direct another movie musical, as well as another Broadway show. I adored his production of La Boheme some years back.

Well at least this Luhrmann ride seems to be closer to his films that I enjoy (sometimes despite myself) then Australia...

I suppose for me, this isn't quite a Moulin Rouge, or even R&J case, simply because Romeo and Juliet I can accept at this point done any way conceivable, and MR was an original work (even if, by its nature, it was a pastiche). I'm prob too invested in my love for Gatsby--so I'm worried how much I will be able to sit back and see the movie for itself and not just compare it to my experience with the book (I suppose I could comnpare it to past versions of the film--like the Paul Rudd TV movie or the Redford one, in which case at the least it should be more exciting...)