i went to see Great Gatsby with xskids yesterday. xsboy must’ve been bored, i was surprised he decided to come along. They’d all had to read it in school, as i am sure i did, though i had zero recollection of the plot and had to ask them afterwards was it faithful to the book? it was updated with contemporary music etc. It was enjoyable. if i saw the one from the 70s i don’t recall it either. I have to say one thing that struck me and i imagine it was intentional, as an attempt to be faithful to the period— the women were a bit chunkier than is the fashion these days. Not the main characters, but the music acts at the Gatsby mansion were more marilyn monroe-like, than skinny minnies, as far as legs etc.
It was pretty funny when i was looking on moviephone to see how long it was, it said something in the description like; “contains some violent images, sexual content and SMOKING” oh how EVIL that is! guess they couldn’t whitewash out that sign of the times!
Yikes, serial posting here while just checking back into the thread. My kiddo loved the book and has read some of his others but thinks this is his best. She went with friends to the movie and she was the only one who had even read the book. It wasn’t required for any of them so they didn’t read it. It wasn’t required for me back in the day but I read it anyway and thought it was meh. I did not like them not using music exclusively from the genre. And not just because I am underwhelmed by contemporary urban stuff. Different strokes...
20’s stuff is all the rage today because of Boardwalk Empire.
My grandson took my daughter to see The Great Gatsby for Mother’s Day. She loved it, but she doesn’t remember the 70’s version. She thought the cinematography and the parties were spectacular. One comment she had is that she couldn’t emotionally bond with any of the characters, so it didn’t matter to her when they all came to a bad end.
I told her to go rent the Redford version. She’ll like it better, I’m sure.