He asked, "If we have a dream and never wake up all our lives, then is this dream still a dream?"
Gatsby also had a dream, in which he was the son of God and a pilgrim struggling to find the Holy Grail. , Is the light-keeper who builds his faith on the wings of the elves. He had a dream and never woke up all his life.
I've read the original "The Great Gatsby" four times, and watched the 74 version of the movie twice, and here are my thoughts on the 13 version of the movie. Some people say that books and movies should not be confused, and I agree with this point. Having said that, it is very important to preserve the temperament of the original book when remaking a masterpiece. 13 In the movie, the jazz music has become a noisy and flamboyant disco. Readers who had been watching the fire with Fitzgerald from the other side suddenly realized that they were burning wildly with the actor when they saw it, and they only sighed.
The director has undoubtedly put a lot of effort into trying to reproduce the jazz age, but in my opinion, the movie looks very close, and the setting and music are specious and seem a little funny. Fashionable is not equal to flameboyant, nouveau riche is only applicable to Gatsby's garden. However, almost every scene in the first half of the film is extremely luxurious. There is no obvious difference between old money and nouveau riche, and the complicated background makes people dizzy. Generally speaking, the first half of the picture is too full and lacks the necessary space—the space for imagination, the space for recollection, and the space for moving resonance. It is important to know that the amount of information in a picture of an open sky is far greater than that of a river on the Qingming Festival. People tend to underestimate the wonderful tension in the subtle and concise pictures.
Due to the over-stacking caused the distortion of the film and the sense of distance to watch the movie, the audience could not well experience the turbulent and cold world in the east with Nick's vision. Although the space and rhythm were well mastered in the second half, it was still unable to remedy the previous failure and inevitably left the impression of a snakehead. From this point of view, 3D production is inevitably suspected of being sensational and self-defeating.
The most embarrassing passage in the entire book is the memory of Gates returning to Louisville in Chapter 8: "He was in pain and involuntarily used the last money from his army to go to Louisville. He stayed there for a week, walking through the streets where they walked side by side on November night, and revisiting the remote places they had gone to in her white car. Just like Daisy’s house. In his opinion, it has always been more mysterious and joyous than other houses. Now the city of Louisville itself, although she has never gone back, still permeates a melancholy beauty in his opinion."
Gone never returned-back then It is this sentence that makes my eyes red. I have repeatedly returned to the streets of my hometown overgrown with phoenix trees. The past is like the wind, the world is like a smoke, and the passage of time is all in vain. I understand in my heart, but involuntarily wandering in the streets of the ancient capital. This paragraph echoes the ending sentence "Back to the past". It can be said that it is the soul of the book, but I did not experience the feeling of melancholy in the movie. I don't know when I will see the remake of the masterpiece out of the vicious circle of commercialization and production. If you capture the melancholic beauty of the jazz age with a black and white lens, it must be excellent.
[Actor Casting]
Leonardo's relaxed performance was completely unexpected. In contrast, Kerry's interpretation of Daisy's role greatly exceeded my expectations. Her slightly curved corners of the mouth and a frown and a smile are very touching, and they are also in line with the image of Daisy in the book: "Her face is melancholy and beautiful, with a bright look on her face, two bright eyes, and a bright and beautiful face. Passionate mouth, but her voice has an exciting quality, which is unforgettable by men who have fallen for her: a
melodious charm. " Satisfied with Jordan Baker's actor: "She wears night The dress, all the skirts, are like wearing sportswear-her movements have a vigorous posture, as if she had been learning to walk on the golf course in the morning with fresh air." Although Jordan is essentially as selfish as Daisy , Dishonest, but it can also be regarded as the "new new women" of that era. Participating in competitive competitions shows that she is more independent, at least mentally. Although Jordan's role in this version of the movie is greatly reduced, the few scenes that appear are more in line with the description in the book.
[Detail processing]
Extra points] The
green light is hazy and dreamy. Every time I flickered, my heart followed.
The handwriting that appeared on the screen caught my heart.
The shooting angle of Gatsby's shirt throwing is good. The piano was replaced with a pipe organ ingeniously.
The two strokes of THE GREAT at the end are very wonderful, they are the finishing touches.
Daisy looks beautiful when she was a girl.
The death of Gatsby, the ringing of the phone and the three shots are cut so beautifully.
Penalties]
Nick is not seven dwarfs, why do they live in the forest? Gatsby wants to mow the lawn, and it turns out that Nima is all soil and tree roots!
When Gatsby and Daisy reunited, although he knew that Nick would be there as a narrator, his sense of presence was too strong. The wattage of the light bulb was slightly higher.
The dance music at Gatsby's banquet can hardly be any more soil. The most dazzling nightclub style of verb beats, Disco beat does not belong to that era at all.
You can't repeat the past, there was a shooting star in that scene! The toilet seat god inserts!
What made me the most unbearable was the laughter in the movie theater when Gatsby and Daisy reunited. The director is really unsure of the degree.
[Classic Bridge] I
am very dissatisfied with the changes of several lines:
1]"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone', he told me,'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
"Whenever you want to criticize anyone," he said to me, "you remember that not all people in this world have the advantages that you have." Very A philosophical and very memorable piece of advice in the movie became "try people as good as possible."
2] "Her voice is rash," I said, "it is full..." I hesitated. "Her voice is full of money," he said suddenly. That's it. I have never realized it before. It is full of money—this is the source of the endless charm in her voice, the sound of money, the singing of cymbals.
Gatsby did not fail to see the essence of Daisy, he understood it very well. He is infatuated with such money-filled voices—the king’s daughter, the golden girl, the embodiment of dreams of love and desire. It is this line of dialogue that sublimated Gatsby from an infatuated man to an "great" idealist, and deleting it is a terrible mistake.
3] "The only thing completely still in the room is a huge couch with two young women floating on a big balloon parked on the ground." Very classic scene, but the curtains are too effective Exaggeration gave me a "fantasy" feeling. I think that the rhythm of the dialogue between the characters here is not well mastered, and the transition of the shots is dizzyingly fast.
Daisy's pretentious attitude towards her daughter is an important part of the character's character shaping. I don't know why the two-hour movie has deleted this paragraph, and Gatsby's reaction to Daisy's daughter is also omitted. "Gatsby and I bent down and shook the little hand she stretched out reluctantly. Then he stared at the child in amazement. I don't think he had really believed in the existence of this child before." Gatsby The denial of reality is always incredibly thorough.
4] Nick and Jordan's rivalry scenes are pitiful. As Gatsby and Daisy's doubles, Jordan and Nick are indispensable for the integrity of the narrative. Their relationship develops in parallel, from attracting each other to parting ways, which is one of the frameworks that supports the main plot in the book. But the director actually changed the setting, and even Jordan and Nick stopped the ambiguous period, which made it difficult for me to accept. The character of Jordan in the movie is not full, and she did not even use the money to buy tokens to cover up cheating in the game.
Jordan is a temptation to Nick, which is equivalent to Daisy to Gatsby. Of course Nick is more sober and sensible. He liked her, but he chose to leave after clearly recognizing the difference in values between the two.
5] Tom's mistress's party. Nick was drunk. The line I am simultaneously within and without at the end of that chapter is the only time in the book that the director used it again (again, I am within and without) at the moment when Gatsby and Daisy reunited. I personally feel that the second insertion is very blunt and not very appropriate.
The cute dog from the mistress's house also occupies some space in the book. Myrtle asked about the dog's gender, and Tom interrupted rudely: it's a bitch, his violent and cruel character suddenly came to light. It is a pity that this scene did not appear in the movie.
In a way, both Myrtle and Gatsby are pursuing the American dream. Mrs. Wilson in the book is not as thin and offensive as in the movie. She was half-truth and half-false at the party, talking to herself about her motives for cheating: "All I thought about was one sentence:'You can't live forever. You can't live forever.'" They are all against the current. The boatman on board, although he has never known each other, has a similar fate. The dramatic intersection between her and Gatsby at the gas station in the film is very rough.
Fortunately, the scene of Myrtle's death was handled very well. "Her mouth was wide open, and the corners of her mouth were torn a bit, as if she choked while letting out the extremely vigorous energy she had stored for a lifetime. "It is not dreams but dust that kills her.
6] Gatsby's father did not appear.
[I can't help but spit out: Those who blindly pursue movies, have you read the book and other versions, and say you are loyal to the original! With so many classic bridges missing, the degree of reduction is 99%? ! ]
Although the film had some regret, a lot of shots is remarkable. On the last night, when Nick looked at Gatsby and said that he has an extraordinary gift for hope, Leonardo's eyes flashed with longing and hope. He looked like a child who got his beloved toy, as if he was close to Daisy's days and nights. So the softest part of my heart hurts severely.
Perhaps, for everyone who is unwilling to ups and downs in the torrent of fate, dream is the only reality. With Wang Xiaobo's sigh, everything is over, everything is irretrievably toward vulgarity. Not to mention the clamor in the world, no matter what we do, there are many difficulties.
So we struggled forward, hitting the water, until we returned to the past.
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