With the utmost goodwill, this is a film trying to "reproduce the experience". The film does not focus on reproducing the United States in the 1920s, but wants to convey the feelings of readers in the 1920s to The Great Gatsby to the current audience.
So there was a jazz age without jazz.
For example, a scene where a black upstart driving a luxury car competes with Gatsby's luxury car, playing hip-hop with a subwoofer in the car. Nowadays young audiences can easily understand that they are upstarts, but the original meaning of this picture (black rich men hire white drivers) is weakened, because this comparison is only meaningful in the historical scene before the civil rights movement.
——This kind of expressive technique runs through the whole process, which makes the movie show surreal colors. This approach will obviously offend most of the original party, and after the servile adaptation, whether young viewers will buy it depends on the trend of future reviews.
After all, teenagers who watch movies to finish their homework will also be disappointed. There are too many details adapted, and after watching the movie, it is not very useful to write book reviews.
"The Great Gatsby" was originally difficult to make into a movie. It was remade several times before, and the score on imdb did not exceed 6.5.
The story of the novel is not strong, the clues are not fascinating, and it does not have a "film sense" when read. The value of the novel lies in the successful characterization and rich and gorgeous rhetoric.
After deleting a lot of plots, the movie is still relatively long and the adaptation is a bit strange.
For example, "Father" said at the beginning: "Whenever you want to comment on others, remember that not all people in the world have the advantages of yours." This is just like the beginning of "A Tale of Two Cities". The iconic sentence was replaced by another sentence that my father said later.
The little romance between Jordan and Nick is deleted.
After Gatsby and Daisy rebuilt the old one, their evaluation of her was deleted ("Her voice is full of money"), and there are no comments by Nick that expose Daisy's sense of materiality.
In addition, the plot in which Daisy lied to Tom was deleted at the end (it was said that Gatsby killed someone), and I felt that Daisy was not beaten enough, and I was very confused.
All supporting roles in the prom have been reduced to a face. Those stockbrokers, artists, tacky or elegant women, rich women with dramatic personalities, and married men and women with agitated spring hearts who shuttle among the rich have all become human scenes of singing and dancing.
This makes Gatsby the only social climber in the movie, and a social tragedy becomes Gatsby's character tragedy.
The film's performance on the social level is very weak, but every time some people pass through the Dust Valley, some people are shoveling coal to show the polarization between the rich and the poor. It is regrettable that all levels of the middle class have disappeared.
The director may have considered that the real reproduction of the 1920s will make American audiences feel like a "grandparents' romance". So the scene strives to be high-end and high-end, worthy of 3D. So this became a historical overhead story. Gatsby lives in the castle of "The Magician of Oz", holds a dance party in "Big Fish", raises Willie Wonka as a diner, and makes friends with Spider-Man... The
gorgeous scenes, the cheerful crowd, seem to be Praise for this era. This is a far cry from the impression the novel gives.
If the director misunderstood the whole story, the actors seemed to understand it.
Gatsby is very good. The open and windy convertible and the exaggeration of pretending to be the rich second generation is a top interpretation of this role. He was hypocritical, sincere, self-deceiving, and fragile, all manifested.
After Tom revealed Gatsby's true identity, Gatsby rushed to him furiously, which was an unexpected development. In the novel, Gatsby only showed a "killing" face, and continued to pretend to be a gentleman at other times.
But this creation does not violate peace, but makes Gatsby more three-dimensional.
Leonardo has really become an acting school, and "Jiang Ge" and "Gatsby" have established the status of actor.
However, in the scene when Gatsby was young, he really looked forward to turning him into Jack in "Titanic" in CG. The story is more convincing, isn’t it? A poor and beautiful young military officer, who is obsessed with the upper class ladies who are full of sense of society; the girl married a rich man, and the military officer came back as a rich man. After too much experience, Zhu Yan has changed...
Nick was very good too, and took a high look at Spider-Man from then on.
Nick and Daisy come from the same family and belong to the upper middle class. They are not as rich as Tom, but they are also rich enough to make young Gatsby look forward to the kind of money he dreams of.
With the dream of starting a business and getting rich, Nick went to New York to study finance alone, so this is a low-key and gorgeous child. He looked on and watched Gatsby and the faces of the social climbers at his prom. Because his father taught him: "Whenever you want to comment on others, remember that not all people in the world have the advantages of yours."
Nick is often portrayed as "submissively" in movies. But this Nick is very cold and cruel, probably because there is no Jordan to mix it up.
When Gatsby talked about his experience in Oxford, Nick knew it was fake when he heard it, but he didn't say a word, with a sneer on his mouth.
Who will write a rotten article about Nick and Gatsby?
Daisy is a difficult role to play. Everyone's understanding of Daisy is different.
For example, I think Daisy is the type of Jon's first wife in "Mad Men", and friends who watched the movie together thought she was the type of Scarlett Scarlett.
In any case, this Daisy's lines are short and sharp, giving her plenty of time to "act". This is not enough.
Daisy does not represent herself, her expectations of herself (a beautiful little fool) and her ability to make decisions are not enough for her to represent herself. She is speaking for a social culture that allows people like Tom to despise people like Gatsby, and people like Daisy can call people like Gatsby.
A person who dismisses Daisy from a moral perspective is like drinking and messing around at a Gatsby party, but dismissing Gatsby who is a smuggler.
("Vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty" vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty describe Gatsby's dream in the novel.)
(Speaking of music, what about "Love is Blindness"?http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzY3MjQxMDky.html )
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