Although the characters' acting skills are good, because of the director's positioning of the characters, he still can't get rid of the predicament of being a little facialized.
The kind of disillusionment in the work is also expressed through various contrasts, but it is more about love, and the adaptation of the details makes it lose a bit of the desolation of the shattered American dream.
Let's talk about the director's biggest change to the original content: In the
movie, Gatsby is portrayed as an infatuated man who has been chasing love unswervingly, and Daisy is simply portrayed as an ordinary heartless woman. But in fiction, are they so?
First, Gatsby has always been aware of Daisy's money-worshiping. Gatsby said sadly that "there was money in her voice" as they chatted and heard Daisy's voice.
The biggest adaptation is the ending of the story.
Gatsby was romanticized in the ending of The Great Gatsby in 2013. He came out of the pool to look at the ringing phone when Wilson shot him in the back - Gatsby was nearly dead in the final slaughter of love.
Let's take a look at how it is described in the original book:
No telephone message arrived, but the butler went without his sleep and waited for it until four o'clock - until long after there was anyone to give it to if it came. I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn't believe it would come , and perhaps he no longer care. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaved and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifting fortuitously about...like that ashen , fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.
"No one ever called, but the butler didn't sleep until four o'clock—even if there was a call, no one answered (author's note: because Gatsby was shot). I One thought: Actually Gatsby himself didn't believe a phone call would come, and he probably didn't care anymore. If so, he must have felt that he had lost that old warm world in order to hold a Dreaming too long and paying a high price. He must have been horrified by looking up at an unfamiliar sky through the horrific leaves, and at the same time realizing what an ugly thing a rose is, the sun shining on the grass just emerging How cruel it is. This is a new world, material but unreal. Here, the poor ghost breathes airy dreams, drifting to and fro... like that gray, eccentric, wearing Like a figure walking quietly towards him through the cluttered trees."
And even for that afternoon when Gatsby saw Daisy at Nick's house, there must have been moments even that afternoon:
There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams--not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time , decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
"Even that afternoon, there must have been moments when Daisy fell far short of his dreams--not through her fault, but because of the great vitality of his visions. His visions surpassed hers, surpassed everything. He Throw yourself into this fantasy with a creative frenzy, adding branches and leaves, embellishing it with every gorgeous feather that floats along the way. No amount of passion or energy can match a person's accumulated feelings in a haunted heart. ." The
male protagonist Nick and Jordan originally had a story line about dating and calling. One night, the lonely man and the widow kissed on the way back in the taxi. In the end, the two of them broke up due to differences of opinion and value issues. This scene was cut straight out.
Turning a realistic and indifferent story into a romantic film with Luhrmann's mark is the biggest adaptation of the original book by director Baz Luhrmann. Good-looking is good-looking, but that's all.
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