Gatsby's castle holds a grand banquet every night, politicians, celebrities, wealthy businessmen, aristocrats, ladies, film and television stars, art madmen, gangsters, all uninvited to party all night, but few people really know Gatsby, and even many People have never seen him at all. It is rumored that he is the cousin of the German emperor, a mysterious rich man, and even a murderer, but these have never affected their enjoyment of the banquet. Recreate the carnival scenes of the upper class at that time. Nick was the only one who received an official invitation from Gatsby. When the dazzling fireworks shone in the sky accompanied by a blue rhapsody, we finally met Leonardo, who was like a god. He was decent, generous, mysterious and confident. He invited Nick to take his seaplane, drove Nick for a ride in a modified turbocharged sports car, and even tried to prove his identity and experience to Nick again and again, and was willing to help Nick in his career. His best friend revealed to Nick that he hoped Nick could help arrange a meeting between him and his lover Daisy five years ago. That meeting is the emotional peak and climax of the film. He tidyed up the lawn near Nick's house. He filled the room with greenhouse flowers. He had been waiting for this moment for a long time, but after Daisy entered the door, he fled in a panic. After getting wet, he stood at the door again. At this time, he was not the mysterious wealthy businessman with confidence and determination. He was just a young man who wanted to meet his first love again. The initial awkwardness was followed by forgetting the whispers of the world, and then taking Daisy to visit her castle, sailing a boat and diving to enjoy the custom piano performance, and the most impressive thing was to leave all kinds of nobles in the world from the second floor. In the high-end clothes prepared by the lady, Daisy lay screaming and playful in the pile of clothes, but after the love seems to recover and climax, the two episodes that take place are intriguing. The housekeeper interrupted their conversation. Gatsby needed to answer the phone to handle his business. The thick clouds outside made up for the gloomy sky. bleak future.
Then came their continual relationship, and for Gatsby he believed he was the son of God, and if he worked hard enough, he could make it all back to five years ago and start all over again. As the plot progresses, Gatsby's life experience is revealed layer by layer. Gatsby was the child of a poor peasant family in the Midwest, but he believed that he was the son of God and that he would have a brilliant life, so he left home at the age of 16 and saved the life of a millionaire in a storm. Accompanying the rich man around the world to learn the etiquette and social interaction of the upper class, of course, he should also learn how to do business, but in the end he was deprived of the property inheritance right by the rich man's relatives. He became a trainee officer in the army and met a wealthy girl Daisy at that time. When the movie expresses his love affair with Daisy, there is already a strong tragic color. When he decides whether to kiss Daisy or not, he understands that once Falling in love, his great, free and hopeful future will be shackled by this love. It can be seen that the tragedy behind him has been doomed from the beginning. Later, he went to war, but did not come back after the war. Daisy waited a year and decided to marry Tom, a nobleman, but received a letter from Gatsby before the marriage. The film did not explain the content of the letter and Gatsby's experience in the past five years, but from the few words of the hotel quarrel, it is conceivable that Gatsby did not want to win the rich girl from the poor. Love and marriage, he may have done a lot of dark activities in the past five years, such as selling bootleg alcohol or participating in business speculation, etc., which is not explicitly explained in the movie, but revealed a little through Tom's sarcasm and mutual quarrel. But when he became famous and bought the castle and returned home, Daisy was already someone else's wife, and he could only look for the green light across the strait every night, and held a grand banquet every night expecting Daisy to come. What he wants is more than Daisy, Daisy is only a part, he wants self-recognition and social approval, and even fantasizes that everything can go back to five years ago and start again, so even if Nick reminds him that it is impossible to "do it all over again" At that time, although he hesitated for a while, he confidently believed in himself.
Looking back, Daisy was a total green tea bitch. Although she also loved Gatsby, maybe it was just a good memory or an experience of Girls' Generation. Even if Gatsby didn't go to the battlefield later, she might not even marry. to Gatsby. I even think that if Gatsby appeared in five years, if she was still a poor boy instead of a mysterious rich businessman, she would at best see Gatsby as an old lover who had an affair. Gatsby's achievements and wealth made her dare to He proposed the idea of eloping, but Gatsby wanted more than Daisy's people. He felt that what he wanted to give himself and Daisy was a legitimate marriage and the recognition and blessing of the world, so he pushed Daisy to confess to her husband. , if all he wants is for Daisy to get divorced and marry him, it might even be possible, but what he wants is for Daisy to admit that he never loved Tom, what he wants is the five years that have passed and what might happen Of everything, he really wants to start anew, which is destined to be the most tragic and beautiful ending. Tom seems to have fallen into the tragedy of being surrounded by enemies before and after. His wife is having an affair and his marriage is in jeopardy. When passing through Ash Valley, his lover is found to be having an affair by his husband. In the restaurant at his home in Long Island, in the hotel room, it seems that he will be defeated at any time. This is the most tense stage of the movie. It is hot and stuffy, suffocating and suffocating. Even if the fan is turned on and the windows are sprinkled with ice cubes, everyone's nerves are tense and it seems that they are about to be broken. Although Tom has done a background check and repeatedly questioned Gatsby's identity, but these were easily resolved by Gatsby, and even everyone was on Gatsby's side, but in the end Tom's denial and ridicule of Gatsby's struggle angered Gatsby to let He makes a drastic move and then the plot takes a nosedive as Daisy grows colder despite his many apologies and explanations. Until then Daisy drove Tom's mistress to death, Gatsby hid in the garden of Tom's house, worried about Daisy's fate, and waited for Daisy's call in the morning. Daisy accepted her husband's comfort and arrangement happily. Nick saw this scene and knew that this love or dream was over, so when he left, he praised and recognized Gatsby, and he really understood Gatsby and Gatsby. American dream man. Gatsby could never wait for Daisy's call. Tom slyly used his lover's husband's revenge to lead him to seek revenge on Gatsby. Even if Gatsby didn't die, his dream was shattered. In fact, death was for him. It was a wordless relief, the comfort of his dreams from the writer and director, at least he heard the phone call before he died, maybe he thought it was Daisy. After his death, no one came to his funeral except the police media tabloid reporter, although Nick called Daisy and when the servant answered the phone, Daisy should have known
Daisy, the green tea bitch, is bound to do this. She is essentially the same type of person as Tom. They both come from a well-known family, and even the so-called high society is the essence and hypocrisy. In the hotel where Gatsby was in the final showdown, Gatsby's outburst after being provoked suddenly made her understand that it was impossible to follow Gatsby. Even a luxurious banquet, she still has to return to her own world in the end. Although she knew that her husband cheated and had an affair, and although she knew that a lot of the world was false and indifferent, she couldn't achieve the American dream with Gatsby, because she was not that person at all. Looking back at Gatsby, in fact, what he loves is not Daisy five years later, but the idealized Daisy in his dream. The kiss of Daisy, a ignorant girl five years ago, gave his dreams and even a hint of fantasy. Silk foundation, and then Daisy was the incarnation of the goddess in his heart. After so many years of struggle, he continued to improve Daisy. Daisy represented his ideal of the American dream and perfect love, and even he hoped to be able to return. To five years ago, and to make up for all the good things that could happen in those five years. The root of the tragedy is not because Daisy is a green tea bitch, but because Gatsby's dreams and demands are too ideal. Although Daisy is willing to run away with him and even admit that she loves him now, and even divorces and goes with him, she still cannot. Fulfill Gatsby's dream. After a dream has been repeatedly conceived in the mind day and night for five years, the reality cannot reach the level of the dream anyway. This is the gap between the reality and the dream.
What's so great about Gatsby?
I think many people who have watched the movie will have such confusion, why is it called "The Great Gatsby", and where is he so great. Judging from the whole movie, he is a young man from a poor background with an unfulfilled dream of love. Although he has earned enough money through hard work, and even though he holds extravagant banquets every night, he still cannot realize his dream in the end. The dream of love that he wants cannot realize his gorgeous transformation from the bottom society to the upper class. If speaking of his greatness, I think it should be that although he failed in the end, he had the courage and confidence to struggle and work hard, not to accept stubbornness and compromise, and to insist on his highest ideals for love and the world, despite the bloodshed The ideal is shattered, but his courage and determination to try hard is still called the word "Great".
Why does Gatsby represent the American dream
I don’t think movies have established enough connections in this regard. The American dream is that regardless of your background or background, as long as you work hard and work hard, you can change everything. You can have wealth, love, respect, and status. Dreams are the driving force that supports our efforts to move forward, just like the green light in the dark, but when you really reach the other side, maybe you will find that there is nothing there, beautiful things only exist in the imagination in the process of struggle . So Gatsby's failure and shattered dream represent the shattering of the American dream. The subsequent part of the novel is more in-depth than
the movie. The metaphors and emotions in the movie are substituted
1. At the beginning of the movie, the green light represents love and hope, but this green light does come from the traditional upper class of East egg. Gatsby stands in front of West egg's mansion, but yearns for the green light on the other side, which also implies the expectation of having an ideal love to integrate into the upper class of the United
States The faces are all dressed in suits and polite dress. Thousands of young Americans come to New York to find their dreams. Nick is just one of them. In the end, most of them should be like Nick. Cities and the upper class
3. Tom Daisy obviously represents the traditional upper class, Gatsby represents the upstart class who worked hard through hard work, and Nick represents the young generation who was born in the aristocratic class, but now comes to the city to work hard, so He understood Gatsby best.
4. There are a lot of Latin words for "loyalty" on the floor of Gatsby's castle and at the end of the film. After watching the film, I understand that Gatsby's castle also represents the ideal world that carries the American dream.
5. The movie presents many banquets. The luxury and luxury carnival, but every time it will show the end of the banquet, the servants wearily cleaning the castle pool and scrubbing the cups, implying the depression and loneliness after the prosperity, and perhaps also implying the subsequent Great Depression in the United States.
6. Long Island , Ash Valley and New York, every time you go from Long Island to downtown, you must pass through Ash Valley. This is the foundation of the city’s prosperity. Every time you pass here, the tones of the movie are gray and very depressing. In fact, Ash Valley represents the bottom society. Anyone who wants to go to a big city must experience this place, which implies that the process of realizing the American Dream must be difficult and hard, even dirty and sinful.
7. Nick and Tom went to Ash Valley, and were half seduced and half forced to hang out with women. When he was under the influence of drugs and alcohol, he stood at the window and saw the world, just like looking up from the lower class to the upper class. In fact, at that time Nick had already Seeing the indifference ,
hypocrisy and meaninglessness of the city
When she visited the castle, the sun was shining brightly when she was diving in the sea at first, but it was cloudy at the end. The green light that represented love and hope was no longer visible, and it also hinted at the tragic ending and the shattering of hope.
10. Telephone The oppression and irritability of the ringing began with Tom getting a phone call from his mistress; then Gatsby kept getting business calls, and Nick's workplace kept ringing, and finally Gates Than anxiously waiting for Daisy's call.
11. There is also a lot of jazz and dance in the movie. I am not familiar with music and dance. It should represent this and that era.
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