Two changes I like:
1. Before Gatsby kissed Daisy 5 years ago, he paused and looked up at the starry sky. He knew that after the kiss, he would devote himself to his own destiny, and it would never come back. As Zweig said in "Letter from a Strange Woman", he fell into his own destiny like falling into the abyss.
2. When Daisy said "elope", he shook his head and denied it. For him, "Daisy is in this house" is his complete dream.
There are a few things I don't like. Daisy's story has changed completely. She is not a frivolous rich girl, but a person who can elope for love. In the book, she is not Gatsby at all, and she has long gone out with her husband. Going on vacation, unlike in the film, under the pressure of her husband, she is still struggling to make that last phone call. Daisy wasn't worth his effort at all, and if it weren't for that, Gatsby wouldn't be so pathetic.
And the author, who becomes a complete bystander in the film, is himself disillusioned with love in the book: with Jordan. If just witnessing Gatsby's story made him hate New York, and even got to the point where he needed to see a psychiatrist when he went back, then the story would have the tone of a "good friend".
Finally, and of course the most difficult, is the inability to capture the taste of Fitzgerald. His poetic quality as a "poet who doesn't write poetry", and his inexplicable youthful taste, is the director's wife's excessive desire for design and the director's My ad-directed fun is beyond my reach.
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