In the dialogue at dinner, the director used a fast and rapid dialogue cut that basically leaves no room for breathing, which saves a lot of time and ensures the rhythm of the film (this is also the tragedy of this film, it is a commercial), but this is undoubtedly very ingenious, because the ringing of the phone breaks the suffocation, making the bland call stand out, and the presence of the fifth guest is thus revealed, of course at the cost of The loss of detail, the luxury in question becomes a visual spectacle.
The promiscuous party in the city was exaggerated by the director. I guess it is because in the original book, it happened to be the era of Prohibition. Alcohol in that era was like marijuana now, so the director added trumped-up drugs to create a marijuana-like substance. hallucinatory scene. In the original book, this story was mostly described by dialogue, but it was extensively revised and simplified by the director, and an important conversation was omitted, that is, Tom lied to Mrs. Wilson that he could not get a divorce because Daisy was Catholic, but retains the plot that Tom didn't allow Mrs. Wilson to be called Daisy, Tom has been completely tampered with to be another person, he is no longer an immature liar - (Born in a rich family, never experienced any deception The typical sign), but turned into a malicious person, his entire character was flattened, and commercial films need flattened characters for the audience to locate. From here, the helpless gap between the film and the original begins to appear.
Gatsby's ball pushes luxury to the extreme. I personally think the only reason for the whole film to be 3D is the ball. The director spent a lot of energy on this ball, trying to make him orderly and contagious, but the actual In Uehara's book, this is a grand, but disorderly dance, with all kinds of ugly dances (an old man pushes a young girl backwards, endlessly circling the ugly circle; proud men and women hugging each other) wiggling around in trendy dance steps), which is also the chaotic, purposeless, self-righteous hedonistic life that defines the entire East, where Gatsby is the unseen God who created everything, but he only created, and Regardless of how they develop.
In the original work, the main line of the plot development was buried in the chaotic dance party, and the director selected it and pushed the plot development with an urgent attitude. He resolutely abandoned the false feelings of Kawell and Jordan supported by illusions— —It’s a common false feeling, we just pretend not to be aware of its falsehood.
In the highlight of the meeting, the director, in addition to adding a little comedy, completely respected the meaning of the original book, because the description of the original book is very accurate. After arriving at Gatsby's house, I believe the director spent a lot of thought on making changes. And design each plot, and arrange it with the utmost visual rendering power, but the difference reappears in the Beethoven descendant. In the original book, he is not very good at playing the piano, and he has no advantages. He is just because of Gatsby. His generosity came to eat and drink, which meant he owed Gatsby a favor, but after Gatsby died, he just wanted to get back the shoes he dropped at Gatsby's house.
The next highlight is the scene where Tom and Daisy go to the dance together. The director always spares no effort to show the dance, but in fact the author has no interest in describing the dance. Tom, a man without scheming, continues to lie and want to go. Playing elsewhere, Daisy easily saw through his mind. Except for the foxtrot with Gatsby, Daisy didn't like the dance, because Tom or other reasons, and Gatsby denied the dance from then on. , because all his stuff is for Daisy, without Daisy, everything is meaningless - the director must be consistent with the original on this issue, which is the core of the whole story, just like "A Letter from a Strange Woman" "The girl's hopeless feelings for the hero, it's just that Tom, the eugenic Tom, who in the novel swore to investigate because of her jealousy of the grand ball, became more thoughtful in the movie.
Tom can be said to be the person who made the most changes in the director. He became an independent villain in the film. He deliberately killed Gatsby, but the novel does not want to put the blame on Tom. Tom is just an ordinary person. A member of the upper class of society, he was eugenic and arty, and he didn't even do any decent investigation on Gatsby at all. His so-called investigation was just asking Walter a few words. During the confrontation in the room, he Pretending to be calm, trying to maintain his demeanor, and sometimes showing his sincerity and begging for Daisy, if it wasn't for what he happened to say about Gatsby, and if he wasn't an alcoholic, he was actually more like Daisy's rise. Just a victim of an extramarital affair. But in the movie, he takes every step of the way, the victory is in his hands, and the whole person is marching toward victory from the beginning, driving Gatsby to death. And in front of Wilson, Tom didn't even think about instructing Wilson to take revenge on Gatsby except to shirk his responsibility. He just cried secretly while driving. His behavior was the same as most people in the upper class and even the middle class. I don’t want any superfluous things to interfere with my existing life, and I don’t want to take responsibility for my actions. Whenever I get a chance, I will shirk it.
The director wants us to despise Tom, while the writer asks us to despise ourselves, despise the grandiose reasons we find for ourselves, despise our cowardice for a while, despise our consistent sense of justice for the world and our generous forgiveness, despise We replace responsibility with grief.
Cavill's last words to Gatsby come to mind every time I watch Gatsby—they're a bunch of bastards," I shouted across the lawn, "they're a whole bunch of them in one place. Heap is not as good as you. "
That's the best summary of Gatsby, fortunately, he heard it himself in his lifetime. From a movie perspective, I really admire the look on the face of Plum when he hears this, he will never get what he wants. Yes, he is out of tune with this era.
At the end of the film, the director tried to show Gatsby's bleakness, but he had gone into a misunderstanding. He used Tom to prove that Gatsby was just an example, and made the audience more envious of that era with grand and orderly balls and luxury. In the novel, Tom just represents an era. He hated this era so much. This era that existed before and is still going on. Those trees that made way for the great dreams of mankind, those ancient islands that gave off splendor, finally fell into darkness. , Cavill erased the dirty words written by children on Gatsby's white marble steps, but one day it will still be full of paintings - because no matter how ugly the world is, people will still remember it years later The spectacles created with money and luxuries, Gatsby will be slowly forgotten.
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