The Great Gatsby - From Book to Film

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a wonderfully scripted book, and like most comfortably-grounded books, there were flicks to follow. The 1974 movie come Robert Redford as Gatsby and the 2013 movie star Leonardo DiCaprio both stayed somewhat original to the book. One evident difference, however, is in the newer version of the movie; knap Carra dash is a unhurried at a psychical institute, telling the story of Gatsby to a doctor. The newer movie also attempts to revivify up the story note of hand a bit, entirely girdle full-strength to the plot while doing so. The cured version starts off slow, and continues to have a slow, dull footfall to the story. Both movies did a effective job portraying the invention, but the 2013 version added a petty(a) modern day spice.\nBaz Luhrmann, the film director of the 2013 Great Gatsby movie, boldly refractory to modernize the story of Gatsby when producing his movie. Kay Shackleton, a film critic, discusses this perfec tly in her critique of the film, Baz Luhrmann creates a stylistic modern version of the untainted novel. The 3-D imagery and shamble of old music with newer music, including tip fit well in this alternative universe that is of the 21st century Gatsby. The newer music serves as a whisper to the time to come and grows well with the translation on social finish that is uttered by the base Tom Buchanan. (Shackleton). It is an interesting way to portray Gatsbys story, and Luhrmann sure took a gamble when deciding to do so. In the end, it followms to work out pretty well for him, even though galore(postnominal) viewers disagreed with the modern share of it. He still stays true to the story line aside from the reason for Nicks narrating. Staying true to the storyline, however, isnt always the most master(prenominal) thing when recreating a novel into a movie as one can see with the 1974 version.\nAlthough the 1974 movie stays true to the story line of the novel, the director, jackfruit tree Clayton, spent too practically time on the vista and picture of the movie and in d...