Thursday, May 24, 2012

The Great Gatsby - movie remake


  • Let’s Dive Deep Into The Great Gatsby Trailer
The trailer for Baz Luhrmann's Great American (by way of Australia) Movie made its way on to the Internet last night, but we at Vulture have a lot of thoughts about this latest stab at The Great Gatsby, and we assume that you do too! (How could anyone not have opinions about that green cloche hat that Carey Mulligan Gemma Ward? Isla Fischer? is wearing around the 30-second mark?) So we now call to order a special meeting of the Trailer Mix Society in order to obsess over these two minutes in a proper fashion. Let's get it.
What is our faithfulness quotient here — and how much does it matter?
The opening narration isn't from Gatsby, but from another Fitzgerald essay, "My Lost City" (also, it's about Condé Nast parties). That seems totally fair to us — the 1974 adaptation stayed incredibly close to the book, and suffered for it at times — but how will the English teachers of America feel?
More at Vulture.

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