History Film / TheGreatGatsby

So impactful was Creator/FScottFitzgerald's 1925 novel ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' in American literature, it was adapted to theatrical film four times. First in 1926, which unfortunately is a lost film, one in 1949, one in 1974, and one in 2013.

So impactful was Creator/FScottFitzgerald's 1925 novel ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' in American literature, that it was adapted to theatrical film 4 times. First in 1926, which unfortunately was a lost film, one in 1949, one in 1974, and one in 2013.

* The [[Film/TheGreatGatsby1974 1974 film]] starring Creator/RobertRedford as Gatsby and Creator/MiaFarrow as Daisy
* The [[Film/TheGreatGatsby2013 2013 film]] starring Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio as Gatsby and Creator/CareyMulligan as Daisy

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I knew it was a great mistake for a man like me to fall in love..."'']]

The 2013 [[TheFilmOfTheBook movie adaptation]] of Creator/FScottFitzgerald's ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' by Creator/BazLuhrmann, starring Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Creator/CareyMulligan as Daisy Buchanan, Creator/TobeyMaguire as Nick Carraway, Creator/JoelEdgerton as Tom Buchanan, Creator/ElizabethDebicki as Jordan Baker and Creator/IslaFisher as Myrtle Wilson.

By far and away the most extravagant and visually dazzling adaptation of the novel to date (to the point of being released in [[UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie 3-D]]), the film notably keeps the 1922 setting of the novel but combines and contrasts authentic [[{{Jazz}} Jazz age]] tunes with strikingly modern music and visuals.

The 1974 version has its own page [[Film/TheGreatGatsby1974 here]].
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!!Tropes specific to the movie include:

* TwentiesBobHaircut: Obviously a fashion statement/trend worn by women in the film, considering it's set in TheRoaringTwenties.
* ActorAllusion: Nick reaches for the last drink on a tray too late and it's snatched by someone else. That exact thing happened to Peter Parker in ''Film/SpiderMan2''.
* AdaptationDistillation: The film cuts out Nick and Jordan's relationship as well as [[spoiler:Gatsby's father and the owl-eyed man showing up to Gatsby's funeral, and the scene where Nick meets Tom after Gatsby's death.]]
* AdaptationDyeJob:
** Jordan has dark yellow "hair like an autumn leaf" in the book and is also described as being tanned due to being a golfer in the book, but she's a pale-skinned brunette here.
** Daisy's hair color is somewhat ambiguous, she's described as both fair-haired and dark-haired in the book; here she's cast as a blonde. Interestingly, Daisy and Jordan have been depicted as blonde and brunette, respectively, in every film version since the '40s.
** Tom in the book is described as "straw-haired", but is depicted with dark hair in the film.
* AdaptedOut: [[spoiler:Gatsby's father, Henry C. Gatz, doesn't show up to his funeral as he does in the book.]] A [[http://youtu.be/I8M4ITS7z3Q?t=1m5s deleted scene]] would have included him, though.
%%* {{Adorkable}}: Gatsby, UpToEleven before the tea time with Nick and Daisy, oh Lord.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Jordan, thanks to AdaptationDyeJob.
* AnachronismStew:
** The soundtrack, filled with recent {{Pop Star Composer}}s and [[Music/{{Nero}} a highly lauded dubstep duo.]] A deliberate artistic choice very much like what Luhrmann did for ''[[Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet Romeo+Juliet]]'' and ''Film/MoulinRouge''.
** Gatsby's car is a Duesenberg. The model A would have fit the era of the movie (the first Duesenbergs were made in 1921), but the model used in the movie was an SJ model, which didn't start production until 1929.[[note]]The car was actually a Duesenberg II, an homage model that started production in the late 70s.[[/note]]
** New York City didn't have that many skyscrapers in the 1920's.
** In 1922, Art Deco was still in its early stages in France and wouldn't be nearly as flamboyant as it is in the film until the 1930's.
* AntiHero: Creator/LeonardoDicaprio plays up Jay Gatsby's dark side, with him nearly punching Tom (in the novel, he merely argues with him), and ordering a rogue gangster beat up outside his gates by his gang.
* ArtDeco: The movie's titles in the opening and in most of the promotional material.
* AuthorAvatar: Nick is intended as this for F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tobey Maguire was likely cast because of his resemblance to Fitzgerald.
* AwardBaitSong: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te11UaHOHMQ Young and Beautiful]]" by Music/LanaDelRey, and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AllYPIBbhw Over The Love]]" by Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine.
* BeardOfSorrow: Nick grows a beard [[spoiler:following Gatsby's death.]]
* BigFancyHouse: The Buchanan mansion is very large, fitting their wealth. Gatsby's mansion is verging on BigFancyCastle or BrightCastle, considering his NouveauRiche status.
* BilingualBonus: 'Ad Finem Fidelis', the Latin motto on Gatsby's front gate, translates into [[StarCrossedLovers 'Faithful to the End]]'.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:For Nick and only Nick. The experience causes him to go through a nervous breakdown and commit himself to an asylum, but while he's in there, his doctor encourages him to write about what he witnessed while in West Egg. This, along with getting to talk to his doctor in the first place, grants him some catharsis and he ends the movie on the path to recovery.]]
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Myrtle Wilson and her sister Catherine are redheads, to go with blonde Daisy and brunette Jordan.
* BloodIsSquickerInWater: Not only [[spoiler:Gatsby getting shot in the pool]] but also the brief shot of [[spoiler:Gatsby tossing out the water he used to get Myrtle's blood off his car]].
* BookEnds:
** The short guitar riff in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qjQTn3JQZQ the overture]] that goes from 1:00 to 1:30 comes back full circle in the end credits theme [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoj2I6ZJLx8 "Together"]] by The xx.
** The movie opens with Gatsby's ring emblem being presented alongside the logos in the midst of CGI ArtDeco scenery, then pulling out of view as the camera follows it into the film proper. The same scene plays in reverse at the very end, with the camera pulling back into the Art Deco space and the emblem reappearing.
* CatchPhrase: Gatsby calls everyone "old sport".
* CatSmile: Daisy briefly sports a catlike smirk on a couple of occasions.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Daisy tries to light one after Gatsby pressures her to tell Tom that she never really loved him, and fails. Gatsby lights it for her.
* ConspicuousConsumption: Gatsby's whole persona seems based on this; Tom is a slightly lesser example.
* CoolCar[=s=]: As it is in the book, both Tom and Gatsby possess one.
* CostumePorn: Everyone looks very sharp in their sparkling twenties outfits.
* GoldTooth: Unlike most examples Meyer Wolfshiem wears his on his tie in addition to (or in place of, since we never see them) his infamous cufflinks (for an example[=/=]ShoutOut, see Max Shreck's in ''Film/BatmanReturns'').
* DiegeticSwitch: Several times in the movie, it's made clear that the people onscreen are dancing to the modern hip-hop soundtrack. But in some cases, the soundtrack is actually sung in a style consistent with 1920's jazz (with the original song overlaying it as well). This is most noticeable in the Speakeasy ("$100 Bill") and one of the party scenes ("Young and Beautiful").
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Tom Buchanan's mistress is run down by Daisy in Gatsby's car, for which he takes the blame. As this goes on, Buchanan tells Myrtle's husband where Gatsby lives. Gatsby goes swimming as Nick goes to work, but, while he's gone, Gatsby is murdered by the husband, who then commits suicide. Daisy and Tom pack up and go, leaving Gatsby to take the blame for Myrtle's death. Nobody attends his funeral but Nick, and his reputation is completely destroyed. Nick then loses faith in the world and commits himself to an asylum, though he ends the movie starting to recover.]]
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Every main character who gets behind the steering wheel, from Gatsby to Tom to [[spoiler:Daisy, who ends up killing Myrtle by hitting her with Gatsby's car.]]
* TheFlapper: Jordan and Catherine, full stop. Daisy merely plays at it.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:The dead leaves blowing around Gatsby's room during Daisy's first visit in about mid-to-late July and the touch of fall leaves as the group leaves the Buchanans on "the last, certainly the hottest day of summer" might show how Gatsby's dream is already dying; Gatsby's yellow car (driven by Tom) running over a watermelon on the way to Wilson's gas station.]]
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Swimming in his pool, Gatsby awaits the call of Daisy, anticipating that she will agree to run away with him. It is clearly shown that Daisy does indeed reach for her phone. Back at his mansion, Gatsby hears the ring and regains hope. But after Gatsby is shot, the audience sees that Daisy had backed away and that it was really Nick, at work, who was trying to reach Gatsby.]]
* HowWeGotHere: The framing device is Nick explaining the source of his depression and disillusionment to his doctor at a sanitarium he's checked into following the events of the summer.
* KissingCousins: Brought up humorously by Daisy when she visits Nick and discovers how his house is full of flowers [[spoiler:courtesy of Gatsby]], and murmurs that he must be in love with her.
* LargeHam: Joel Edgerton has his moments as Tom Buchanan, particularly in the scene where [[spoiler:he confronts Gatsby about his affair with Daisy and proceeds to mock him about his upbringing,]] complete with an almost cartoonishly EvilLaugh.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Every time the green light at the end of Daisy's dock is visible onscreen, even when it's out of focus, the background music has the same note swelling in time with the light's pulse.
* LogoJoke: The opening logos are shown as flat on a grayscale film full of scratches and hairs, ending on Gatsby's glyph, which slowly moves away as the picture moves from 2D to 3D and given color as the glyph turns into the green light. [[BookEnds The same thing happens in reverse during the credits.]]
* LonelyFuneral: [[spoiler:Unlike in the book where Owl Eyes and Gatsby's father come to visit, it is only Nick who attends Gatsby's funeral.]] Not the case in one of the deleted scenes, however.
* LoudGulp: Gatsby does one during [[spoiler:the tea time with Daisy and Nick]], probably due to nervousness.
* MoodyTrailerCoverSong: One trailer had a cover of '60s pop classic "Happy Together" by Music/TheTurtles. Get it, because they're not actually happy.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: At Gatsby's party he introduces Nick and Daisy enthusiastically to his guests. He introduces Tom with considerably less enthusiasm and refers to him dismissively as "the Polo player".
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: [=DiCaprio=]'s is not entirely consistent. Considering Gatsby's NouveauRiche status, this may be less bad acting than good acting.
* PoirotSpeak / GratuitousFrench: The Buchanan family's majordomo speaks with a stereotypically thick French accent.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Tom rants about race-mixing and keeping the lesser races down and calls Meyer Wolfshiem a '[[GreedyJew kike]]', making him more overtly racist than he is in the book.
* PopStarComposer: Jay-Z contributes to the score, and is also one of the film's executive producers.
* PromotedToLoveInterest:
** In the novel, Nick and Catherine at Myrtle's apartment just talk. In the 2013 film, she immediately flirts with him and they share passionate kisses, before eventually having a one-night stand.
** Inverted with Nick's affair with Jordan Baker. He does try to pursue her [[spoiler:and finds himself implicitly rejecting the chance of a relationship at the end]], whereas in the book, [[spoiler:they mutually break up]]. As revealed by deleted scenes, the relationship between Nick and Jordan was initially in the film.
* RageBreakingPoint: Gatsby finally ''snaps'' at Tom, [[spoiler:violently shoving a tray of glasses to the ground before pinning him to a table and threatening to punch him while screaming in his face. This was most likely at least partly because at that point, Daisy had just admitted that she'd be lying if she said she never loved Tom, and couldn't bring herself to break up with him as Gatsby had hoped. Before this, Gatsby had been convinced that she never realy loved him and that breaking up with him wouldn't be so hard, so this really put a dent in his goal to recreate the past and be with her.]] This, combined with Tom continuing to condescendingly taunt him and his upbringing, finally proved too much for him to take, leading to his outburst. Of course, only moments later, he snaps out of it, and his horrified expression just ''screams'' "my gosh, what have I done?".
* RealMenWearPink: Gatsby wears a pink suit at the climax.
* RecursiveCanon: The film reveals Nick as having written the novel while undergoing psychiatric treatment.
* {{Retraux}}:
** The film opens and ends with a grainy footage of the credits while jazz music plays, making it look like a film ''from'' the 1920s.
** The scenes of Gatsby's wartime experience look like treated footage of old period-era World War One newsreels.
** There are times when the film looks colorized to match the colorized StockFootage.
* RightThroughTheWall: Nick has an uncomfortable moment when Tom drags him along for his rendezvous with Myrtle.
* RippingOffTheStringOfPearls: Compared to [[Literature/TheGreatGatsby the book]], the film takes a few liberties with the scene right before Daisy's wedding to make it more dramatic and visually appealing. In both versions, Jordan informs Nick that Tom gifted Daisy a pearl necklace "valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars" as an engagement/ wedding present. In the book, a languidly drunk Daisy deposits her pearls into a waste basket next to her bed and tells Jordan to return them. In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZfrqmRV2H8 film version]], a violently drunken Daisy rips the pearls off her throat, screaming and crying as she casts them down a long hallway. The magnitude of her action is emphasized by a low angle shot that shows the pearls rolling away from her.
%%* SceneryPorn: Becomes SceneryGorn in the region near West Egg, the Valley of Ashes.
* SigilSpam: Gatsby's JG logo. It even extends to the credits, which are separated by versions with the director and producers' initials (may be confused with [[Music/JayZ JZ]]).
* StandardSnippet:
** Music/JohannSebastianBach's ''Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor'', during the intro to Gatsby's party. Played on screaming jazz trumpet before transitioning into standard organ, as played by Ewing Klipspringer ("dubious descendent of Beethoven").
** Music/GeorgeGershwin's ''Rhapsody in Blue'' standing in for "The Jazz History of the World," doubling as [[SourceMusic Diegetic Music]] for TheReveal of Gatsby's identity.
* StatuesqueStunner: Jordan Baker (Elizabeth Debicki) is at least 6ft.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Has a lot in common with Luhrmann's ''Film/MoulinRouge'', with acidic party scenes, a depressed writer glorifying an object of (platonic or romantic) affections, complicated TriangRelations and even a scene where the main male tells his rival that the main woman doesn't love him. Could be considered either a retread, or a deconstruction as RealityEnsues more in this movie than ''Film/MoulinRouge''.
* StepfordSmiler: Daisy is definitely one. While she tends to act like a typical woman from the 20's, it's revealed early on that she's really dealing with a lot of emotional baggage, a lot of which is a result of her marriage with Tom, which is really a lot more unhappy than it appears. And later on, we also discover [[spoiler:that she was really planning on marrying Gatsby all those years ago, but when we went off to war and didn't return for several years, she ended up marrying Tom, only to discover right before the wedding that Gatsby was still alive, which sent her into a major HeroicBSOD, since by that point, she couldn't get out of the wedding. When we see her at the altar, the smile she's wearing could barely look more fake.]]
* StockingFiller: Myrtle and her sister Catherine wear some very fancy stockings and socks, in a variation of real 1920s trends.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Pleasantly averted. [[spoiler:Nick starts to get his life back together after committing himself to an asylum thanks to a caring doctor who encourages him to talk about what happened to him when he was part of Gatsby's circle.]]
* ThirdWheel: Nick finds himself as the third wheel in Gatsby and Daisy's affair and Tom's affair with Myrtle.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Gatsby's in bed with Daisy in the very first trailer; if you read the book they also include Daisy saying "You (Gatsby) always look so cool", [[spoiler:which is practically a love confession in front of Tom; there's also a scene that might be George Wilson going for his gun]]. There's also a bit in the second trailer where [[spoiler:Myrtle is struck by the car]].
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Gatsby tosses his shirts to Daisy like confetti.
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* TheFlapper: [[http://alifeofstyle.com/storage/elizabethjordan.jpg Jordan]] and [[http://www.kulfoto.com/pic/0001/0046/b/D0Xes45207.jpg Catherine]], full stop. Daisy merely plays at it.

%%* PoirotSpeak / GratuitousFrench: The Buchanan family's majordomo.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Tom rants about race-mixing and keeping the lesser races down and calls Meyer Wolfshiem a 'kike', making him more overtly racist than he is in the book.

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Far and away the most extravagant and visually dazzling adaptation of the novel to date (what with being released in [[UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie 3-D]]), the film notably keeps the 1922 setting of the novel but combines and contrasts authentic [[{{Jazz}} Jazz age]] tunes with strikingly modern music and visuals.

Far and away the most extravagant and visually dazzling adaptation of the novel to date, the film notably keeps the 1922 setting of the novel but combines and contrasts authentic [[{{Jazz}} Jazz age]] tunes with strikingly modern music and visuals.

Far and away the most extravagant, visually dazzling adaptation of the novel to date, the film notably keeps the 1922 setting of the novel but combines and contrasts authentic Jazz Age tunes with strikingly modern music and visuals.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Tom Buchanan's mistress is run down by Daisy in Gatsby's car, for which he takes the blame. As this goes on, Buchanan tells Myrtle's husband where Gatsby lives. Gatsby goes swimming as Nick goes to work, but, while he's gone, Gatsby is murdered by the husband, who then commits suicide. Daisy and Tom pack up and go, leaving Gatsby to take the blame for Myrtle's death. Nobody attends his funeral but Nick, and his reputation is completely destroyed. Nick then loses faith in the world and commits himself to an Asylum.]] [[SarcasmMode Inspiring, isn’t it]].

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Tom Buchanan's mistress is run down by Daisy in Gatsby's car, for which he takes the blame. As this goes on, Buchanan tells Myrtle's husband where Gatsby lives. Gatsby goes swimming as Nick goes to work, but, while he's gone, Gatsby is murdered by the husband, who then commits suicide. Daisy and Tom pack up and go, leaving Gatsby to take the blame for Myrtle's death. Nobody attends his funeral but Nick, and his reputation is completely destroyed. Nick then loses faith in the world and commits himself to an Asylum.]] [[SarcasmMode Inspiring stuff]].

The 2013 [[TheFilmOfTheBook movie adaptation]] of Creator/FScottFitzgerald's ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' by Creator/BazLuhrmann, starring Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Creator/CareyMulligan as Daisy Buchanan, Creator/TobeyMaguire as Nick Carraway, Creator/JoelEdgerton as Tom Buchanan, Creator/ElizabethDebicki as Jordan Baker and Creator/IslaFisher as Myrtle Wilson. Far and away the most extravagant, visually dazzling adaptation of the story to date, the film notably keeps the 1922 setting of the novel but combines and contrasts authentic Jazz Age tunes with strikingly modern music and visuals.

* BloodIsSquickerInWater: Not only [[spoiler: Gatsby getting shot in the pool]] but also the brief shot of [[spoiler: Gatsby tossing out the water he used to get Myrtle's blood off his car]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: The dead leaves blowing around Gatsby's room during Daisy's first visit in about mid-to-late July and the touch of fall leaves as the group leaves the Buchanans on "the last, certainly the hottest day of summer" might show how Gatsby's dream is already dying; Gatsby's yellow car (driven by Tom) running over a watermelon on the way to Wilson's gas station.]]

* RageBreakingPoint: Gatsby finally ''snaps'' at Tom, [[spoiler: violently shoving a tray of glasses to the ground before pinning him to a table and threatening to punch him while screaming in his face. This was most likely at least partly because at that point, Daisy had just admitted that she'd be lying if she said she never loved Tom, and couldn't bring herself to break up with him as Gatsby had hoped. Before this, Gatsby had been convinced that she never realy loved him and that breaking up with him wouldn't be so hard, so this really put a dent in his goal to recreate the past and be with her.]] This, combined with Tom continuing to condescendingly taunt him and his upbringing, finally proved too much for him to take, leading to his outburst. Of course, only moments later, he snaps out of it, and his horrified expression just ''screams'' "my gosh, what have I done?".

* TwentiesBobHaircut: Obviously a fashion statement/trend. Come to think of it, have you seen any long-haired women presented in Gatsby?

* {{Adorkable}}: Gatsby, UpToEleven before the tea time with Nick and Daisy, oh Lord.

* AntiHero: Creator/LeonardoDicaprio plays up Jay Gatsby's dark side, with him nearly punching Tom (in the novel, he merely argues with him), and ordering a rogue gangster beat up outside his gates by his gang. This makes the suggestion that Gatsby "killed a man" even more probable than in the novel.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Of course he killed a man, (at least one), he was a soldier.]]

* BeardOfSorrow: Nick grows one [[spoiler:following Gatsby's death.]]
* BigFancyHouse: The Buchanan mansion. Gatsby's mansion is verging on BigFancyCastle / BrightCastle.

* BookEnds: The short guitar riff in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qjQTn3JQZQ the overture]] that goes from 1:00 to 1:30 comes back full circle in the end credits theme [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoj2I6ZJLx8 "Together"]] by The xx.

* CatSmile: Daisy briefly sports one on a couple of occasions.

* CostumePorn[=/=]GorgeousPeriodDress: Everyone looks very sharp, sparkling twenties

* LonelyFuneral: [[spoiler:Unlike in the book where Owl Eyes and Gatsby's father come to visit, it is only Nick who attends Gatsby's funeral.]]
** Averted [[spoiler:in [[http://youtu.be/I8M4ITS7z3Q?t=1m5s this deleted scene]]]]

* PoirotSpeak / GratuitousFrench: The Buchanan family's majordomo.

* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler:After putting up with Tom's condescending attitude and insults during their confrontation for at least several minutes straight, Gatsby finally ''snaps'' at him in a big way, violently shoving a tray of glasses to the ground before pinning him to a table and threatening to punch him while screaming in his face. This was most likely at least partly because at that point, Daisy had just admitted that she'd be lying if she said she never loved Tom, and couldn't bring herself to break up with him as Gatsby had hoped. Before this, Gatsby had been convinced that she never realy loved him and that breaking up with him wouldn't be so hard, so this really put a dent in his goal to recreate the past and be with her. This, combined with Tom continuing to taunt him and his upbringing, finally proved too much for him to take, leading to his outburst. Of course, only moments later, he snaps out of it, and his horrified expression just ''screams'' "my gosh, what have I done?".]]

* {{Retraux}}: The film opens and ends with a grainy footage of the credits while jazz music plays, making it look like a film ''from'' the 1920s.
** The scenes of Gatsby's wartime experience also look like treated footage of old period-era World War One newsreels.

* SceneryPorn: Becomes SceneryGorn in the region near West Egg, the Valley of Ashes.

* StandardSnippet: Music/JohannSebastianBach's ''Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor'', during the intro to Gatsby's party. Played on screaming jazz trumpet before transitioning into standard organ, as played by Ewing Klipspringer ("dubious descendent of Beethoven").
** And then Music/GeorgeGershwin's ''Rhapsody in Blue'' standing in for "The Jazz History of the World," doubling as [[SourceMusic Diegetic Music]] for TheReveal of Gatsby's identity.

* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: The actors who play young and teen Gatsby actually look and act very convincingly like Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Has a lot in common with ''Film/MoulinRouge'', with acidic party scenes, a depressed writer glorifying an object of (platonic or romantic) affections, complicated TriangRelations and even a scene where the main male tells his rival that the main woman doesn't love him. Could be considered either a retread, or a deconstruction as RealityEnsues more in this movie than ''Film/MoulinRouge''.

* GoldTooth: Unlike most examples Meyer Wolfshiem wears his on his tie in addition to (or in place of, since we never see them) his infamous cufflinks (for an example[=/=]ShoutOut, see Max Shreck's in ''BatmanReturns'').

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Tom rants about race-mixing and keeping the lesser races down and calls Meyer Wolfshiem a 'kike'.

* AdaptedOut: [[spoiler:Gatsby's father, Henry C. Gatz, doesn't show up to his funeral as he does in the book. A [[http://youtu.be/I8M4ITS7z3Q?t=1m5s deleted scene]] would have included him, though.]]

The 2013 [[TheFilmOfTheBook movie adaptation]] of Creator/FScottFitzgerald's ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' by Creator/BazLuhrmann, starring Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Creator/CareyMulligan as Daisy Buchanan, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan, Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker and Creator/IslaFisher as Myrtle Wilson. Far and away the most extravagant, visually dazzling adaptation of the story to date, the film notably keeps the 1922 setting of the novel but combines and contrasts authentic Jazz Age tunes with strikingly modern music and visuals.

Released on May 10th, 2013, this is the seventh film adaptation of the book. The previously most prominent was the 1974 version starring Creator/RobertRedford and Mia Farrow.

Released on May 10th, 2013, this is the seventh film adaptation of the book. The previously most prominent was the 1974 version starring Creator/RobertRedford and Creator/MiaFarrow.