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* WriteWhatYouKnow: It's believed that Daisy was based off of Ginevra King, Fitzgerald's ex-girlfriend who was also a rich Chicago socialite. Likewise, Tom is believed to have been based off of William Mitchell, the man who Ginevra eventually married. Fitzgerald himself confirmed that Jordan was based off of Edith Cummings, one of Ginevra's friends.

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* WriteWhatYouKnow: It's believed that Daisy was based off of on Ginevra King, Fitzgerald's ex-girlfriend who was also a rich Chicago socialite. Likewise, Tom is believed to have been based off of on William Mitchell, the man who Ginevra eventually married. Fitzgerald himself confirmed that Jordan was based off of on Edith Cummings, one of Ginevra's friends.



* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
** In Spain and Hispanic America, it was translated under the titles ''La dicha de los demás'' and ''La ajena felicidad'', respectively, both meaning "The Joy of the Others."
** In Brazil, it was translated under the title ''Tudo pelo Dinheiro'', meaning "All for the Money."



* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The film is not lost like the 1926 adaptation, but good luck finding a copy. Universal apparently released a VHS in the 90s with a very small print run, and they licensed it to Madman for a DVD in Australia in 2012, but it's now out-of-print and hard to find. The film is also unavailable to stream anywhere (even illegally). Aside from a couple TCM showings and festival screenings, the film has seemingly vanished off the face of the earth. Some speculate that this is due to unspecified legal issues.
** This all changed when in 2023, for seemingly no reason, this version of the film was rescanned from one of the original negatives (which were believed to be lost until one was found in 2012) and released as both a high definition Blu-ray AND a multipack DVD with the 2000's made for TV film

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The film is not lost like the 1926 adaptation, but good luck finding a copy. Universal apparently released a VHS in the 90s with a very small print run, and they licensed it to Madman for a DVD in Australia in 2012, but it's now out-of-print out of print and hard to find. The film is also unavailable to stream anywhere (even illegally). Aside from a couple of TCM showings and festival screenings, the film has seemingly vanished off the face of the earth. Some speculate that this is due to unspecified legal issues.
** This all changed when in 2023, for seemingly no reason, this version of the film was rescanned from one of the original negatives (which were believed to be lost until one was found in 2012) and released as both a high definition high-definition Blu-ray AND a multipack DVD with the 2000's 2000s made for TV filmfeature movie.
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** This all changed when in 2023, for seemingly no reason, this version of the film was rescanned from one of the original negatives (which were believed to be lost until one was found in 2012) and released as both a high definition Blu-ray AND a multipack DVD with the 2000's made for TV film
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!! The 1949 film:
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The film is not lost like the 1926 adaptation, but good luck finding a copy. Universal apparently released a VHS in the 90s with a very small print run, and they licensed it to Madman for a DVD in Australia in 2012, but it's now out-of-print and hard to find. The film is also unavailable to stream anywhere (even illegally). Aside from a couple TCM showings and festival screenings, the film has seemingly vanished off the face of the earth. Some speculate that this is due to unspecified legal issues.
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Moving to its own page.



!! The 2013 film:
* DawsonCasting: Carey Mulligan (26), who played Daisy in a flashback when the character was 18.
* FakeAmerican: Jordan, Tom, Myrtle, Catherine, Dan Cody, and George are played by Australians. Daisy is played by Creator/CareyMulligan who is British while Wolfshiem is played by UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} actor, Creator/AmitabhBachchan.
* RealitySubtext: Leonardo [=DiCaprio=] and Tobey Maguire are actually good friends in real life.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Two of Gatsby's associates - Herzog the butler and Trimalchio the emcee - later reappeared [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad two years later]] in another Australian film as minions of Immortan Joe (the Bullet Farmer and the Coma-Doof Warrior respectively).
* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: The actors who play young and teen Gatsby actually look and act very convincingly like Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/BenAffleck was offered the role of Tom Buchanan, but had to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts with ''Film/{{Argo}}''.
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The previous link led to a student project.


* MissingEpisode: The 1926 silent film adaptation is a famous lost film. Only [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luBlFlCYRXc a one-minute trailer]] is known to exist.

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* MissingEpisode: The 1926 silent film adaptation is a famous lost film. Only [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luBlFlCYRXc com/watch?v=c_3bob4nPdM a one-minute trailer]] is known to exist.
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not trivia


* 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''.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Happily averted despite its many adaptations.
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* FakeAmerican: Jordan, Tom, Myrtle, Catherine, and George are played by Australians. Daisy is played by Creator/CareyMulligan who is British while Wolfshiem is played by UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} actor, Creator/AmitabhBachchan.

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* FakeAmerican: Jordan, Tom, Myrtle, Catherine, Dan Cody, and George are played by Australians. Daisy is played by Creator/CareyMulligan who is British while Wolfshiem is played by UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} actor, Creator/AmitabhBachchan.
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* DisownedAdaptation: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald walked out of a screening of the 1926 silent film (the only one released during their lifetimes), which emphasized the party scenes and their scandalous elements.

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* DisownedAdaptation: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald walked out of a screening of the 1926 silent film (the only one released during their lifetimes), which emphasized the party scenes and their scandalous elements. Zelda wrote in a letter to her daughter Scottie that it was "ROTTEN and awful and terrible and we left" (all-caps hers).
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Two of Gatsby's associates - Herzog the butler and Trimalchio the emcee - later reappeared [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad two years later]] in another Australian film as minions of Immortan Joe (the Bullet Farmer and the Coma-Doof Warrior respectively).
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* DisownedAdaptation: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald walked out of the 1926 silent film (the only one released during their lifetimes), which emphasized the party scenes and their scandalous elements.

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* DisownedAdaptation: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald walked out of a screening of the 1926 silent film (the only one released during their lifetimes), which emphasized the party scenes and their scandalous elements.
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* DisownedAdaptation: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald walked out of the 1926 silent film (the only one released in their lifetimes), which emphasized the party scenes and their scandalous elements.

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* DisownedAdaptation: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald walked out of the 1926 silent film (the only one released in during their lifetimes), which emphasized the party scenes and their scandalous elements.
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* MissingEpisode: The 1926 silent film adaptation is a famous lost film. Only a one-minute trailer is known to exist.

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* MissingEpisode: The 1926 silent film adaptation is a famous lost film. Only [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luBlFlCYRXc a one-minute trailer trailer]] is known to exist.

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* DisownedAdaptation: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald walked out of the 1926 silent film (the only one released in their lifetimes), which emphasized the party scenes and their scandalous elements.
* MissingEpisode: The 1926 silent film adaptation is a famous lost film. Only a one-minute trailer is known to exist.


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!!The 1926 film:
* DisownedAdaptation: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald walked out of the 1926 silent film (the only one released in their lifetimes), which emphasized the party scenes and their scandalous elements.
* MissingEpisode: The 1926 silent film adaptation is a famous lost film. Only a one-minute trailer is known to exist.
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Covered under Vindicated By History.


* AcclaimedFlop: The book was a failure when it was first published, but over the years it has become [[SchoolStudyMedia standard reading material in academics.]]

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* DawsonCasting:
** Carey Mulligan (26) as as the 23 year old Daisy and Leonardo [=DiCaprio=] (36-37 during filming) as the 32 year old Jay Gatsby, who also play those characters in flashback when they are 18 and 27, respectively.
** 36 year old Tobey Maguire as 29 (later 30) year old Nick Carraway.

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* DawsonCasting:
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DawsonCasting: Carey Mulligan (26) as as the 23 year old (26), who played Daisy and Leonardo [=DiCaprio=] (36-37 during filming) as the 32 year old Jay Gatsby, who also play those characters in a flashback when they are 18 and 27, respectively.
** 36 year old Tobey Maguire as 29 (later 30) year old Nick Carraway.
the character was 18.
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* RealitySubtext: Leonardo [=DiCaprio=] and Tobey Maguire are actually good friends in real life.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Happily adverted despite it's many adaptations.

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* AdaptationDisplacement: Happily adverted averted despite it's its many adaptations.



* RealitySubtext: Gatsby and Daisy's relationship is not dissimilar to that of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, though it has more in common with the relationship between Scott Fitzgerald and Genevra King.

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* RealitySubtext: Gatsby and Daisy's relationship is not dissimilar to that of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, though it has more in common with the relationship between Scott Fitzgerald and Genevra Ginevra King.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Happily adverted despite it's many adaptations.
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* DisownedAdaptation: Fitzgerald and Zelda walked out of the 1926 film (the only one released in their lifetimes), which emphasized the party scenes and their scandalous elements.
* MissingEpisode: The 1926 silent film adaptation is a famous lost film. Very little of it is known to exist.

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* DisownedAdaptation: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and Zelda walked out of the 1926 silent film (the only one released in their lifetimes), which emphasized the party scenes and their scandalous elements.
* MissingEpisode: The 1926 silent film adaptation is a famous lost film. Very little of it Only a one-minute trailer is known to exist. exist.

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