The Great Gatsby (2013 film)

Seabiscuit.

Wasn't he also in that movie about the soldier who supposedly died in combat, his brother swiped his wife (played by Natalie Portman), and the two fought over her after the soldier's return?

edited 29th May '12 6:44:03 AM by Journeyman

He was also in Wonder Boys, which is a movie that everyone you've heard of is in, but no one has ever seen.

Geez, we don't even have a page on that?

edited 29th May '12 6:52:51 AM by BadWolf21

If there is no page, you make it your own personal project.

Creating the page for a movie I've seen once doesn't sound like a good idea. :P

I can deal with Tobey Mc Guire as Nick, but Leo as Gatsby, agh no thanks. His serious/angry face in that trailer almost makes me want to burst out laughing.

edited 29th May '12 12:25:33 PM by Pingu

Doesn't he always use that face, though?

Also, while I've heard of those two aforementioned films, I still haven't seen them...I did think of another Leo movie, though, J Edgar. Which was amazing.

I'm only watching it if that lady's boob gets torn off in the car crash and it is shown on screen because Hollywood really needs to stop beating dead horses.

I can sort of see the use of hip hop being semi-justifiable being that its of the indulgent celebration of excess and wild lifestyle that fairly or unfairly does fit into perception of the roaring 20s.

IMHO this is gonna suck.

Hollywood came close to making the definitive version in 1949, but sabotaged it with low production values, lackluster directing, one spectacular piece of miscasting (Betty Field as Not-Daisy), a somewhat forced attempt to cash in on the then current revival of gangster films, and the Obligatory Happy Ending (all that misery and death just so that Nick and Jordan get together?).

Paramount never knew it, but they had the perfect choice for Gatsby in Alan Ladd. He knew what Gatsby was all about, from the inside - because he'd been there. He'd been a dirt-poor struggling nobody who suddenly found fame and fortune thrust upon him, and he dealt with it, in the long run, no better than Gatsby did. That he had made his breakthrough playing tough underworld characters with a dark underside, was a double plus - and that he could also play the romantic lead as well as anyone was a triple plus. But he needed stronger support from the director and the studio, and he didn't get it. All the same, he gave an astonishingly subtle and powerful performance, shifting effortlessly through four levels of characterization (Redford in 1973 made heavy going of handling just two) - "Gatsby", the nouveau-riche man of mystery and (mostly self-made) legend; "Gatz", the man with a dark and violent past; "Jay", the man-child dazzled by his wealth and luxury, who dares to dream that he can rewrite the past and make everything come out right; and "Jimmy", the hungry little poor boy who can't believe that he deserves all this (that last level came from the deepest levels of Ladd's own character). And the viewer is never in any doubt as to just which of them is looking through Gatsby's eyes at any given moment.

No one since has come within many leagues of that performance. It's extremely likely that no one ever will.

@IAT: I'd hardly call it a dead horse, since the only real big ripoff of The Great Gatsby that I can think of is the second half of Funny People.

Okay, so aside from not having a single actor, what makes you think this is gonna suck?

edited 29th May '12 9:30:27 PM by 0dd1

Glad I'm not the only person who noticed that about Funny People.

That's actually a large part of why I hate that movie. But that's a story for another day.

Odd1: Look at who they have lined up! You think that bunch could even pull off an Andy Hardy movie?

I was absolutely sold on this movie when I saw that there were flashbacks to World War I. YES!

I just remember seeing the trailer before Brave (odd choice) and the first shot just made me think it was a science fiction movie. I still get that vibe from the first shot of the trailer and I have no idea why.

Thank would actually be really cool.

I want to reinvent The Great Gatsby as many different genres of movies.

Taglines

• Slasher Film: They don't tell you want really happens at his parties.
• Comedy: When Gatsby's party goes out of control, Nick needs to make things right away: with pie!
• Franchise Zombie: Guess who's in Gatbsy's pool?
• Oscar Bait: After black, mentally challenged, gay orphan Gatsby's leg is stolen and turned into shoes, he tries to win the love of his life, Daisy.
• Spy: I was told to go into the bond business. So I became James Bond.
• Sports: Can Gatsby's modest yellow car win the race?

That was brilliant

That makes no sense. Why would Gatsby own a modest car?

It's only modest in comparison to Tom's car.

I saw the 70s movie, and it was good if fairly melodramatic. Leo seems like a good successor to Robert Redford if you ask me. And I'll watch it for Carey Mulligan as Daisy. Really, the concept seems good but it could be executed weirdly.

And the music in the trailer was kind of... wha? It does remind one of Moulin Rouge, which I should watch again.

I believe I read somewhere that he will indeed be using modern music in the film.

My interest is decreased, but not destroyed.

I can't find anything about that, so I'm not believing it until I see an official word on it.

Why I found the use of hip hop and rap in the trailer fitting:

• Great Gatsby takes place in the 20's. When everyone had loads of money to spend, the parties were big and lavash, and every bragged about how cool they were. Such things are often the topics of rap songs. The very LOUDNESS and brashness of hip-hop does represent the time period of the 20's well IMHO.
• The time period is also the start of the Crime/Mafia craze of the late 20's and 30's. Gangsta culture has numerous references to this, what with Scarface being a key movie in that culture. And that was basically a pastiche of the 20's, 30's mobs.

I'm fine with it in the trailer. I'd have to actually see how it's done and if it actually works if they use it in the final product, though.