The Great Gatsby (2013 film)

It wouldn't work if the lives of the East Eggers are like that.

Look, it's already quite clear that this is gonna be a Love It or Hate It film.

edited 8th Apr '13 1:14:37 PM by mort08

Every film Baz Luhrmann directs has been Love It or Hate It.

The Florence song is out, if anyone's interested.

And here's the sampler:

In general, it looks like it's hip-hop and electronic music with lots of jazz and 1920's influence mixed in.

It's obvious in Fergie's song, where the beat is electronic, yet trumpets are used, Fergie's style all vintage, and she's throwing out lines about speakeasies and such.

It's possible that the soundtrack might get a Grammy nomination, and one of the songs might get an Oscar nomination. But we have to wait for the entire thing.

...Okay, that was actually pretty darn good.

It does sound good, for the most part...but it just doesn't sound fitting to me still. The electronic and indie stuff just seems way too anachronistic. As individual songs, they sound fine, but not so much when you put them in the context of The Great Gatsby.

I will admit, those '20s jazz covers of "Love is the Drug", "Crazy in Love" amused me, though.

(Also, is it just me, or are the chords of that Sia song almost the same chords as "Imagine" except minor instead of major?)

Crazy in love actually does sound like it could be a pretty good jazz song.

I know it's not one of the 20's-style songs, but I couldn't stop listening to "Over the Love" last night.

Even if the movie turns out to be crap, at least we'll get a nice soundtrack out of it.

And now the Lana del Rey song is out as well, if I remember correctly this will be given the single/video treatment in not too long?

I believe so. Either this or the Florence song will probably be what they shoot for the Oscar with.

-listens-

Hmm. Okay, but it could've been better. I liked how it sounded in the trailer more. If they want to try and win Best Song, they should push for Over The Love instead.

edited 21st Apr '13 11:57:50 AM by Mort08

Didn't Robert Redford (still the first man I ever fancied, btw) not do this movie already? If so, and I mean this most sincerely, why bother?

Because that version is incredibly boring and forgettable.

And he wasn't the first. Alan Ladd did it in the late 40s, and before that, there was a silent version that's been lost.

edited 21st Apr '13 12:45:38 PM by Mort08

Basically, if it's a classic story, expect periodic adaptations. How many different versions of Romeo And Juliet or Alice In Wonderland or The Wizard Of Oz are there?

So not too different from the original novel then?

Fitzgerald was never one of my favourite authors, I think that stems from having to read his stuff at school. Or was that Hemingway, and not the good ones either?

All I know is I liked the film better than the book and Robert Redford was brilliant in it. Not as good as he was in the Great Waldo Pepper, but that film had stunt planes in it, y'all. Makes a helluva impression on a ten year old.

I can testify that Gatsby is better when you're reading it on your own initiative rather than because a teacher makes you. I've done both.

I maybe give the book another shot, but since the backlog on my books to read list dwarfs the Everest sized one in my video games to play list by quite a large margin, it could take a while.

had to read Winter Dreams (The original short story) in English class, 10th grade. I liked it. It was much more subdued than Gatsby, I think.

I was never really forced to read typical "high school" novels such as The Great Gatsby and anything by Hemingway, so when I read stories by them I was just frickin amazed by how awesome they were, and then I went online and saw people apparently hating on them.

come on man how can you hate on hemingway really now

oh and fitzy too

I had to read it for school this year and I really enjoyed it. I was sort of curious about it beforehand, which probably helped.

Will you guys kill me if I told you that I'm more excited for the soundtrack than the movie?

I'll most likely be getting it from Target when it releases, since the iTunes version is reporting a steeper $24 price. I'll be delegating a $20 bill for it now.

(I'm also more interested in exploring 20's-style music and modern music fused together more.)

By the way, I want to see at least one song from the album get good radioplay. Soundtrack music has been on the radio before, and it'll be amusing seeing my classmates getting their heads stuck with "A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)", even if it does have a similar beat than "Party Rock Anthem".

edited 21st Apr '13 7:57:03 PM by chihuahua0

I don't think the soundtrack sounds bad at all, believe me (though that Lana Del Rey song seemed really kind of dull to me). I just don't think it fits, as I've said many times before.

On its own, though, the soundtrack sounds pretty good.

EDIT: Y'know, looking at the tracklisting, I can't help but notice that the one song that is explicitly mentioned in the book ("The Sheik of Araby") is bewilderingly absent.

edited 21st Apr '13 11:33:53 PM by 0dd1

The official Interscope Records channel released another sampler.

edited 22nd Apr '13 4:35:53 AM by chihuahua0

I would have hated The Belgariad, the Malloreon, the Elenium and the Tamuli if I had to read those for school. And those were some of my all-time favourite books in the world evah.

I might have loved to have read the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant though, just to see the looks of horror on the faces of my classmates.

This. I think a lot of its strengths lie in the fact that the point it's trying to make is still actually quite relevant. My big hope for this movie is that it doesn't abandon the social commentary of the novel.