Gatsby: Fitzgerald vs Luhrmann
Say "I prefer the novel" is quite smart, and pretender. Say "the book is better" or "impossible to adapt" it isn't right in all the cases. There are sort of movies quite good and even better or at the same level that the original text. One of it it's Romeo+Juliet Bar Luhrmann 's. He combine the fidelity to Shakespeare words' with the crazy movements of the camera, the contemporary music and the video-games aesthetic. A version for the new audience with the same spirit than the original. But that's not the case of The great Gatsby . Another big fail from the Aussie director of the excellent Moulin Rouge . After Australia , his intent to film a classic epic movie about his country as Gone with the wind , Luhrmann try to come back to his first succeed, but with a novel so narrative that eat him in every single moment. His sense of the show fail completely on the Scott Fitzgerald adaptation. The life in ruins that the writer desc...