The Great Gatsby instal the new1/27/2024 Gatsby and his undying quest for the green spectral light at the end of Daisy’s dock, shame on you. And whether his cultural collage of roaring ’20s opulence works will swing wildly from individual to individual. Baz Luhrmann, cinematic genius, madman or all of the above, lovingly adapted the novel to match his own frantically fabulous sensibilities. Yet, from this decadent 3D extravaganza’s earliest salvo teaser, featuring music by Jay-Z and U2, I knew that that was not what we were getting. Some have waited decades for a film to capture the depth and speakeasy wonders of that book and its era. It also has the lofty literary pedigree of being “unfilmable.” However, that reputation may have been earned simply because the 1974 iteration of the story (and only major adaptation until now) is truly unwatchable. It is one of the few grade school classics that I have revisited several times and plan to likely do again. Scott Fitzgerald’s succinct masterpiece of the Jazz Age was my favorite. Of all the books I was required to read in high school (and probably college for that matter), F. But the real question is whether you have met BAZ LUHRMANN’S Gatsby. Do you know about Gatsby? That mysteriously eccentric fellow who lives up in West Egg? Chances are that if you completed 11th grade English, you do.
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