![]() ![]() ![]() This framing device is inferred from statements Fitzgerald made in "The Crack-Up," and "Gatsby" often refers to itself as a book, so even though it isn't officially part of the source, it's hardly a blasphemous indulgence still, it's one more buffer between viewer and story in a movie that already has more than its share.Īll this busywork might astonish if Lurhmann's heart were in it-but is it? The guests at Gatsby's party are too obviously directed, and there's no sense of escalation in the gatherings. ![]() We see the book's Prohibition-era settings (East Egg and West Egg, New York City, and the sooty wasteland in between) through the eyes of the narrator, Nick Carraway ( Tobey Maguire), who's writing a memoir-confession from an asylum. If you've seen Lurhmann's " Strictly Ballroom," " Romeo + Juliet" or " Moulin Rouge," or watched "Gatsby" trailers, you know what you're in for: an epic melodrama that fuses old-movie theatrics and subjective filmmaking, period music and modern pop, real sets and unreal landscapes, psychological drama and speeded-up slapstick. ![]()
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