Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald, adapted by Baz Luhrmann is number one on some lists of the best books, on Modern Library’s Top 100 Best Novels list it is second, on The Greatest Books of All Time site you find it in third place – although the screen version is far from the original, despite the fact that it has a terrific cast – except for Debicki, I am not a fan – you have thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald, adapted by Baz Luhrmann is number one on some lists of the best books, on Modern Library’s Top 100 Best Novels list it is second, on The Greatest Books of All Time site you find it in third place – although the screen version is far from the original, despite the fact that it has a terrific cast – except for Debicki, I am not a fan – you have thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

10 out of 10 for the book, 6 out of 10 for the movie

 

The Great Gatsby https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-great-gatsby-by-scott-f-fitzgerald.html is glorious, that is, if you read the chef d’oeuvre, the motion picture is quite a disappointment, indeed, we could even call it a waste, considering that Leonardo DiCaprio, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire are wonderful thespians

 

In some ways, this being a story of excess, we could argue that it made sense to have Baz Luhrmann do it, and this director is given to pompous spectacles – for Moulin Rouge it sort of worked, but for The Great Gatsby it did not, not if we consider what a magnum opus Scott Fitzgrald wrote, and what we see in the adaptation

There had been attempts before this last one, and alas, quite unsuccessful, even when Robert Redord played the leading role of Jay Gatsby – a complex character, part scoundrel, part romantic idealist – and Robert Evans explains the failure https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-kid-stays-in-picture-by-robert-evans.html

 

In his book The Kid Stays in The Picture, Robert Evans says that he had wanted to have Jack Nicholson as The Great Gatsby, but he did not have enough funding, it looks like the budget was minuscule for the size of the project, Robert Redford was an iconic artist, though he had had his own dark side, as we learn from another book

William Goldman won two Academy Awards for Best Screenplay, for Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid and All The President’s Men, on both he worked with Redford, after the former, the actor wanted the screenwriter to start a project, only to abandon it https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/adventures-in-screen-trade-by-william.html you have more in the book

 

Robert Redford was quite obnoxious on All The President’s Men, apparently a nightmare for Goldman, his worst day was in the flat of the actor/producer, but again, read Adventures in The Screen Trade, it is a fabulous work, especially for the cinephiles, stories on Brando, Newman, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino and others

The Great Gatsby reminds me of the Orange Caligula, albeit the former had charm, despite the company he kept and his more than dubious fortune, activities, while this leader of the former free world https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/reign-of-terror-how-911-era.html is horrendous, unbelievable

 

They have had a ‘Great Gatsby themed party’ at his place in Florida, such lack of taste, common sense, this is a pompous fool, and he still has what, about a third of Americans still in awe with him, even when he does the exact opposite of what he promised, like ‘stopping forever wars in the Middle East’, with the awful war in Iran

 

 

 

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