The Great Gatsby (2012)

[Elaine M.M. Bell]

>
> *Everybody please keep talking about this!  I need more reason to survive
> until Christmas!  And I think I may have been wrong about Tobey Maguire--it
> looks (only from the trailer) as if he may do a creditable job as Nick
> after all, though I doubt still that he can achieve Sam's brilliant,
> heart-rending detachment as in the 74 version.*


On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:13 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

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> http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2012/05/the-great-gatsby-trailer-baz-luhrmann-leonardo-dicaprio-carey-mulligan-backlash
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> The first preview of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby has surfaced—two
> and a half minutes that look just as you may expect if you’re familiar
> with the often flashy Aussie filmmaker’s work on Romeo + Juliet and
> Moulin Rouge, but that have somehow managed to shock the
> trailer-watching public in seemingly equal amounts of pleasure and
> dismay. The frenetic, high-drama preview promises sweeping shots of
> Jay Gatsby’s West Egg soirées, immaculate set design, and
> period-perfect costumes—but also what appears to be a hyper-stylized,
> extended-music-video treatment of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s American
> classic. The trailer opens to the Kanye West/Jay-Z collaboration “No
> Church in the Wild” against images of Jazz Age excess that could fit
> into any rap video: wealthy men and women clinking cocktails in
> speeding convertibles, free-flowing liquor, women swaying from
> chandeliers over pulsating party crowds, and ample sexual tension. (So
> maybe Luhrmann nailed the “excess” aspect in one way or another.)
>
> Praised as “gonzo,” “dazzling,” and visually “spectacular” by preview
> reviewers, it’s also set off a swift rebuttal in comments sections and
> on Twitter. (“UGH Baz Lurhmann stop touching things that I like!”
> Time-magazine columnist James Poniewozik added on the latter.) Ahead,
> the most outraged (or funniest) responses to Luhrmann’s latest
> spectacle, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Isla Fisher,
> and Tobey Maguire. The full-length feature can be seen in all its
> glory in 3-D when it’s released in theaters on Christmas.
>



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