The Great Gatsby (2012)

[Madeleine Maudlin]

Sam Elliott?  Isn't that The Dude?

While Downey may be able to escape idiot superhero starring roles, McGuire
can't.  At least not in this film.  He's not rightly cast here.  He'll have
to do something slightly more interesting.  Like that first film he was in,
with M.Douglas as the professor.  Wasn't Downey in that?

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Elaine M.M. Bell
<elainemmbell at gmail.com>wrote:

> *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:
>
>>
>> http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2012/05/the-great-gatsby-trailer-baz-luhrmann-leonardo-dicaprio-carey-mulligan-backlash
>>
>> 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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