The Great Gatsby (2012)

[Madeleine Maudlin]

I agree.  The best thing is watching a movie without knowing anything about
it.


On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> OK, Elaine and all, I won't stop talking about The Great Gatsby. I thought
> the first version sucked.
>
> Where in fuck was the self-creation when you start as Robert Redford was
> my dominant--too narrow?-- thought.
> But I can barely remember it. Have never seen it again. Don't care to.
>
> And, second opinion. Where was the lyricism?
>
> Baz might do that....(but I ain't watchin' no stinkin' trailer. I take my
> movies whole or not at all)
>
>   *From:* Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>
> *To:* Elaine M.M. Bell <elainemmbell at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>; Alex Colter <
> recoignishon at gmail.com>; Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>;
> pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>; Hal Peterson <vobine at gmail.com>; Paul
> Mattes <paul.mattes at usa.net>
> *Sent:* Friday, May 25, 2012 2:56 PM
>
> *Subject:* Re: The Great Gatsby (2012)
>
> 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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>
>
>  --
> Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
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> Have Laptop/Will Travel
> (but wicked good to be back in Massachusetts)
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