Monday, November 18, 2013

Using They Say I Say

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/may/19/great-gatsby-review-philip-French

The author of this review, Phillip French, first describes what the movie is about and then talks about what he did and did not like about the film.. Which really shocked me because the reason I decided to analyze this particular movie was because I absolutely loved it. I also loved the older version and the book which I read in my English class in high school. What Phillip French was saying in his review really took me by surprise and made me look at the movie in a whole new way. He states "This is a film that tramples on Fitzgerald's exquisite prose, turning the oblique into the crude, the suggestively symbolic into the declaratively monumental, the abstract into the flatly real." French did not like  the way that the character Nick was shown off as one bit but he did say that Gatsby and Daisy were more successful. French allows the audience to input what they have to say when he states "But there is one scene that works well, and that's the crucial confrontation between Tom Buchanan and Gatsby in front of Nick, Daisy and Jordan in a suite at the Plaza hotel one hot afternoon. There is tension and depth here. Would that Luhrmann had included the funeral and the meeting between Nick and Gatsby's elderly, working-class father from the book's final chapter." This allows us to enter into the discussion and add our opinions as well.

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