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The Great Gatsby (2013)

During the 1920’s America was motoring into 10 years of economic prosperity, with the American’s being fueled by illegal alcohol and radical ideas. They were obsessive, excessive, dreamers that reality was to slow to catch them. And what better way to enter our own roaring 20s by taking a look at a man that encapsulates the American ideology at the time, the poster boy of the American dream, a man who worked from nothing to be richer than the Gods themselves, a man known as The Great Gatsby.

Originally a book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and then taken to the big screen 4 times, Gatsby has been in the consciousness of Americans since 1925. A year that was the midway point for America’s high times. But I’m not looking at Fitzgerald's original book - maybe for another time - nor the big screen adaptations from 1926, 1949, or 1974. My attention goes to Baz Lurhman’s adaptation in 2013.

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What a way to celebrate entering our own roaring 20s by looking at a character that optimizes that crazy era.

filmisjustmovingpictures

I think when Fitzgerald started the novel he intended it be about Nick and Jordan (since that reflected what was going on in his real-life) then somewhere along the way he as a writer discovers Gatsby in much the same way as Nick discovers him in the narrative, and the novel becomes a letter home to the America he left behind.

BoydDoghouse

Woah him dying on the poor part of town and him being brought up poor . He meant his demise so poetically .

truffle

From one Great Gatsby video essayist to another...respect.

ThoughtWord

You don’t touch on how it was daisy that was driving the car though. Gatsby chose to take the blame

jackyc

I have not seen a more talented...no... extremely talented actor like Leo caprio....he just mesmerizes us with his performance...its not like he's acting but real shot of his real self...

Gladiator

Gatsby could handle almost everything but being called out for the reality of his situation. He couldn't handle being called out in the sense that he built his fortune on criminal activity and was always one step away from having to deal with gangsters who would catch up with him. I find it boggling that while they did have an attachment and they did care about each other, it is clear to me that he really did in fact view her as buy-able and that she should flip her life and obligations and not run off with him, but redo the courtship, this time with him in the role of the respectable upper class man of wealth, despite the fact that the class Daisy comes from would have in fact sniffed out his criminal activity and run him out and Daisy would have been a fallen woman.

dianecrow

Daisy embodies the lack of virtue and foolishness of the 1920's boom and the untouchable realms of old money that only few could fall back on. Underneath she's cruel, shallow and uncaring and nothing that those dabbling in illegal activity to make one's wealth could rely on. She's the enlightment that so many sought after during the 1920's, she's class and luxury and everything bootleggers like Jay Gatsby want to have. She is enthralled by Jay's wealth only to discard him when disaster strikes (encapsulated by Jay's death aka the great depression) because it's easier to hide behind empires and old money than to struggle amongst the masses. The reality is she cannot be with Gatsby because he encapsulates the holy grail that is the "American Dream", the hard climb out of poverty into extravagent wealth, something that can be dashed in the course of a day (like their accident with the mistress in the valley). He represents the harsh reality of the socio-economic atmostphere of the 1930's. It's an illusion that Jay holds so dear, the American Dream that he can almost grasp, the green light just across the bay that will never be touched. Obsessiveness, excessiveness and a dream-like mentality was the ultimate downfall that Fitzgerald want readers to heed, should any future listeners fall into its trap. The all-seeing eye of the occulist in the Valley of Ash is the only true source of unbiased reality, he sees the discardment of the shiny city's waste and it's inhabitants surviving on the meagre rations the city spits out. That is what Fitzgerald was living in, he had seen the Great Depression's beginning and put it into the story as a way to showcase the alpha and omega of a society so enthralled by greed and grandiose that it's beginning and end of the film was impacted by this true, dark actuality. Fascinating narrative, thankyou for this analysis!

gracebsinging

This was an amazing analysis of the movie. Great work.

chrisrowe

I just finish reading the book, great analasys. I didn t realize the metaphore betwen the eyes glass in the poster and god watching the sins of men. Thx for your video

luismiguel

This video was really interesting, it deserves way more attention!

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If the stock market crashed in 1929 and the great Gatsby was written in 1924, how could Fitzgerald have been alluding to the crash?

julianburr

I think Gatsby had MAJOR self loathing issues and if Daisy had run off with him, Gatsby would have never been able to move past his own neurosis about his impoverished past. There is no way that Gatsby would have been able to rewrite his past and I am certain that he would have ended up mistreating Daisy, since Daisy could never have turned him into a member of the blue blood set by birth. There is no way that Daisy could be that perpetual fantasy and there is no way that Daisy would have made him respectable. He was a money-laundering bootlegger and had ties with the mob and he would have been either arrested, killed, or gotten Daisy killed in some kind of retaliation if Gatsby had ticked off a mobster or messed up a deal. I do not think that he would have ended up making her happy and he would likely have disliked Pammy (Daisy and Tom's daughter).

dianecrow