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THE GREAT GATSBY
Review by Alyn Darnay
Directed by: Baz Luhrmann

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke, Elizabeth Debicki, Jack Thompson, Amitabh Bachchan

You’re going to hear a lot about Gatsby. From critics they’ll be negatives. From audiences watching, total concentrated, joyful, breathtaking silence. From me, a simple definition – Masterpiece: [mas-ter-pees, mah-ster-] noun 1. a person’s greatest piece of work, as in an art. 2. anything done with masterly skill. 3. a consummate example of skill or excellence of any kind.

Despite what the jaded, unwashed world of movie review may say, this film is nothing short of Baz Luhrmann’s Masterpiece, wrapped around Oscar worthy acting performances by Leonardo DiCaprio and Toby Maguire, stunning 3D technology, captivating visuals, and perfect music scoring. And, it’s all tied up around one of the greatest stories in American literature. I can’t imagine what more any film viewer could possibly want.
If you’re not familiar with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous 1925 novel, required reading when I went to school, “The Great Gatsby” tells the story of a mysterious and dapper man of the “20’s” with a questionable past who appears to be wasting millions and millions of dollars in the pursuit of his lost love. However, the true genius of the tale is less its romantic scope and more a discovery of the disintegration of the American dream in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess.
Story line:
Would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) arrives in New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loose morals, hot jazz, speakeasies, and a rocketing stock market. Renting a cottage to live in across the water from his cousin Daisy (Carey Mulligan), and her philandering, blue-blooded husband Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton), Nick lands next door to the mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). Slowly Nick is drawn into the entrancing world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. It is from Nick’s pen that the hidden story of this world unfolds.
Here in the forth film incarnation of the novel; Mr. Luhrmann has finally done justice to the source material. In order to do that, to express the contrasts of the times and to build to the excesses, uninhibited behavior, and chaos of his grand-scale Gatsby party centerpiece (a must see movie experience), he creates a film of rare depth filled with unrestrained visual excesses itself. A film about the excesses of the period made with excesses of our times by utilizing all the advanced filmmaking technology available to him today. Simply Brilliant.
Of course, DiCaprio’s Gatsby is perfection itself; his performance is simply mesmerizing. You won’t be able to look away. Tobey Maguire is equally arresting as our guide into Gatsby’s world. Joel Edgerton’s turn as Daisy’s entitled husband is spot on and Carey Mulligan shines as Gatsby’s woman of desire. Actually everyone in the cast is just wonderful.
All in all, THE GREAT GATSBY is a rare cinematic treat, not to be missed, and in this case I recommend you see it in 3D. Enjoy.
Rating: 5 Stars (out of 5) “THE GREAT GATSBY” is rated PG-13 (for some violent images, sexual content, smoking, partying and brief language). 2 hours 23 minutes

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“You’re going to hear a lot about Gatsby”
Review by Alyn Darnay

Directed by: Baz Luhrmann

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke, Elizabeth Debicki, Jack Thompson, Amitabh Bachchan

You’re going to hear a lot about Gatsby. From critics they’ll be negatives. From audiences watching, total concentrated, joyful, breathtaking silence. From me, a simple definition – Masterpiece: [mas-ter-pees, mah-ster-] noun 1. a person’s greatest piece of work, as in an art. 2. anything done with masterly skill. 3. a consummate example of skill or excellence of any kind.

Despite what the jaded, unwashed world of movie review may say, this film is nothing short of Baz Luhrmann’s Masterpiece, wrapped around Oscar worthy acting performances by Leonardo DiCaprio and Toby Maguire, stunning 3D technology, captivating visuals, and perfect music scoring. And, it’s all tied up around one of the greatest stories in American literature. I can’t imagine what more any film viewer could possibly want.
If you’re not familiar with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous 1925 novel, required reading when I went to school, “The Great Gatsby” tells the story of a mysterious and dapper man of the “20’s” with a questionable past who appears to be wasting millions and millions of dollars in the pursuit of his lost love. However, the true genius of the tale is less its romantic scope and more a discovery of the disintegration of the American dream in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess.

Carey Mulligan as Daisy and Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby

Story line:
Would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) arrives in New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loose morals, hot jazz, speakeasies, and a rocketing stock market. Renting a cottage to live in across the water from his cousin Daisy (Carey Mulligan), and her philandering, blue-blooded husband Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton), Nick lands next door to the mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). Slowly Nick is drawn into the entrancing world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. It is from Nick’s pen that the hidden story of this world unfolds.
Here in the forth film incarnation of the novel; Mr. Luhrmann has finally done justice to the source material. In order to do that, to express the contrasts of the times and to build to the excesses, uninhibited behavior, and chaos of his grand-scale Gatsby party centerpiece (a must see movie experience), he creates a film of rare depth filled with unrestrained visual excesses itself. A film about the excesses of the period made with excesses of our times by utilizing all the advanced film making technology available to him today. Simply Brilliant.

Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan and Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker

Of course, DiCaprio’s Gatsby is perfection itself; his performance is simply mesmerizing. You won’t be able to look away. Tobey Maguire is equally arresting as our guide into Gatsby’s world. Joel Edgerton’s turn as Daisy’s entitled husband is spot on and Carey Mulligan shines as Gatsby’s woman of desire. Actually everyone in the cast is just wonderful.
All in all, THE GREAT GATSBY is a rare cinematic treat, not to be missed, and in this case I recommend you see it in 3D. Enjoy.
Rating: 5 Stars (out of 5) “THE GREAT GATSBY” is rated PG-13 (for some violent images, sexual content, smoking, partying and brief language). 2 hours 23 minutes

Review by John Delia

Director Baz Luhrmann who lost with Moulin Rouge and lost again with Australia, takes a chance with an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby turning it into a pop-up book for the screen.  While the CGI and sets do sparkle, he turns the storyline into a simple predictive tome set in an era of flappers and illegal booze.  Luhrmann gets caught up inside of Fitzgerald’s bittersweet romance while undervaluing the class struggle between the newly rich and the underclass. Read more…

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