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There is only one brief scene in The Great Gatsby when the vision of which director Baz Luhrmann was trying to convey is attained — an extravagant representation of the raucous 1920s period conjured up in a dazzling incandescent 3D picture: it’s the initial shot of Gatsby to the audience (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), slow motion in a mid-close up frame, fireworks erupting in the background. DiCaprio transmits a smile that Carraway tells the readers of the source material as possessing “a quality of eternal reassurance,” a face that “believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.” He nods his head gently, raises a glass of champagne, and the audience is left melting.
If you hav a little more money buy it with a different cover/publishing house coz this one is a bit shabby and for the ones unemployed like me
ReplyDeleteBook is, though thin, but after 30 pages I felt like I had consumed a wholesome meal. It is wisely and promptly located in the annals of greatest 20th century American Literature.