The Success or Failure of Baz Luhrmann’s Movie, The Great Gatsby

Baz Luhrmanns The Great Gatsby attempts to dally the novel, exclusively fails miserably. F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby is very different in center from Luhrmanns aimic adaptation. The film, unlike the novel, makes Gatsby seem like a fool in love, and fails to show the idealism behind Gatsbys dream. Baz Luhrmanns The Great Gatsby attempts to enliven F. Scott Fitzgeralds themes, barely ends up failing miserably. The film tried to hoodwink too many themes at once, rather than focusing a equate crucial unmatcheds throughout the movie.The film was un satisfactory to convey the failure of the American Dream that Fitzgerald so aptly analyzed throughout his novel. Fitzgerald, unlike Luhrmann, was able to make the reader see that Gatsbys vision (all of his wealth and enormousness had a purpose to win over Daisy), which parallels the American Dream that many people strive for. The impossibility of this dream is keyed in on through the dialogue between Nick and Gatsby during L uhrmanns film, but it does non even come close to achieving the same effect that Fitzgerald did in his novel.Luhrmann focuses on how Gatsbys hope and determination to repeat the past in this one scene, but fails to tie this in throughout the movie. This important theme is forgotten by the end of the film because of how gaudily the film is stylized. The film may have accurately portrayed the imagery of the extravagant parties that Fitzgerald vividly described, but the glitzy diversions detract from the central themes. The disjointedness of the film, as a result of these distractions, cause the informant to forget the content of the film.Luhrmanns attention to the visual and musical aspects of the film prevented the film from exploring the themes that Fitzgerald was able to do by ensuring that the imagery served a great purpose (not just to become a box office advantage in Luhrmanns case). Also, the changes to Nicks character are operative as it shifts the focus from Gatsby to N ick. Fitzgerald purposefully leaves Nicks life ambiguous, but Luhrmann attempts to give Nicks departure from the East an edge by turning him into a drunkard. By doing this, Luhrmann emphasizes the excesses of the time, and ends up