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SPOILERS the great gatsby, part ii

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if you wandered over to the movie theater this weekend, you are in good company. as all of us came down with a serious case of fitzgerald fever, we flocked to air-conditioned and cocktail ready movie theaters to let baz luhrmann wow us with his interpretation of the great gatsby.

allow me to say that, straight off, if you did not like moulin rouge or romeo+julietgatsby, with it’s 3-d filming, cgi landscapes, and obscene product placement (how many times did we see moet champagne?) will not do anything for you. you’ll be better off spending the evening with robert redford, mia farrow, and your netflix account.

for everyone else, give luhrmann a chance. yes, prada did an amazing job with the costumes. yes, leo di caprio gives gatsby an entirely new smile and carey mulligan basically is daisy buchanan. let’s hold on for a minute… can we talk about tobey maguire? please, let’s do. mr. maguire carries himself perfectly as nick carraway: at once an adept observer and gawkward teenager at the cool kids’ party. at times he so resembled lindsay lohan’s character in mean girls that i couldn’t help but laugh… and relate to him with incredible ease. isla fisher pulls off spitful and ditzy myrtle well and her death is sufficiently traumatic for all, audience included. not to mention the fact that you’ll hardly recognize her under all that makeup, hair, and champagne; several people thought she was amy adams (as overheard in the line at the bathroom). amy adams… as if, amiright?

luhrmann’s movie may not become a timeless classic; it’s far too gaudy and culturally specific to make it a timeless epic, but it’s satisfactory and enjoyable. uhrmann gives the characters more feeling, more depth, and puts them up against such a ridiculous landscape that you dismiss, envy, despise, and gravitate towards each of them. it’s so ridiculous but, on a certain level, you just might be able to relate to mr. carraway and his glamour enamoured friends. i mean, don’t we all love to jam to fergie while getting “roaring drunk?”

luhrmann may have taken a few liberties as per the characters’ stories; he makes assumptions, feelings that weren’t stated outwardly in the book, but he’s not wrong. a grand majority of the dialogue comes straight from fitzgerald’s pages, and the essential characters are done beautifully, frightfully, and wonderfully.

luhrmann’s gatsby is over-the-top, gaudy, rowdy, and, at times, too much; it’s probably close to what fitzgerald was trying to convey. give gatsby a go, and if you don’t like it, give it another one, just to recover from the 3-d shock and enjoy the ride.

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