Comparing F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: Book And Movie

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s well known American novel, The Great Gatsby was tranformed into two movies by the directors Jack Clayton and Baz Luhrmann. It is more interesting for American teenagers to watch a summarized movie rather than to read a 9 chaptered book, it also helps them to understand the story more easily. Gatsby’s death in the novel symbolized the death of the American dream, Luhrmann’s movie developed this theme more effectively than Clayton’s movie because of the cinematography, sound effects and visual effects. Firstly, the modern version includes different cinematographic techniques to support the scene, in order to make it more realistic and believable to the audience. For instance, the last moment of the movie where Gatsby is
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