F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby has inspired many people and other artists, including Hollywood. There have been many movies that were made based off of this famous novel. The most poplar movie for thirty-nine years was Jack Clayton’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby in 1974. Recently in 2013 Baz Luhrmann came out with his film of this widely known story. Whenever movies are made based on books they never fully show every part or they even change some things. In Clayton’s 1974 film
The Great Gatsby, was a narrative novel written in the 1920’s by a young author named F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story portrayed many of the experiences that Fitzgerald experienced in his own life during the roaring twenties such as all the parties and drinking that was going on. It also accurately showed the pressures that everyone went through to become successful and achieve the american dream. Fitzgerald took these life experiences and represented them in this book, which after his death was named
perfectly summarizes what would happen to the fictional world of The Great Gatsby, had it been written in the beginning of the 21st century. F. Scott Fitzgerald describes the extravaganza and prosperity of the Roaring Twenties by using Gatsby as his protagonist who tries to win over the love of his life by portraying himself as a prosperous businessman. If Fitzgerald had lived in the 21st century and had written The Great Gatsby in 2016 the change of time would influence both the details of the storyline