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
Comparing movies to books is like comparing a frozen pizza to a freshly made deep-dish pizza. The one will always dominate the other, but once in a great while the movie will hit the book right on the money and the world is happy. Francis Scott Fitzgerald created a powerhouse novel that stuck out through multiple decades and is still alive in classrooms today. Some people may think that trying to create a movie from a greatly appreciated book is a bad idea, but Baz Luhrmann pursued his goal and made
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
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 of The Great Gatsby there are
The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fditzergerald is a fiction book that took place in the 1920’s. The decade in which people partied and broke certain laws like there was no tomorrow. I will be comparing and contrasting how the book that F. Scott Fitzergerald wrote to the movie that came out in 2013. The themes in both the book and the movie did in fact stay the same. Those would be the mass differences between the upper class and lower, the difference between old money and new. As well as the