El Gran Gatsby [Blu-ray] [Spain Import]

This movie, in my opinion does an excellent job of recreating the novel, The Great Gatsby. Im sure that Fitzgerald would approve. Although a few scenes are brief, or entirely skipped over, this is necessary for almost all conversions of books to movies. The movie, like the book, starts out introducing Nick and the two eggs, West Egg and East Egg. From there you are introduced to Daisy, Gatsby, Tom, George, Myrtle, along with the other characters. The movie follows the same track of explaining Gatsby and Daisys past together and Gatsby obsession with her. Just like the book, Gatsby is murdered by Tom in the end and Nick ends up moving out of West Egg and back home, but before he does this he realizes the lifestyle that people live and the true nature of theses peoples character. I believe that there were some really excellent actors in this movie. But the two that I believe really reenacted the original novel characters the best, were Daisy and Nick. I was pleasantly surprised after seeing the movie, because I realized that Nick was exactly how I had pictured him. From his attitude to his appearance, he really embraced and acted excellently, the narrator role of Nick Carroway. Daisy was in this same way wonderfully cast. The actress did a great job showing her careless ways and her obsession with material things in life. Throughout the drinking, the infidelities, and the love, Daisy did an admirable job playing the role. I believed that the movie was actually incredibly like the book. I recognized most of the dialogue as direct quotes from the book. If not all speech was direct from the text, then at least all memorable scenes and phrases where. The dreamy scenes and the lifelike flashbacks, I thought, were excellently displayed. With a book like Gatsby it must have been difficult to put many of the feelings and scenes onto a screen. The directors did a great job portraying the emotions that were felt in the book. Through the directors camera angles, costumes, and soundtrack I believe the moods were wonderfully and accurately shown. Personally, I enjoyed this movie because of its accuracy. It is a pet peeve of mine when books like The Great Gatsby are made into movies and not done right. In this case, the movies do not even do the books justice. Normally, books are much better than movies, it is an inevitable fact. But after viewing this movie, I was pleasantly surprised with the well done screen play and accuracy to the original writing.

Liked the book. Enjoyed the 1974 version with Robert Redford and even liked the Alan Ladd version. But just couldnt enjoy this version of F. Scott Fitzgeralds story. I felt that Paul Rudd did a good job as Nick Carraway. Toby Stephens, on the other hand, did not come off charming and like able. When he smiled it felt more insincere than comfortable and when he delivered the catch phrase old sport it sounded unlikeable, with a bite, more like a insult. Mira Sorvinos Daisy came off so innocent and pure it didnt fit well. The storyline- for those unfamiliar with it - has a handsome rich bootlegger and forger moving into a huge mansion directly across the bay from Daisy Buchanans home in the affluent section of West Egg, Long Island in 1922. 5 years earlier, prior to her marriage to Tom Buchanan and during the Great War, the two had been in love. Now he hoped to win her back. Using his new next door neighbor, Nick Carraway a second cousin to Daisy, he hopes to be officially introduced again to her. He had been poor before and now he is extremely rich and hopes to use that to induce Daisy back. This is a slow developing drama so you need to know that up front. This is a nice way to spend time, especially to compare the different versions of the film if you have seen one of the others. Worth a watch. Everyone has different feelings of each version available.

Liked better than I did when it first came out...however, do not understand the casting of Toby Stephens...ranges from an understated performance to an almost not present performance. Not my favorite Nick, but better than I had anticipated. Strong Jordan. But this is not a memorable production even though everyone is trying...to me it is disappointing. My DVD defective...pauses and stops, excellent seller ...replaced immediately but still defective...just better than the first one.

Great movie with two great stars. Wonderful version that should be added to anyones movie collection.

The movie played out just much like the book. I enjoyed that. Really the only difference was how they began with showing Gatsby getting killed, which I thought was good. It really gave a dramatic feel to the film. It assumed we had read the book before and gave a more dramatic mood. Nicks character was played perfectly, it could not have been done much better. His role was played perfectly, he always seemed a little bit confused yet, at the same time had a sence of what is going on and could see through all the phonies the movie presents. Gatsby also was done well I think overall in this movie. It would be hard to find someone that could pull off all of Gatsbys grins and comments. This was done well though. The movie was very acurate to the book I believed. The production was well done and the costumes were very accurate. It definetly gave the feel of the time period. I especially like the performance by daisy. Still who ever cast the daughter must have had some sort of eye problems or something. Im sorry but, that is probaly the only thing wrong with this movie. Overall this film is very good and I give it my full review.

Added to Gatsby collection.

I saw this DVD after reading the book. I thought it followed the book very well except in a few instances. I know I will view it a least once a year.

going through life wrecking other peoples lives. Cheating on their spouses. Marrying for money. Trying to claim accomplishments they never earned to impress other people. This is a great movie! I love it!

Movie Review: The Great Gatsby For Mr. M The Great Gatsby, the movie, is about a mans troubles in life, a man obsessing over one goal. Nick Carraway is the narrator and friend of Jay Gatsby, a man who obsesses over Mrs. Daisy. Gatsby and Daisy used to be together but split up, partly because Gatsby wasnt wealthy enough. Five years later Gatsby is very wealthy and wants Daisy back. But, Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan, a selfish and outspoken man. Tom is having a not to secret affair and does not mind Gatsby at first. Although, when Tom gets news of his mistress moving he is desperate to get Daisy back from Gatsby. These men then argue about who she loves and admits to loving both of them, but she only ends up with one of them. Nick leaves after an incident while there and realizes that he hated everyone there, except Gatsby. He told Gatsby that he was worth the all of them, and he meant it. The actors playing the roles of the characters were superb. Especially Paul Rudd and Mira Sorvino, who play Nick Carraway and Mrs. Daisy. They both play their parts to perfection. Paul expresses Nicks feelings perfectly, especially at the end when he loathes the people who he called his friends. And Mira Sorvino got the point across that Daisy was a shallow, materialistic that thought only of her self. She acts beautifully and reacts perfectly when she sees Gatsby again, or when she is confused when Tom and Gatsby are arguing. The movie is extremely accurate to the book, and is produced very well. The movie uses many of the same language as the book, and gives off the same tone. The director did an outstanding job at converting The Great Gatsby from a book to a movie. That is very important, to be able to do an author justice when doing cinema. The quality of scenes, costumes, pacing and soundtrack all fit in, I felt, perfectly. It gives off an overall effect of a enjoyable movie whether you read the book or not.

I find this production completely faceless and at the end boring. One only has to wonder how, after the cinema has been in existence for around 100 years and capable of producing real works of art and at least some good entertaining films, there are films done now being so stillborn. It does not entice any feelings, as far as I can judge, and may be good only to while away the time. Its certainly more beneficial for an individual to invest that leisure time into reading the book, that way it can be understood why it had become famous. If Great Gatsby were represented only by this picture, no one would care for it after couple of months following its release in movie theaters. This one will collect the dust in movie rental stores in the near future, I am convinced...