May 11, 2013
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Gatsby tune
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Music From Baz Luhrmann’s Film The Great Gatsby (Deluxe ) [Explicit]
see relatedCurrently loving this song from the Gatsby soundtrack, along with the Jack White theme for the trailer.
We also liked the Gatsby movie a lot. I know that’s controversial because a lot of the literary purists don’t appreciate the director’s changes to the feel of the story. *shrugs* I have always appreciated a more lively reincarnation of favorite written works, as long as the film catches the “heart” of what the author was trying to say.
And I think this new film gives us a really good portrait of just how empty and vacuous a rich man’s life can be, even when surrounded by the drunken materialism of the Roaring 20s. It was all just one big gold-dipped kegger, and the nation work up with a gigantic economic hangover.
Fitzgerald was brilliant. The Great Gatsby is a masterful book, possibly “the” great American novel. Every sentence stabs you with its beauty.
The film can’t possibly live up to THAT. But open your eyes and mind and you’ll find much to appreciate on the big screen for this one.
