In the movie, she expresses her desire to live life to the fullest by partying and also personifies her dream by Tom who makes her feel rich and has what she ultimately wants: what Daisy has, which is money. As for Myrtle Wilson, Nick recounts that she had a “perceptive vitality about her” (25). Moreover, not only is she “incurably dishonest”(58), independent and loves gossips, thus, she embodies the advertising industry by cheating and lying to achieve her aims. In the novel, Nick describes Jordan as a “slender, small-breasted girl…like a young cadet… gray sun-strained eyes” (11) which is well adapted in the movie. Eckleburg and Henri Gatz was truthful to Fitzgerald’s work. Finally, this character is …show more content… Wolfsheim, Owl Eyes, Dan Cody, Doctor T.J.
In the movie, Gatsby expects that his financial success is the key to conquer Daisy’s heart thus, he was so caught up in his unrealistic obsession with her, that “he wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.’” (109). However, he has unreal demands to repeat the past and “to fix everything just the way it was before”(110), which he corrupted himself to achieve. Throughout the movie, Gatsby embodies the “American Dream” with his “…non-olfactory money, his gleaming automobiles, and his endless parties” (Marsh 6). Thus, they are just there for appearance and to cover his true past as “a onetime hustler and poor farm boy whose love for a rich girl was forbidden” (Marsh 4). Thence, very few knew who was Gatsby yet, there were all sorts of assumptions about him: was he a “German spy during the war” (44), had “he killed a man once”(44) ? However, Baz cleverly demonstrated that Gatsby is not an authentic person when Owl Eyes notices that he had never read all his books. To begin, the narration of both works rely entirely on Nick …show more content… Gatsby’s first apparition delivers the same impression that Gatsby himself is a mere illusion “as a “mythic” character-“less” an individual than a projection, or mirror, of our ideal selves” (Marsh 6): “a figure emerged from the shadow of my neighbor’s mansion… When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished” (20-1). Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of the novel rendered such a glamorous and extravagant reproduction of Fitzgerald’s work through the accurate characterization of all characters and events in the novel.
Scott Fitzgerald’s novel in which he “invites the reader to taste, see, and smell the “Roaring Twenties” (Gibb 96) with the life of Jay Gatz, who aims to recreate the past. Written in 1925, The Great Gatsby is one of F. Is Luhrmann’s adaptation faithful to Fitzgerald’s work? Discuss by analyzing characterization in both works. Show More Characterization in The Great Gastby and Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptationĬonsider Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation of the novel (2013).