The Great Gatsby (2013)
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"The Great Gatsby" follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy (Carey Mulligan), and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan
May 10, 2013 Wide
Warner Bros. Pictures
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Cast
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Leonardo DiCaprio
Jay Gatsby -
Tobey Maguire
Nick Carraway -
Carey Mulligan
Daisy Buchanan -
Isla Fisher
Myrtle -
Joel Edgerton
Tom Buchanan -
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Jason Clarke
George B. Wilson -
Callan McAuliffe
Jay Gatsby (young) -
Amitabh Bachchan
Meyer Wolfsheim
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On paper "Gatsby" sounds like quite the film. On screen, though, things start to fall apart.
Top CriticIt surely belongs to the category of baroque, overblown, megalomaniacal spectacles dubbed "film follies" by longtime Nation film critic Stuart Klawans.
DiCaprio has aged into roles like this with a certain grace. He carries himself with the self-confidence Gatsby would, but also manages the shade of doubt, that it's all false bravado.
For the most part, the actors never sync up with Luhrmann's jitterbug rhythm.
It is DiCaprio who really burrows into the soul and the marrow of a classic. Luhrmann just grazes it.
And so we wait, wait for the parties to end, wait for sparks to fly, for tragedy to strike, for repercussions to ensue, for our persistently passive protagonist to simply shut up already.
DiCaprio's Gatsby takes the movie's breath away, forcing Luhrmann to put aside his song and dance infatuation for dazzling performances in the heightened world he's created.
Audacious, over-long, and, occasionally dazzling, Baz Luhrmann has delivered an adaptation that's imperfect but also pretty darn fascinating.
Baz Luhrmann's visually exhilarating "The Great Gatsby" has flash, dash and a modern soundtrack. Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire are terrific.
This is a film which takes classic source material and imbues it on screen with a sense of wonder commensurate to its prior form, perhaps offering an even more visceral impression of the possibilities inherent to this beautiful, tragic world.
Yet another screen version of the 1925 novel where style trumps substance, leaving us yearning for some characters who can engage our emotions.
Maguire open-mouth stupefaction dominates, Mulligan is miscast, and DiCaprio does his best to save his dignity.
So what if it's not literally "The Great American novel"? DiCaprio gives the best performance of his career, and he and the movie "get" Gatsby.
This enormous movie is as much of a reflection of its protagonist as its director, offering a window into an exclusive world as it is conceived and formed in a dream.
Jay-Z meets Jay G in this hyperventilated version of F. Scott's eloquent novel about an enigmatic self-made millionaire-the film isn't for purists, but Baz should generate a buzz with young audiences.
Sumptuous, exquisitely gaudy spectacle, emphasizing style over substance and filled with extrvagant parties to which we wish we'd been invited.
Audience Reviews for The Great Gatsby
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- Nick Carraway: And so we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past
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- Nick Carraway: Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.
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- Nick Carraway: Who is this Gatsby?
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- Nick Carraway: You can't repeat the past.
- Jay Gatsby: Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can.
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- Nick Carraway: It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
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- Daisy Buchanan: Gatsby? What Gatsby?
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Foreign Titles
- Der Große Gatsby (DE)
- The Great Gatsby (UK)
