The Great Gatsby (2013)
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Critic Consensus: While certainly ambitious -- and every bit as visually dazzling as one might expect -- Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby emphasizes visual splendor at the expense of its source material's vibrant heart.
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Cast
as Jay Gatsby
as Daisy Buchanan
as Nick Carraway
as Myrtle Wilson
as Tom Buchanan
as George B. Wilson
as Meyer Wolfsheim
as Dan Cody
as Teen Jay Gatsby
as Jordan Baker
as Herzog
as Michaelis
as Owl Eyes
as Daisy's Mother
as Benny McClenahan
as The Police Captain
as Taxi Driver
as Dr. Walter Perkins
as Henri
as Vladimir Tostoff
as Senator Gulick
as Nelson
as Languid Girl
as Police Commissioner
as Gardener
as Catherine
as Policeman-Wilson's Garage
as Head Waiter-Speakeasy
as Mrs. McKee
as Motorcycle Cop
as Weeping/Singing Woman
as Well Dressed Male Witness-Wilson's Garage
as The Boss -Probity Trust
as Jazz Player
as Pammy
as Pammy
as Pammy
as Barman
as Walter Chase
as Trimalchio the Orchestra Leader
as Singer-Wilson's Garage
as Party Guest
as The Professor
as The Boxer
as Klipspringer
as Clerk-Probity Trust
as Clerk-Probity Trust
as Clerk-Probity Trust
as Footman
as Train Conductor
as Russian Silent Film Actress
as Teddy Barton
as Newton Orchid
as Louisville Officer
as Young James Gatz
as Waiter-Hotel Sayre
as Guard at Gatsby's Gates
as Party Guest
as Footman
as Second Policeman-Wilson's Garage
as Silent Film Star Marlene Moon
as Rowdie
as Mr. McKee
as European Woman
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Critic Reviews for The Great Gatsby
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For all the antic, manic itchiness of his Gatsby, for all the jazz hands, the movie doesn't reach out and grab you.
It's stupefying, it's vulgar, it's demeaning-it's dull and there's nothing like the dullness that is trying to be a sensation.
There are no two ways about it: The Great Gatsby is misconceived and misjudged, a crude burlesque on what's probably American literature's most precious jewel.
The central problem with Luhrmann's film is that when it's entertaining it's not Gatsby, and when it's Gatsby it's not entertaining.
The best attempt yet to capture the essence of the novel.
A failure that should have at least been a magnificent mistake.
Audience Reviews for The Great Gatsby
Visually stunning, as expected with Luhrmann, to the degree of a somewhat artificial look. That works for this film, though and makes for a very unique atmosphere. Thankfully, the interesting characters and their actors are not held back by all the pomp, although the film does remain somewhat superficial compared to the novel. But especially the end is really well delivered.
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A very faithful adaptation that, with all its glamorous costume and production design, overstylized visuals and anachronistic music that only add to it, proves to be a surprisingly riveting experience and lives up to the good novel that inspired it.
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It would be cheeky of me if I wasn't forthright in saying that most of Baz Luhrmann's films have put me off. I understand his technique and I appreciate his craft, but the actual films are often too quick with their cuts, too nauseating with their one-note characters, and too over-the-top, period. Yet all of those attributes work very well for a true adaptation of "The Great Gatsby." Not only does it show the opulence of the time period, and the excess of Gatsby's lifestyle, but the drama of the love story between Gatsby and Daisy. Luhrmann is a wizard at turning visually crazed love stories into grand tragedies, and there's no better story than this literary powerhouse. While the backdrops are impossibly cloying, as they are CGI, the rest of the film, from modern soundtrack to big as life performances, feels as emotionally spectacular and huge as the original text. For what it was trying to do and for what it showed, Luhrmann easily succeeded and adapted this poignant love story.
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The Great Gatsby Quotes
| Jay Gatsby: | I knew that when I kissed this girl I would be forever wed to her. So I stopped. I stopped and I waited. I waited for a moment longer. Then I just let myself go. |
| Myrtle Wilson: | I knew that when I kissed this girl I would be forever wed to her... So I stopped. I stopped and I waited. I waited for a moment longer. Then I just let myself go. |
| Jay Gatsby: | like old sport having you ever seem it before its all a custom job super charge engine. |
| Nick Carraway: | They were careless people, Tom and Daisy. They smashed up things and people, and then retreated back into their money and their vast carelessness. |
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