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Warner Bros has put up a new trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s take on the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic The Great Gatsby. Leonardo DiCaprio plays the title character, Carey Mulligan is Daisy and the rest of the cast includes Tobey Maguire, Isla Fisher, Joel Edgerton and Jason Clarke. Luhrmann and Craig Pearce adapted the screenplay. Gatsby opens May 10th.
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Looks good. I’m in.
Interesting that you mentioned it “looked good”. Because I thought the music used in the trailer sounded horrible. Kanye and sreamo music in the bg of a period piece trailer was just…
I don’t think you know what screamo is.
Far more encouraged by this trailer than I was by the first.
OUCH! This looks so bad, and I’m not saying so just to be snarky… Guess there’s no boats beating back on the shore here, eh?
Agreed.
I’m with you.
It looks like another overindulgent “Bad” Lurhmann wet dream fantasy.
Alright. This looks kind of awesome.
Looks better then I anticipated, but its gonna tank hard.
Who voices Jar Jar Binks?
This looks hilarious. I can’t believe it’s real.
Every generation gets the SHOWGIRLS it deserves.
(I mean, let’s be absolutely honest–when we all read GATSBY in high school, didn’t we all hear The Turtles singing “Happy Together” as the love theme? Of course we did!)
Don’t you mean every generation gets the Liberace it deserves? I would rather have sex with a dead person than watch this–at least it would be quiet.
What the hell is their problem? Again with the awful modernistic music. We had the best music ever in the Roaring 20′s why don’t they use it? Oh because they think they need this shitty contemporary music to get the youth audience. Idiots. It’s a huge turnoff to hear such horrible music when people are supposed to be listening to my words. I hope this flops if people want to see a good version they should watch the Robert Redford version that was made 40 years ago. Yours truly,
Jay, got to agree with you. The Roaring 20’s had a Look and a Sound, because we had the ability to record it so well. When I watch the trailer the Art Direction is wonderful and draws me in to the period, but the music, and I hope it’s just the trailer music, slams the door in my face and pushes me away from a place I want to go. It’s hard to get immersed in something that juggles two places in time, my eyes say 20’s, but my ears say present. Sort of like putting Elvis on the soundtrack of Lawrence of Arabia.
I find the music very annoying/inapropriate… and im part of the ”youth audience”..
Acting looks good though.
WTF!!! I didn’t know Leo was playing J. Edgar playing J. Gatsby
Saw this awhile back, absolutely astounding and easily the best Gatsby adaptation yet. The modernization is really meant to show how the book and consequently films thematic purpose applies to todays world just as easily as it did to Fitzgerald’s. When the oscars roll around next year this will be a contender.
+1
I second everything you said, and I’ll RAISE you by saying this looks so good, they should re-cut this trailer to Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” and really get the full effect.
It’s one of the weirdest trailers in recent memory, even more than the last one.
What’s up with Tobey Maguire’s Blue Steel. He’s a solid actor and I’m sure he does more than react open-mouthed for two hours. It makes me not want to see it, which is bad news for Warners because I love Luhrmann, DiCaprio, and F.Scott Fitzgerald.
This trailer feels like a Moulin Rouge 20s remix with Luhrmann’s fingerprints all over the cutting. They should run a trailer with longer cuts, fewer reaction shots, and see how it tracks. We all know the story. We want to know if there’s chemistry before we pay to sit there.
The trailer is clunky, but I have high hopes for this film. The Redford version was too polite and tepid for a movie about sexual obsession, murder, and jazz-age frenzy as a reaction to a horrific war.
This looks so wrong on so many levels. As a fan of the book, I find the whole tone so overproduced. Is it really supposed to be a period piece? The city looks too built up and overdone, the heavy metal music feels ODD, and Tobey and Leo are known friends so it feels too familiar. I wasn’t expecting a film to look like the one with Redford but respect must be paid to this book. Not sure this film will do it.
my concern when hearing of luhrmann getting the nod to direct this was that it would be a “moulin rouge”-style adaptation. and i liked “moulin rouge.” but that concern is now officially realized. this might end up being an enjoyable film for anyone who has never read the book, but for anyone who has, i don’t think it will work. you can’t forget prose and style like what you find in “the great gatsby”, and the one way to surely foul it up is to sledgehammer the audience. kind of like this does. oh, well.
This is so far from Fitzgerald’s Gatsby, but who reads classics anymore.
And do the studios really think we’re going to stop and read their pop-up For Your Consideration ads? Waste of money folks.
Who reads anymore . . . period?!
That’s why Hollywood has filmmakers like Baz Lurhmann – so that students can complete their “book” reports, even if the teacher fails them.
I want to hate on this, but it looks interesting. Unless the reviews are atrocious, I’ll actually go see it.
I can’t understand the hate. Yes, for purists it might be jarring but why not reserve judgement until viewed. It’s Baz Luhrmann’s TAKE on Fitgeralds Masterpiece. It’s through his viewfinder. I could just as easily await a new straight take on the novel but am just as excited to see Bazs treatment with his trademarks in action. Will it work? I’m not sure but i’m keen to see it try.
The first big bomb of 2013! It looks terrible in every way, and why in the hell did Luhrmann think that Carey Mulligan is good looking enough to play the object of DiCaprio’s obsession? She cute (barely) but is not in that guy’s league. No credibility in the Gatsby-Daisy angle equals no credibility in the movie. That is seriously bad casting.
I thought Vinny Chase was supposed to be in this? Directed by Marty?
Jesus. Great trailer.
Saw Joe Wright’s “Anna Karenina” recently and thought of Luhrmann throughout. Cerebral passion with stagecraft backdrop but not the distanced cool like Stoppard does. To some extent what Scorsese did with “New York, New York” (all hot no cool there) which I think is really undervalued. People forget that the Redford “Gatsby” was a complete flop. Would like to see the Alan Ladd one but haven’t. I’ll be seeing it even if everybody else hates it. I find Luhrmann that interesting. To my mind his films are about how pop culture impacts our motives; how we wish to look, behave, attract and to what extent we will strive to achieve our own personal version of the special effects of destiny imagined. A foreigner might see this a lot more objectively than we do. A radical interpretation of the book might be really interesting. You think Jay-Z in his mind isn’t playing out the image of a “playa” Jay Gatsby? Thematically, on the chilling opposite end of the spectrum, check out a New York Film Festival selection of a few years back called “Tony Manero” about a guy obsessed with John Travolta in “Saturday Night Fever.” An excruciatingly uncomfortable movie to experience. David Chase and “The Sopranos” did a lot of great incidental stuff with these themes. When I was a kid I once put ketchup running out of the corner of my mouth because Robert Conrad as James West on “The Wild, Wild West” would have blood trickling out of the side of his mouth no matter how big or small the fight he was in. That was my observation at the time; and how I remember it today – the “blood;” my child-like reasoning. I think such silly perceptions that enthrall us as pop culture impact human events in the long run more than we realize. Matthew Weiner’s “Mad Men” is all about this stuff. Don Draper is a gray flannel commuter Gatsby-like re-invention. Clift as George Eastman in Stevens’ version of Dreiser’s “A Place in the Sun” – same thing and with tragic consequences as with Gatsby.
I enjoyed reading your post, as you seem to be rather perceptive and have made some interesting observations.
I do, however, disagree with Luhrmann as “interesting”. Personally, I find Luhrmann’s films to be self-indulgent, overproduced, pretentious messes. On the other hand, I begrudgingly agree that he presents a type of “pop art” in his filmmaking process. Still, just as I would never spend a dime on a canvas that looks like some monkey splashed paint all over, and I would certainly not display such on my wall, I can never watch a Luhrmann flick without developing a sense of nausea and dizzyness.
re: “self-indulgent, overproduced, pretentious messes” I would agree insofar as 2008′s Australia exposed his most egregious weaknesses. However from Strictly Ballroom onward, he’s steadily pushed himself into newer / more challenging territory to match his growing budgets. Personalized adaptations seem to provide Baz with a (semblance of) foundational story structure. Whereas “Australia” was the equivalent of Bay’s “Pearl Harbor” – an appalling wreck that insulted both real-life history and ticket buyers. Gatsby probably won’t return its investment, but at least it’s a corrective step towards Baz’s proven artistic strengths.
Rather, “A Place in the Sun,” Stevens’ version of Dreiser’s “An American Tragedy.” My bad.
This looks even better than the first trailer. Carey Mulligan will be a great Daisy and this film will benefit from not competing with DiCaprio’s “Django Unchained”. I will definitely see this in 3D.
I can’t imagine what they are thinking with the release date, in a crowded summer, one week after Iron Man 3.