Brian Cardenas Ms. Tobias English III GT-4th 12 January 2017 The Great Gatsby: Novel and Movie With Analysis The Great Gatsby is an extraordinary piece of work. This story covers up several themes such as money‚ love‚ and the American Dream. This story follows the life of Jay Gatsby who pretends to be someone he’s not to win back Daisy Buchanan‚ the girl of his dreams. Having the opportunity to read the book and watch the movie‚ there were several differences and similarities I observed. These similarities
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The Great Gatsby Critical Movie Review The Great Gatsby is a movie that was made in 1974 by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Jack Clayton‚ produced by David Merrick‚ which was taken from the screenplay written by Francis Ford Coppola. The movie is based off the 1925 novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ and the main actors in the movie are Robert Redford (Jay Gatsby)‚ Mia Farrow (Daisy Buchanan)‚ Bruce Dern (Tom Buchanan)‚ and Sam Waterson (Nick Carraway). Although the movie didn’t go over
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The film The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann and produced in 2013 was a commendable representation of the book by F. Scott Fitzgerald that it was based off of. The roles of the main characters Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio)‚ Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan)‚ Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton)‚ and Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) were played on point. The movie mostly kept the same feeling as the book or helped the viewer understand it more. Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan’s roles in the book were recreated
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John Spirikaitis Mrs.Calabrese English 11th CP November 16th 2014 The Great Gatsby by‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel that creates imagery almost around every corner. The book also shows how cupidity and duplicity can lead to chaos. As a human being in this world‚ its natural or a need to want things that our of reach: not caring of the ramifications along the way. The book The Great Gatsby has been produced into multiple films. The two that we are most aware of was an older version made in
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The Great Gatsby: Differences in the Film and Novel There are a few differences between The Great Gatsby novel and film. The scenes that are different do not necessarily change the overall plot of the film‚ but they do modify the meaning and tone of that specific act. However‚ even with the differences the film stays true to the novel for the most part. Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby stays fairly faithful to the novel‚ but there a few scenes in the movie that have been changed from the book. The
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February‚ 2013 The Great Gatsby ----comparison between book and 1974 movie The difference between the developing way of books and movies is magnificently huge because the way of emotion transmitting is different; the movie is based on vision‚ while the book is based on words. ADDITONS in plots: In the beginning of the movie‚ Nick is sailing a boat and then meets Tom at the dock‚ while Tom
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Westing Game book and movie‚ “Get a Clue” are quite similar and different from each other. In my opinion‚ the book was more appealing to read than to watch the movie. It was long‚ suspenseful and frequently changed point of view between characters. Instead‚ the movie was short‚ straight-forward‚ and focused mainly on Turtle Wexler. Although the plot‚ characters that remained‚ and storyline were similar. The similarities between the book and the movie were that the ten out of sixteen book characters
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The Great Gatsby In the book The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ a man tries to get the love of his life back‚ and ends up dying because of it. Now some people think this is heroic but others think he was just plain stupid. The director Baz Luhrmann adapted the book into a movie and did a good job portraying some aspects of the book‚ like the characters and the overall plot. He also did a good job of adding new things into it to make the movie better‚ like Nick’s life after Gatsby. The book
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The Great Gatsby is a movie directed by Baz Luhrmann. The movie represents the novel ‘’The Great Gatsby’’ written by Scott Fitzgerald. It is Scott’s analysis on the American society during the Roaring Twenties. The characters represent the American Dream. The main-characters in this story are Jay Gatsby‚ Nick Carraway‚ and Daisy Buchanan. When Nick Carraway moves to New-York he buys a house on West Egg‚ Long Island. His neighbour is the wealthy and mysterious man named Jay Gatsby. As weeks
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my own perception of two interpretations of Shakespeare’s masterpiece that I’m going to present here. “Romeo and Juliet” is probably the most well-known play of William Shakespeare. It’s an amazing tragic love story‚ full of action and inevitably arousing strong emotions in a reader. In addition to being a masterpiece of dramatic literature‚ it has become a classic love tragedy with Romeo and Juliet becoming archetypical young lovers. The actual story is believed to be borrowed by Shakespeare
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