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    The Great Gatsby Comparison Paper The similarities and the differences between the book The Great Gatsby and the movie G are many in both accounts. The book The Great Gatsby was written and set in the 1920’s with all caucasion characters‚ and the proper talk and everyday life of the 20’s. The movie G is much different in this aspect because the writter’s and the director of the film decided to modernize the story and make it more catered to the new african america lifestyle

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    Set in the summer of the Roaring Twenties‚ The Great Gatsby follows the hedonistic and destructive lifestyles of the upper social classes of post-war America. This novel‚ written by F Scott Fitzgerald in the same time period‚ criticizes the shallowness of the actions of this outlandish generation and their eventual disillusionment with their society. American Beauty‚ the 1999 film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan ball‚ uses the setting of contemporary middle-class suburban America to examine

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    I chose The Great Gatsby to watch for my movie review because the movie gives you a look at how life was in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby was released in 2013 and is rated PG13 for violence and sexual content. The movie was 143 minutes long. Baz Luhrmann directed The Great Gatsby and takes place in 1922. Leonardo DiCaprio played Jay Gatsby who bought a mansion across the lake from the love of his life (Daisy) who is now married. Casey Mulligan plays daisy who is in a hard place deciding whether

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    INTRODUCTION American Gangster tells a story about how the emerge of drug traffic and trade was in the streets of Harlem‚ New York. Denzel Washington plays real life gangster- Frank Lucas back in the 70s that was originally from North Carolina. Lucas moves to Harlem and is apprenticed under a notorious crime boss- Bumpy. Russell Crowe plays detective Richie Roberts – a New York detective that has a task to bring the drug trafficking and corruption between the police department to heel. In the movie also

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    Dakota Gravitt The Great Gatsby (2013) Movie Analysis “The Great Gatsbymovie‚ made in 2013 featuring Tobey Maguire‚ Leonardo DiCaprio‚ and Carey Mulligan‚ is a film based on a book by the same name written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film is about Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire)‚ a bond salesman living in the 1920s‚ before the market crash‚ who moves near the shores of New York City over the summer and encounters his mysterious neighbor‚ Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). His rich neighbor would

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    The American Dream: Is Betterment Worth It? Through the years‚ the inhabitants of America have been mobile people. The Native Americans moved according to the seasons and the migration of animals; the first Spanish settlers moved to find gold; the European colonists moved for land; and in the past weeks‚ Southerners have been moving to escape tragedy. Although these four major diasporas seem to have individual reasons‚ all four share one common root: the American Dream - an urge to improve a

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    the American dream? The American dream is currently an idea that we discussed in numerous pieces of literature we have read as juniors this year. The literal definition that the American dream is the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work‚ determination‚ and initiative is no longer true for everyone and slowly fading before our eyes. Specifically‚ through novels like The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Great Gatsby by F

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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 American Dream 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

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    The Immorality in The Great Gatsby Good morning/afternoon Ms fellow classmates‚ Today I will analysis F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great American Novel‚ The Great Gatsby which has recently been adapted into a movie from Baz Lurrhman and I will discuss the immorality in the character Daisy Buchanan when she hit Myrtle Wilson her husbands mistress with Jay Gatsby’s car kill her instantly and knowingly drove off without stopping. Then allowing Gatsby to take the blame for it and the subsequently an unexpected

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