Thinking Activity on Great Gastby

 Thinking Activity on Great Gatsby movie

The Great Gatsby is a 2013 historical romantic drama film based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. The film was co-written and directed by Baz Luhrmann and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke, and Elizabeth Debicki. Jay-Z served as executive producer. Filming took place from September to December 2011 in Australia, with a $105 million net production budget. The film follows the life and times of millionaire Jay Gatsby (DiCaprio) and his neighbor Nick Carraway (Maguire), who recounts his encounter with Gatsby at the height of the Roaring Twenties on Long Island.

Directed by : Baz Luhrmann

Screen play by: Baz Luhrmann

                          Craig Pearce

Based on: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott 

                                     Fitzgerald

Produced by: Baz Luhrmann

                      Catherine knapman

                       Douglas wick

                       Lucy Fisher

                       Catherine Martin

Starring

             

Leonardo DiCaprio- Jay Gatsby

Tobey Maguire-Nick Carraway

Carey Mulligan-Daisy Buchanan

Joel Edgerton- Tom Buchanan

Isla Fisher-Myrtle Wilson

Elizabeth Debicki - Jordan Baker

Cinematography- Simon Duggan

Release Date - May 1,2013(New York) 

                          May 3,2013(Australia) 

This film capture Jazz age

What is Jazz age? 

According to Wikipedia 

The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions were primarily felt in the United States, the birthplace of jazz.

The novel and film capture jazz Age From the publication of his 1922 collection, Tales of the Jazz Age, and beyond, F. Scott Fitzgerald has been inextricably linked to jazz. Indeed, Fitzgerald is even widely believed to have coined the term “Jazz Age,” and although the phrase predated Fitzgerald’s book, his usage unquestionably boosted its popularity immensely. The presence of jazz in his other works, perhaps most iconically in his grand novel The Great Gatsby, linked the term even more tightly to his name.  Today, the moniker “Jazz Age” has come to signify, as a kind of evocative shorthand, the 1920s in both academic and pop culture. Because jazz’s lineage—difficult as it is to pin down—was tightly bound up with African-American performance, the music often came to signify black American cultural production, and so, whenever Fitzgerald invoked jazz, he was often, simultaneously, invoking blackness. Yet The Great Gatsby’s usage of jazz is complicated, as Fitzgerald was simultaneously a proponent of the then-new, race-crossing music and a writer prone to resorting to racial stereotypes when black characters appeared—a combination that, unfortunately, was far from uncommon in Fitzgerald’s day.

It is difficult to overstate the pre-eminence of jazz in the early twentieth century in America, appearing as a theme in everything from clubs to cartoons to realist fiction. “For the makers, consumers, and arbiters of culture,” the theater and music scholar David Savran wrote in 2006, “jazz was everything. A weltanschauung, a personal identity, a metaphysics, an epistemology, an ethics, an eros, a mode of sociality—an entire way of being.” It was a musical style that, with its improvised orchestration, complexity, and danceable melodies, seemed to represent, through the fusion of seemingly contrary impulses, so much of the world at the time: the dissonance of Modernism, on the one hand, with jazz’s rejection of straightforward classical music, and, on the other hand, its class-transcending popularity, whereby both rich and poor could, in theory, dance to similar music. 

Film helps to understand Character of Novel. 

If you are literature students you know how the different characters and their complex mind difficult to understand but it is important to understand them so by help of movie we easily understand. 

Leonardo DiCaprio as a Jay Gatsby he was well known Actor his role of Gatsby we easily understand him he was also famous for his Titanic movie poor boy love rich girl. 

Leonardo insight into American people during that crazy decade Boz hibman had the past to dictate how to portray Joy cratsby but Fitzgerald  never knew what was right around the corner of America at the end of the decade 1929 brought upon the great Depression America and most importantantly the America and American people. had Lost everything the

devastating wall street crash had destroyed America and that transition from carefree naivety to hard hitting reality is a Perfect allegory for the character of Jay Gatsby America was Obsessive excessive and dreamless sounds a lot like our great Gastby The aim of the game during the 1920s was to

get rich and then get even richer theat obsessiveness was a poison American People that filled their evetual downfall this is a similar story the gatsby who obsessed over his perfer he could never live with a girl that was always too far away Gastby fell in love with Daisy from the moment he  haid eyes on her and that drug of love  blinded  Gastby into buying a house across the river from hers and throwing extravagant Parties because he believed this was thee best way to see her this Obsessiveness. 

Nick Carraway  character role play by Tobey maguire a famous actor as Spiderman also he have the silent personality in this movie also as the silent Narrator In Many book or article observed as not relayable Narratar also he was alcoholic Narrator. If we try to understand the character of Nick Movie and Novel is different. 

Film helps to understand the symbolic significance of The valley of Aflees The Eyes of Dr. TJ Eckleberg and Green light?

Green Light.

It is a beacon to alert boaters that there is an obstacle there that they meed to avoid.For Gatsby, the light symbolizeds a dream -his dream of obtaining Daisy. The dream is elusive : "tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms Farthes".

The Sacrifices individuals must make to achieve their dreams, and whether the ends justify : the means of Greenlight. 

The Symbolism of green throughout the movel is as variable and contradictory as the many definitions of "green" and the many use of money "new" natural  innocent naive and un corrupted but also rotten Gullible nauseous and sickly. For Gatsby green light is hope for get back Daisy

Valley of Ashes

the Valley of askes is symbolic of its residents social status The valley ashes between West Egg and New York city consists of a long stretch Of deso late land created by the clumping of industrial ashes.

It represents the Moral and social decay that results from the unihibited pursuit of wealth The valley of ashes also symbolizes the plight of the poor, like George Wilson, who live among the dirty ashes and loose their vitality as a result.

If New York City represents all the Mystery and beauty in the world and west Egg represents the people who have gotten rich off the roaring

economy of the Roaring twenties, the valley of Ashes stands for the dismal ruin of the people caught in between. 

The Eyes of Dr. T J. Eckleburg

The abandoned billboard promoting Dr. T. J. Eckleburg's optician services is symbolic of the immorality of 1920s.

Americans abandoned their religious morality in pursuit of personal pleasure. The billboard serves as a reminder of God's watchful eyes. Even George Wilson who believed that God's eyes we're watching down from the billboard, eventually breaks down and commits an immoral act by murdering Jay Gatsby. 

TO Nick they seem to symbolize the haunting waste of the past The eyes can also be linked to Gastby, whose own eyes, once described as "vacant often stare out, blankly keeping "vigil"

To George wilson Dr. Eckleburg's eyes are the eyes of God, which he says see everything. 

How did the film Capture the theme of racism and sexism?

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, written in 1925, and the movie directed by Baz Luhrmann in 2013. These differences are examples of how times have really changed. In 1925, instances of racism and sexism were not uncommon. However, racism and sexism are not really tolerated or accepted in today’s time. To suit the modern audience, instances of racism and sexism were omitted in the production of the movie. Many other differences can be found between the movie and the book. As times change, so do the accepted norms of society. The changes can be found seen in the characters and themes of the story.

He makes several racist and sexist remarks. It is easy to dislike his character. On pages 12-13, Tom says, “Have you read ‘The Rise of the Colored Empires’ by this man Goddard?”...”The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be---will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.” “Its up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.” Although Tom is an easy character to hate, it is not apparent that he is the sole villain to the story. He is not necessarily what destroys Gatsby in the end. In the book, it is Tom’s goal to have Wilson lash out at Gatsby. He does not out right tell Wilson that Gatsby is to blame for Myrtle’s death. He instead just tells Wilson the car that kills his wife is yellow. In movies there always has to be a villain. The producers decided to make Tom the villain. Tom practically tells Wilson that Gatsby is to blame for the death of his wife, Myrtle. Although Tom is made out to be the villain, the producers decided to leave out Tom’s racist and sexist remarks. In the apartment party scene, they completely omit Tom’s abusive behavior of hitting Myrtle. 

The roaring twenties, an American era of urban excellence, the rich became richer, the alcoholics became drunker, the war was over and men and women alike were thriving! In the novel The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway is writing about his experiences falling into the hands of filthy wealth, a colorful, dazzlingly loud lifestyle of his neighbor Jay Gatsby and his incredible parties. He soon finds himself caught up in a love story from the past of his cousin Daisy Buchanans and his new neighbor’s affairs, even more so, becomes attached to the hip with Gatsby, devoted to him. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together, (154)’ Nick Carraway shouts some of the last words Gatsby would hear. As times were still racist, sexist, and non-accepting of certain identities, F. Scott Fitzgerald possibly added homosexual tendencies within his novel, with a small book with less than two-hundred pages wrote from the perspective of a character’s past there was no room for random coincidences. With metaphors and thrown in ellipses, it was no mistake what the author intended, with the extra mile that Nick was a respectably honest narrator who put details into some interesting places or added in some events with no other information, as if he didn’t intend to speak of it in the first place. As the narrator, Nick Carraway has an amusing way of describing each character he meets.

Psychoanalytical study of Jay Gatsby

Great Gastby vision of life.  Natural attraction of wealth Power,Beauty,shame,Guilt shame For he is boy from  Small town Norther Farye he talk about he was shame for his lover class in his Parents Farmers Gatsby describe as Self made man start create persona change his name he believe serve in army persona of himself Against Reaction shame

Guit Feeling people feel they done something wrong Broken something moral shame feeling about selfwrong Gatsby shame about lower class upbringing and he does Lewis displays wealth psychologist  says reaction  for motion shame for poor People think about you The Character  of Novel not feel guit for their actions. 

Nick as Narrator

Go Beyound simple Narration how to Portray himself and others to his reades no dout he present himself more Positive sympathetic way possible this is true from the opening Sentence of the Book Nick writes in my younger and more vulnerable year my father gave some advice that I've been turning ove on my mind ever since this line is chock full of carefully chosen Language inteapnded to evoke Pathos and sentimentality,Gatsby This opening persona forms the foundational sea persona of Nick Carryway. 

he's a mid western good boy always try to see The best in people very decent, good Moral carrway from his enduring awkwardness Among the crowds at Gatsby's First Party Nick Wrote about Tom ' Now he was Sturdy strawhaired man of Thirty with a rather hard mouth and supercilious manner.Two shinig arrogat leyes had established dominance. over his face and gave him the apperance at always learning aggressively very forward Nick speakva gruff husky tenor added to the impression of Peachousness be conveyed there was a touch of 

paternat content Problematic aspect of Nick's backstory Lerman does address it's treated as little more than a throw away time during a quick dinner montage early in the film after this brief exchange subject is dropped completely that's for Nick and Jordan we'll there are given romantic subplot that end up playing as the fish out of water mid western guy landing the sophisticated New York girl who's out of his league it's not hard to see why Lerman would choose tools over the troubling threat of Nick is supposed to function as an audience surrogate then it's a lot easier to root for a wide-eyed under dog then an Egoitsheal cheater

In Novel NICK's moto keep himself at arm's length from the action and consequences that take place the desired effect is for the great gutsby simple observer Nick perspective as a victim doesn't consistently help up he know about Jay and Daisy relationship.Tom asked him to see my wife he denied another was the accident victim  narrative vichimized by difficult and shocking situation. 

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