The rest of the cast is similarly excellent. Hollywood might be focused on the green light, but Luhrmann is projecting his dreams directly onto the mist. But Luhrmann does — he saw the opportunity, I suppose. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news!
Jay Gatsby : Why, of course you can Sign In. Play trailer Drama Romance. Director Baz Luhrmann. Baz Luhrmann screenplay Craig Pearce screenplay F. Scott Fitzgerald based on the novel by. Top credits Director Baz Luhrmann. See more at IMDbPro.
Trailer International Version 2. Main Trailer. International Version. Version 1. Promo The Great Gatsby. Video Photos And one of the things Fitzgerald did very successfully was take all things new and modern, take pop-culture and put those in his novel. And I am a great fan of jazz. But it is a bit rarified today. So it was a natural fit to translate the African-American music that came from the streets called hip-hop, and weave it into a jazz language.
BL : Our real focus was to reveal the book. There were a number of steps we took to do so. What scenes must be in our film? And what scenes can we do with out, even if we love them? But we did not have a seven-hour movie in mind. We had to do it in two. So we had to make choices and we chose to stay very focused on the linear plot of the book.
Second, one of the big devices in the book is that the story is told from inside the mind of Nick Carraway who in our interpretation is very much like F. Scott himself. It's a characteristic I should practise more. There are people who do it very well and are written about more kindly. Does anybody still call him Mark? I mean, look, I know Bono and I know Sting. No one ever calls them Paul and Gordon.
I changed my name by deed-poll when I was still at highschool. Whatever for? Basil Brush , you know? All I can say is that I got really put upon and the nickname was just a part of it. I don't know what possessed me to take upon the name that was the source of such derision, and try to claim it as my own. So I obviously had grandiose plans, even then. He initially dreamed of being an actor, studying drama at Sydney and bagging minor roles in Aussie soaps and second-league features.
His directing debut, the semi-autobiographical Strictly Ballroom, spun out of a play he had written and staged in Sydney, became a break-out and sent him on his way. The epic Australia — a big cheesy cattle opera, piled with big skies and reeking of cow-sweat — remains his only major stumble. What is it they say? They are so very intimate. Last September, Luhrmann turned He has a wife and kids and celebrity friends whom he name-drops with gusto.
He has films on the CV and presumably millions in the bank. His hair, for that matter, is no longer a brush. It is sleek and silver, like the pelt of some distinguished old otter. His grandiose, Gatsby-esque plans have largely come good.
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