The Great Gatsby [Blu-ray] [2014] [2013] [Region Free]

This film will be a classic in time, with its scenes, dialogues, soundtracks.It's a heart breaking story of AMERICAN DREAM FOR LOVE and LOVE IS BLIND.It is based on Francis Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the same name. I did not read the novel.Gatsby was born to a poor rural family in North Dakota.From childhood he dreams that he is destined to be a great man.He is very optimistic, and believes if one wants too much of a thing, he should be able to get it.And means of reaching those goals seem to be not a matter of concern for him.It looks like Gatsby's frustration with being poor, being in lower end of the society starts with childhood.Just before attending WW I he fells in love with Daisy in a party.While Gatsby is poor and uneducated, Daisy belongs to high end society.Nevertheless they promise to each other to marry when the War ends. On his return, he finds out that she is married with another rich man, Tom.Tom studied at Yale, is a polo sport star, and heir to very rich family. He enjoys being member of white high class society.He believes that there are differences between classes, and races. He is a racist.He is also cheating on Daisy with Myrtle, wife of poor garage owner George.Daisy seems to be not in great with love with Tom, neither she minds Tom's cheating on her.She got stuck in this life. But she does not mind as long as she is rich and surrounded by the people of that world.They are living in a fancy mansion in Long Island next to bay.Gatsby is obsessed with her love, and he thinks he can get her back, if he is also rich. His childhood obsession of WILL starts moving.Well somehow, (somehow is illegal ways), he becomes filthy rich.He buys a château on the other side of the bay across the Daisy's house.Though he is uncomfortable with his lack of education and high class culture, he tries to cover that up with huge open public parties at his château.Among the guests are senator, famous actress. He expects one day Daisy will also attend.Party scenes at château are display of American capitalism's might. I am not sure if there is any other film that displays joyful, optimistic, extravagant sphere of 1920s economic boomdays.Gatsby lives in two worlds. One is stressful illegal world, running and keeping up the business, dealing with criminals.Other one is the one who child like a optimistic, having pure love for Daisy.Gatsby meets with Daisy with at Nick's small house which is next to his château.Then their affair starts.Nick is a distant cousin of Daisy, and friend of Tom from Yale.He studied literature at Yale, but eventually ended up working in the fancy financial world of New York.How Nick ended up living in a house next to Gatsby's château is unclear.And this proximity introduces Gatsby to Nick and he asks this Tea Party arrangement with Daisy.Nick is almost in all the scenes.He presents this natural objective observer type of fellow having equal distance to everyone, having trust of everyone.Tom, Daisy, Gatsby likes him a lot. He is part of all social occasions.I think viewer has the same feeling for Nick. Most loved man of the movie.Tobey Maguire's uninterrupted attraction took the viewer into the movie.Eventually Gatsby asks Daisy to tell Tom to leave him. Gatsby is confident Daisy loves him and does not love Tom.But here he is blinded by love. Daisy sees the class difference between Tom and Gatsby.Gatsby optimism, naivety misses this.While Gatsby is waiting for a phone call from Daisy to return to him, he gets shot and killed by George, the poor garage owner.George killed Gatsby thinking that his wife is killed in traffic accident by a reckless driver.George thinks driver was Gatsby. He also thinks Gatsby had affair with his wife.But truth is his wife is killed by Daisy driving Gatsby huge shiny yellow car, Gatsyb was sitting next to her. They ran away after the accident.While Gatsby is hiding this fact, and ready to be accused of accident, Daisy on the eve of the accident, told Tom she was driving the car and killed Myrtle.Tom and Daisy already made plan to leave New York.One feels heart broken, and sympathy for Gatsby's naivety belief being rich will be enough to get her back.At the funeral of Gatsby, no one, including Daisy, shows up, but only Nick.Because he is portrayed as a murderer and having affair with a married woman.This is the scene one feels, questions love is also sickness, or a drug.Nick leaves New York getting sick and tired of all the fake lifes, deception he sees there.Movie starts with he is narrating from a sanatorium where he gets psychological treatment.His doctor advises him to write the entire story that brought him to sanatorium.And he does that, and he names his memorise The Great Gatsby.Nick sees Gatsby as the only real one in the ocean of fakeness and deception.Movie makes the viewer feel like capitalist completion affairs make a normal and a lovely person like Nick, depressed , and sick.I watched movie twice, and noticed the how lovely the soundtracks only then.One can keep on listening "Young and Beautiful" by Lana Del Rey, and "Back to Black" by Beyoncé sitting in the couch for hours.I think tune of these two songs is the story of this film.

My one line verdict...'Blown Away' by the superlative production. Not for a second did it sink under the vast and detailed production values. The best screen filler since Cecil B. De Mille.Heart breaking and deeply moving. Lurhman understood the novel and it's inner text. The only DVD add on was the deleted scenes and Baz explaining why. I loved the missing scenes but so could see why he left them out.The book and film is actually as much about the strange friendship between Jay and Nick Carroway as much, if not more than about Gatsby and Daisy.The one deleted scene that Lurhman most regretted not using was just before they go to New York for the Tom and Gatsby showdown. Nick says, "She's got an indiscreet voice," I remarked. "It's full of----" I hesitated. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby said suddenly.That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money--that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it. . . . high in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl. .Later when Tom try's to repair his friendship with Nick, he says" I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw what he had done was to him, entirely justified. It was all very carless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy, they smashed up things and creatures, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."So all in all it was just wonderful. I had expected the music to jar...but not so, not even the odd rap. It was minimal and it sounded period, beautifully mixed.One scene I waited for with bated breath was the SHIRT scene. Jack Clayton's version with Robert Redford did it so beautifully you saw why Daisy was crying......Here was a different take just just as telling. Magical film making.As you might guess I most heartily recommend it.

There wasn't a minute of this film during which I was bored. As usual with Baz Luhrmann, if there wasn't emotion on screen, there was some kind of visually impressive spectacle. I spent much of the running time wowed by the extraordinary visuals, which was probably a good thing, as for the first half of the film, it's distinctly light on plot.While we're introduced to Maguire's fairly innocent wannabe writer and everyone wonders who the mysterious Mr Gatsby is, almost all of the rest of the time is filled by drunken parties whose whirling colours, enthusiastic dancers and flying confetti / ribbons / champagne corks put the can-can scene in Moulin Rouge to shame. They're a breathtaking example of candy for the eyes - nobody does decadent opulence like Luhrmann. However, once the actual plot begins to emerge, and the love story develops, similarities with his earlier well-loved work start to rear their heads a bit too often. Star-crossed lovers who yearn to be together? Yep. Furiously paced, noisy parties to open the movie and fill out the running time until something actually happens? Yep. A comically awkward first romantic meeting? Yep. A jilted lover? Yep. A writer relating the story? Yep. Someone even breaks out a revolver near the climax. While the film was undoubtedly enjoyable, I would have liked it more if it hadn't felt like it was struggling so hard to follow Moulin Rouge's template and had been allowed to be more of its own animal. It's a visually gorgeous, dramatic movie. It's just a slight disappointment that you've seen this dame before - just wearing a more theatrical French dress...