Let's start from the last movie I have watched: The Great Gatsby.
I was lured in the theater with the promise of a fashionable and luxurious movie, with incredible casting, story and also costumes and choreography. I was disappointed to see a depressing vision of a great novel, with some Baz Luhrman sparkles sprinkled here and there.
The Great Gatsby was nothing as thrilling as Moulin Rouge. With a ginormous marketing budget The Great Gatsby was cleverly advertised as a shiny, twisted and thumping adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. As much as I think this movie is anyway worth seeing, for the good performances of the actors and for the great locations, costumes etc, it was nowhere close to exciting.
Since the start the movie was permeated by a feeling of despair: those who didn't read the book were feeling that this movie would end ba9dly. Also Lana Del Ray's song Young and Beautiful didn't help setting a very positive mood (mind you, I find the song beautiful. The problem is the book doesn't deliver this sensation until the very end; almost for all its length Gatsby is depicted as a poor, pitiable being whether the book wraps the character in a cloud of religious admiration for a character of great positive energy. The script on which The Great Gatsby is based doesn't develop the character of Gatsby enough thus not causing any emotional reaction to a deeper audience. Sorry Baz, this was a fail. Not epic though, not epic.
I was lured in the theater with the promise of a fashionable and luxurious movie, with incredible casting, story and also costumes and choreography. I was disappointed to see a depressing vision of a great novel, with some Baz Luhrman sparkles sprinkled here and there.
The Great Gatsby was nothing as thrilling as Moulin Rouge. With a ginormous marketing budget The Great Gatsby was cleverly advertised as a shiny, twisted and thumping adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. As much as I think this movie is anyway worth seeing, for the good performances of the actors and for the great locations, costumes etc, it was nowhere close to exciting.
Since the start the movie was permeated by a feeling of despair: those who didn't read the book were feeling that this movie would end ba9dly. Also Lana Del Ray's song Young and Beautiful didn't help setting a very positive mood (mind you, I find the song beautiful. The problem is the book doesn't deliver this sensation until the very end; almost for all its length Gatsby is depicted as a poor, pitiable being whether the book wraps the character in a cloud of religious admiration for a character of great positive energy. The script on which The Great Gatsby is based doesn't develop the character of Gatsby enough thus not causing any emotional reaction to a deeper audience. Sorry Baz, this was a fail. Not epic though, not epic.
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