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Just perfect...

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

If you want to get the real thing read the book. Otherwise watch this movie. It is as close as a film can get to this masterpiece of American literature. I appreciate that the director and the script didn't try to deviate from the book. The actors are excellent throughout, except for Tom, who is adequate but miscast. Mia Farrow hits all the right notes. To appreciate Redford's understated acting, you need to see DiCaprio try the same role. The rest of the cast is flawless. Sam Waterston is the perfect empathetic narrator through whose eyes we see the tragedy unfold... but as hard as he tries we will never see it through Fitzgerald's pen unless we read the book.

THE GREAT GATSBY is one of the great works of world literature. The screenplay for the 1974 version is about as perfect as any book transfer can be.Jack Clayton may not have been the best choice for director. How much better might it have been if the screen writing kid, Francis Ford Coppola, had been given a chance? Too bad we'll never know.The star role, Nick Carraway, is perfectly limned by Sam Waterston. Some of the lesser parts are also wonderful. Lois Chiles, Edward Herrmann, Karen Black, Howard da Silva, all are superb.The three major roles of the "romantic triangle" ruin the movie. Bruce Dern would have been much better as George.And then there is the infamous miscasting of Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. Pretty-boy Redford just doesn't look like the sort of guy who fought his way to the top. In fact, he's pretty bland all around. I don't have another choice for his part, but someone with a harder edge would have been preferable. Redford's not even there. He's nothing more than the sum of a lot of nice suits.If Redford was a mistake, Farrow was a disaster, turning in a bizarre performance as Daisy. The character is flighty, but Farrow ought to be institutionalized. If it's true Tuesday Weld was up for the part, someone blundered. Another good choice would have been Blythe Danner, but she was probably not considered enough of a star (though she could act Farrow off the screen in a showdown).Excellent screenplay, excellent production design. I love 1920s styles and I can really wallow in this movie, except when Redford and Farrow, the blandest couple ever, come on. Then I fast forward. Sam and Lois make a much more interesting team. Too bad we can't flush Gatsby and Daisy altogether. When Nick says "You're better than the whole damn bunch put together," we wonder who he's talking about. Certainly not Redford's lousy Gatsby.

If you can get past the god-awful acting, the dull camera- work, and the horribly drawn out story, you will see that the 1974 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby is actually, surprisingly faithful to the novel. Though not exactly emulating the mood that the novel had, Jack Clayton directs a film that sticks very close to original story that Fitzgerald envisioned. A decadent and lavish lifestyle is portrayed with the utmost attention to detail, careful not to stray far from the book. But, as it seems to be with every book-to-film adaptation, there are some minor differences. All of these differences honestly, do not really seem to make that big of a difference though. The biggest changes that the movie seems to make are the alterations of the dialogue, which the writer no doubt made to make the conversations, scenes, and overall story flow better on screen. Other minor differences include the fact that in the book, Tom is described as a "hulking brute of a man", while in the film, he is just portrayed as an average looking guy. This change does not affect the story much, if at all, and was probably made just because it would be kind of off-putting to see an incredibly giant, muscular man the entire run-time of this movie. Mostly, all of the changes are a lot like these two. They help to adapt the novel onto the big screen and they rarely ever take away from the actual story in any way, shape, or form.But, in my personal opinion, I thought that the book was far superior to the movie-adaptation. The novel felt as though it had so much more character and atmosphere while the movie just loses all of the spirit that the original had. Also, as with most film adaptations of books, you lose the key factor that your imagination plays when you are reading the book. You get to envision everything that the author wanted you to see when he wrote it. But with the film, there is no envisioning, no imagination. Just the pictures that came to the director's mind when he read the book. Film can be an incredibly powerful form of emotion and story-telling, but when done like this, I think that you are better off with the book.

Starring Robert Redford in the titular role, I wasn't even aware of this films existence until the new film released, and apart from some dated cinematography, this film by Jack Clayton came very close to how I felt the book was told.Seen from the perspective of everyday man Nick Carraway (Sam Waterston) visiting his cousin Daisy Buchanan, we are exposed to a lifestyle of American bliss, riches, ignorance and selfishness. Jay Gatsby, a mysterious man who hates social interaction, hosts parties at his mansion every week for anyone to attend. But he personally invites Nick, seemingly out of the blue, as his confidant and soon Nick discovers that recluse and shadowy Gatsby has feelings for the married Daisy.The book is a quick read; it barrels along because it does one thing only and does it well, it explores the sickness that comes with riches and the often two-faced nature of human beings for both good and ill reasons. Daisy is the embodiment of blissful ignorance; on the surface she is a damsel, she says all women can only be "beautiful little fools", but deep down she has an unpleasantness all her own. Every character has this dark trouble inside of them, apart from Carraway, who behaves here much as he does in the book; as an audience surrogate. The betrayal, misdeeds and affairs that run through the other characters can be clearly shown from the eyes of an outsider.Jack Clayton's film captures the look and feel of the book excellently; from Gatsby's mansion to Wilson's garage, from the cars to the ominous billboard that watches over our characters with unblinking eyes. With a run time of over two hours, everything is explored in detail and the script is the dialogue lifted from the source material. Most of the iconic lines are left intact, and delivered with conviction.However towards the end of the story I wasn't sure if all the characters' darkest motivations were given their fullest attention. I didn't feel Daisy was represented as selfish or as destructive as she could have been, for me the tables radically turn on all of the characters throughout the book. The same goes for Gatsby himself, but his character is more up to personal interpretation (by the end of the book, I didn't care for Gatsby) A final note on Redford's Gatsby, he is good in the role as he pulls off the shady and introverted one moment and the noble soldier in the next with authenticity. He looks like he could have been a soldier a lifetime ago.That is what seems best about this film; its honest appearance and integrity to the book. It just might seem a bit drab, I'm not sure it captures quite how truly weak and corrupted each of the characters truly were.