The Great Gatsby

After reading The Great Gatsby the novel, as a class we enjoyed watching the movie. It was a fascinating movie with great actors and actresses. Each role was interpreted perfectly describing the characters as who they truly were, as presented in the novel. The Great Gatsby portrays life during the roaring twenties and the great parties people had during the time of prohibition. Since the movie was creating during the year of 2013, it had to stay within the theme of that age. The roaring twenties was all about jazz music, but the movie used different genres of this century; such as rap music and pop.
The scenery of the movie was created perfectly just as described in the novel, by using identical colors as illustrated. The Great Gatsby is an extremely beautifully written novel; nevertheless the movie conceived each scene to be better visualized for the audience. It also included the pathetic fallacies that were shown in the novel; the romantic rain during the scene where Daisy and Gatsby are going to meet again and the hottest day of the summer, which showed the chaos and stress of each character. The movie used every line out of the novel, word by word, and arranged it as if the novel was being read all over again. Baz Luhrmann did an amazing job directing this wonderful movie!