The Great Gatsby (2013) by Leonardo DiCaprio

A wonderful remake of a classic movie.

A true classic film in the making

Excellent visuals and story-line which kept you interested the whole movie.

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I'm fan of the original Gatsby film from the 70's and the book was even better. This version is on the musical side just a little.... the story line aligns and the actors all give great performances. It's a MUST SEE!

I finally got to see the new "The Great Gatsby" movie and was surprised at how good it was. I was expecting it to be awful given my opinion of director Baz Luhrmann's prior work, notably the insipid "Moulin Rouge!"Although there were considerable liberties and abridgements taken with the story, the core of it was definitely preserved and, more importantly, the contradictory but simultaneously elegaic and exuberant tone of the novel was preserved.Earlier adaptations, such as the 1974 version with Robert Redford, were so plodding as to be almost unwatchable. The 1974 movie makes the fatal mistake of being too realistic, reducing the whole affair to something like a Lifeiime television movie. That's exactly what you get from the novel if you distill the bare plot and characters but lose the tone, because the novel is ultimately structured as a nostalgic remembrance of lost hope. The deliberately unrealistic excitement of a period in time when anything seemed possible is the perfect environment for Baz Luhrmann.In the new version, the cinematography and costumes mesh well to convey the excitement of the Jazz Age at its peak.The music was surprisingly appropriate, the exact opposite of "Moulin Rouge," with George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" -- one of my all-time favorite pieces -- as a significant recurring motif. Even the new music, especially "Young and Beautiful," fits in well.The movie is visually very impressive in a way that the novel cannot be, but it does conjure an imaginary and unrealistic world of grandiose excess that is worth seeing. The 3D gimmick is kind of pointless, but that is true for most movies.Without spoiling anything, the opening credits begin in rough black and white with uneven lighting and flicker, very much like watching an old movie actually made in the 1920s, before the credits change to sharp and colorful gilded art deco designs. The effect is clever, making all of the flashy color that is the movie seem almost dreamlike, copying the elegaic tone of the novel. Eventually the closing credits reverse the effect back to fuzzy black and white.Gatsby is an archetypal character whose purity and single-mindedness are his defining elements, creating a kind of naivety that distinguishes him from everyone around him -- and which eventually destroys him at the hands of those more cynical. One of the main reasons why the novel has become what it is today is that it presciently in 1925 understood that the Roaring 20s were an unsustainable party that must come to an end, which we know now from hindsight would happen with a horrific crash and decade-long hangover of the Great Depression. F. Scott Fitzgerald's almost puritanical discomfort with the Jazz Age, despite being its most enthusiastic contemporaneous chronicler, proved to strike just the right chord. A very good book about the 1920s Paris expatriate community (of which Scott and Zelda were prominent members) borrows a quote from a less well known writer as its title: "Everybody Was So Young."The characters are all very dislikable, with the exception of Jay Gatsby himself. Nick Carraway is extremely self-critical, regarding himself as a failure. One of the most common criticisms of the novel is that Gatsby's interest in Daisy lacks credibility because she is something of a petulant child who needs to be taken care of, but of course she mirrors to some extent Scott's real-life wife Zelda and their co-dependent marriage. Regardless of the truth about Zelda, who was by all accounts a remarkably capable and intelligent woman, there can be no doubt that she was treated as someone who needed to be taken care of and eventually ended up confined to a mental hospital. I don't want to fall into the trap of misidentifying authors with their characters, but it seems clear that Scott intended Gatsby's interest is Daisy to be entirely credible, even if Gatsby's perception of her was idealized as a result of his naivety and boundless optimism.The original novel is unstinting in its portrayal of the mistreatment of servants, which is intended to be offensive. What Scott Fitzgerald fully intended to condemn in 1925 looks even worse to us now, but it is an important part of the story and is an essential literary device used repeatedly to illuminate the defects of Tom Buchanan's character and worldview. The novel draws explicit parallels between Gatsby, as what would then be disparaged as a "self-made man," and the servants --- both of whom Tom believes are limited and inexorably predestined by their circumstances of birth. Indeed, one of the reasons Tom is so disgusted at being described as "the polo player" is because being known for what he does instead of how he was born degrades him, in his own view, to the level of competition with Gatsby and the servants.I should explain somewhat my comment about "liberties and abridgements." There are a number of lines of narration and dialogue that, although quite widely known and remembered from the novel, are simply gone in the movie. The opening and closing text is preserved, as it had to be, but everything else was apparently up for challenge about inclusion.Almost all of the subplots are removed, which reduces some of the characters to very minor status, especially Jordan Baker who in the novel is an iconic representation of the independent "new woman" that we might today call a "feminist," and is therefore a counterpart to narrator Nick Carraway who, although of respectable pedigree and a Yale alumnus, has to actually work for a living. The screenwriters were probably correct in thinking that this was of much less interest to the modern audience than it was when the novel was published. On the other hand, it makes some things incomprehensible, such as why Tom Buchanan gets so annoyed at being introduced as "the polo player."The handling of the Meyer Wolfsheim character is outright bizarre, probably because there were fears of the portrayal being regarded as anti-Semitic despite the character unquestionably being based on the real-life Arnold Rothstein. For one thing, he is played by an actor whose ancestry is from India, a pretty extreme case of "funny, he doesn't look Jewish," and who is the only actor who seems to have any identifiable ethnicity with a speaking role that is not a black waiter. Odd things are changed, such as his cufflinks made from human teeth turning into a tie-pin, possibly because the screenwriters were worried that the modern audience would be too confused as to what cufflinks are, but the cufflinks are significant because they are something that would not be noticed immediately but when noticed would pierce the veneer of civility -- a major theme in the novel.It's a vibrant, colorful movie that successfully evokes, if not the real Jazz Age, then our collective historical memory of it.

Love it

Great movie.

Es edición muy buena, además viene con un CD con la BSO. Y a un precio muy bueno

Detta är den franska utgåvan på Great Gatsby, men det är bara pappersfodralet som ändrats samt trycket på skivan. Innehållet är samma.Jag var lite orolig först för det stod inte att svenska undertexter skulle vara med, endast spanska, franska och nederländska finns listat på baksidan.Oftast är Bluray 4K UHD samma, men ibland kan det finnas lokala utgåvor. Detta är dock inte en sådan, en uppsjö av språk finns med, bland annat svenska.Filmen saknar Dolby Atmos fast bilden ger sken av det, men den utgåvan som funnits sedan tidigare har bara haft DTS.Bilden är endast i HDR men ser väldigt bra ut, filmen är något av ett visuellt mästerverk.

Acquistato ad un prezzo irrisorio. Ottimo per chi ama il genere è la qualità dei film in blu ray. Arrivato ancora sigillato funziona benissimo.

Servizio di Amazon come al solito ineccepibile: confezione scarna ma efficace, tempi di consegna rispettati (anzi, come accadutomi 9 volte su 10 l'articolo è arrivato un giorno prima del previsto).Dal punto di vista artistico il film è spettacolare e coinvolgente: io lo avevo già visto al cinema nella versione 2D, ultimo spettacolo infrasettimanale e nonostante la durata di circa due ore e venti minuti non mi ero annoiato un secondo........Luhrmann è geniale come al solito ed il cast è davvero di prim'ordine, dal divo Di Caprio alla dolcissima Carey Mulligan.Tecnicamente, devo dire che pochi blu-ray (e ne posseggo ormai una cinquantina) possono vantare un nitore delle immagini e dei colori come la versione 3D di questo film (il film in 2D non l'ho visionato) ed anche l'audio, pur se proposto in un "semplice" 5.1, svolge egregiamente il compito, soprattutto nelle sequenze con musiche (bassi e alti ben equilibrati) e feste (mi è capitato di girarmi di scatto sentendo un rumore alle mie spalle: era il botto di un tappo di champagne fatto "saltare" da uno dei protagonisti durante un festino...!).Ho ordinato "Il Grande Gatsby" unitamente a "L'Uomo D'Acciaio" per testare il mio nuovo TV in 3D e devo dire che non mi sono affatto pentito della scelta: acquisto consigliatissimo (anche perchè pagato meno di 12 euro....)!

Soyons clairs dès le début: si vous voulez un film 100% représentatif des années 1920, il n'est pas fait pour vous. Et c'est justement parce qu'il n'est pas strictement remis dans son époque historique que ce film me plait énormément. En effet, on peut s'insurger des musiques techno ou autres qui sont dans ce film, toutefois elles sont absolument idéales pour permettre à ceux qui regardent le film (et particulièrement les plus jeunes) de saisir "avec le corps" ou "dans les tripes" et non pas uniquement intellectuellement le style de vie, de débauche ou de solitude que certains pouvaient avoir à l'époque. Ce film ne parle pas de la vie de grand-papa (ou plutôt de l'arrière-grand-père), mais nous rappelle que leur vie était similaire à la nôtre. Du coup, cela permet de mieux sentir l'histoire de fond. Une très belle actualisation d'une histoire passée.Quant à la 3D, j'ai une solide collection de film chez moi et je fais de la photo et de la vidéo 3D depuis des années, mais ce film est un véritable bijou en 3D. C'est la première fois que je peux réellement dire que la 3D est un plus nécessaire, voire indispensable pour regarder un film et que sans elle, en 2D, le film est terne. Chaque plan a été pensé et imaginé pour la 3D, sans en faire trop, et cela donne réellement l'impression d'être participant à l'histoire. Un très très bon résultat!