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The Great Gatsby
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16-11-2010 12:56pm#1
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According to imdb Carey Mulligan will play Daisy and Isla Fisher will play Myrtle.
I loved the original, don't see why they have to remake things, maybe Baz Luhrmann is just trying to take the easy way out in what he thinks will be a money maker like the original with a big cast but I can see it being a flop.
I think I'll save my money and just stick on the dvd of the original
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http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/05/18/great-gatsby-joel-edgerton/
Australian actor Joel Edgerton will play Tom Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby, replacing Ben Affleck, who dropped out to direct Argo. A spokesperson for the 36-year-old actor confirmed the deal, and Luhrmann told Deadline that Edgerton “could credibly be (as F. Scott Fitzgerald describes him) ‘one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven,’ had five-star acting chops and in the big dramatic showdown scenes between Gatsby and Tom, [and could] hold the screen against Leonardo DiCaprio.” This exclusive photo of Edgerton shows the actor in character as he works with Luhrmann on the project.
Terrific actor imo deserves finally a chance in a big film0 -
In the role of Jordan Baker, Baz has cast Elizabeth Debicki, an unknown young actress from Melbourne:"It was a surprising result, but Elizabeth's grasp of the material and her chemical connectivity to Tobey Maguire, in addition to her striking, athletic appearance, had us in a place where we were fully confident and ready to take the leap of giving the role of Jordan Baker to what, I guess, people would term 'a discovery,'" he said. "We are thrilled."
That's the main cast complete, then - just in time for summer filming. :cool:You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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it's a dull book to boot.
I was reminded of this.
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Allow me to quote Roger Ebert at you, from his review of Freeway (1997):I'm sorry but, in these chavy, anti-establishment times do people really give a fig about snooty old money and social climbers?Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert's Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.
PS: just spotted the bit about "snooty old money" - which is flat-out wrong. The Buchanans were fairly nouveau riche: rich parents, not really "old money" class. Tom Buchanan went to Yale, but so did George W Bush, which tells you how much that does for "character development". Buchanan enjoyed a "bit of rough" too ... only Gatsby seems to have real class, and even that has its limits.You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Well, they're off to a good start with the car ... it's a doozie.
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edit: on closer examination, we may have an anachronism here. The book is set in the 1920s, pre-Depression, but that appears to be a Duesenberg SJ Roadster, which was introduced in 1932. oops ...You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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I seem to be the only one keeping tabs on this, I guess. There have been a couple of stills from the set, like this one with Leo & Carey:
The book specifically describes Daisy as having dark hair, yet here's a blonde Daisy. I guess any hope of a faithful adaptation of the novel can be laid aside, then. Principal photography finished before Christmas, though the cast will be back for pick-ups. They stopped a day because Baz bashed his head on a camera crane and needed stitches and rest ...You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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So here we are, a year later, and we finally have a trailer:
It sure looks like a Baz Luhrmann film, I'll say that ...
PS: a piece in the Telegraph today is a good match with my thinking about the story: why it's still relevant today. I'm all over this thread because I think it's an important story to be told today, in the aftershocks of the financial crisis, and that it's important to get it right. A Great American Novel directed by a non-American and starring mostly non-Americans, could go either way. I was reassured by Baz's comments about his casting for the role of Jordan. As I said before, it is a pivotal supporting role, and I was glad to read that he took it very seriously, eventually casting an unknown but apparently seriously talented young actress.I’m so thrilled about Carey Mulligan [who's been cast as Daisy]. She’s just fantastic, and now one has to match Jordan. They’re a couple in a sense. They reflect two completely different sides of a coin. And so the role of Jordan has to be as thoroughly examined as Daisy, for this production, for this time. It’s like Olivier’s Hamlet was the right Hamlet for his time. Who would Hamlet be today? Same with a Jordan or a Daisy.
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What’s crucial about Jordan is that she is incurably dishonest, to quote Fitzgerald. She’s dishonest on an internal level, and she has an inability for self-realization. She’s a dangerous driver, to quote Fitzgerald again.You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Trailer #2:
Well, I suppose it will look good on the big screen ...
FirstShowing also links to character posters here:You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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More character posters have been released:
(click for more)You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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If you haven't read the book, the ending will still be a surprise, I think. The trailers I've seen only show "the beginning of the end", I would call it.
The film is due out on 10 May - and then it's to open the Cannes Film Festival, almost a week later, which is odd.
The new still of Jordan (Elizabeth Debicki) is a stunner. Classic Flapper. In the book, Daisy is a bit of a wet blanket by comparison, and it appears that the film will get that relationship right, at least.
You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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