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Release date: Dec. 25, 2012
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire, Isla Fisher
Directed by: Baz Luhrmann
Premise: Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
fitzgerald just rolled over in his grave.
What god-awful song was that playing for the majority of the trailer? It sounded like a raccoon dying.
Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on May 22, 2012, 09:27:05 PM
What god-awful song was that playing for the majority of the trailer? It sounded like a raccoon dying.
It's Jack White's cover version of U2's Love Is Blindness.
Jack White, you disappoint me.
I'm kind of surprised at the reactions here. I think the trailer looks good and I actually like that Jack White cover.
also, OF COURSE there's no period music, it's a Baz Luhrmann movie. This is expected from him. I've never loved a B.L. movie, but this one looks like I could really get into it.
I loved Romeo + Juliet.
Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on May 30, 2012, 11:09:50 AM
I loved Romeo + Juliet.
Interesting.
I can deduce from this that you are not RK.
Thanks for clearing that up.
I liked the trailer too! It seems surprisingly constrained for Baz. Doesn't seem to have the jittery, meth-fueled camerawork of Roulin and R+J.
Warner Bros. Moves 'Great Gatsby' to Summer 2013
The Baz Luhrmann film -- headlining Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby -- was set to open Christmas Day.
Source: THR
In a surprise move, Warner Bros. has pushed back Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby from Dec. 25 to summer 2013.
The 3D epic, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic novel, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan and Joel Edgerton.
"Based on what we've seen, Baz Luhrmann's incredible work is all we anticipated and so much more," said Warner Bros. president of domestic distribution Dan Fellman, who announced the move with international distribution president Veronika Kwan Vandenberg. "It truly brings Fitzgerald's American classic to life in a completely immersive, visually stunning and exiting way. We think moviegoers of all ages are going to embrace it, and it makes sense to ensure this unique film reaches the largest audience possible."
Great Gatsby was considered a prime awards contender for Warners, but the studio still has potential contenders in Ben Affleck's Argo (Oct. 12); Cloud Atlas, directed by Tim Tykwer and the Wachowskis and starring Tom Hanks (Oct. 26); and New Line's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Dec. 14), from director Peter Jackson.
Village Roadshow Pictures is Warners' partner on Great Gatsby.
It used to be virtually taboo for a Hollywood studio to push back the release date of a high-profile title, but more and more, studios are doing just that for a variety of reasons.
One specific issue facing Great Gatsby: DiCaprio stars in another 2012 Christmas Day movie, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.
Does anybody even care about this movie at this point?
Wow, what a piece of shit this is going to turn out to be
It kind of makes me more excited that this movie was bumped to summer. Makes me think it's going to be more party than adaptation, good, good.
The bump to summer has its drawbacks, though, 'cause I'm starting to feel like I already watched this movie.
Well, I loved the book back in high school, and picked apart to pieces the Redford movie. From the trailer, this looks delightful. But it's mostly just that Luhrmann flash we see so far. That stunning set design and wardrobe flair he's known for. I'm excited to revisit one of the greatest stories ever written on the screen. At the very least, Baz will do a great job bringing out the fun and excesses of the roaring twenties.
It can't possibly be as bad as Australia, right?
I think it looks great. Though I'm seeing it with the sound off.
I trust in Leonardo di Caprio more than Baz Luhrman to be honest. He's picky picky and he only fucks super models. I trust the guy.
I think those shots are some of the most mediocre things I've seen all year in anything. the lighting is ugly, the green screen is dated (But not like vintage dated...2004 dated), the art direction is exactly like every phoney nostalgic piece done about the 20s ever. O did we talk about the lighting already 'cause it stinks. This reminds me of the Paul F Tompkins bit about how in Go Ask Alice the old white guys who penned the book used the words "freak wharf" to describe a nuthouse, thinking that's what the young kids must be saying. This trailer is like a cinematic equivalent of that - a bunch of old guys pretending to still know how to do that one trick. Also, this is just another instance in the long list of directors who think they're doing the source material/genre a favor by artlessly shoehorning their "trademarks" all over the place.
Quote from: pete on December 20, 2012, 04:28:02 PM
the art direction is exactly like every phoney nostalgic piece done about the 20s ever.
Bingo. It doesn't feel real. Everything looks like art direction.
Doesn't feel real? Isn't that always the point with this guy?
I never saw Australia and could never rewatch Moulin Rouge or Romeo and Juliet. It's just not my cup of tea. But it might be fun...who knows...
It's totally the point with this guy. Seems ok not to like him, especially for aesthetic reasons, 'cause his pieces have such aesthetic emphasis, but, yeah, this is what he does.
I feel like all these things could be said about QT, and that I'm taking the opposite side in a similar conversation. No way does Django Unchained feel like the south in the 1800s, I mean. Of course there are "trademarks" in this trailer, otherwise they could get anyotherfucker to come make this movie. There's some chemistry that's affecting me beyond the superficial, and movies work like that -- sometimes movies work like that, sometimes they don't.
I know what you guys are saying, I've disliked movies for similar reasons. The hockey movie Goon from this year comes to mind -- that thing is lit like a parking lot, which I always hate. But I can't convince people who like Goon that that's a problem.
Things can hit deeper, I don't know. Life's fucked. I'm excited.
Quote from: Alexandro on December 20, 2012, 05:25:40 PM
Doesn't feel real? Isn't that always the point with this guy?
I never saw Australia and could never rewatch Moulin Rouge or Romeo and Juliet. It's just not my cup of tea. But it might be fun...who knows...
I know that's Baz Luhrmann's style. I'm just skeptical about this approach working for The Great Gatsby. From the trailers it feels like the style would be trivializing the novel.
As a huge fan of the novel and literature in general, I feel like movies should stay as far away from source material as they possibly can, as a general rule.
Basically, it won't work for the novel The Great Gatsby, no fucking way. In every way it helps one thing or another it's going to damage one other thing or another thing. One can only hope it works for the movie itself.
Check out how "on your heels" this post is. Like I'm thinking I shouldn't fit Xixax into my regular internet rotation.
there is style and there is sloppy filmmaking. Romeo and Juliet had style, this looks mediocre.
Double-checked, this is actually the same conversation that took place for R+J:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/william_shakespeares_romeo_and_juliet/
I just gleamed through the reviews and it seemed like more of the conversation was about the style and not competence?
Think I'm conflating separate objections to style. You don't dislike that he's wearing a jacket, you dislike the jacket.
Jay-Z Confirmed to Score THE GREAT GATSBY
Source: Collider
When the first trailer for director Baz Luhrmann's ambitious adaptation of the classic novel The Great Gatsby debuted online, many were jarred by the juxtaposition of Jay-Z and Kanye West's "Church in the Wild" against the film's period setting. The decision to use that song in the trailer wasn't a complete shock, as Luhrmann has shown a propensity for populating his period films with modern music. He had no problem mixing Shakespeare with Radiohead in Romeo + Juliet and 1900s France with Madonna in Moulin Rouge!. Now, though, it appears that Luhrmann isn't just repurposing existing songs for The Great Gatsby, but is having Jay-Z himself provide an original score for the film.
Rumors have swirled for months regarding the score and soundtrack for The Great Gatsby, with previous reports noting that Prince and Lady Gaga might be providing original songs for the film. Yesterday, singer/songwriter/producer Jeymes Samuel of The Bullitts fame took to Twitter (via The Film Stage) to confirm that he and Jay-Z are composing the film's score:
THE BULLITTS
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@TheBullitts
Jay-Z and myself have been working tirelessly on the score for the upcoming #CLASSIC The Great Gatsby! It is too DOPE for words!
30 Dec 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite
No other details are known at this time, but I'm pretty excited to see what comes of this collaboration. Luhrmann isn't exactly known for his subtlety as a filmmaker, and the trailers for The Great Gatsby promise a wildly ambitious and visually arresting iteration of F. Scott Fitzgerald's American classic. It's entirely possible that the whole thing may turn out to be a complete disaster, but I remain (maybe foolishly) overly optimistic.
The Great Gatsby opens in 3D on May 10, 2013.
Yuck.
this is the White The Man with the Iron Fists
Which side of the backlash are we on? Has the pendulum swung back to us being excited for this movie, because I am!
^haha yeah i'm back on the hyped side.
Edgerton sounds like he's doing his best Plainview while looking like an overly-serious Conan.
Music choices felt better this time and the whole thing looks more polished.
All I can hope for is that it's fun and FA-BU-LOUS, it's the best we can expect from the gayest straight man in the biz.
Looks glamorous and bad.
Looks like a trailer.
It can't be worse than "Australia". I mean it literally can't. Because that was the worst movie I've ever seen. Worse than McTiernan's "Rollerball". I mean BAD.
Jay-z is straight up one of my favorite rappers ever, but I'm not sure about this.
i couldn't make it through ten seconds of that rubbish.
Jay Z is the most overrated rapper in history.
still have hope for this film, if he doesn't manage to ruin it.
Did this ever get released in the US?
Anyway, it was shit.
Luhrmann is DONE.
It did. Didn't see it though. So many people I know liked it.Which makes me sort of sad.
By the way I completely agree with you on Jay-Z. Nas>
Reviews on Xixax are DONE.
It wasn't as big a train wreck as I went in expecting, and it certainly wasn't an epic shitshow on the level of Australia, but even granting it all that leeway, it still wasn't very good. Weirdly, the soundtrack was the only aspect of the film that worked for me unreservedly (and also the great, great actress who played Jordan Baker). Joel Edgerton (seriously, is it pronounced "Ed-ger-ton" or "Edge-er-ton"?) made it through mostly unscathed, though he let the voice do most of the heavy lifting. Otherwise, it just felt not-quite-right at every push, from the weird Nick-Carroway-in-an-insane-asylum framing device, to the distractingly ugly 3D compositions, to DiCaprio cranking the ham up to 11, to Tobey Maguire's godforsaken puberty-voice lacerating the immortal prose of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Even Carey Mulligan (CAREY MULLIGAN!) seemed out of place, and that's no small feat to accomplish.
Guys, I'm starting to think maybe Baz Lurhmann isn't super great at making movies...
Didn't see this movie but this is pretty nuts:
The Great Gatsby - Before and After VFX (http://vimeo.com/68451324)
that was awesome
That's a million times better than the actual movie. And it's cool that we're still impressed by the use of cgi, but compare that to something like Life of Pi or any big action movie, hell even any Fincher movie lately, and you'll see it's pretty standard.
Also, Polk, it's edge-er-ton, if you actually heard someone say it differently please laugh in their face. I didn't realise it was possible to mispronounce that, I mean you'd have to be speaking like a weirdo on purpose at that point.
I'm grateful for the internet so this hatred for the way their characters are lit doesn't go unregistered. it's obnoxious and unthoughtful. the CG paintings were infinitely more interesting. bunch of losers.
Quote from: Pubrick on July 01, 2013, 01:19:47 AM
Also, Polk, it's edge-er-ton, if you actually heard someone say it differently please laugh in their face. I didn't realise it was possible to mispronounce that, I mean you'd have to be speaking like a weirdo on purpose at that point.
I assumed it was probably that way, but I've never heard the man's name spoken out loud, and I've seen it misspelled as "Edgarton" more than once, which threw me off.
Quote from: Pubrick on July 01, 2013, 01:19:47 AM
And it's cool that we're still impressed by the use of cgi, but compare that to something like Life of Pi or any big action movie, hell even any Fincher movie lately, and you'll see it's pretty standard.
They do the same shit on "Boardwalk Empire."
I'm still impressed though. Whenever I don't know I'm watching CGI, the FX people win.
I finally got around to see this and, boy oh boy, what a mess. Poor Baz (Maybe he is done for). I enjoyed the viewing experience, but that's probably just because i enjoy this great literary soap opera. I personally went 50/50 with the score. When the audience sees NY an the beginning and, "no church in the wild" plays, I wanted to shut it down. After the first party where they're just playing techno music and dancing the charleston, i wanted to shut it down again. Some of the other choices were used a little better than that.
I just don't understand why they would choose this kind of music, when such a work was clearly influenced by the music that was happening at the time. Whatever, it's pretty much the same reason Korine casts Selena Gomez in his film, so like i said whatever.
Moving on.
This was way worst than I thought it could possibly be. I even want to rewatch Moulin Rouge now because I remember liking it but maybe that one sucks too and I just don't remember. Usually when you see a film based on a great book, even if the film is not too good it makes you wonder about reading the original material. Not here. This ons is so bad it manages to kill any interest I ever had in reading The Great fucking Gatsby. The last couple of lines kind of redeem that and I thought, "well, yeah I should maybe read the book". But the rest of the movie is amazingly messy and unsure of itself.
The score is the biggest mistake of course. What's the idea behind this? (I know is selling records but besides that). To make a translation for audiences of how hip this Gatsby and his parties were? And he plays music by Jay-Z? Wouldn't a rich new yorker on the top of the cool mountain would be partying to something more avantguarde??? Yeah, a bunch of old dudes trying to communicate with the kids who listen to Beyonce.
Maguire is terrible in this. He plays the cliched asexual narrator, who is neither malicious, nor funny, nor interesting. Everyone feels colorless, drowning in flashes and tricks and absurd camera movements, and overly dramatic touches. My God...