![]() Luhrmann’s version of Gatsby opened in the US last Friday, and it may well reach a wide audience. Now we are burdened with the result, and there’s not much that can be done about that. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) was wrongheaded and likely to result in an artistic travesty. It is unfortunate that during the filmmaking process no one ever turned to director Baz Luhrmann and suggested that his interpretation of F. ![]() Even if I had no talents I’d not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man’s son an automobile.” Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920) I’m sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer. ![]() “This is the first time in my life I’ve argued Socialism. “It’s not all rubbish,” cried Amory passionately. Directed by Baz Luhrmann, co-written by Luhrmann and Craig Pearce, based on the novel by F.
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