Differences Between The Great Gatsby Book And Movie

The Great Gatsby is a novel which critically discusses the ideals of the American Dream and recapturing the past. In the film adaptation, producer Jack Clayton stays very closely to the plot and even quotes the novel verbatim but fails to capture the essence of the themes portrayed in the novel. The text did not translate well into film; some facts are distorted, the depiction of the characters are different, the general ambience of certain settings do not match, and the movie is weighted towards the beginning of the book, with half of the movie based closely on the first two chapters of the book.

Most of deletions of scenes are caused by the limit of time in the movie. However, the version of 1974 Gatsby movie didn't fully succeed in manipulating the order of plots and transiting the spirituality what the author expressed, though it quoted a great deal of sentences from the book.

“What is better, the book or movie?” a commonly asked question by many individuals who are curious to know one’s opinion on a novel or film he/she is interested in. The book is usually always better than the movie because the book is more detailed, one gets to know the characters better, and it allows one to be more creative and have his/her own interpretation on what is occurring. In this case, The Great Gatsby is a remarkable 1925 novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which was made into various movie adaptions in 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000 and 2013. Each version takes place in drastically different periods, so each type has its own take on the film, also depending on the director’s vision. This goes to show that the cinema has been trying periodically to recreate F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic, but the attempts of the movies have mostly failed. In particular, the 1974 film decreases its effectiveness in representing the message that Fitzgerald was attempting to demonstrate in the book, which contributes to the book being significantly better than the film for various reasons.

Multiple differences lay in the three main literary elements analyzed between the two different media representations of The Great Gatsby: characterization, mood and tone, and theme. Characterizations between the book and movie involved differences in actions and portrayal that better correlated with the drama of television and the subtlety of literature. Mood and tone also shifted in order to better associate with their represented media. Television was more direct and dramatic, whereas the book was more uncomfortable and detail-oriented. Themes changed to target a different audience but focused on the same ideals. The themes of love and loyalty were explored, but instead of focusing on the loyalty between people despite lost love like in the book, the movie focused more on how our love for someone else can dictate our actions. On the other hand, there were similarities between the two medias: the characters were all there and followed the same plot, Myrtle still died, and Gatsby still took the blame for Daisy. The basis of the differences between the movie and the book originated with the differences between the characters’ portrayal; as their actions changed so did how the audience receive the story.

Movie adaptations are widely produced in our modern cinematic world. Many book lovers criticize movie adaptations, proclaiming that it kills the spirit of the story, misses out on critical key themes, and eliminates the reader's and viewer’s imagination. The Great Gatsby movie, directed by Baz Luhrmann and released on May 1st, 2013, is a film adaptation of the book The Great Gatsby, written in 1922 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The time lag between the movie and the book made some things unacceptable in our society. These changing societal proprietorship motivated Baz Luhrmann to alter the movie to be more suitable for current viewers. Consequently, there are many differences to be found between the book and the movie adaptation, which ultimately led to Luhrmann's movie being critiqued many times by the book’s fans, saying it was nothing like the actual book. Despite the fact that the movie adaptation of the Great Gatsby book follows the overall plot, it fails to show the racism, sexism, and abuse some of the characters withhold. The movie also fails to show the significance of the American dream, the condemnation of the lifestyle of the very rich, and it also annihilates reader’s imagination.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel about a rich socialite, Jay Gatsby, who tries to win back his love, Daisy Buchannan. Nick Caraway, Daisy’s cousin, is the narrator who brings the reader through the time of the roaring twenties to tell the story of Jay Gatsby. The 1974 film of The Great Gatsby, directed by Jack Clayton, follows the detailed storyline closely by mirroring it, but also adds and takes away some aspects of the story. There are many comparisons that can be made as well as contrasts through the actor, scenery, music, and script choices for the film.

The reality of this is that Daisy lives a very comfortable life with no worries or complaints about it, and she would never leave Tom, who fulfills her every desire for a man like Gatsby. Also, both the book and movie were centered around Gatsby, readers of the book, and audiences of the movie are drawn toward his sense of mystery, how no one really knows what he does, or what he had done to get all of his money and popularity. He is a person people want to be, people want to know, people want to talk about. He is, in a sense a celebrity, by today's standards.

Undeniably, ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald and its film adaptation, which follows the storyline of Nick Carraway during the 1920’s, were both great successes, with readers widely recognizing the book as an American classic, and the film making a worldwide gross of about $351 million dollars, while also winning two Oscars. Although the movie is a satisfactory adaptation there are still some minor and major differences between the two that stand out. Separately both versions of the story are very impressive and entertaining, but some of the differences make the movie fall short in terms of these examples.

On the other hand, Nick, Daisy’s distant cousin and neighbor to Gatsby, is better represented in the Robert Redford version than in the Leonardo Dicaprio version because he is a silent spectator and isn't involved in the storyline but still plays an important role as he is in the novel . In contrast, the Leonardo Dicaprio version portrays Nick as a very close friend to Gatsby who is constantly sharing his opinions throughout the movie. Daisy’s Husband,Tom, is an annoying, lying, racist, deceiving, cheat in both movies as well as the novel, but is less antagonistic in the 1974 version. There, he is portrayed as a more calm, organized, and collected individual for much of the movie. He is made out to be incredibly sentimental and emotional at some parts of the movie, which was not even close to how he is depicted in the novel.

Tom and Daisy have a very complicated relationship and the movie better demonstrates their complex relationship than the book. The film shows all the small gestures they share, and the novel gives the impression Daisy somewhat resented Tom after Gatsby’s death, and the movie also humanizes Tom on a higher level than the book. In the film when Daisy told Tom she had never loved him while they were in town she immediately after addresses Gatsby with a cold reply detaching herself from the situation and seems angry at Gatsby making her tell Tom she didn’t love him (The Great

Many similarities and differences can be found in The Great Gatsby: both the movie and the novel. One of the major differences between the two works is the initial meeting between Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway.

The American Dream plays a huge role in The Great Gatsby. The main character, Gatsby, is working on accomplishing his dream. He made it to the top of the world by working hard and dreaming big. He is rich and powerful. He accomplished one side of his dream by being rich but he still wants more. Gatsby is so rich that he throws extravagant parties night after night hoping to get the attention of the girl just across the bay, Daisy. The parties don’t seem to work very well. Daisy isn’t apart of that crowd. She is from the other part of town in East Egg.

Many films are based on novels, but most films fall short of which the author has intended to intrigue a reader, trying to compensate for the non eventful parts in a novel that would disinterest the audience of the film. An example of butchering a novel to make it presentable to the film watchers is the 1974 film directed by Jack Clayton, “The Great Gatsby”. The director Jack Clayton changed the overall appearance that was visualized while reading the novel by making everything extraordinary and vibrant while also telling the same story as the novel had intended. Changes were as simple as hair color and glossiness of a vehicle or even a different figure on an advertisement, but they do

After reading and watching the film The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald I can see many difference between how I envision the characters in the book and how they are played out in the movie. My first example is I see nick being this rich Yale grad trying to make a name for him self and all of a sudden I see spider man or the actor Tobey Maguire. I think that that is not how nick should look or sound. My second character is tom I thought tom would be mean and look like a shark. They would be much better with an actor named Kevin spacey in his place. I thought Gatsby was very spot on with his charm how ever I thought that Gatsby would not try to use a horrible fake southern accent all the time. Lastly daisy was the closes out of all to my

Answering the question “Which do you like best, the book or the movie?” always had been a simple task. For so many films, I gave a swift reply with my obvious choice, the book. No doubts clouded my mind, for the book always surpassed the film. Baz Luhrmann destroyed that notion. In 2013, Australian director Baz Luhrmann released his vibrant/modern rendition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. After finally reading Great Gatsby at the end of junior year, I watched the 2013 film adaptation for the third time in my life, and my mind broke. Viewing the film so quickly after analyzing the book stirred a storm inside of me when I could not decree he book infinitely superior to its cinematic counterpart. Instead, I discovered