https://criticspeak.com/the-great-gatsby-luhrmann-review/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-great-gatsby-luhrmann-review Movie Reviews & Film Criticism Sun, 01 Sep 2013 00:47:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://criticspeak.com/the-great-gatsby-luhrmann-review/#comment-2267 Fri, 24 May 2013 09:21:00 +0000 http://www.criticspeak.com/?p=6341#comment-2267 While I get the point that having Nick in a mental institution at the beginning and end is not faithful to the book, I’d suggest that it permits the rest of the story to be faithful to the book. It forces a look (as well as hearing) of the actual descriptive language of The Great Gatsby. Without it, FSF’s language would be missing entirely. And just having the movie state and show the language would have been unexplained. It permits a closer adaption of the book than would otherwise have been impossible.

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