Great Gatsby - Movie to Book Comparison

Symbolism in Gatsby’s Degree:

Turning books into movies are hard but the intense part about it is rally grasping the ideas that lay in the books and reciprocating them into movies, or at least trying to. The hard part about it is thinking about, how does the director do this: does the movie actually accentuate the book? Baz Luhrmann directs the movie The Great Gatsby (Luhrmann 2013). While comparing the movie and the book, Luhrmann directs a relatively exquisite movie based on the book. The colors play with your emotions while the scenery defines your feelings. Pulling the whole thing together, Luhrmann creates a movie that enhances the book. That’s exactly what F. Scott Fitzgerald did. In the book, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald places the book in the 1920’s. His style and his personality inhabit and imbibe this book. Although the movie contains small changes within it, the movie The Great Gatsby enhances the book (even though the book was written almost 80 years prior to Luhrmann’s movie); the movie does this through its emotional feel and carefully presented symbolism.

Turning books into movies are hard but the intense part about it is rally grasping the ideas that lay in the books and reciprocating them into movies, or at least trying to. The hard part about it is thinking about, how does the director do this: does the movie actually accentuate the book? Baz Luhrmann directs the movie The Great Gatsby (Luhrmann 2013). While comparing the movie and the book, Luhrmann directs a relatively exquisite movie based on the book. The colors play with your emotions while the scenery defines your feelings. Pulling the whole thing together, Luhrmann creates a movie that enhances the book. That’s exactly what F. Scott Fitzgerald did. In the book, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald places the book in the 1920’s. His style and his personality inhabit and imbibe this book. Although the movie contains small changes within it, the movie The Great Gatsby enhances the book (even though the book was written almost 80 years prior to Luhrmann’s movie); the movie does this through its emotional feel and carefully presented symbolism.