The Great Gatsby Movie Vs Book
The movie adaptation of The Great Gatsby maintained true to the original book by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Although mostly everything seems to stay the same, some movie scenes differ. Nick's character is tweaked and Gatsby's parties are not the same. The movie also creates more false hope than the novel does.
Nick Carraway is the first character introduced into the book and movie, but in a different aspect. F. Scott Fitzgerald introduces Nick right away as the narrator. He is giving a monologue about a life lesson he has been taught by his father. He states,"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
'"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember …show more content…
The amount of money he has to throw these parties is unreal in the Roaring Twenties. There are dancers, caterers, and musicians everywhere. People are drowning in alcohol and act crazier than normally allowed. Parties in the movie are full of today's modern styles instead of Fitzgerald's parties of the past. Nick states, "The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music, and the opera of voices pitches a key higher. Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word" (Fitzgerald 40). In the movie, rap music blares and everyone looks like they are at a costume party instead of a soft orchestra playing and women working up the courage to make a bold move. Fireworks go off from every direction, making everything even more hectic. Fitzgerald's parties are more appropriate for the 1920s than the extra busy ones of the …show more content…
It is obvious that Daisy has no intention of calling in the novel. Gatsby has false hope just like he has had for the past five years. He waits and waits for the phone to ring, just knowing that it will be Daisy saying that she is ready to leave Tom for him. In reality, the reader knows that she is never going to call, and that George Wilson is going to kill Gatsby while he is waiting for Daisy. In the movie, Daisy is shown picking up the phone right before Gatsby's phone rings in the next scene. The viewer obviously thinks that Daisy is the one calling, but it is revealed after Gatsby is shot, that it is actually Nick. Nick says, "No telephone message arrived, but the butler went without his sleep and waited for it until four o'clock – until long after there was any one to give it to if it came. I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn't believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream" (Fitzgerald 161). Whether Gatsby knew it or not, waiting for Daisy would literally kill him.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby is somewhat different than the movie when it comes to characters and excitement. Nick Carraway is introduced differently while Gatsby's parties and his hopes are altered. The movie mainly stays true to the novel with a few exceptions.
Nick Carraway is the first character introduced into the book and movie, but in a different aspect. F. Scott Fitzgerald introduces Nick right away as the narrator. He is giving a monologue about a life lesson he has been taught by his father. He states,"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
'"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember …show more content…
The amount of money he has to throw these parties is unreal in the Roaring Twenties. There are dancers, caterers, and musicians everywhere. People are drowning in alcohol and act crazier than normally allowed. Parties in the movie are full of today's modern styles instead of Fitzgerald's parties of the past. Nick states, "The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music, and the opera of voices pitches a key higher. Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word" (Fitzgerald 40). In the movie, rap music blares and everyone looks like they are at a costume party instead of a soft orchestra playing and women working up the courage to make a bold move. Fireworks go off from every direction, making everything even more hectic. Fitzgerald's parties are more appropriate for the 1920s than the extra busy ones of the …show more content…
It is obvious that Daisy has no intention of calling in the novel. Gatsby has false hope just like he has had for the past five years. He waits and waits for the phone to ring, just knowing that it will be Daisy saying that she is ready to leave Tom for him. In reality, the reader knows that she is never going to call, and that George Wilson is going to kill Gatsby while he is waiting for Daisy. In the movie, Daisy is shown picking up the phone right before Gatsby's phone rings in the next scene. The viewer obviously thinks that Daisy is the one calling, but it is revealed after Gatsby is shot, that it is actually Nick. Nick says, "No telephone message arrived, but the butler went without his sleep and waited for it until four o'clock – until long after there was any one to give it to if it came. I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn't believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream" (Fitzgerald 161). Whether Gatsby knew it or not, waiting for Daisy would literally kill him.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby is somewhat different than the movie when it comes to characters and excitement. Nick Carraway is introduced differently while Gatsby's parties and his hopes are altered. The movie mainly stays true to the novel with a few exceptions.