When Nick wrote "The Great" in front of Gatsby...I cried...because that's exactly what Gatsby imagined himself to be: "Great"... and Nick honored that thought wonderfully....
The story Fitzgerald wrote is extremely well thought. Its about how you imagine a perfect life but are never able to reach it. You get the feeling its right before your eyes and you just have to grab it. Gatsby imagined his perfect life, but Daisy was the one thing he couldn't buy. Tom has a perfect life but he is an awful character. Nick is always surrounded by people who don't understand him. Daisy is incredibly unhappy with her marriage but is still not able to end it. Money does not make you happy and sometimes your dreams don't get real. Sad, but true.
Jeffrey Lebowski From Lord Jim "We want in so many different ways to be," he began again. "This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man he will never on his heap of mud keep still. He want to be so, and again he want to be so. . . ." He moved his hand up, then down. . . . "He wants to be a saint, and he wants to be a devil-and every time he shuts his eyes he sees himself as a very fine fellow-so fine as he can never be. . . . In a dream. . . ."
This is the story of the American dream. Were told from a young age we can do whatever we want, but most of us will never be able to. Some of us beat on; the rest drown their sorrow in pills.
this book is a tragedy at heart; Gatsby spent his entire life chasing a dream, only to be cut down by the same dream which he chased; he fell in love with his imagination of Daisy, and failed to accept that the real Daisy could never reach the standards of who Nick thought she was. This is a book about broken dreams, about how not all dreams can be achieved because other dreams will tear it down. It is a harsh wake-up call, the American Dream is dead.
+Flyway Daisy is not good, none of Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby's characters are. But you are forgetting the time period. It's useless to talk about feminism in this situation. Remember Daisy's monologue: women were born cursed. "I hope she'll be a fool, that's the best thing a girl in this world can be. A beautiful little fool." With this monologue Daisy shows that she's conscious about her own weakness, but feels completely helpless to stop it. Whether this mentality is correct or not is not the subject. Female positions and mentality have changed over the years and nowadays we find that idea to be stupid. But that's the pessimistic way in which a woman who is clearly a product of her time views the world. It's a frame in which women were educated. Did Daisy want to escape the nightmare that was her married life? Yes. But she did nothing about it cause she thought herself weak. She gave up on taking control of her own life at a very young age. The narrator himself recognizes in Gatsby a better man than all of his other friends, which is why he's so loyal to him. Gatsby was a naive, honest representation of what Nick wanted to be and couldn't be. He didn't appreciate Gatsby for nothing, in fact Gatsby is the one who gives Nick hope and with Gatsby's death that hope dies as well. As to Gatsby's infatuation with Daisy: yes, Gatsby represents that naive dreamer we all are at some point: young, idealistic and sure that he can make his dream come true. The american man chasing the american dream in a frame. The tragedy of Gatsby is that he refuses to mature and give up on his dream and to realize it is a foolish fantasy. He is the kind of hero who never gives up, the one we've seen come out on top in so many movies over the years. Only this version of that same hero is more realistic and it shows the harsh truth: the fantasy shatters in our faces. Dreams don't come true and hopeless dreamers are doomed. The Great Gatsby's characters are fools doomed to tragedy because of the fact that they are gut-wrenchingly real.
I remember after this movie ended, the whole movie theater was silent, no one said or did anything. With the exception of a few muffled sobs, everyone was silent. Everyone was completely engaged with the movie, with how lovely the story is, how grand it was visually, and how breathtakingly human these timeless characters are. I had never seen anything like it in a movie theater before, and I doubt I will ever see anything like it ever again. I will always remember that.
So we beat on, Boats against the current, Borne back, Ceaselessly, Into the past 💔😥 I think it's safe to say that those are the greatest words ever collaborated
Charlie Kelly yes nick is a role he’s good at I don’t like him as Spider-Man he didn’t portray him that good but he played peter good tho. Holland and Garfield are better as Spider-Man than him
@@yazancallas The only thing holland does the same to spiderman in the comics is his hight lmao. He acts and the story is nought like comic book peter/spiderman.
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
After this part of the movie, I learned a lesson: the past is the past for a reason. And if you hold on to the past- it can be anything, a grudge or something- if you won't let it go, it will cause destruction to you and everyone around you. R.i.p Gatsby and good luck nick.
"I remember we had all come to Gatsby's and guessed at his corruption. While he stood before us, concealing a incorruptible dream" Such a powerful line.
After Gatsby's death, Daisy (the woman who supposedly loved him) doesn't give two fucks and Nick (who was 'just is friend') is depressed and shrouded in pain and grief. Now who do you think really loved Gatsby?
Sure, Nick mourns the loss of his friend. What he mourns most is the "Belief in the power of the Green Light," which stands for hope, optimism, love, etc. He says it himself, "Gatsby didn't realize that the green light was already behind him." He got caught up in Gatsby's hope and optimism that he temporarily forgot how life really is. He not only wanted "that future" for gatsby, but for himself. Now its gone.
so true of any woman you feel you would have to chase to have. The whole film wasn't about Gatsby being corrupt like some people think, it's about the lengths he went to for a bitch that didn't even give him the time of day in the end.
+hayong choung I think his love for her was genuine but he struggled to understand how she could stay with someone she didn't love, because externally, he had more as in genuine financial stability, etc. She loved the idea of him and not the real him, which is apparent when she doesn't go to the funeral but he loved the real her.
In the end Gatsby's tragic flaw was his infinite hope and unwillingness to let go of the past. He wished for something that could not be easily obtained and regardless of how illogical it was to pursue Daisy, he pushed on and in the end it was his downfall. He knew that he was playing a dangerous game. Nick knew it, Jordan knew it, Wolfsheim knew it, and even Owl Eyes knew it in his own way. The Great Gatsby is truly a work of art.
This version so completely captured the TRAGEDY of Gatsby--to grasp at something now long gone, to panic and thrash about, destroying any chance of it, and finally to be marooned in the ghost-world of memory, haunting and inspiring Nick. The masterful use of music, the obsessive (like Gatsby's) musical and visual referencing of the Green Light. My admiration knows no bounds. Everybody was excellent, and all involved truly loved this story. It shines out of them. I'm almost sad they give this book to children. Few indeed are untouched by Gatsby's hubris--or Daisy's or Toms or even Nick's--but the realization of that sad fact is FOR the sad, for jaded adults, because we can (almost) bear the hurt of it. But for children, who think Fitzgerald is merely indicting money and the monied for being "bad"? No. The Great Gatsby is for the old, the crippled, the friendless and the lonely. In a way, this short book chronicles the REAL "country for old men". And this film expresses it beautifully.
Thank you, Lynne Perkins. You are so right. I avoided seeing this movie because I didn't see how they could do justice to the themes and emotional impact of the story, but I finally saw it this past weekend, and its my new obsession. They captured the story beautifully, while adding cinematic touches that enhance the emotional weight of the story. I think of the scene where Daisy is talking to Nick about wanting her daughter to be "a little fool". And we move out on to the water, past the green light, across the bay, with a peek at the lights of Manhattan, and finally we reach Gatsby, alone on his dock, looking and reaching for the green light. Pure breathtaking cinematic magic, and a perfect illustration of how the various media of artistic expression need not compete. I understand your point about giving the book to children. The impact of the story does not hit the young with the same force, nor can it. My own experience confirms this. On the surface, it may seem an indictment of capitalism, and certainly there is an element of that, but I see it more as an indictment of human excess, with does not need political or economic context, as it is timeless. The excess applies to the participants in the love story itself, of course. Obsession, stubbornness, and yes, hubris, are what Gatsby's all about. He became a gangster to grasp a dream which was long gone, and never attainable, for a woman unworthy of such single-minded devotion. I've always felt harshly towards Daisy, unthinking, careless, foolish, and self-pitying as she is. Perhaps my more-mature self might be more sympathetic, if not forgiving. No one could ever live up to the idealization of Daisy built up in Gatsby's heart, and to contemplate being expected to do so is actually quite a horrific proposition. Not to give her too much credit, and to say nothing of her unconscionable behavior the might of the auto accident, but how could Daisy have ever chosen Gatsby, especially with a child who could have been ruined, and certainly traumatized by the scandal? I've always wondered if Fitzgerald made the child's character barely visible, in order to say that the child was inconsequential to the life of her parents, which is a valid dramatic point. The one point you make which I will quibble with is the implication of whom the story is FOR, and I do so with tongue in cheek. The brilliance of Fitzgerald is beloved by those with good relationships, loving families, and most of our limbs still functioning more or less, too.
Oh yes........ another point about the music. Myself, no big fan of hip-hop, loved the music in this adaptation, and understood the choice to use it, completely. It was necessary to convey the excitement of Gatsby's parties, and ironically, the "Jazz Age". That just would not have been possible using period music, IMO. (Of course, the Gershwin is truly timeless, but no one danced to Rhapsody in Blue.) When we hear music from this era, we undoubtedly think of a museum display. It just doesn't have the same impact.
Paul Dante “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 that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.'”
The moon rose higher, and as I stood there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come such a long way, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. But he did not know that it was already behind him. Gatsby believed in the green light. The orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then but that's no matter. Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther, and one fine morning. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back, ceaselessly into the past.
I've read the book many times and seeing the movie many times and I still don't understand what the last four words mean. If we are chasing the American Dream how are we ceaselessly going into the past?
@@YoRon427 you cant run away from your past. You are you, you cant be somebody else. Gatsby couldn't be an aristocrat no matter what. He could never win daisy's heart.
I am actually quite baffled that most of my English teachers and fellow students find this to be a poor adaptation in comparison to the shitty 1974 version. This adaptation still captured all the major themes of the novel, as well as adding style and flair to it to allow it to be entertaining as a film. The old adaptation was plain, and did not really understand that putting a novel into the big screen is not simply reading off the book, if anyone knows what point I'm trying to make. another complaint is the fact that this adaptation used modern music, while the novel's main theme was the corruption of the rich in the jazz age, but I found this to be easily overlooked.
I agree the movie captured the themes perfectly right down to the symbols and motifs (like the billboard glasses). People argue it was over the top but that's what the novel is all about in terms of the party lifestyle people lived at the time. This was a very faithful adaption to me.
interestingly a deleted scene does show gatsbys father come to the mansion and reading the diary that gatsby had written as a child. Why he left it out I am not sure, I also feel he made daisy alot more sympathetic in the movie than the film. However I still feel all movie adaptions will never be 100% accurate, but this movie was far more accurate and true than most adaptions imo :)
I agree. This should be the movie that should be shown in schools instead of that 1974 adaption with Robert Redford, which was just a tremendous BORE. The whole point of a movie adaptation is to capture the audience and engage them in the finesse. The 1974 version did nothing and was literally just a copy and paste of a novel onto a screen.
The great Gatsby is one of those stories you don't appreciate until later in life. I studied this in school but didn't realise the richness and intricacies of the plot and elements of the time it was written in until I read it again after 12 years wow
I'm 16 and we just got done reading this in American Lit class last week. The entire class thought it was boring and stupid and most people didn't even read it. I was the only one who saw the beauty in it and I've read it 3 times since then and watched this movie twice. Everyone thought I was nuts when I said I was rereading it and adding new annotations to my book. This is seriously my favorite story ever.
He didn't realized that the green light was already behind him. -Nick Damn! If only Gatsby realized that NICK is his green light and not Daisy. I was tearing apart. when I watched this. :(
Amar Singhania He(Nick) meant that past is gone. Never to be grasped again. But according to the commenter, we(the audience) could think of Nick as a green light. Light with different meaning. With meaning to move on.
Wow. So basically Jay Gatsby is an embodiment of false hope. This novel and this movie are truly masterpieces. I didn't understand this story when I read it in school years ago, but I totally understand it now and it's truly an exquisite story.
Nick is the closet character to Fitzgerald, showing the way author relates to the upper class. Nick sees the upper class as irresponsible people who smash things and people up and revert back to their money ("or whatever that keeps them together") and let other people clean up the mess. Gatsby is looking out for Daisy while she is conspiring with Tom. She doesn't show up to his funeral. There are couple of people who do show up. One of them is man with thick glasses who spends time in Gatsby's library and really appreciates all the books Gatsby has. He admires Gatsby for having such collection even if Gatsby never opened any of the books. Tom on the other hand is discussing a racist book about "the rise of color empires". Gatsby's love is pure, even though his money and his associates are not. Everything he has is for the love he felt under the tree when he saw a ladder going to heaven but kissed Daisy instead and he goes to war and takes a few years to reinvent himself during which time Daisy is married off to Tom. Gatsby doesn't notice Daisy's daughter which represents her love to another man. He just wants to take her back to that tree: "can't repeat the past? of course you can ol'sport!"
If you are named after F. Scott Fitzgerald, please, carry that name with sincere care. Remind people as you would yourself why you carry that name proudly, should they inquire why you do. Because of this story. Just saying. God bless you, and take care.
Alas! Here I come, fleeing from the horrors of Algebra and trigonometric equations, returning to my beloved literature, but time moves on, and like Gatsby I continue to long, to reach...to lust... for the past, when the world around me runs towards the future. And so I beat on, boat against the current...trying desperately to outrun the quiz that awaits for me tomorrow morning...
Eberechii Gugulethu Resha I would be quite the villain to leave something like that out of reach of others! I only said what so many feel far too often. I empathize with your problem, friend. :)
" After Gatsby's death, New York was haunted for me. That city. My once golden shimmering mirage now made me sick. On my last night in New York, I returned to that huge incoherent house once more. Wolfsheim's associates had cleaned it out. I remembered how we had all come to Gatsby's and guessed at his corruption while he stood before us concealing an incorruptible dream. The moon rose higher and as I stood there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the Green Light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come such a long way and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. But he did not that it was already behind him. Gatsby believed in the Green Light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then but that's no matter. tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back, ceaselessly into the past." By Nick Carraway Very inspiring how Gatsby spent this whole time luring Daisy to his luxurious parties. That was part of his incorruptible dream.
I poured tears at this last scene. So encouraging even beyond the end. A plethora of beginning reborn in your thoughts of what we oft might win. Washes away our fears to attempt.
when you see true art, you dont have to try to like it, it overwhelms you. the words written by fitzgerald are untouched by time. its the essence of what makes america great in the face of the realities of human nature.
Nick is the success behind this story. If anyone's side of the story was the best, it was Nick's. He was the only loyal friend of Gatsby. He loved him, and hearing the morbidness and sorrow in his voice makes me hurt so bad in my heart. Good luck Nick and R.I.P Gatsby
We all have our 'green light'. Some dream born of a moment from our lives that made us slam our feet down on the gas, propel us to some idealized destination. I remember mine; seeing a group of six kids my own age marching off to beat the shit out of some poor fat bastard who just wanted people to like him. I remember thinking, 'somebody should stop this', all the while doing nothing. Doing nothing because I was scared. Doing nothing because I was weak. Doing nothing because as much as I hated these six boys, some pathetic part of me wanted to be one of them; or at least, wanted to be as far removed from that poor fat bastard and whatever else he was that offended them so. Doing nothing, and then regretting it ever day for the rest of my life. My green light is the idea that some way, some day, I'll be able to make that right. It's a lie; you can't change the past. That boy was and forever will have been alone as six other children sent him to the hospital just because they didn't like him, and one other child did nothing about it. But I'll keep chasing that green light; not because I can change how things happened, but because of how things that happened changed me.
CJusticeHappen21 so deep and true. Regrets like that haunt you everyday.....I know they do feel for me and nothing can be done from the past coz its gone and there is no turning back
Zelta_adventures Strange, isn't it? Every time I feel like I've moved past that memory, I eventually end up right back where I start. That's the green light.
I once thought someone could love me as well. Someone out there existed with depth, with heart. I identify with Gatsby. The dream is dead. That green light is merely a mirage.
After analyzing this book in AP Language, I could never see The Great Gatsby in the same way. It's truly incredible. If you watch this movie simply in passing time, you would not and could appreciate it for what it is. You have to give it your whole mind and let it consume you. Then, and only then, will you understand it.
Nick............ I cant even explain how good he was narrating this whole movie, he did NOT fail to entertain me(speaking for myself) and he empasizes the meaning of this whole movie. He told you the TRUE story of Gatsby. Ooops, my bad. THE GREAT GATSBY.
“Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that green light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.”
You can't really comparr the two. The Wolf Of Wall Street is a tragedy in it's own right. It shows the deterioration of a man's life that was built around greed. However I prefer to watch Gatsby over Wolf.
A big shout out to the invisible soldier here that no one mentions: Craig Armstrong. The composer who wrote this masterpiece of a score. Hollywood always snubs him since Love Actually, but true art can never be overshadowed.
This scene is life the reality of it and is so sad u build your self up and than all come crashing down in the blink of an eye 😭😭 such a beautiful movie
Somehow my class was like the only one who didn't have to read this in high school (???), so I went into the movie not knowing anything about it. And wow... I saw that ending coming a little beforehand and it broke my heart. :'( Amazing story though and great movie. Guess I have to read it now!
It could have been for something. As Nick put it, Daisy's recklessness and her habit of recklessly causing disaster to fall back into her money is one reason it didn't. Perhaps Gatsby's belief that you can repeat the past is a dangerous one because of the risk at stake and the unlikeliness that it will come to fruition but if he was correct that her vision was the same as his own (rather than a vague longing for it out of boredom and the sense of mysteriousness) it could have been achieved.
After Gatsby’s death, New York was haunted for me. That city, my once golden shimmering mirage, now made me sick. On my last night in New York, I returned to that huge, incoherent house once more. Wolfsheim’s ‘associates’ had cleaned it out… I remembered how we had we had all come to Gatsby’s and guessed at his corruption… while he stood before us concealing an incorruptible dream… The moon rose higher… And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come such a long way and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. But he did not know that it was already behind him. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And one fine morning- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
I feel like i relate to Jay in his efforts and his inevitable downfall, it makes me sad yet it is fulfilling to me that people who have everything can experience a story like this and know that there are people out there who try so hard yet fall short.
I believed in the emerald eyes and the green light. Every now and then I cry thinking about gatsby and incorruptible dream. And sometimes when I'm in my room big myself I reach toward the green light, cry, and try to feel the vibe Gatsby felt.
The green light, although initially was referred to as our dreams and aspirations(in Gatsby's case, his hopes to woo Daisy and be with her forever), by the end of the novel, had lost it's meaning completely. In the context, Nick had referred to it as being a hopeless future that we is plausible only in our dreams, which drifts further everyday( year by year recedes before us). We are eluded into thinking that we will have a better tomorrow, fighting for a better future(tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther), but it is indeed futile. We will continue our struggle(So we beat on) face all the hardships of reality, against everything life puts us through(boats against the current), only to end up close to where we started. (borne back ceaselessly into the past). My interpretation is that no matter what you do to convince yourself that you can change for a better life, in the end your past is going to dictate what you do in life and there is no other way about it.
Gatsby, representing the pure core of the American Dream, held his wish for that which could not be repeated to the last breath; and Daisy, representing the corruption and ultimate downfall of the American Dream to vulgarity and material gain, took money and class over love. For all Gatsby shrouded himself in grotesque, extravagant parties he never relinquished his dream, he kept it pure to the end, and this readiness to carry his ambitions to the grave were truly what made Jay Gatsby so Great.
When Nick wrote "The Great" in front of Gatsby...I cried...because that's exactly what Gatsby imagined himself to be: "Great"... and Nick honored that thought wonderfully....
scott...
Benjamin Parsons i love comments like this
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Man, best comment
Benjamin Parsons I cried too😭
The story Fitzgerald wrote is extremely well thought. Its about how you imagine a perfect life but are never able to reach it. You get the feeling its right before your eyes and you just have to grab it. Gatsby imagined his perfect life, but Daisy was the one thing he couldn't buy. Tom has a perfect life but he is an awful character. Nick is always surrounded by people who don't understand him. Daisy is incredibly unhappy with her marriage but is still not able to end it. Money does not make you happy and sometimes your dreams don't get real. Sad, but true.
Jeffrey Lebowski From Lord Jim "We want in so many different ways to be," he began again. "This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man he will never on his heap of mud keep still. He want to be so, and again he want to be so. . . ." He moved his hand up, then down. . . . "He wants to be a saint, and he wants to be a devil-and every time he shuts his eyes he sees himself as a very fine fellow-so fine as he can never be. . . . In a dream. . . ."
Jeffrey Lebowski Because people do not go outside of their comfort zone. like you i imagine.
It's too painful 😭😭😭😢
This is the story of the American dream. Were told from a young age we can do whatever we want, but most of us will never be able to. Some of us beat on; the rest drown their sorrow in pills.
Asshole Chads get all the girls while cute bois die trying. Gatsby died for a piece of pussy... I'm not sure if that so great 🤣
this book is a tragedy at heart; Gatsby spent his entire life chasing a dream, only to be cut down by the same dream which he chased; he fell in love with his imagination of Daisy, and failed to accept that the real Daisy could never reach the standards of who Nick thought she was. This is a book about broken dreams, about how not all dreams can be achieved because other dreams will tear it down. It is a harsh wake-up call, the American Dream is dead.
you could never be more right
+Flyway Daisy is not good, none of Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby's characters are. But you are forgetting the time period. It's useless to talk about feminism in this situation. Remember Daisy's monologue: women were born cursed. "I hope she'll be a fool, that's the best thing a girl in this world can be. A beautiful little fool." With this monologue Daisy shows that she's conscious about her own weakness, but feels completely helpless to stop it. Whether this mentality is correct or not is not the subject. Female positions and mentality have changed over the years and nowadays we find that idea to be stupid. But that's the pessimistic way in which a woman who is clearly a product of her time views the world. It's a frame in which women were educated. Did Daisy want to escape the nightmare that was her married life? Yes. But she did nothing about it cause she thought herself weak. She gave up on taking control of her own life at a very young age.
The narrator himself recognizes in Gatsby a better man than all of his other friends, which is why he's so loyal to him. Gatsby was a naive, honest representation of what Nick wanted to be and couldn't be. He didn't appreciate Gatsby for nothing, in fact Gatsby is the one who gives Nick hope and with Gatsby's death that hope dies as well.
As to Gatsby's infatuation with Daisy: yes, Gatsby represents that naive dreamer we all are at some point: young, idealistic and sure that he can make his dream come true. The american man chasing the american dream in a frame. The tragedy of Gatsby is that he refuses to mature and give up on his dream and to realize it is a foolish fantasy. He is the kind of hero who never gives up, the one we've seen come out on top in so many movies over the years. Only this version of that same hero is more realistic and it shows the harsh truth: the fantasy shatters in our faces. Dreams don't come true and hopeless dreamers are doomed.
The Great Gatsby's characters are fools doomed to tragedy because of the fact that they are gut-wrenchingly real.
Cai dang. the American dream is dead
great explanation!
If the American Dream is dead so how long the American Soul could be alive deprived of her power and drive.
the way its written makes you wanna become an author
I remember after this movie ended, the whole movie theater was silent, no one said or did anything. With the exception of a few muffled sobs, everyone was silent. Everyone was completely engaged with the movie, with how lovely the story is, how grand it was visually, and how breathtakingly human these timeless characters are. I had never seen anything like it in a movie theater before, and I doubt I will ever see anything like it ever again. I will always remember that.
So we beat on,
Boats against the current,
Borne back,
Ceaselessly,
Into the past
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I think it's safe to say that those are the greatest words ever collaborated
Timing.
Some of the wisest words ever said.
i remember reading the book and movie my junior year of high school, almost six years ago. i still think about that quote sometimes
This film is one of the best masterpieces I've ever seen. Fitzgerald's words won't be forgotten.
Some people are too harsh on Tobey Maguire. He was perfect as Nick.
Charlie Kelly yes nick is a role he’s good at I don’t like him as Spider-Man he didn’t portray him that good but he played peter good tho. Holland and Garfield are better as Spider-Man than him
@@yazancallas He portrayed spiderman and Peter the best wdym? He did it perfectly
HiddenAssassin32 I like Tobey’s movies but nah Tom Holland is better
@@yazancallas The only thing holland does the same to spiderman in the comics is his hight lmao. He acts and the story is nought like comic book peter/spiderman.
HiddenAssassin32 nah he’s funny like the comics Spider-Man. His performance in the movies is great
Nick Caraway is the biggest third wheel in novel history.
Also a wingman
i was tearing from sadness until i saw your comment which made me tear from laughter XD thank you
SaiChansArt You're welcome. :)
Well explained!!
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
And Nick shouldn't have offered to help Gatsby get Daisy in the first place. But if he didn't, Gatsby would've never gotten the wake up call.
Gatsby should've just left Daisy alone. He also shouldn't have let her drive his car either.
@@jessicaauguste3260 no shit sherlock?? But you can’t predict future can you?🤨
After this part of the movie, I learned a lesson: the past is the past for a reason. And if you hold on to the past- it can be anything, a grudge or something- if you won't let it go, it will cause destruction to you and everyone around you. R.i.p Gatsby and good luck nick.
Nick and Gatsby will always be the greatest bromance ever. :)
even better that they're best friends in real life too
Absolutely the best sworn brothers dynamic I have seen
Nick is the only friend Gatsby had in the story.
"I remember we had all come to Gatsby's and guessed at his corruption. While he stood before us, concealing a incorruptible dream"
Such a powerful line.
Indeed.. Very powerful yet sad
Every time leonardo dicaprio's plays a character that falls in love with a woman named after a flower he dies. First Rose and now Daisy...
Clever
and dies on the water
Cesar Munoz haha yes!
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After Gatsby's death, Daisy (the woman who supposedly loved him) doesn't give two fucks and Nick (who was 'just is friend') is depressed and shrouded in pain and grief. Now who do you think really loved Gatsby?
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+Tillie Meriwether No one, he bought all of his friends
Sure, Nick mourns the loss of his friend. What he mourns most is the "Belief in the power of the Green Light," which stands for hope, optimism, love, etc. He says it himself, "Gatsby didn't realize that the green light was already behind him." He got caught up in Gatsby's hope and optimism that he temporarily forgot how life really is. He not only wanted "that future" for gatsby, but for himself. Now its gone.
so true of any woman you feel you would have to chase to have. The whole film wasn't about Gatsby being corrupt like some people think, it's about the lengths he went to for a bitch that didn't even give him the time of day in the end.
+hayong choung I think his love for her was genuine but he struggled to understand how she could stay with someone she didn't love, because externally, he had more as in genuine financial stability, etc. She loved the idea of him and not the real him, which is apparent when she doesn't go to the funeral but he loved the real her.
In the end Gatsby's tragic flaw was his infinite hope and unwillingness to let go of the past. He wished for something that could not be easily obtained and regardless of how illogical it was to pursue Daisy, he pushed on and in the end it was his downfall. He knew that he was playing a dangerous game. Nick knew it, Jordan knew it, Wolfsheim knew it, and even Owl Eyes knew it in his own way. The Great Gatsby is truly a work of art.
The book made me feel sad, but the poetry and imagery used in the movie made my soul crumble into tears
violin with a poetic selection of words give a hard time for heart and eyes...
This version so completely captured the TRAGEDY of Gatsby--to grasp at something now long gone, to panic and thrash about, destroying any chance of it, and finally to be marooned in the ghost-world of memory, haunting and inspiring Nick. The masterful use of music, the obsessive (like Gatsby's) musical and visual referencing of the Green Light. My admiration knows no bounds. Everybody was excellent, and all involved truly loved this story. It shines out of them.
I'm almost sad they give this book to children. Few indeed are untouched by Gatsby's hubris--or Daisy's or Toms or even Nick's--but the realization of that sad fact is FOR the sad, for jaded adults, because we can (almost) bear the hurt of it. But for children, who think Fitzgerald is merely indicting money and the monied for being "bad"? No. The Great Gatsby is for the old, the crippled, the friendless and the lonely. In a way, this short book chronicles the REAL "country for old men". And this film expresses it beautifully.
Thank you, Lynne Perkins. You are so right. I avoided seeing this movie because I didn't see how they could do justice to the themes and emotional impact of the story, but I finally saw it this past weekend, and its my new obsession.
They captured the story beautifully, while adding cinematic touches that enhance the emotional weight of the story. I think of the scene where Daisy is talking to Nick about wanting her daughter to be "a little fool". And we move out on to the water, past the green light, across the bay, with a peek at the lights of Manhattan, and finally we reach Gatsby, alone on his dock, looking and reaching for the green light. Pure breathtaking cinematic magic, and a perfect illustration of how the various media of artistic expression need not compete.
I understand your point about giving the book to children. The impact of the story does not hit the young with the same force, nor can it. My own experience confirms this. On the surface, it may seem an indictment of capitalism, and certainly there is an element of that, but I see it more as an indictment of human excess, with does not need political or economic context, as it is timeless.
The excess applies to the participants in the love story itself, of course. Obsession, stubbornness, and yes, hubris, are what Gatsby's all about. He became a gangster to grasp a dream which was long gone, and never attainable, for a woman unworthy of such single-minded devotion. I've always felt harshly towards Daisy, unthinking, careless, foolish, and self-pitying as she is. Perhaps my more-mature self might be more sympathetic, if not forgiving. No one could ever live up to the idealization of Daisy built up in Gatsby's heart, and to contemplate being expected to do so is actually quite a horrific proposition.
Not to give her too much credit, and to say nothing of her unconscionable behavior the might of the auto accident, but how could Daisy have ever chosen Gatsby, especially with a child who could have been ruined, and certainly traumatized by the scandal? I've always wondered if Fitzgerald made the child's character barely visible, in order to say that the child was inconsequential to the life of her parents, which is a valid dramatic point.
The one point you make which I will quibble with is the implication of whom the story is FOR, and I do so with tongue in cheek. The brilliance of Fitzgerald is beloved by those with good relationships, loving families, and most of our limbs still functioning more or less, too.
bsg2112 :-)
Oh yes........ another point about the music. Myself, no big fan of hip-hop, loved the music in this adaptation, and understood the choice to use it, completely. It was necessary to convey the excitement of Gatsby's parties, and ironically, the "Jazz Age". That just would not have been possible using period music, IMO. (Of course, the Gershwin is truly timeless, but no one danced to Rhapsody in Blue.) When we hear music from this era, we undoubtedly think of a museum display. It just doesn't have the same impact.
Lynne Perkins everything in this story has resonated with me though and I guess I'm still "youth"
Mikal Salaam If you don't mind me asking, how old are you? Are you relatively young?
I liked this version of "Gatsby." It tried to stay loyal to the beauty of Fitzgerald's written word.
Yes, except for the beginning sadly, that's the only part that really disappointed me. For the rest, I agree, it's a great movie, watched it 20 times.
Cybraxas Great minds think alike.
Paul Dante “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 that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.'”
Agree.
A great film, I think often at this scene, very powerful.
Mephiless s it is very powerful! Those ending lines always give me goosebumps.
It indeed is
The moon rose higher, and as I stood there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come such a long way, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. But he did not know that it was already behind him. Gatsby believed in the green light. The orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then but that's no matter. Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther, and one fine morning. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back, ceaselessly into the past.
Thx
Beautiful
I've read the book many times and seeing the movie many times and I still don't understand what the last four words mean. If we are chasing the American Dream how are we ceaselessly going into the past?
@@YoRon427 you cant run away from your past. You are you, you cant be somebody else. Gatsby couldn't be an aristocrat no matter what. He could never win daisy's heart.
This last monologue is just so beautifully written! Awesome book & movie
This movie is pure poetry
This movie will stay in my heart forever!So good!
I am actually quite baffled that most of my English teachers and fellow students find this to be a poor adaptation in comparison to the shitty 1974 version. This adaptation still captured all the major themes of the novel, as well as adding style and flair to it to allow it to be entertaining as a film. The old adaptation was plain, and did not really understand that putting a novel into the big screen is not simply reading off the book, if anyone knows what point I'm trying to make.
another complaint is the fact that this adaptation used modern music, while the novel's main theme was the corruption of the rich in the jazz age, but I found this to be easily overlooked.
I agree the movie captured the themes perfectly right down to the symbols and motifs (like the billboard glasses). People argue it was over the top but that's what the novel is all about in terms of the party lifestyle people lived at the time. This was a very faithful adaption to me.
Agreed, Luhrmann was the best director for this :)
interestingly a deleted scene does show gatsbys father come to the mansion and reading the diary that gatsby had written as a child. Why he left it out I am not sure, I also feel he made daisy alot more sympathetic in the movie than the film. However I still feel all movie adaptions will never be 100% accurate, but this movie was far more accurate and true than most adaptions imo :)
I think it's an amazing adaptation. But like you said it's the modern music, but if we had a choice to watch this version, I definitely would
I agree. This should be the movie that should be shown in schools instead of that 1974 adaption with Robert Redford, which was just a tremendous BORE. The whole point of a movie adaptation is to capture the audience and engage them in the finesse. The 1974 version did nothing and was literally just a copy and paste of a novel onto a screen.
The great Gatsby is one of those stories you don't appreciate until later in life. I studied this in school but didn't realise the richness and intricacies of the plot and elements of the time it was written in until I read it again after 12 years wow
I'm 16 and we just got done reading this in American Lit class last week. The entire class thought it was boring and stupid and most people didn't even read it. I was the only one who saw the beauty in it and I've read it 3 times since then and watched this movie twice. Everyone thought I was nuts when I said I was rereading it and adding new annotations to my book. This is seriously my favorite story ever.
He didn't realized that the green light was already behind him.
-Nick
Damn! If only Gatsby realized that NICK is his green light and not Daisy. I was tearing apart. when I watched this. :(
sakura11ist that shit hit hard
Thats not what that line means. Nick wasnt the green light. Watch it again.
Whats mind?
Amar Singhania He(Nick) meant that past is gone. Never to be grasped again. But according to the commenter, we(the audience) could think of Nick as a green light. Light with different meaning. With meaning to move on.
Nick did tell Jay earlier that: one can't repeat the past, but he(Gatsby) never understood or would accept the meaning of that.
Wow. So basically Jay Gatsby is an embodiment of false hope. This novel and this movie are truly masterpieces. I didn't understand this story when I read it in school years ago, but I totally understand it now and it's truly an exquisite story.
What beautiful dialogue, It's like listening to a piece of art. Bless your soul Scott Fitzgerald.
excuse me while I go cry for eternity. this book is forever my favorite piece of literature
why didn't Tobey get best supporting actor for this, Hollywood xxxxxx up
rias he was the main protagonist not the supporting.
rias because nick carraway is technically the protagonist of the novel
this truly is the Great American Novel
Nick is the closet character to Fitzgerald, showing the way author relates to the upper class. Nick sees the upper class as irresponsible people who smash things and people up and revert back to their money ("or whatever that keeps them together") and let other people clean up the mess. Gatsby is looking out for Daisy while she is conspiring with Tom. She doesn't show up to his funeral. There are couple of people who do show up. One of them is man with thick glasses who spends time in Gatsby's library and really appreciates all the books Gatsby has. He admires Gatsby for having such collection even if Gatsby never opened any of the books. Tom on the other hand is discussing a racist book about "the rise of color empires". Gatsby's love is pure, even though his money and his associates are not. Everything he has is for the love he felt under the tree when he saw a ladder going to heaven but kissed Daisy instead and he goes to war and takes a few years to reinvent himself during which time Daisy is married off to Tom. Gatsby doesn't notice Daisy's daughter which represents her love to another man. He just wants to take her back to that tree: "can't repeat the past? of course you can ol'sport!"
Lines to live by
the movie overall was truly powerful, and beautifully melancholic. The ending and the voice of Tobby were mesmerizing...still
This book and movie are a masterpiece. And not just because I'm named after the author.
At least you're not named after his wife.
If you are named after F. Scott Fitzgerald, please, carry that name with sincere care. Remind people as you would yourself why you carry that name proudly, should they inquire why you do. Because of this story. Just saying. God bless you, and take care.
goosebumps and a lump in my throat, every time :(
The most perfect ending ever.
R.I.P Jay Gatsby
Rip
Not just Jay Gatsby The Great Gatsby
That city...my once golden shimmering mirage...now made me sick. love the ending
I am absolutely in love with this movie!!! This scene makes me cry every time I watch it!!
The vocab and the music together makes this song amazing
Alas! Here I come, fleeing from the horrors of Algebra and trigonometric equations, returning to my beloved literature, but time moves on, and like Gatsby I continue to long, to reach...to lust... for the past, when the world around me runs towards the future. And so I beat on, boat against the current...trying desperately to outrun the quiz that awaits for me tomorrow morning...
Asher...hoped you aced your quiz, and were no borne back ceaselessly into the Dean's office!
Lynne Perkins I probably flunked, lol, but I ended up passing the class. :D
I hope you don't mind my stealing this , Asher. It's so beautifully expressed and mirrors my own feelings right now (:
Eberechii Gugulethu Resha I would be quite the villain to leave something like that out of reach of others! I only said what so many feel far too often. I empathize with your problem, friend. :)
Oh my gosh ... im laughing my head off :)) that was pure genius
This ending made me so emotional.. absolutely loved it. A masterpiece
" After Gatsby's death, New York was haunted for me. That city. My once golden shimmering mirage now made me sick. On my last night in New York, I returned to that huge incoherent house once more. Wolfsheim's associates had cleaned it out. I remembered how we had all come to Gatsby's and guessed at his corruption while he stood before us concealing an incorruptible dream. The moon rose higher and as I stood there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the Green Light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come such a long way and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. But he did not that it was already behind him. Gatsby believed in the Green Light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then but that's no matter. tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back, ceaselessly into the past." By Nick Carraway
Very inspiring how Gatsby spent this whole time luring Daisy to his luxurious parties. That was part of his incorruptible dream.
Probably the most beautiful paragraph written in 20th century.
I poured tears at this last scene. So encouraging even beyond the end. A plethora of beginning reborn in your thoughts of what we oft might win. Washes away our fears to attempt.
this is one of the very few movies that has a great soundtrack to it.
One of the best book endings to ever exist ❤️ and this movie just captures all the emotions and themes of this book, I’m in awe.
when you see true art, you dont have to try to like it, it overwhelms you. the words written by fitzgerald are untouched by time. its the essence of what makes america great in the face of the realities of human nature.
Nick is the success behind this story. If anyone's side of the story was the best, it was Nick's. He was the only loyal friend of Gatsby. He loved him, and hearing the morbidness and sorrow in his voice makes me hurt so bad in my heart. Good luck Nick and R.I.P Gatsby
Amazing book and amazing movie, the ending gets me every time :')
it makes me so sad. damn
We all have our 'green light'. Some dream born of a moment from our lives that made us slam our feet down on the gas, propel us to some idealized destination.
I remember mine; seeing a group of six kids my own age marching off to beat the shit out of some poor fat bastard who just wanted people to like him. I remember thinking, 'somebody should stop this', all the while doing nothing. Doing nothing because I was scared. Doing nothing because I was weak. Doing nothing because as much as I hated these six boys, some pathetic part of me wanted to be one of them; or at least, wanted to be as far removed from that poor fat bastard and whatever else he was that offended them so. Doing nothing, and then regretting it ever day for the rest of my life.
My green light is the idea that some way, some day, I'll be able to make that right. It's a lie; you can't change the past. That boy was and forever will have been alone as six other children sent him to the hospital just because they didn't like him, and one other child did nothing about it. But I'll keep chasing that green light; not because I can change how things happened, but because of how things that happened changed me.
CJusticeHappen21 so deep and true. Regrets like that haunt you everyday.....I know they do feel for me and nothing can be done from the past coz its gone and there is no turning back
Zelta_adventures Strange, isn't it? Every time I feel like I've moved past that memory, I eventually end up right back where I start. That's the green light.
Doing nothing. Doing nothing. Doing nothing. Doing nothing. STOP USING REPETITION.
Edward Cullen Whatever you say,
Old
Sport
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I once thought someone could love me as well. Someone out there existed with depth, with heart. I identify with Gatsby. The dream is dead. That green light is merely a mirage.
I remembered, I didn't read this book when it was assigned in my AP English class, but we watched the movie in class and I was blown away.
i actually cried and im not one two cry. this part is so sad. yet beautiful because of the music and nicks words
After analyzing this book in AP Language, I could never see The Great Gatsby in the same way. It's truly incredible. If you watch this movie simply in passing time, you would not and could appreciate it for what it is. You have to give it your whole mind and let it consume you. Then, and only then, will you understand it.
Nick............ I cant even explain how good he was narrating this whole movie, he did NOT fail to entertain me(speaking for myself) and he empasizes the meaning of this whole movie. He told you the TRUE story of Gatsby. Ooops, my bad. THE GREAT GATSBY.
The fact that Gatsby never let go of his dream and carried that dream to the grave.
The cold nostalgia chills me to the bone.
“Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that green light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.”
Who cried at the end too? 😭
Sometimes we do regret some acts in the past sometimes we do want to change it
But it also means that
Women will always choose security over love. Gatsby learnt that the hard way.
this movie is extremely underrated
I think there's something beautifully heart breaking about how his dream was so close to him and yet so far. A brilliant film of a brilliant book.
I get the chills every time... Beautiful film, beautiful music
What an awesome movie. Truly, Gatsby was an incredible man. He was driven by an inner passion.
This movie was so much better than the wolf of wall street.
Liked both. They are not really comparable but YES !
You can't really comparr the two. The Wolf Of Wall Street is a tragedy in it's own right. It shows the deterioration of a man's life that was built around greed.
However I prefer to watch Gatsby over Wolf.
Fantastic score matched to perfect dialogue. Great work. Such a moving and powerful piece of work. Well done.
"My once golden shimmering mirage now made me sick." :(
This scene is so heartbreaking!
I absolutely ADORE this movie♥️
A big shout out to the invisible soldier here that no one mentions: Craig Armstrong. The composer who wrote this masterpiece of a score. Hollywood always snubs him since Love Actually, but true art can never be overshadowed.
Ah...the green light...
This scene is life the reality of it and is so sad u build your self up and than all come crashing down in the blink of an eye 😭😭 such a beautiful movie
Somehow my class was like the only one who didn't have to read this in high school (???), so I went into the movie not knowing anything about it. And wow... I saw that ending coming a little beforehand and it broke my heart. :'( Amazing story though and great movie. Guess I have to read it now!
“My once golden shimmering DAMN DOOR!”
The most perfect scene.
It could have been for something. As Nick put it, Daisy's recklessness and her habit of recklessly causing disaster to fall back into her money is one reason it didn't. Perhaps Gatsby's belief that you can repeat the past is a dangerous one because of the risk at stake and the unlikeliness that it will come to fruition but if he was correct that her vision was the same as his own (rather than a vague longing for it out of boredom and the sense of mysteriousness) it could have been achieved.
I'm a grown man but this movie and forrest gump were the only ones to ever make me cry...
One of the only movies that’s ever been able to make me cry. 😢
After Gatsby’s death, New York was haunted for me. That city, my once golden shimmering mirage, now made me sick. On my last night in New York, I returned to that huge, incoherent house once more. Wolfsheim’s ‘associates’ had cleaned it out…
I remembered how we had we had all come to Gatsby’s and guessed at his corruption… while he stood before us concealing an incorruptible dream…
The moon rose higher… And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come such a long way and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. But he did not know that it was already behind him.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And one fine morning-
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
i have tears in my eyes...
I feel like i relate to Jay in his efforts and his inevitable downfall, it makes me sad yet it is fulfilling to me that people who have everything can experience a story like this and know that there are people out there who try so hard yet fall short.
I believed in the emerald eyes and the green light. Every now and then I cry thinking about gatsby and incorruptible dream. And sometimes when I'm in my room big myself I reach toward the green light, cry, and try to feel the vibe Gatsby felt.
The art is perfect always watch the movie when i miss it
Cinematic perfection
Why do people hate the soundtrack so much? I know it seems out of place, but it works really well with the film!
That scene is perfect. Those last sentence are amazingly written and perfectly delivered, sending shivers down my spine.
Spine tingling. What a film
Well, I don't know about you guys, but this story shattered my heart.
The green light, although initially was referred to as our dreams and aspirations(in Gatsby's case, his hopes to woo Daisy and be with her forever), by the end of the novel, had lost it's meaning completely. In the context, Nick had referred to it as being a hopeless future that we is plausible only in our dreams, which drifts further everyday( year by year recedes before us). We are eluded into thinking that we will have a better tomorrow, fighting for a better future(tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther), but it is indeed futile.
We will continue our struggle(So we beat on) face all the hardships of reality, against everything life puts us through(boats against the current), only to end up close to where we started. (borne back ceaselessly into the past). My interpretation is that no matter what you do to convince yourself that you can change for a better life, in the end your past is going to dictate what you do in life and there is no other way about it.
that is a really pessimistic interpretation but is completely valid
In the times of happiness everybody is with u but in crucial times everybody lefts u.
Gatsby shouldn't have tried to disrupt the relationship that Tom had with Daisy.....
we can't repeat the past,even if we want this...past is past,present is present..
Gatsby, representing the pure core of the American Dream, held his wish for that which could not be repeated to the last breath; and Daisy, representing the corruption and ultimate downfall of the American Dream to vulgarity and material gain, took money and class over love. For all Gatsby shrouded himself in grotesque, extravagant parties he never relinquished his dream, he kept it pure to the end, and this readiness to carry his ambitions to the grave were truly what made Jay Gatsby so Great.
Nick best bro ever.
Its soo sad :( Leonardo always dies in like every movie!!
I cried when I watch it, everytime