Okay, yes, media literacy is at an all time low etc., etc., and it's annoying to listen to people not understand media and make bad takes on it in general, but, I fear we do not talk enough about how annoying it is to have to listen to bad takes about beloved books, because the most popular movie adaptations decided to take creative liberties that ruin the characterization or point of the novel.
baz luhrmann movies are so funny bc of how little the songs match what’s happening on screen. its like backseat freestyle by kendrick playing over footage of old timey white men driving a ford model t
Carey Mulligan and Leonardo DiCaprio as Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby (2013), co-written and directed by Baz Luhrmann.
It's so sad, because it's so hard to make her understand. It's so hard to make her understand. I've gotten all these things for her. I've gotten all these things for her and now she just... she just wants to run away.
Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright
The Godfather (1972) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Sanditon (2019-2023) created by Andrew Davies
Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright
The Pursuit of Love (2021) dir. Emily Mortimer
The Great Gatsby (2013) dir. Baz Luhrmann
Emma (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde
Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014) created by Terence Winter
Marie Antoinette (2006) dir. Sofia Coppola
Bitch all you want about the music or the effects in 2013 Gatsby but no other adaptation gave us “his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him” from Nick, standing
DIRECTLY BEHIND AN IMAGINED VERSION OF JAY
Like we talk about Nick being the one calling at the end but jesus *christ* the cinematography, the visual storytelling,