*SPOILERS* The Great Gatsby is an ode to simpery

[STEVE]

LOL @ them making this movie in 2013 with a hip-hop soundtrack and an even heartier LOL @ anyone who would go see it

 

[bordeaux]

i wouldnt call it an ode so much. it doesn't really glorify him 'simping' if anything its a cautionary tale. in the end u just leave feeling sort of feel sorry for the guy, thinking 'man, what a dirty b!tch.' the movie should have been the great gatsby (m.o.b.) ya know, keeping w/ whole modern spin they gave the soundtrack and all.

 

[Mook]

I had a convo about the movie with a girl whose opinions on books I highly respect (I think she teaches middle school kids English Lit nowadays) and she basically said baz makes all his movies like that so its all about decor and style over substance. she also felt it was gonna fail badly to represent the book

That's cause they're corny English teachers. This was c easily the worst book to read in hs.

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[yseJ]

That's cause they're corny English teachers. This was c easily the worst book to read in hs.

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book is one of my favs, and Ive read hundreds of books.

girl is younger than I am, and she loves to read- just like me. so miss me with that 'corny' shyt.

 

[BLAZO da GAWD]

I saw it last night and enjoyed it.


Self admittedly...I'm definitely not even close to a movie critic buff.

 

[TheFryingDutchman]

Yeah he dies. fukk your spoilers, the book is almost 100 years old

 

[RickyGQ]

This ain't no spoiler, I knew this reading the book in high school... I called Gatsby a whining punk in my book report and got a B+

I did the same thing in a report about the dude in Breakfast at Tiffany's. got an A. Teacher had the face the whole time as I read it aloud to the class

 

[DaylitoJames]

I did the same thing in a report about the dude in Breakfast at Tiffany's. got an A. Teacher had the face the whole time as I read it allowed to the class

Me and my boy for years always joke and when we see a nikka simpin, we always say to each other "That nikka trying to Great Gasby that bytch!"

 

[Xerces]

This book is great. Just got back from seeing it, and the only problem I had with it was the over playing of one of the songs on the soundtrack and the rap songs (pretty dumb)

 

[Hollywood Co]

Nah. Gatsby always wanted to be a part of high society. Always. He changed his name from James Gats to Jay Gatsby and was mentored by a rich dude years before meeting Daisy. It was just that when he met her, it reminded him just how far he was from that world and from that point on, she became his object of obsession and he used that as motivation to build his fortune.

Spoiler

Seventeen-year-old James Gatz, hailing from rural North Dakota where he was born to a poor farming family in 1890, despises the limitations of poverty so much he drops out of St. Olaf College in Minnesota only a few weeks into his first semester. He later explains to narrator Nick Carraway that he couldn't bear working as a janitor to support himself through college any longer. After meeting Dan Cody, a copper tyc00n who became his mentor and invited him to join his ten-year yacht trek from Girl Bay, he changes his name to Jay Gatsby. Over the next five years, Gatsby learns the ways of the wealthy until Cody's death. Cody's mistress then cheats Gatsby out of a $25,000 bequest from Cody.

In 1917, during his training for the infantry in World War I, 27-year-old Gatsby meets and falls in love with 18-year-old Daisy Fay, who is everything he is not: rich and from a patrician Western family.

But the fact is, he always wanted to become someone else. I doubt he even loved Daisy, he was just in love with the idea of Daisy. It was more about his own validation saying he could get a woman like her. That's why its not realistic to me. It's a million other Daisys out there. You're super rich and one of the most eligible bachelors in New York. He couldve found another.

This is probably my biggest gripe with the movie but its still good to me because it adds layers to Gatsby. Leo kills the role of but I couldn't help feeling that if Daisy would've stayed with him, eventually he wouldve moved on to the next challenge of living a life that he came up with from his imagination. Leo played played both sides of Gatsby to the tee and to me it made the movie great.

Falling in love with Daisy was both his biggest motivator to be great and the worst thing that could of happened to a young dude trying get on. All men should take heed to it.

 

[ThisRightHere]

This was the absolute worst book I read in school and the movie was straight

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

This movie hit home, brehs.

bytches can be a great motivator and at the same time completely destroy you.

Reminds of a chapter in Napoleon Hills "think and grow rich"

 

[storyteller]

Gatsby is up there but if you've ever read the American...I think that's the ultimate winner of the all time American literature simp award...and I was an English Major so I know a lot of literature.

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

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[Sad Bunny]

movie sucked