Re: The Great Gatsby

Posted by Rusty O\'Toole On 2011/11/5 11:26:14

So, they already screwed up and they haven't even started filming yet.

They bought 1929 cars that are too new by 7 years. So there is a jarring note unless they set the film in 1929 or 1930. But conditions were much different in those years than they were in 1922. The whole story becomes pointless unless it takes place at a specific time.

The whole point of the story is that Gatsby was forced to leave Daisy while he went off to fight in WW1 and when he came back, she had married Tom Buchanan. So from 1919 to 1922 he is amassing the money through various shady deals, to match Buchanan in wealth and woo Daisy away from him.

If this process took 10 years it would become pointless for Gatsby to try and get Daisy back.It would turn the story into a farce.

If Gatsby wandered off in 1926 for no reason, and came back 3 years later crazy about Daisy, it would make no sense. There is just no way to change the time frame without killing the motivation of the main characters.

Typical Hollywood.