She is stuck in a marriage with her husband, Tom, who cheats on her with his mistress Myrtle Wilson who is the wife of George B Wilson. The Great Gatsby Wiki Explore. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account?
Daisy Buchanan. Get Bitch Media's top 9 reads of the week delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning! Sign up for the Weekly Reader:. I think the extravagance of the movie And I'm glad that the director didn't feel the need to spell out this message. For one, how would he do that, beyond relaying the events in the story? And secondly, I like it when directors or authors trust us to get it. It's humorous that the sponsors maintained their roles in this extravaganza. It kind of marks them as fools.
But then what are audience members, if not sponsers? We were invited to the party. We were a part of the spectacle. What does that make us? This line is actually in the book, which I think helps give book Daisy more personality than she gets credit for. There are a lot of small lines like this in the novel that I think get missed sometimes. I reread the book after seeing the movie which I thoroughly enjoyed and didn't see as being far off from the original story, even in my rereading , and I found myself liking Daisy more this time around, I think from a combination of seeing her acted out and reading her character more closely.
I think as a critique of the movie alone there are a lot of good points here, but the review loses some of its strength in my eyes when comparing movie to novel. Even the comment of di Caprio tacking on "old sport" in lines sits oddly with me simply because it's such a common phrase through the whole novel. It's something typically remembered by readers as a sort of trademark of his; it helps make the character. I personally don't think that the book or the movie, for that matter is meant to leave us "thinking about lost love".
It's very plainly a critique on the consumerism and materialism of the day, and the fact that the movie leaves us feeling almost hungover from the glitz and glam means it's nailed Fitzgerald's goal. Adelaide Clemens Catherine as Catherine. Vince Colosimo Michaelis as Michaelis. Eden Falk Mr. McKee as Mr. Baz Luhrmann. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. An adaptation of F. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
Can't repeat the past? Rated PG for some violent images, sexual content, smoking, partying and brief language. Did you know Edit. This marks the first time they have appeared in a film together since Don's Plum Before this, they appeared together in This Boy's Life The film takes place in Quotes Nick Carraway : You can't repeat the past. Crazy credits Jay Gatsby's flower symbol is shown throughout the credits with different letters in place of the 'JG'.
What Gatsby? Jay Gatsby : If it wasn't for the mist, we could see the green light. Daisy Buchanan : What green light? Jay Gatsby : The one that burns all night at the end of your dock. Nick Carraway : [narrating] Possibly, it had occurred to Gatsby that the colossal significance of that light had vanished forever.
Now it was once again just a green light on a dock and his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one. Daisy Buchanan : I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. I've had a very bad time, Nicky. I'm pretty cynical about everything. Nick Carraway : Ah. Your daughter, I suppose she talks and eats and everything? Daisy Buchanan : Pammy? Oh, yes. Listen, Nick, when she was born, Tom was God knows where And I asked the nurse if it was a boy or girl.
And she said it was a girl and I wept, "I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool. That's the best thing a girl in this world can be.
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