What Makes Gatsby So Great?
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What Makes Gatsby So Great?

There are many things that make Gatsby so great

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What Makes Gatsby So Great?

A little party never killed nobody, but maybe not in Gatsby’s case. Gatsby threw these magnificent parties in order to draw in his long lost lover, Daisy. These parties were spectacular with people and everyone dancing to the upbeat of popular songs, it truly makes you wish you where a part of the scene because it looks like they are having a blast. Gatsby gets his long term wish of getting Daisy back but it backfires on him. Which makes you question the real reason Gatsby died.

In the movie The Great Gatsby, they have an amazing group of a cast from Leonardo DiCaprio who plays Jay Gatsby all the way to Carey Mulligan who plays Daisy Buchanan. These characters did an amazing job putting their all into the roles they were given. When you watch the movie you can see the dedication that Tobey Maguire, who plays Nick Carraway puts into his character. He always stays a very serious but enjoyable role in the movie and ends up being the constant character throughout the whole movie since it is put into his point of view. Being in the third person the movie is supposed to be about Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan about their long lost love for each other. The rest of the characters in the movie also do a great job portraying their roles. Such as Joey Edgerton who plays Tom Buchanan who is Daisy’s husband. In the movie he starts to get suspicious about Jay and Daisy, he does an amazing job of trying to figure out what is going on between them and getting away with his wrong doings towards the end of the movie.

A great part of this movie is how they always keep you interested, there is not a part in the movie where you want to get up and change the channel but they keep pulling you in with more great scenes. From all the parties that Jay threw in hopes that Daisy would show up and they could rekindle their love, too the final touching scene when Jay is swimming in his pool and a man shoots him for believing that he was the one who killed is wife in a hit and run accident on their way back from New York city. Another great scene that is unforgettable is when Jay finally finds a way to get Daisy to see him and it's through his neighbor Nick who happens to be Daisy’s cousin. Jay has Nick invite Daisy over so they could run into each other and get back to old times. Jay has a romantic vision for this because he sends over dozens and dozens of flowers to be set all around Nicks house. So that when Daisy comes over she is breath taken by the beauty of the flowers.

In the most recent The Great Gatsby movie made in 2013 have music choices that differ a lot from what would normally be listened to in the 1920’s. Mainly because of the artists like Jay-Z, Lana Del Rey, Beyonce, and many others were not alive back then. For one of the extravagant party, scenes showed in the newer Gatsby movie they have the song A Little Part Never Killed Nobody, Which is by Fergie, Q-Tip, and GoonRock. When you hear this song in the great part scene you see everyone dancing to what the beat of the song was, which does not fit into the year of what they were trying to make the movie in. Since most people who watch the movie knows it supposed to be based in the 1920’s when they hear the soundtrack for the most part they know it does not fit into that era but because the majority of the people who watched the movie are younger people who listen to this music daily, they find it to be more interesting to watch because it is something that they can relate to, therefore making it a more enjoyable movie.

When you watch this movie I'll let you be the judge, did the party kill Gatsby or was it his drive to find the one he loved.

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