| re: Gatsby, ambitious, sumptuous (spoilers) | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 09:48 pm EDT 04/23/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Gatsby, ambitious, sumptuous (spoilers) - comedywest 04:29 pm EDT 04/23/24 | |
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| Yes. And yes. But these are both places where the authors are trying to find subtext from within the original novel. Unfortunately, through every single iteration of this story (from Field to Sorvino to Farrow to Mulligan), you can’t get away from the fact that Daisy is a moral coward. Aside from the car accident, She can’t cop to who she loves. I can appreciate that letting her sing about the limitations of a woman’s role in society (‘beautiful little fool’) should excuse her a bit. But it doesn’t. She’s hard to like. Nice try, though. (And what was that bit where they made it seem like her child couldn’t stop crying in her arms but went calm in her governess’s?) As far as JAY GATSBY himself…he IS someone who tries to hard. He is completely artificial. Jeremy Jordan makes an attempt to play that, but it kinda backfires. I think Robert Redford caught some of that…the artificial, awkward man. And it was delicately humorous; we cd feel his discomfort. But it’s hard for a leading man to be so false; one has to find an underlying note of truth to carry it off. Gary Cooper cd do it. It’s about being able to stand apart from everything..to fit in and yet not fit in at the same time. Olivier’s Maxim De Winter (lying throughout most of his storyline) was a good sketch for how to play Gatsby, I think. |
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