They should have changed the blocking ... have him climbing up to the top of the stairs, but he looks back and sees her, and stops climbing, going down to meet her. It would have been more poetic I think.
He knew he was going to be trapped in this tragedy, but he did it anyway. That’s what’s so human about him. He knew the consequences and he still took the risk. He paved a path for himself that he knew he couldn’t escape. That’s what’s so incredibly tragic about the story. Gatsby looks like he is driven by ego and greed, but deep down, money and parties are just a way for him to heal his self inflicted emotional wounds. He needs the wealth to get Daisy and to finally complete his life both physically and emotionally.
why would you need a woman to complete your life lol. gatsbys way of thinking was very shallow from the start. say if he got the woman, so what after? in sorry if i ask this but im a hypothetical person and i just dont understand why we need these say, a woman, a house, car, to feel a sense of complete bliss when we could strive for greater and productive things lol
“I knew that when I kissed this girl, I would be forever wed to her” The utter conviction in that line shows his heart and soul had decided. Which is so uncommon now a days. Pure beauty right there.
@@jayforprez Yeah I'm sorry to be a buzzkill but this sort of romanticism is utter bullshit. There is no 'love at first sight' Love is a fallacy. It is all purely biological. Also before anyone asks, yes I was hurt numerous times and have come to this conclusion. I think everyone with a brain already knows.
This is probably the most accurate representation of a book I’ve ever seen. Leo and Toby play their characters so well it’s like the book is literally coming to life. The directors made the book into a movie better than the original movie did. It actually grasps your emotions and doesn’t let go until the movie ends. The worst part about this movie is that it had to end..
I just watched The Road (originally a book by Cormac McCarthy). It is the most true-to-the-book movie for sure, but yeah I love this movie. This scene is amazing.
The more I'm learning about this story the more I'm disatisfied with the representation though. Don't you think that Gatsby's dark side is underplayed massively. You would never really pick up on the fact that he's a massive criminal who is probably dangerous, just from watching the movie.
@@SHIBBYiPANDA Tbf, the book had more time to flesh that out. Here its more of an underlying/subtle thing eventually boiling over to the scene where he tells Tom to shut up. But I do agree, they really could have played it up a little more especially in the scene where they go to meet Wolfsheim
Leo is one of the most awarded actors ever. For sure the foreigners tend to reward him more than americans. For this movie he won the Australian movie award (the most important award in Australia)
The characters in this movie/book are so much more complex than we believe, especially Gatsby. Let's start with basics and the beginning. We see that Jay is extremely ambitious and that he wants a great future and life for himself doing amazing things. We all realize that life isn't just about work and success- so when Jay falls in love, he realizes that his mind will no longer be solely occupied by the drive to success. Daisy will be a part of it and his love for her will divert some of his attention. When he fails to return home, he vowes to make something of himself to her. He realizes the social situation of their love. Daisy is a wealthy woman who needs to marry to maintain the status of her family. Jay is penniless. She hears the truth and wants to call off the wedding anyway because she loves him- but reluctantly stays true to her marriage because that's what has to be done. She loves Jay, but her status and wealth is more important. Here we see an inverse. Whereas Jay's focus was aquiring wealth, he let himself go for love. Daisy was encountered with being with who she loved and chose to focus on aquiring wealth. When Daisy hears of Jay later in life and sees that he's aquired the wealth she needed, she realizes she could've had the man she loved and the wealth she desired. Jay meanwhile has been obsessed with her because he does love her. But it goes deeper.. his love for her and the fact that he lost her also develops a symbolic aspect whereas the very idea of her is what he craves. He still loves her, but now she stands for something more. This is touched on where Tom tells Jay that although he's aquired wealth and is as rich as old money, he isn't one of them nor is he an equal. When you consider that Jay lost the woman he loved to Tom simply because he had old money... That's true. And all Jay wants to do is be as rich and prominent as anybody else. His ambition is to go on and be exalted among men. But he's stuck. He's stuck on the idea of Daisy even when he gets her back. While before the two aspects were out of reach.. now he has one and still lacks the other. His idea of Daisy is one where he never lost her, where he was the only one that mattered to her while she was the only thing that truly mattered to him. It's why they don't just run away and he insists that Daisy tell Tom that she never loved him. Jay wants to rewrite the past. This is what Jay struggles with. He got the girl- he won. But he pushes too far. Like he says, as if he too realizes it- he could be a great man if only he forgot that he lost her once. Why is he stuck on losing her before? Who knows. Humans are complex. He loved her once, love is hard to move on from especially if both loved each other and only wealth stood in the way. This could explain why he wants to rewrite the past. He's wealthy now and now everything can be as it should've been. Now that he's rich, he can marry her no problem. But as Tom says... He's still not equal. Which pisses him off. Jay could also be objectifying her, however I do believe he loves her at least somewhat. The mind of the obsessed and love stricken is a maze.
Jay wasn't willing to trust in Daisys love to return to her and make things work out. Instead he thought he needed money to have her when all he needed was to be there. That's the problem. Money. Old and new.. or lets say the view of how money defines someone.
I think it's ego. It's the fact that he was able to accomplish going from nothing to everything and more financially. Yet unable to have Daisy drove him to be so obsessed. So far he had succeeded in pretty much anything he set his mind to, except for Daisy. She was the one thing he could not have, and the one thing he wanted most.
Or maybe Taylor uses the same time we have like me and others to READ and enlighten themselves to materials of depth. Why do you go to a fast and the furious comment section.
Throwing the rock at 2:30, I think it’s symbolic that, when he talks about his LIFE, he said “It’s got to keep going on”, then he tries to skip it....but it just falls flat and doesn’t skip. And on top of that...it’s the pool he dies in.
when he mentions how his life has to keep going up that reminded me of the story of icarus the man who flew too high up and had his wings burnt off. thats kinda what happened with gatsby
"My life old sport, my life has got to be like this. It's got to keep going up. " Really liked just the way he said pointing his finger and facial expressions. Legendary actor
I think this moment was perfect, the way he loves her, the way he choses to wait for the perfect moment to kiss her and give all that he has. It's amazing how love makes you feel things you could never imagine it is posible to feel, to see or to do. It is just wonderful.
Happily ever afters just never existed in that time. Daisy was a product of her society and so was Gatsby. They fell for each other and for a while they felt free to be whoever they wanted to be. Daisy was able to choose the man she loved, Gatsby was able to get the girl he loved. It’s a tragedy how this story played out, but it was incredible at the same time. What a beautiful book and film.
That falling in love would change his destiny...forever. This line always gives me chills. It always makes me think of Shakespeare's twelfth night, 'journeys end in lovers meeting'.
“My life has got to be like this, it’s got to be keep going on”. I especially like that line too because if you heard what he says just prior about how he thinks he could have still been a great man if he could forget that he lost Daisy, it shows that even he knows that his love for her might come back and kill him. And even Gatsby feels that he may not succeed in bringing her back. I feel like this is something we all relate to. We all have that one person we love more than anything, but lost that person. And losing that person has changed us all in a horrible way whether we want to admit it or not. Many of us will say that we’re “stronger” or whatever, but the reality is, the pain of losing that special someone has made us all cynical and jaded and closed off and untrusting of others. You know, because of the pain in our hearts. Deep down, we all know it’s wrong to be this cynical and jaded and untrusting of others, but it’s really because we’re all hurting deep down. We all know deep down that we could have been a better person if we could have just forgotten about the person we lost. That we ultimately didn’t have to be like this, so cynical, so jaded, so untrusting of others. So what do we do? Well, we “move on”, because that’s what people say we should do. The whole you know, “there’s a billion people in the world” and “plenty of fish in the sea” crap. The line that Gatsby says about how his life has to keep going on, it represents us perfectly in the real world. Because that’s what we do, we find someone else who in reality is just a rebound or a replacement for the one we loved and lost, and we keep our lives going on while we silently suffer on the inside and miss that special person every day. Accepting the fact that we will never ever have that person back. Which also ties in to Daisy’s line at the beginning of the film when she tells Nick that all the best things in life fade away and never come back. Seriously, that line from Daisy at the beginning that I just mentioned and Gatsby’s lines here truly represent us all in the real world.
To me the line “my life has to be like this” then shows a shooting star, means that Gatsby wants his life to have one sole purpose, and for that purpose to be so true and pure that it becomes an “incorruptible dream”. This is Gatsby pursing daisy and completing his life now that he has the means to. His life must be like a shooting star, one that flies true and can’t be stopped, and keeps going up (up as in heading towards his dream) awesome stuff
"She wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes. All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the “Beale Street Blues” while a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust. At the grey tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor. Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed. And all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately-and the decision must be made by some force-of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality-that was close at hand." "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ugh. When he says he lets himself go. It’s just heartbreaking because he knows she won’t stay with him if he isn’t rich or popular by societal standards.
I knew that when i typed this comment, I'd be forever wed to it. So i stopped. I waited for a moment longer.... Then i just let myself go & typed "May you be Lucky to find a partner that'd Love you as much as you Love them".
This is such an important scene, Leo deserves an Oscar for the way his eyes glass over, the conviction in this scene, its Gatsby laying his heart bare.
He knew loving her would be a sacrifice of the vision he had for himself and that she may never accept him or give him a chance after because of their class differences, but he still chose her over himself and that’s the saddest part
I feel that Gatsby always knew his fate. He knew he could never truly have the American dream and have Daisy I feel she just symbolised so many things he wanted and couldn't have
I think the pool is a powerful symbol in Gatsby's story. In the beginning the pool is the centerpiece of his lavish parties, his secret attempts to win Daisy back. Here somewhat in the middle of the story, the pool is still clean and clear, and it looks like one of those parties has ended. The pool still looks bright and inviting. In the end, it will be much more dull, with leaves of early Autumn having fallen into it (seasons being another use of symbolism) and having lost the sparkle of early optimism when Gatsby's plan may yet work. It builds tension in the audience because we can see the light begin to fade, moving us and Gatsby toward the inexorable conclusion.
This movie is the best of DiCaprio in romance drama...he shouldve won oscar for this...and he shouldve won another award for "blood diamond" action movie
When I read this book in highschool it was a good book but didn’t mean much. Now that I’m 31 and had a few relationships and some life under my belt this book is amazing and tragic.
"If I could just get back to the start, If I could just get back to start and I could find it again" - damn those tears in gatsby's eyes. A sense of regret was there
Ughhghghh the way he loves her genuinely, sincerely, and infinitely is visible in his acting and his portrayal which makes me feel love so strong all i can do is hope to mirror the pairing of love then also makes me want to weep as its felt that while its felt for real its never going to be real and its painful to see so much love become unable to reach a potential to which it so clearly has a love of no limits. favorite book, favorite actor, amazing talent in the movie which reaches out and grabs you which makes you feel everything that's meant to be felt.
This scene just hits me deeply. My ex-girlfriend and I loved this movie. When I first met her, I knew that my mind and my heart will forever belong to her. We broke up a few weeks ago and left a 3 year relationship behind. I will be a great man, and when I reach my goals, we will meet each other again, and when that moment happens, eternity will start for both of us, facing it together once more.
@@LuthandoDlomo Well you clearly haven't read the book because the whole point is that you can't repeat the past. Gatsby spends five year pursuing a girl he dated for a month and doesn't even get her, just a bullet in the back. Besides he doesn't love Daisy, he loves his idea of Daisy; the money in her voice, her colonial mansion, the class and status the social climbing James Gatz aspired to have. Sent off to war, he then proceeds to love the nostalgic Daisy, idealising their month long courtship as some impeccable golden dream to cling on to throughout the war. It's just as well he loves his idea of Daisy, because the actual Daisy is a vapid, entitled, selfish personification of the American dream and the futility in chasing it.
@@mintybadgerproductions absolutely bro, but you’re over rationalising something that’s not meant to be completely rational. The story is not a warning, it’s meant to be felt, Jay is everything in the extremes, the nostalgia, loving the idea of her, irrational notions of changing the past, becoming something of himself to win over Daisy. He even says he’s only 32 and might be a great man if he never fell in love, he’s aware of it all, but there’s something beautiful about his heart and admirable about him still, despite the flaws of it all. He didn’t die sad and the lesser for his journey, he died saying her name and reach out at the green light, and if you’ve ever loved a woman so deeply in your life then you’d know exactly what the guy who commented meant. And maybe your mind and characteristics are more like Nick Caraway, but lovers and dreamers understand Gatsby wholeheartedly and get the beautiful story Fitzgerald shared. Its would be a forgettable and empty story if he accepted he’s poor and settled for someone else, it’s beautiful because of his journey and his heart.
@@LuthandoDlomo I'm guessing you've only watched the film and not read the novel, because the film really loses most of the subtext. The Great Gatsby definitely is a warning. It's not a romantic novel, it's a cynical dissection of the American Dream and social class. In the novel, Gatsby doesn't die happy, saying Daisy's name, reaching out to the green light, thinking she's called him. In the novel he's just shot in the pool. The three characters who die are all born poor and yet despite causing there deaths (Tom's affair with Myrtle leads her to run out to the car, Daisy runs over Myrtle and doesn't stop, and Tom tells Wilson that Gatsby drove the car) old money Tom and Daisy retreat from all responsibility back into their wealth and status and let the born poor destroy themselves. Lastly Gatsby doesn't become rich to win over Daisy, rather Daisy is the trophy to prove his social aspirations. He doesn't just want to be rich, he wants to be old money. Before he even meets her he had already begun to reinvent himself, changing his name to Gatsby. He pursued the American dream; that any man can reach the top. Daisy was part of the old money American aristocracy Gatsby sought to be amongst and thus she came to personify his ambition, he was not born into status, but he could marry it. When talking of first meeting her with Nick, it's notable that he goes on just as much about her house as he does her. He also says "her voice is full of money." A key theme of then novel is that this goal is unobtainable, despite Gatsby's wealth and hospitality that the old money readily enjoys, he will never be one of them and they will forever look down upon him as the "bootlegger."
You know how it hurts when you so deeply relate to a movie character like Gatsby Very recent events showed me a lot about love and people in general, its a sad ending for me this time and yet its not all sad, in fact we're still friends, GOOD friends the story behind what happened is something only specific people would understand and the rest would either call her bad things or call me a complete and utter idiot but if only i could share to you all, what i have seen trough my eyes. It would make you understand, probably
I can't relate but I empathize with Gatsby. The whole concept of love frightens me especially whenever it comes to living and planning out your: "American Dream."
If I could just get back to the beginning. I think thats almost all of us, that first love. It can never be what it was and it will never be what it isn't.
I knew it was a great mistake for a man like me to fall in love I'm only 32 I might still be a great man if I could forget that I once lost Daisy but my life old sport my life my life has got to be like this it's got to keep going on
My ex girlfriend was talking to me today. She asked me “what would you do if money did not mater” I responded with “I don’t care for money. My main goal is to fall in love and have kids” she had gone on to say she wants that but money as well. All I could ever ask for is someone to love me, only then will I truly be happy.
idk how they dont give dicaprio oscar for every movie he made the guy is acted in another level , u cant watch a movie and dicaprio in it and say this movie was boring or bad
I like how Nick had to hide wanting to laugh when Gatsby said Daisy had to tell Tom she never loved him but just ended up smirking and Gatsby noticed, like even he knew his claim was false deep down.
“I always knew I could climb, but I could only climb if I climb alone”. Underrated line right there!!
eQuariuz true but ultimately its his obsession with daisy that bring him to his end.
That's bullshit. A lot of great men did amazing things with their wives. And men live longer being married too. He just chose wrong.
They should have changed the blocking ... have him climbing up to the top of the stairs, but he looks back and sees her, and stops climbing, going down to meet her. It would have been more poetic I think.
Ethan Averton Agreed, but it is also argued that he believed that gaining Daisy would complete his ascent to the higher echelons of society.
Ueod
He knew he was going to be trapped in this tragedy, but he did it anyway. That’s what’s so human about him. He knew the consequences and he still took the risk. He paved a path for himself that he knew he couldn’t escape.
That’s what’s so incredibly tragic about the story. Gatsby looks like he is driven by ego and greed, but deep down, money and parties are just a way for him to heal his self inflicted emotional wounds. He needs the wealth to get Daisy and to finally complete his life both physically and emotionally.
Well said.
why would you need a woman to complete your life lol. gatsbys way of thinking was very shallow from the start. say if he got the woman, so what after? in sorry if i ask this but im a hypothetical person and i just dont understand why we need these say, a woman, a house, car, to feel a sense of complete bliss when we could strive for greater and productive things lol
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@@tonyh2082 cause, we are human at the end we are flesh and blood., We just want the one this that we can't achive.
I could never quite pin that down, but you said it very well.
“I knew that when I kissed this girl, I would be forever wed to her” The utter conviction in that line shows his heart and soul had decided. Which is so uncommon now a days. Pure beauty right there.
The comment I was looking for. 👌🏼
Or Delusion even.
@@jayforprez Quite possibly.
@@jayforprez Yeah I'm sorry to be a buzzkill but this sort of romanticism is utter bullshit. There is no 'love at first sight' Love is a fallacy. It is all purely biological. Also before anyone asks, yes I was hurt numerous times and have come to this conclusion. I think everyone with a brain already knows.
Yup
This is probably the most accurate representation of a book I’ve ever seen. Leo and Toby play their characters so well it’s like the book is literally coming to life. The directors made the book into a movie better than the original movie did. It actually grasps your emotions and doesn’t let go until the movie ends. The worst part about this movie is that it had to end..
What do you want? go on and on for what
Yeah the ending doesn't make as much sense as in the book
I just watched The Road (originally a book by Cormac McCarthy). It is the most true-to-the-book movie for sure, but yeah I love this movie. This scene is amazing.
The more I'm learning about this story the more I'm disatisfied with the representation though. Don't you think that Gatsby's dark side is underplayed massively. You would never really pick up on the fact that he's a massive criminal who is probably dangerous, just from watching the movie.
@@SHIBBYiPANDA Tbf, the book had more time to flesh that out. Here its more of an underlying/subtle thing eventually boiling over to the scene where he tells Tom to shut up. But I do agree, they really could have played it up a little more especially in the scene where they go to meet Wolfsheim
How Leo didn't win an Oscar for this performance is beyond me. Masterful acting, felt his heartache.
Leo is one of the most awarded actors ever. For sure the foreigners tend to reward him more than americans. For this movie he won the Australian movie award (the most important award in Australia)
Gilbert Grape, Django, and Wolf Of Wall Street have also spoken up
Carey Mulligan is also a very underrated actress. She is outstanding in every movie she’s in
Prolly my favorite movie but it’s a remake maybe that’s why
This is the movie that DiCaprio should’ve won the best actor for
I Don't no how he missed the oscar for Blood diamond
Blood diamond definitely
raphael ostrowski BD was also good but Gatsby is a more iconic timeless role, more Oscar-Y
He did this much or and wolf of Wall Street in the same year and still didn’t win!
The Aviator
Only thing wrong with this movie is that it ends eventually
One of the few movies where you just don't want the amazing experience to end.
Yesss! 😩😭
Ikr 😁😁😁
And the editing and music and directing. Besides that it was fine. Book was much better.
Ohh
The characters in this movie/book are so much more complex than we believe, especially Gatsby.
Let's start with basics and the beginning. We see that Jay is extremely ambitious and that he wants a great future and life for himself doing amazing things. We all realize that life isn't just about work and success- so when Jay falls in love, he realizes that his mind will no longer be solely occupied by the drive to success. Daisy will be a part of it and his love for her will divert some of his attention.
When he fails to return home, he vowes to make something of himself to her. He realizes the social situation of their love. Daisy is a wealthy woman who needs to marry to maintain the status of her family. Jay is penniless. She hears the truth and wants to call off the wedding anyway because she loves him- but reluctantly stays true to her marriage because that's what has to be done. She loves Jay, but her status and wealth is more important.
Here we see an inverse. Whereas Jay's focus was aquiring wealth, he let himself go for love. Daisy was encountered with being with who she loved and chose to focus on aquiring wealth.
When Daisy hears of Jay later in life and sees that he's aquired the wealth she needed, she realizes she could've had the man she loved and the wealth she desired.
Jay meanwhile has been obsessed with her because he does love her. But it goes deeper.. his love for her and the fact that he lost her also develops a symbolic aspect whereas the very idea of her is what he craves. He still loves her, but now she stands for something more.
This is touched on where Tom tells Jay that although he's aquired wealth and is as rich as old money, he isn't one of them nor is he an equal. When you consider that Jay lost the woman he loved to Tom simply because he had old money... That's true. And all Jay wants to do is be as rich and prominent as anybody else. His ambition is to go on and be exalted among men.
But he's stuck. He's stuck on the idea of Daisy even when he gets her back. While before the two aspects were out of reach.. now he has one and still lacks the other. His idea of Daisy is one where he never lost her, where he was the only one that mattered to her while she was the only thing that truly mattered to him. It's why they don't just run away and he insists that Daisy tell Tom that she never loved him. Jay wants to rewrite the past.
This is what Jay struggles with. He got the girl- he won. But he pushes too far. Like he says, as if he too realizes it- he could be a great man if only he forgot that he lost her once.
Why is he stuck on losing her before? Who knows. Humans are complex. He loved her once, love is hard to move on from especially if both loved each other and only wealth stood in the way. This could explain why he wants to rewrite the past. He's wealthy now and now everything can be as it should've been. Now that he's rich, he can marry her no problem. But as Tom says... He's still not equal. Which pisses him off. Jay could also be objectifying her, however I do believe he loves her at least somewhat. The mind of the obsessed and love stricken is a maze.
Jay wasn't willing to trust in Daisys love to return to her and make things work out. Instead he thought he needed money to have her when all he needed was to be there. That's the problem. Money. Old and new.. or lets say the view of how money defines someone.
I think it's ego.
It's the fact that he was able to accomplish going from nothing to everything and more financially. Yet unable to have Daisy drove him to be so obsessed. So far he had succeeded in pretty much anything he set his mind to, except for Daisy. She was the one thing he could not have, and the one thing he wanted most.
Taylor Beckett You have a lot of time at your hands.
Or maybe Taylor uses the same time we have like me and others to READ and enlighten themselves to materials of depth. Why do you go to a fast and the furious comment section.
well that was fascinating
1:53 the escalation of the song literally gives me chills
"And then I just let myself go."
I’m straight but I would honestly get with Leo out of respect.
pls what's the title of the song I know its Lana del Rey
My favorite part & then he says “and then I let myself go” the music build up was PERFECT
@@rahmazahira7448 it is “young and beautiful”
That line
“And then I just let myself go…”
What a perfect way to describe giving in and falling in love……
The line:
“I always knew I could climb, but I could only
climb if I climb alone”.
Reaches me on a such a personal level , I’ve been there
Throwing the rock at 2:30, I think it’s symbolic that, when he talks about his LIFE, he said “It’s got to keep going on”, then he tries to skip it....but it just falls flat and doesn’t skip. And on top of that...it’s the pool he dies in.
Woah
Boats and tides in the last line of the book, symbolizing that he couldn't ignore the tides of who he was.
Nothing makes sense after you lose your soulmate, not even all the money in the world fills up that gap
what like your favorite shoe or something?
Wayne Filkins I was gonna reply to the comment in a similar fashion, someone with my humor
i lost mine and i want her back
@@waynefilkins8394 lmaooo i just caught onto my typo. Thanks for the laugh
Supers Manny hehehe 😁
“My life old sport, my life… my life has to be like this. It has to keep going up.” Beautiful line.
The placement of this line in the soundtrack is haunting.
when he mentions how his life has to keep going up that reminded me of the story of icarus the man who flew too high up and had his wings burnt off. thats kinda what happened with gatsby
That was kinda the point my friend
@@freshprinceoffrance754 ha ha ha I get it man don't worry lol
imo it was Macbeth tragedy
Genius 😂
"My life old sport, my life has got to be like this. It's got to keep going up. " Really liked just the way he said pointing his finger and facial expressions. Legendary actor
I think this moment was perfect, the way he loves her, the way he choses to wait for the perfect moment to kiss her and give all that he has. It's amazing how love makes you feel things you could never imagine it is posible to feel, to see or to do. It is just wonderful.
Love is a dangerous weapon it can help you or hurt you dearly. Gatsby felt all of it
Yep
Happily ever afters just never existed in that time. Daisy was a product of her society and so was Gatsby. They fell for each other and for a while they felt free to be whoever they wanted to be. Daisy was able to choose the man she loved, Gatsby was able to get the girl he loved. It’s a tragedy how this story played out, but it was incredible at the same time. What a beautiful book and film.
That falling in love would change his destiny...forever. This line always gives me chills. It always makes me think of Shakespeare's twelfth night, 'journeys end in lovers meeting'.
Everything from 1:50 on is absolutely breath taking. The romantic lighting, the way the music swells, the words... It's just so beautiful.
this scene is so beautiful with the way gatsby talks about his love to the passion in his eyes, it makes me cry a little lol
Me too...
“My life has got to be like this, it’s got to be keep going on”. I especially like that line too because if you heard what he says just prior about how he thinks he could have still been a great man if he could forget that he lost Daisy, it shows that even he knows that his love for her might come back and kill him. And even Gatsby feels that he may not succeed in bringing her back.
I feel like this is something we all relate to. We all have that one person we love more than anything, but lost that person. And losing that person has changed us all in a horrible way whether we want to admit it or not. Many of us will say that we’re “stronger” or whatever, but the reality is, the pain of losing that special someone has made us all cynical and jaded and closed off and untrusting of others. You know, because of the pain in our hearts.
Deep down, we all know it’s wrong to be this cynical and jaded and untrusting of others, but it’s really because we’re all hurting deep down. We all know deep down that we could have been a better person if we could have just forgotten about the person we lost. That we ultimately didn’t have to be like this, so cynical, so jaded, so untrusting of others.
So what do we do? Well, we “move on”, because that’s what people say we should do. The whole you know, “there’s a billion people in the world” and “plenty of fish in the sea” crap. The line that Gatsby says about how his life has to keep going on, it represents us perfectly in the real world. Because that’s what we do, we find someone else who in reality is just a rebound or a replacement for the one we loved and lost, and we keep our lives going on while we silently suffer on the inside and miss that special person every day. Accepting the fact that we will never ever have that person back. Which also ties in to Daisy’s line at the beginning of the film when she tells Nick that all the best things in life fade away and never come back.
Seriously, that line from Daisy at the beginning that I just mentioned and Gatsby’s lines here truly represent us all in the real world.
Its "keep going UP" lol not keep going on
sicwititdime I just replayed it and I still keep hearing it as “keep going on”.
@@LallanAlexHockstetter get your ears checked. But just google the transcript 👍
sicwititdime 👍🏼
Daisy knew about life
To me the line “my life has to be like this” then shows a shooting star, means that Gatsby wants his life to have one sole purpose, and for that purpose to be so true and pure that it becomes an “incorruptible dream”. This is Gatsby pursing daisy and completing his life now that he has the means to. His life must be like a shooting star, one that flies true and can’t be stopped, and keeps going up (up as in heading towards his dream)
awesome stuff
"And then I just let myself go..."
"She wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes. All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the “Beale Street Blues” while a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust. At the grey tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor. Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed. And all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately-and the decision must be made by some force-of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality-that was close at hand."
"The Great Gatsby"
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ugh. When he says he lets himself go. It’s just heartbreaking because he knows she won’t stay with him if he isn’t rich or popular by societal standards.
I knew that when i typed this comment, I'd be forever wed to it. So i stopped. I waited for a moment longer.... Then i just let myself go & typed "May you be Lucky to find a partner that'd Love you as much as you Love them".
BottomBelly haha good one
Bless you for this
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This is a true scorpio. I love this movie. Great job Leo. I'm sure as a scorpio this role was meant for you. My heart melts for you in this movie.
He is such a scorpio
I love every scene that has the music swelling with the green light on Daisy’s dock in the back
DiCaprio: Of course you can
Tobey: I miss the part where that's my problem
This is such an important scene, Leo deserves an Oscar for the way his eyes glass over, the conviction in this scene, its Gatsby laying his heart bare.
He knew loving her would be a sacrifice of the vision he had for himself and that she may never accept him or give him a chance after because of their class differences, but he still chose her over himself and that’s the saddest part
This is filmed in such a beautiful, unique way. Like a perfect fever dream.
I feel that Gatsby always knew his fate. He knew he could never truly have the American dream and have Daisy I feel she just symbolised so many things he wanted and couldn't have
True
Blossom like a flower - very beautiful sentence :)
I think the pool is a powerful symbol in Gatsby's story. In the beginning the pool is the centerpiece of his lavish parties, his secret attempts to win Daisy back. Here somewhat in the middle of the story, the pool is still clean and clear, and it looks like one of those parties has ended. The pool still looks bright and inviting. In the end, it will be much more dull, with leaves of early Autumn having fallen into it (seasons being another use of symbolism) and having lost the sparkle of early optimism when Gatsby's plan may yet work. It builds tension in the audience because we can see the light begin to fade, moving us and Gatsby toward the inexorable conclusion.
This movie is the best of DiCaprio in romance drama...he shouldve won oscar for this...and he shouldve won another award for "blood diamond" action movie
Seriously one of the best films & best adaptations ever ever ever
He asked too much of Daisy, of course she loved her husband , just not as much. He should’ve ran off with her when she offered
True, it's his fault. She was young and didn't care about wealth or her mom's opinion
Gatsby: “Daisy loves me”
Nick: “No, she despised you. You were an embarrassment to her. Oh, look at little Gatsby junior, gonna cry?”
Nick: "I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye."
Bully Carraway
This story is so incredibly beautiful but equally as tragic.
Tobey Maguire is such a great narrator, no matter the film.
1:26 I love that line about his mind no longer being free to romp like the mind of God.
When I read this book in highschool it was a good book but didn’t mean much. Now that I’m 31 and had a few relationships and some life under my belt this book is amazing and tragic.
"I always knew that I could climb. But I could only climb if I climbed alone."
This line really hits deep. I can feel this touch my soul.
I fell in love with this story as a teenager
Same man
"If I could just get back to the start, If I could just get back to start and I could find it again" - damn those tears in gatsby's eyes. A sense of regret was there
This scene is so deeply ingrained in my brain. Film at its finest.
“You can’t repeat the past” “repeat the past? Sure you can” felt that.
The music when he kisses daisy is what I think heaven sounds like..
My life oldsport my life.. My Life has got to be like this😍😍 words to live by
Use this as the “Gatsby was too good for Daisy” button
Definitely
Leonardo Di Caprio you are one of the best actors ever
Ughhghghh the way he loves her genuinely, sincerely, and infinitely is visible in his acting and his portrayal which makes me feel love so strong all i can do is hope to mirror the pairing of love then also makes me want to weep as its felt that while its felt for real its never going to be real and its painful to see so much love become unable to reach a potential to which it so clearly has a love of no limits. favorite book, favorite actor, amazing talent in the movie which reaches out and grabs you which makes you feel everything that's meant to be felt.
Leos performance was soooo amazing
Even dreams have expiration dates and limits.
Spider-Man never thought he’d repeat the past again.
Was so desperately waiting for the "Can't repeat the past?" line :')
she blossomed for him like a flower...lol ok
giggity
Yeap.
Did she? 😭😭
I would have taken him rich or poor. 😭❤
She told him at first she didn't care about money or status
Lier
This scene just hits me deeply. My ex-girlfriend and I loved this movie. When I first met her, I knew that my mind and my heart will forever belong to her. We broke up a few weeks ago and left a 3 year relationship behind. I will be a great man, and when I reach my goals, we will meet each other again, and when that moment happens, eternity will start for both of us, facing it together once more.
Really missing the point of the book here bud.
@@mintybadgerproductions he gets the point of it entirely.
@@LuthandoDlomo Well you clearly haven't read the book because the whole point is that you can't repeat the past. Gatsby spends five year pursuing a girl he dated for a month and doesn't even get her, just a bullet in the back.
Besides he doesn't love Daisy, he loves his idea of Daisy; the money in her voice, her colonial mansion, the class and status the social climbing James Gatz aspired to have. Sent off to war, he then proceeds to love the nostalgic Daisy, idealising their month long courtship as some impeccable golden dream to cling on to throughout the war.
It's just as well he loves his idea of Daisy, because the actual Daisy is a vapid, entitled, selfish personification of the American dream and the futility in chasing it.
@@mintybadgerproductions absolutely bro, but you’re over rationalising something that’s not meant to be completely rational. The story is not a warning, it’s meant to be felt, Jay is everything in the extremes, the nostalgia, loving the idea of her, irrational notions of changing the past, becoming something of himself to win over Daisy. He even says he’s only 32 and might be a great man if he never fell in love, he’s aware of it all, but there’s something beautiful about his heart and admirable about him still, despite the flaws of it all. He didn’t die sad and the lesser for his journey, he died saying her name and reach out at the green light, and if you’ve ever loved a woman so deeply in your life then you’d know exactly what the guy who commented meant. And maybe your mind and characteristics are more like Nick Caraway, but lovers and dreamers understand Gatsby wholeheartedly and get the beautiful story Fitzgerald shared. Its would be a forgettable and empty story if he accepted he’s poor and settled for someone else, it’s beautiful because of his journey and his heart.
@@LuthandoDlomo I'm guessing you've only watched the film and not read the novel, because the film really loses most of the subtext.
The Great Gatsby definitely is a warning. It's not a romantic novel, it's a cynical dissection of the American Dream and social class. In the novel, Gatsby doesn't die happy, saying Daisy's name, reaching out to the green light, thinking she's called him. In the novel he's just shot in the pool.
The three characters who die are all born poor and yet despite causing there deaths (Tom's affair with Myrtle leads her to run out to the car, Daisy runs over Myrtle and doesn't stop, and Tom tells Wilson that Gatsby drove the car) old money Tom and Daisy retreat from all responsibility back into their wealth and status and let the born poor destroy themselves.
Lastly Gatsby doesn't become rich to win over Daisy, rather Daisy is the trophy to prove his social aspirations. He doesn't just want to be rich, he wants to be old money. Before he even meets her he had already begun to reinvent himself, changing his name to Gatsby. He pursued the American dream; that any man can reach the top. Daisy was part of the old money American aristocracy Gatsby sought to be amongst and thus she came to personify his ambition, he was not born into status, but he could marry it. When talking of first meeting her with Nick, it's notable that he goes on just as much about her house as he does her. He also says "her voice is full of money." A key theme of then novel is that this goal is unobtainable, despite Gatsby's wealth and hospitality that the old money readily enjoys, he will never be one of them and they will forever look down upon him as the "bootlegger."
This scene is so good its like watching a motivational video for life
My favorite part of the whole movie
You know how it hurts when you so deeply relate to a movie character like Gatsby
Very recent events showed me a lot about love and people in general, its a sad ending for me this time and yet its not all sad, in fact we're still friends, GOOD friends
the story behind what happened is something only specific people would understand and the rest would either call her bad things or call me a complete and utter idiot
but if only i could share to you all, what i have seen trough my eyes.
It would make you understand, probably
I can't relate but I empathize with Gatsby. The whole concept of love frightens me especially whenever it comes to living and planning out your: "American Dream."
Hey I get you...
“…and the incarnation was complete.” ❤️
"and I just let myself go"
Somebody needs to write a prequel to The Great Gatsby. Maybe it'll be called, "James Gatz."
The Lame Jamez
The lesser Gatz
G0d 0f D3sTrUcTi0n: The Official Channel lol
Yeah and Finally Two best friends Leonardo and Tobey in One Frame.
This scene is so beautiful
“ My life has got to be like this “... * looks down in despair... “ it’s got to keep going up”....
“My life old sport, my life has got to be like this. It’s got to keep going up.”
Could you imagine if someone made a motion of going up and a shooting star went by right as they did it? That would be nuts!
If I could just get back to the beginning. I think thats almost all of us, that first love. It can never be what it was and it will never be what it isn't.
I like fist love too ✊
@@nikkingman 😆
His eyes are so beautiful
Is Anybody Here after The Viral Dialogue of This Movie That "You Can't Repeat The Past"
True love is the highest form of existence and it is not about reproduction. It’s a spiritual experience.
She blossomed for him like a flower!
Well, her name is Daisy so it really made sense...swoon 💞✨🌼
I wish I can fall in love again just like this
Great remake man frr one of my favorite movies
I knew it was a great mistake for a man like me to fall in love I'm only 32 I might still be a great man if I could forget that I once lost Daisy but my life old sport my life my life has got to be like this it's got to keep going on
keep going up* if it's going on he would have forgotten Daisy already he needs Daisy to ascend but great film and book tho XD
it is keep going up not keep going on lol
their voices matches so perfectly
who is here after they repeated the past in Spiderman No way Home😂
Yes, sir!
“I knew that when I kissed this girl, I would be forever wed to her.”
We all want a love like that 🥺
Eternal scene.
My ex girlfriend was talking to me today. She asked me “what would you do if money did not mater” I responded with “I don’t care for money. My main goal is to fall in love and have kids” she had gone on to say she wants that but money as well. All I could ever ask for is someone to love me, only then will I truly be happy.
I want love over money
I want that orchestral ver of Y&B that plays when they make out. It's so beautiful
J'adore Great Gatsby
"I
Knew
That WHEN
I kissed
This girl
That I Would
Be FOREVER
Wed To Her.."
DiCaprio should've win an Oscar for his other films and they give it for The Revenant
The Revenant was a great performance as well
For this movie.,Leo should get best actor and Toby should get best supporting actor
Why wasnt this a win for somthing
This scene still makes me cry
The [connection] was complete... For those not being able to quite follow what Gatsby means at 2:10
Back to the start. Greatest line ever
idk how they dont give dicaprio oscar for every movie he made the guy is acted in another level , u cant watch a movie and dicaprio in it and say this movie was boring or bad
Killers of the flower moon
I like how Nick had to hide wanting to laugh when Gatsby said Daisy had to tell Tom she never loved him but just ended up smirking and Gatsby noticed, like even he knew his claim was false deep down.
I'm only 32 I might still be a great man if I could forget I once lost Daisy...
The Great DiCaprio
Man this was deep for real