@@splinterbyrd To a large extent, Jay Gatsby embodies the American Dream. He goes fr/rags to riches. But he also shows the darkness of that American Dream: he does it illegally. Tom Buchanan truly loves Daisy but he repeatedly hurts her by cheating on her. He's also a blowhard with his concern about the races and his concern with marriage and family values. "I suppose the latest thing is to let Mr. Nobody fr/Nowhere come in and make love to your wife." Tom routinely makes love to another man's wife and has no concern for the fact that he could harm that man's marriage as well as his own. Daisy is trapped by her own materialism and class consciousness. She can't marry a poor boy even if she loves him, she stays with a rich brute even though he mistreats her. Myrtle is a fool who is unconcerned about making a fool of her husband.
I LOATHED everyone in this book, ugh. I hated that I was forced to read it, and my teacher was angry at my scathing review, I felt my time wasted, and said so. My book report was graded very poorly, and I'm actually still angry about that. I wrote a fair book review with concise points, and my "young opinion" was dismissed. Scathingly. This may be "The Great American Novel," but simply not My cup of tea. And my 17 year old daughter just forced me to watch the Leo version, and now She's annoyed I'm still not impressed.
@@cupcakebleu wow that is terrible! Everyone is open to their own opinions especially about pieces of literature it’s not fair that you were graded poorly
I felt sorry for Gatsby who thought he could change the past and win Daisy. The old adage “ All that glitters is not gold .” I prefer this version to the later one.
I personally think that The Great Gatsby suffers the same problem as Wüthering Heights. People say it's a love story... but is it? I don't think it is. I don't think Gatsby was in love wih Daisy per se, not the "person" Daisy. The book is more profound in this matter.
This was the perfect film version for _The Great Gatsby_ for me to see in my junior/11th grade year of high school (Class of 2012). Heard good things about Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby and was introduced to Mia Farrow ( _Rosemary's Baby_ ) through this film as Daisy Buchanan. Was already primed for Bruce Dern who I knew from _Silent Running_ (1972) as Tom Buchanan. Lois Chiles I was already hot for from THE BEST James Bond film for newcomers _Moonraker_ and was sterling as Jordan Baker. Sam Waterston ( _Law & Order_ ) was dynamically young as Nick Carraway and both he and Karen Black ( _Airport 1975_ ) I was ready for from _Capricorn One_ (1977/1978). But still I can't get Karen's frantic radio call out of my head to this day... "Salt Lake? Salt Lake? This is Columbia 409... it's Nancy Pryor, stewardess. Something HIT us. All the flight crew is... either dead or... or badly injured. THERE'S NO ONE LEFT TO FLY THE PLANE! *HELP US! ... **_OH MY GOD, HELP US!!_* "
Wow awesome amazing movie beautiful absolutely gorgeous stunning fascinating glamouras febulous super outstanding evergreen 70s 80s romantic glory days golden era unforgettable memories nostalgia with best wishes
@@ruthgunneson-poling1571 It's a story about power, wealth and class relations rooted in the American Gilded Age. It's basically about privilege and the lengths we are willing to go to obtain it. It's a phenomenally timeless and ever relevant piece of literature.
@@ruthgunneson-poling1571 "The Great Gatsby is also a book about the corruptibility of the human being itself. Another central theme of the novel is the lost past. Gatsby is obsessed with the idea of turning back time. He wants to resume his relationship with Daisy where it was interrupted years before. In this way, the main character's feelings coincide with those of Fitzgerald's generation of writers, for whom the First World War was also a drastic and disillusioning event." / "Love is also one of the central themes of the film, although none of the love relationships shown last long or are happy. Tom and Daisy's marriage is just as unhappy as the Wilsons'. Almost all the married characters have extramarital affairs. The love between Gatsby and Daisy also fails because he cannot win her over. Gatsby cannot win his lover Daisy over and eventually dies."
@@ruthgunneson-poling1571 An incisive study of the pointless lives of idle rich people This is probably anecdotal, but apparrently: *F Scott Fitzgerald:* Ah the rich, they're so different from us... *Ernest Hemingway:* Yes. They've got more money
This movie would have been so much better if Natalie Wood would have been cast as Daisy. But because she was absent from the screen for a little while they wanted a screen test, and she refused to do it. She and Robert Redford has sizzling chemistry, they would have been magical here.
@emily And it would have been idiotic. The WHOLE POINT IS there isn't chemistry. She doesn't love him. It's debatable whether he really loves her. He deludes himself that he does, certainly. It's utterly one sided.
I agree with you. Natalie Wood was a far superior actress than Farrow. She would have played the part of Daisy magnificently especially with those expressive eyes.
I loved the 2013 because it shows he's a sweet and caring man who's crazed by his obsession that he doesn't realize he's the reason she's pulling away while she's a woman who's had life handed to her that the idea of being with "new money" and admitting to to crime of murder was never an option to begin with, to her their love was a fleeting summer fling she wished would be continuous without consequence. I'd love to compare the 2 tho
Robert Redford was probably cast in this 1974 movie because he was coming off the success of previously "The Way We Were" and "The Sting", both from late 1973.
He actually was cast because he did it for free. They wanted Jack Nick but he wanted 500k but the budget was to small to pay him. I heard this from a Bob Evans interview.
@@realeyesrealizereallies1194 The jazz age was a bit of a fad in the early 70s, started (I think) by the movies _Thoroughly Modern Millie_ and _Bonnie snd Clyde_ It also influenced early 1970s fashion and interior design
2013 was way better imo. This version always felt dull and fake to me. Maybe the 2013 one wasn't as good as a movie by itself, but the visuals, acting, and music make it so much more exciting for me to attach what's happening on screen to the book I know and love.
“This is Vanity Fair. Please remember, Vanity Fair is a very foolish place, filled with all sorts of humbugs and impostors. A place where everyone is striving for what is not worth having.”
Ah, Redford was so beautiful in this role. Given the novel, maybe he wasn't the best casting choice at the time, but it didn't matter because all of him took up most of the screen even when he was sharing it.
A very nice movie. But weirdly enough it made me find appreciation for the new version. Before I used to think that the new movie was too loud and obnoxious. But they actually nailed the crucial scenes and di Caprio was very good.
This version of Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece is magnificent. It is perfect. It has that elegiac sad yearning quality to it. Everybody in it is well nigh perfect BUT..... The trailer is dreadful appalling tosh. They are marketing it as a LOVE story. TGG is anything BUT a love story. Gatsby thinks he is in love with Daisy. What he is in love with is a lost time. A part of his youth that's gone. He wants to wind the clock back. He was perhaps infatuated with her years before. But that's it. He's chasing a shadow, a ghost that no longer exists if it ever did. Mia Farrow is a perfect Daisy Buchanan. A rich spoilt brat of an airhead married to her rich privileged thug of a husband who is a true white supremacist ; a member of the Nordic Race. Gatsby could have and should have left the past where it belongs In the past. He didn't of course and that was his tragedy. Definitely NOT a love story.
The original I would say as it brings nostalgia to the story that it represents and captures... The re make is fine too but not as beautiful as the original. And I grew up in the 90s so it's not that I was alive when the original was made... but I've read this novel n the original embodies the spirit of the book n the times...
It depends on what you want to emphasize from the book. This one emphasizes the quiet moments and interpersonal drama. The new one is big and glamorous and emphasizes the excess of Gatsby's lifestyle.
Ephesians 6:12 New King James Version 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against (A)principalities, against powers, against (B)the rulers of [a]the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Exodus 20:13 New King James Version 13 “You shall not murder. Romans 6:10 New King James Version For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 2 Samuel 14:17 New King James Version Your maidservant said, ‘The word of my lord the king will now be comforting; for as the angel of God, so is my lord the king in discerning good and evil. And may the LORD your God be with you.’ ” Romans 4:4 New King James Version 4 Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. Psalm 57:6 NKJV They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down; They have dug a pit before me; Into the midst of it they themselves have fallen. Selah Psalm 56:5-7 NKJV 5 All day they twist my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil. 6 They gather together, They hide, they mark my steps, When they lie in wait for my life. 7 Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God! Revelation 16:6-7 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, And You have given them blood to drink. For it is their just due.” 7 And I heard another from the altar saying, “Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments.” Matthew 24:7 New King James Version 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. Isaiah 24 New King James Version Impending Judgment on the Earth 24 Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste, Distorts its surface And scatters abroad its inhabitants. 2 And it shall be: As with the people, so with the priest; As with the servant, so with his master; As with the maid, so with her mistress; As with the buyer, so with the seller; As with the lender, so with the borrower; As with the creditor, so with the debtor. 3 The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered, For the Lord has spoken this word. 4 The earth mourns and fades away, The world languishes and fades away; The haughty people of the earth languish. 5 The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed the laws, Changed the ordinance, Broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, And those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, And few men are left. 7 The new wine fails, the vine languishes, All the merry-hearted sigh. 8 The mirth of the tambourine ceases, The noise of the jubilant ends, The joy of the harp ceases.
The best The Great Gatsby film that was made...the 2013 film, although not bad at all, was kinda "overblown" and "pompous"...the 1949 film with Alan Ladd was too short in length...the 1949 film wasn't bad either, but the 1974 film was the better film of the three, for me at least...
A very nice movie. But weirdly enough it made me find appreciation for the new version. Before I used to think that the new movie was too loud and obnoxious. But they actually nailed the crucial scenes and di Caprio was very good.
Imagine when this movie was made it was 50 years ago since 1924, today it’s 50 years ago since 1974..
ok wow
He's exactly what I imagined Gatsby to look like
Not Leonardo Dicaprio?
@@josephdelledonne2098Absolutely not Leonardo Dicaprio! Robert Redford was 1000 times better looking in his younger years.
I agree ❤❤❤ he was perfect..
@@sandraduranie1975 True.
A well-written novel about absolutely awful people
Part of the greatness is Fitzgerald crafted believable characters, not plaster of Paris saints.
@@denisenoemyschizotypaldiso3755 Absolutely agree 👍
@@splinterbyrd To a large extent, Jay Gatsby embodies the American Dream. He goes fr/rags to riches. But he also shows the darkness of that American Dream: he does it illegally. Tom Buchanan truly loves Daisy but he repeatedly hurts her by cheating on her. He's also a blowhard with his concern about the races and his concern with marriage and family values. "I suppose the latest thing is to let Mr. Nobody fr/Nowhere come in and make love to your wife." Tom routinely makes love to another man's wife and has no concern for the fact that he could harm that man's marriage as well as his own. Daisy is trapped by her own materialism and class consciousness. She can't marry a poor boy even if she loves him, she stays with a rich brute even though he mistreats her. Myrtle is a fool who is unconcerned about making a fool of her husband.
I LOATHED everyone in this book, ugh. I hated that I was forced to read it, and my teacher was angry at my scathing review, I felt my time wasted, and said so. My book report was graded very poorly, and I'm actually still angry about that. I wrote a fair book review with concise points, and my "young opinion" was dismissed. Scathingly. This may be "The Great American Novel," but simply not My cup of tea. And my 17 year old daughter just forced me to watch the Leo version, and now She's annoyed I'm still not impressed.
@@cupcakebleu wow that is terrible! Everyone is open to their own opinions especially about pieces of literature it’s not fair that you were graded poorly
The casting is perfect!
Redford as idealistic Gatsby. Farrow as a manipulative Daisy.
Roles fitting the actual characters of the actors.
Dicaprio was born this year, 1974, when this movie was out.
I felt sorry for Gatsby who thought he could change the past and win Daisy. The old adage “ All that glitters is not gold .” I prefer this version to the later one.
Robert Redford, the only Great Gatsby !
Totally
"Machete" the only Gatsby
Wow, Brad Pitt looks EXACTLY like Robert Redford
Brad Pitt is cool, but he's no Robert Redford
Clones
I thought this when I saw Pitt in a river runs through it.
They both just have the timeless Hollywood face!
Love story?
In the book daisy is the reason for most of the mess and probably one of the main antagonists while Gatsby was just foolishly in love
Umm..he loved her..
Still love story
I personally think that The Great Gatsby suffers the same problem as Wüthering Heights. People say it's a love story... but is it? I don't think it is. I don't think Gatsby was in love wih Daisy per se, not the "person" Daisy. The book is more profound in this matter.
This was the perfect film version for _The Great Gatsby_ for me to see in my junior/11th grade year of high school (Class of 2012). Heard good things about Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby and was introduced to Mia Farrow ( _Rosemary's Baby_ ) through this film as Daisy Buchanan. Was already primed for Bruce Dern who I knew from _Silent Running_ (1972) as Tom Buchanan. Lois Chiles I was already hot for from THE BEST James Bond film for newcomers _Moonraker_ and was sterling as Jordan Baker. Sam Waterston ( _Law & Order_ ) was dynamically young as Nick Carraway and both he and Karen Black ( _Airport 1975_ ) I was ready for from _Capricorn One_ (1977/1978). But still I can't get Karen's frantic radio call out of my head to this day...
"Salt Lake? Salt Lake? This is Columbia 409... it's Nancy Pryor, stewardess. Something HIT us. All the flight crew is... either dead or... or badly injured. THERE'S NO ONE LEFT TO FLY THE PLANE! *HELP US! ... **_OH MY GOD, HELP US!!_* "
Wow awesome amazing movie beautiful absolutely gorgeous stunning fascinating glamouras febulous super outstanding evergreen 70s 80s romantic glory days golden era unforgettable memories nostalgia with best wishes
"A time of hope, wonder and romance" somebody inform the 1970s that The Great Gatsby is not a love story
Then what do you Freff consider it to be? I'm curious.
@@ruthgunneson-poling1571 It's a story about power, wealth and class relations rooted in the American Gilded Age. It's basically about privilege and the lengths we are willing to go to obtain it. It's a phenomenally timeless and ever relevant piece of literature.
@@ruthgunneson-poling1571 "The Great Gatsby is also a book about the corruptibility of the human being itself.
Another central theme of the novel is the lost past. Gatsby is obsessed with the idea of turning back time. He wants to resume his relationship with Daisy where it was interrupted years before. In this way, the main character's feelings coincide with those of Fitzgerald's generation of writers, for whom the First World War was also a drastic and disillusioning event." / "Love is also one of the central themes of the film, although none of the love relationships shown last long or are happy. Tom and Daisy's marriage is just as unhappy as the Wilsons'. Almost all the married characters have extramarital affairs. The love between Gatsby and Daisy also fails because he cannot win her over. Gatsby cannot win his lover Daisy over and eventually dies."
@@ruthgunneson-poling1571 An incisive study of the pointless lives of idle rich people
This is probably anecdotal, but apparrently:
*F Scott Fitzgerald:* Ah the rich, they're so different from us...
*Ernest Hemingway:* Yes. They've got more money
Listen at 02:23. It says: „Gatsby and Daisy; the illusion of love; the reflection of gold“.
This movie would have been so much better if Natalie Wood would have been cast as Daisy. But because she was absent from the screen for a little while they wanted a screen test, and she refused to do it. She and Robert Redford has sizzling chemistry, they would have been magical here.
@emily
And it would have been idiotic. The WHOLE POINT IS there isn't chemistry. She doesn't love him. It's debatable whether he really loves her. He deludes himself that he does, certainly. It's utterly one sided.
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw Really one sided.
Farrow was good. Played innocent and naive.
I agree with you. Natalie Wood was a far superior actress than Farrow. She would have played the part of Daisy magnificently especially with those expressive eyes.
A good movie. I think this version is best.
One critic described this production as elegant but lifeless. But that's the point; it's a study of elegant but lifeless people.
I loved the 2013 because it shows he's a sweet and caring man who's crazed by his obsession that he doesn't realize he's the reason she's pulling away while she's a woman who's had life handed to her that the idea of being with "new money" and admitting to to crime of murder was never an option to begin with, to her their love was a fleeting summer fling she wished would be continuous without consequence.
I'd love to compare the 2 tho
Robert Redford was probably cast in this 1974 movie because he was coming off the success of previously "The Way We Were" and "The Sting", both from late 1973.
He actually was cast because he did it for free. They wanted Jack Nick but he wanted 500k but the budget was to small to pay him. I heard this from a Bob Evans interview.
@@realeyesrealizereallies1194 The jazz age was a bit of a fad in the early 70s, started (I think) by the movies _Thoroughly Modern Millie_ and _Bonnie snd Clyde_
It also influenced early 1970s fashion and interior design
Fact is Robert Redford looks in the 70s like Brad Pitt in the 90s 🦈🐬
Is deutlich kitischiger als 2013er Gatsby mit Di Caprio, aber der 1974er gibt wieder die Ford Coppola Pate Klasse!
@@lsadin2457 I see.
@@ansumanahargett6227 I see you. Avatar.
2013 was way better imo. This version always felt dull and fake to me. Maybe the 2013 one wasn't as good as a movie by itself, but the visuals, acting, and music make it so much more exciting for me to attach what's happening on screen to the book I know and love.
“This is Vanity Fair. Please remember, Vanity Fair is a very foolish place, filled with all sorts of humbugs and impostors. A place where everyone is striving for what is not worth having.”
Ah, Redford was so beautiful in this role. Given the novel, maybe he wasn't the best casting choice at the time, but it didn't matter because all of him took up most of the screen even when he was sharing it.
AWSOME 🎥 MOVIE...
A very nice movie. But weirdly enough it made me find appreciation for the new version. Before I used to think that the new movie was too loud and obnoxious. But they actually nailed the crucial scenes and di Caprio was very good.
F. Scott Fitzfgerald escritor da Era do Jazz! Rico e Genial.
Membro da Geração Perdida de Nova York.
Miuta, paixâo e sotisficação!!!
Maravilhosa obra de maravilhoso escritor! 💖
Much better version than the one by DiCaprio
フィッツジェラルドのこの小説が大好きでした❤
Where can I watch this movie on RUclips in dubbed?
Rip Marlon Johnson 1939 2024
I never finished my book report on The Great Gasby. I have my own reasons why...
The 70s I bet they discussed a lot and decided to this atrocious editing....thought it was great
Hey they might just say the same thing about our era in 2060
Mercy Ifiegbu ....our jumpy editing is a joke compared to what 60s and 70s did...esp people like Goddard and French New Wave
GUAPISIMO SEÑOR
I had to learn this for school lmao imagine
This version of Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece is magnificent. It is perfect. It has that elegiac sad yearning quality to it. Everybody in it is well nigh perfect
BUT.....
The trailer is dreadful appalling tosh. They are marketing it as a LOVE story. TGG is anything BUT a love story. Gatsby thinks he is in love with Daisy. What he is in love with is a lost time. A part of his youth that's gone. He wants to wind the clock back. He was perhaps infatuated with her years before. But that's it. He's chasing a shadow, a ghost that no longer exists if it ever did. Mia Farrow is a perfect Daisy Buchanan. A rich spoilt brat of an airhead married to her rich privileged thug of a husband who is a true white supremacist ; a member of the Nordic Race. Gatsby could have and should have left the past where it belongs
In the past. He didn't of course and that was his tragedy. Definitely NOT a love story.
Which was better the original or the remake?
The original I would say as it brings nostalgia to the story that it represents and captures... The re make is fine too but not as beautiful as the original. And I grew up in the 90s so it's not that I was alive when the original was made... but I've read this novel n the original embodies the spirit of the book n the times...
The original is really good...the remake is not bad...
I don't know the original film is a lost movie from 1926
This one
It depends on what you want to emphasize from the book. This one emphasizes the quiet moments and interpersonal drama. The new one is big and glamorous and emphasizes the excess of Gatsby's lifestyle.
Ephesians 6:12
New King James Version
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against (A)principalities, against powers, against (B)the rulers of [a]the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Exodus 20:13
New King James Version
13 “You shall not murder.
Romans 6:10
New King James Version
For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
2 Samuel 14:17
New King James Version
Your maidservant said, ‘The word of my lord the king will now be comforting; for as the angel of God, so is my lord the king in discerning good and evil. And may the LORD your God be with you.’ ”
Romans 4:4
New King James Version
4 Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.
Psalm 57:6
NKJV
They have prepared a net for my steps;
My soul is bowed down;
They have dug a pit before me;
Into the midst of it they themselves have fallen. Selah
Psalm 56:5-7
NKJV
5 All day they twist my words;
All their thoughts are against me for evil.
6 They gather together,
They hide, they mark my steps,
When they lie in wait for my life.
7 Shall they escape by iniquity?
In anger cast down the peoples, O God!
Revelation 16:6-7
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets,
And You have given them blood to drink.
For it is their just due.”
7 And I heard another from the altar saying, “Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments.”
Matthew 24:7
New King James Version
7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.
Isaiah 24
New King James Version
Impending Judgment on the Earth
24 Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste,
Distorts its surface
And scatters abroad its inhabitants.
2 And it shall be:
As with the people, so with the priest;
As with the servant, so with his master;
As with the maid, so with her mistress;
As with the buyer, so with the seller;
As with the lender, so with the borrower;
As with the creditor, so with the debtor.
3 The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered,
For the Lord has spoken this word.
4 The earth mourns and fades away,
The world languishes and fades away;
The haughty people of the earth languish.
5 The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants,
Because they have transgressed the laws,
Changed the ordinance,
Broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth,
And those who dwell in it are desolate.
Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned,
And few men are left.
7 The new wine fails, the vine languishes,
All the merry-hearted sigh.
8 The mirth of the tambourine ceases,
The noise of the jubilant ends,
The joy of the harp ceases.
Robert Redfort looks like Ronan Farrow✌️😅
Nice video
The best The Great Gatsby film that was made...the 2013 film, although not bad at all, was kinda "overblown" and "pompous"...the 1949 film with Alan Ladd was too short in length...the 1949 film wasn't bad either, but the 1974 film was the better film of the three, for me at least...
Why call it " when there's Bachelor out there wishing for a leash for there collar unless it was a business deal and you can't please another 🐳
A very nice movie. But weirdly enough it made me find appreciation for the new version. Before I used to think that the new movie was too loud and obnoxious. But they actually nailed the crucial scenes and di Caprio was very good.