So much glitter and anachronistic music! I don’t care what anyone says-it’s cool and somehow badass, even though glitter should not accomplish this. The next noteworthy scene is the crème de la crème Baz Luhrmann signature work: Our introduction to Gatsby’s parties through Nick’s innocent eyes. Thinly mustached Joel Edgerton as pig-like Tom Buchanan is king in this scene, and his brutality and machismo are duly represented via his abrupt abuse of his paramour and complete lack of sensitivity given he is cheating on his wife in front of her cousin. One-dimensional floozies led by Myrtle Wilson (Isla Fisher) lure our young, financier (or writer-this ambiguity has an implied sense of humor that wasn’t really successful) into a haze of drunkenness and fuzz. American dream! Class consciousness! Leonardo DiCaprio! USA!)ġ.ğirst we have narrator Nick Carraway’s (and maybe for real somehow still fresh-faced Tobey Maguire’s) first real exposure to the greed and lack of moral concern rampant in the Roaring Twenties. ( Note: This article contains spoilers, so if you are one of those so-called “Americans” who hasn’t read it, you may want to get with the program. The reviews of this film are all over the place-from mostly unimpressed to confident acclaim, this is a film that features several notable scenes worth anticipating.
Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby was a full-figured, Big Top circus of lighting, drapery, glitter, drama, and architecture.
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