They've got my attention
May. 22nd, 2012 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
litlover12Trailer for the new Great Gatsby. The trailer music is ALL wrong -- no version of Gatsby should ever be associated with anything but '20s music; it's just too much a work of its time -- but with any luck that's not the music that will be in the actual movie. The visuals are certainly appealing, and from the lines I could hear, they're sticking pretty faithfully to the text of the book. They've even got the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg! When I think of all the time we spent in a college English class exhaustively analyzing those eyes . . . though if you asked me now what they signify, I honestly don't think I could tell you.
(The sex scenes I could do without, but that's Hollywood for you.)
And it's always good when Leo DiCaprio gets a role where his eternal boyishness can work for him, rather than against him.
(The sex scenes I could do without, but that's Hollywood for you.)
And it's always good when Leo DiCaprio gets a role where his eternal boyishness can work for him, rather than against him.
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Date: 2012-05-23 12:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-23 03:46 am (UTC)And the trailer made me think - DiCaprio has tried this before - playing Hughes - added to that, I don't think he looks particularly boyish anymore.
My gut reaction here is - no, tempered with - I could watch in once it's on tv.
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Date: 2012-05-23 01:01 am (UTC)The casting looks excellent to me.
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Date: 2012-05-23 02:56 am (UTC)(Why do I not have a Gatsby icon?) :D
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Date: 2012-05-23 03:53 pm (UTC)ETA: I think the 3D is a pointless gimmick.
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