Hey guys it’s questions from the movie “The Great Gatsby (2013)”. I tried to wat
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Hey guys it’s questions from the movie “The Great Gatsby (2013)”. I tried to watch it but it’s neither on netflix or hulu. Can someone help me out? I just need like 4 paragraphs for four questions. Questions: 1. How does this movie take the 1920s to task for its voyeurism and disregard for humanity? There are least five examples. 2. Jay Gatsby was a wannabe in many ways. Discuss how the clothes, house and parties did not qugite get him there. Did he have company in his efforts? 3. Discuss the role Nick Carraway played in the movie and of course in the book. In your opinion, do we all have Nick Carraway role to play in life? Why or why not? 4. Do you see any similarities in the 1920s and current events today? Be sure to cite specific examples in support of your answer.Explanation / Answer
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Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 adaptation of the Scott Fitzgerald’s novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ replays the theme of gaze and social secrecy that undercuts the lives of the characters as they struggle to establish their social identity in an increasingly critical world. The narrator of the story, Nick Carraway, who filters the reader’s perception of the characters and events is presented as a voyeurist writer who is simultaneously attracted to and repelled by the protagonist Gatsby, seduced by his glamourous life but sickened by the lustful underbelly of high society. Nick Carraway observes what goes on in his neighbour’s mansion, giving the viewers a distanced and critical viewpoint on the lives of Gatsby, Tom and Daisy.
The key scene that illustrates this is the party in the New York apartment, where Nick describes that “our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering”. The scene incorporates a string of apartment windows to reinforces this key theme of secretly watching into other people’s lives. Luhrmann includes many other shots of people watching each other during the course of the film, usually through windows which appear as a significant motif that questions the social values of privacy and public discretion.
In Luhrmann’s film, when we are introduced to Gatsby, we are lead through the narrator’s voyeuristic curiosity about his neighbour into a scene where fireworks explode all around as we get a lingering close-up on his face with its winning smile which only highlights the façade of wealth and social power in the 1920s America which opens the context of opportunism and status quo as the building blocks for the fate of the characters and through them , the larger society.