May Flowers on their way
Gatsby's waiting on them.
Have you – got everything you need?”
Perhaps some more flowers…”
Do you think it’s too much?”
Well, we hope not. I asked Nathaniel to renew May Flowers for another year since it's one of the first things I knew the blog from (Sentiment and flowers go well together, yes?). May flowers are coming at you most afternoons. Any requests?
While on the topic of The Great Gatsby, though, are you anxious for the premiere? The film opens Friday. Don't we all feel as nervous as Gatsby at the beginning of the trailer? I want to lean over and ask, "Have you got everything you need, Baz?" Hopefully he does.
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My ass will be in a seat on the first showing on Friday. I can't think of a better way to celebrate the end of a semester than with a Leo/Luhrmann reunion!
I'm really curious to see if Lurhman does anything interesting with 3- D
This film has been hyped more than any other flick I can recall in years.
I doubt it can possibly live up to the expectations...
Just saw it at a LACMA early screening. While it isn't quite Moulin Rouge level Baz, it is his best since then. While on the nose visually and story wise about what everything is supposed to represent and unnecessarily stretching the film to 2 hrs and 21 minutes, the film is great! The soundtrack works great and the visuals are EVERYTHING! The performances were all really good but it will be interesting to see what Oscar takes up. My best in show was Joel Edgerton who really gave great shading and interesting depths to Tom Buchanan. I hope he shows in Supp. Actor this year. DiCaprio and Mulligan were great as usual but nothing that will stand as "their best performance ever." I was almost more impressed with the smaller roles filled out by Isla Fisher and Jason Clarke. I think DiCaprio had more to work with than Mulligan (who was in it less than one would think) so his chances will be better than hers. It already won Art Direction and Costume Design and will at least pick up nominations in Editing, Cinematography, Original Score/Song (depending on music branch rules), Makeup, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Visual Effects.
"While it isn't quite Moulin Rouge level Baz, it is his best since then."
That's not really a feat ... considering the only thing in between was Australia. lol
The thing with Baz is that all his movies are EVENTS because he only comes out with a film every 15 years...or at least that's how it feels. So i can at least excuse the hype. I'm incredibly stoked. I read the book and bought the lovely soundtrack so all i need now is the actual film. The flower overload in these pics are only making me more exited because i'm sure Baz let Catherine Martin go totally buckwild.
The thing with Baz is that all his movies are EVENTS because he only comes out with a film every 15 years...or at least that's how it feels. So i can at least excuse the hype. I'm incredibly stoked. I read the book and bought the lovely soundtrack so all i need now is the actual film. The flower overload in these pics are only making me more exited because i'm sure Baz let Catherine Martin go totally buckwild.
Movieman92's report is consistent from stuff I've heard:
Best in show seems to belong to Edgerton
DiCaprio is very good but not a career-defining performance
Fisher and Clarke work well in the smaller roles
Pure Baz, for better or wose
Only other things I've heard is mix and middling reception for Mulligan as Daisy and Tobey Maguire is clearly miscast and the way the story is told does him no favors.
"Do you think it's too much?"
Did Baz just rip off Coppola's Marie Antoinette lol? Which brings me to more thoughts:
If Gatsby did say that how did I forget, since I just finished reading the book.
And of course, the different way we look at Baz and Coppola's work and how one can't get away with what the other consistently does.
Thompson makes it sound like a beautiful film that deflates. Shame. But I'll see it for myself anyway.
It's a tad annoying that this doesn't come out in Australia until May 30. By then it will be ripped to shreds/praised to high heaven, called a flop/a triumph and loved/hated all over the internet.
Oh I'll be there on May 30 and I know I will love it. Just wish I could have the same experience I had with Moulin Rouge. By the time the rest of the world really started taking notice I had seen the movie 3 times and was head over heels..
Paolo - I'm curious, re "And of course, the different way we look at Baz and Coppola's work and how one can't get away with what the other consistently does" - which is the one that gets away with "it"? I don't think it could be Baz, but then Coppola has as much dissenters as he.
Mulligan seems egregiously miscast. She's too young, and not to be mean, but she's just not pretty enough. And as good an actress as she is, I doubt she can conjure Daisy's haunted romanticism.
Andrew: Anachronistic music, stylization, white privilege. And at least Coppola has the 'you're just being sexist' crutch. I
t doesn't matter what I think of those two, I want their defenders to survive just for debating purposes.
Leo was tops in my opinion. See it in 2D. Takes a while to get going, but good when it does.