How do you make literature exciting? Take it out of English class and paint it up with Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and dazzling flapper costumes. Case in point: the new trailer for THE GREAT GATSBY, out this Christmas Day!
The famous novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald was adapted in to a critically-acclaimed film in 1974. It was loved because it stayed true to the novel, but some argued that it didn’t really accurately reflect the roaring ’20s.
If you’ve seen the new trailer, it’s clear that director Baz Luhrmann wants to keep true to the story while giving us youngsters an accurate portrayal of the ’20s–despite the fact we hear no swing or jazz music, rather the likes of Kanye and Jay-Z’s “No Church In The Wild”. Good song, but it’s not ’20s.