And I mean ‘ordeal’ in the medieval sense of the word: where key personnel are driven to the very edge of their capacities and endurance, then on… right off the scale to the point of physical and mental collapse. But working on a Baz film is not just a job, it’s an ordeal. Love it or hate it (and a Baz Luhrmann film does tend to polarise) The Great Gatsby is a sumptuous production where music and, indeed, audio commands a very prominent position. Especially not after you actually see the film. That can be the power of empathy in art.Īs we think of this past trying and tragic year, we might all imagine some names, many in high places, of those who disdained wearing masks and brushed aside guidelines to hold events when Fitzgerald writes of "careless people" that "smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.No one’s wingeing. We want young readers to be able to see themselves in stories but literature can also show us that people we don't think are much like us at all turn out to have some of the same heart, blood and dreams. Neither does Don Quixote, The Scarlet Letter, Macbeth or Their Eyes Were Watching God. Gatsby's Jazz Age Long Island may not look like a microcosm of contemporary America. ![]() Two new editions are about to come out and who knows what kind of projects - a Gatsby rom-com? Gatsby joins The Avengers? - might now get a green light, which recalls the imperishably eloquent last passage of the book: "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us." ![]() In the public domain, Gatsby may now become even more familiar. ![]() Arts & Life Party Like It's 1925 On Public Domain Day (Gatsby And Dalloway Are In)
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