Friday, April 18, 2014

The Great Gatsby (2013)

Some beautiful visual moments.  The inclusion of anachronistic popular music doesn't work for me, especially when there's so much good music from the Roaring 20's to work with.  It worked for me in Romeo + Juliet to take Shakespeare's words and put them in a modern setting, along with a modern soundtrack.  It mostly worked for me in Moulin Rouge! to include the modern pop music, because the setting was tied to that place and not strongly attached to an era, and the inclusion of pop music was a bit of a conceit in a movie that had a lot of comic elements.  The Great Gatsby very definitely has a Roaring 20's-era setting, and is dreadfully serious about itself.

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