‘The Great Gatsby’ Trailer Sparkles
The film has a scale, and it looks like he’s done as good a job as possible recreating New York in our digital era. The sets and style of the film are quite simply spectacular. But that the film is going to look good was not really a question.
The real question is: How well did Lurhmann adapt one of the great novels of the 20th century? ‘Gatsby’ was filmed once before with Robert Redford in the role as Gatsby and with a script by Francis Ford Coppola and that version is considered a misfire. Does Luhrmann – whose films to this point have been, shall we say, rather superficial – have the intelligence and skill to make this both interesting and faithful enough that it doesn’t feel like watered down Fitzgerald?
With a Christmas Day release date, it’s going to either win big or embarass. And here’s that trailer:
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