Comparison Film and Book

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Essay “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald's: Book and Film Comparison. “The Great Gatsby” is a romantic drama which presented by Newdon Productions and Paramount Pictures in 1974. This film is reflected to some extent even influenced emerged in the early 70's fashion for retro: old movies, half-forgotten melodies which struck in the past,elegance or extravagant toilets. F. Scott Fitzgerald novel have already adapted for the screen in 1926 and 1949. To create a new version as a writer was invited Francis Ford Coppola. His name was resounded the whole world thanks to the film "The Godfather". He was pretty faithful to the original source and was able to build many of the dramatic storylines of the novel. Nowadays the novel "The Great Gatsby" has 5 screen adaptations and each of them is good in their own way. In my essay I tried to compare one of my favorite screen adaptation of great novel and Scott Fitzgerald's original text. When attempting to write this into the film, screen Francis Ford Coppola failed to create the same feeling, even though most of the dialogue in the movie is taken from the original literary classic. The movie had grateful review and recommendations from the audience . I enjoyed watching it and think the director made a good job. As I think, sets, costumes and camera work are perfect. Everything helps the viewer to feel himself a man of 20s and mentally transported into time. The film won two Oscars, for Best Costume Design (Theoni V. Aldredge) and Best Music (Nelson Riddle). The music is really amazing. I can say, the main characters in the book were slightly different in appearance and characters than how they were shown in screen adaptation. I think Robert Redford's Gatsby is one- sided, pretty simple, but very romantic and causing sympathy. While the book this character has been ambivalent, often contradictory, confusing

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