El Gran Gatsby [Blu-ray] [Spain Import]

Mira Sorvino gives a great performance, she is beautiful and perfect for this role.

Love it

Arrived on time and in perfect condition. Played without a hiccup. This may not be the edition that first comes to mind when people consider the Gatsby story, but its a great one. Paul Rudd plays an outstanding supporting role. Two thumbs up, no complaints. I would recommend this to anyone.

Toby Stephens is very good in the role of Gatsby. Most of the other acting is pretty plain when contrasted with the characters in the book.

The Great Gatsby Movie Review My English teacher Mr. M made us watch the movie The Great Gatsby is about a man named Nick who moves to Long Island on the West egg. The movie shows the different adventures that Nick experiences while living there. He knows Daisy, and Tom of the East egg, and quickly meets Gatsby that is his neighbor on the West Egg. Nick experiences, and witnesses many things while living on the East coast, such as love, obsession, betrayal, and following a hopeless dream. Im a critical person once Ive read a book, and then watch the movie. I usually always wind up thinking that the book was better. This is a natural thought of mine basically because the actors, or actresses in the movie arent as well represented as they are in the book. To my surprise though, the movie The Great Gatsby had a great cast, that I thought did an excellent job at playing their parts. Paul Rudd as Nick was fabulous, he was just as I pictured him. He was nonchalant, humorous (unintentionally), and observant. The only thing that threw me off with this actor, was that I had seen him in another film (Clueless) which made it a little harder to take him as seriously as desired. Toby Stephens played the role as Gatsby, a part in which the character had to be just right. Personally, I had pictured Gatsby as an older man, a little bigger. But Toby Stephens played the part better that I think anyone else could. He had the charm, the smile, and his acting ability was superb. The movie accuracy to the book was well done. I feel though that the book tried to make more of a point of how the American Dream was similar to Gatsbys dream of having Daisy back, and the movie made it more of a deep love tale. Maybe I got the wrong impression while reading, but I expected the movie to really stress on how people have dreams but will never really be able to obtain those dreams. Everything else though, such as characters, themes, symbolism, and setting were correct . The movie seemed to play the same settings that were in my mind while reading. You could tell how much work was put into this movie in order to make it as relevant as possible. The production of the film, such as costumes, pacing, camera angles, and music were fine. I feel that they are all very important factors in order to have a successful movie production. The costumes were correct for the time period. The camera angles captured the perfect moments. The music that was played in the background made it so I could feel more emotion, and really feel for the characters pain, or happiness. Im very glad that Mr. M allowed my English class to watch The Great Gatsby because I really thought it was a great movie. The characters, settings, themes, everything was exactly how it should have been. D.P.

I love this movie. I bought it as a replacement to one that got damaged

The movie played out just like the book. Really the only difference was how they began with showing Gatsby getting killed, which I thought was good. Nicks character was played perfectly, it could not have been done beteter. His role was played perfectly, healways seemed a little bit confused. Gatsby wasnt all that well played, but it was good enough. It would be hard to find someone that could pull off all of Gatsbys subeltys. The movie was very acurate to the book. The production was great, costumes were very accurate to both book and time period.

While many of you may turn your nose at a movie version of perhaps the greatest American novel starring Mira Sorvino and Paul Rudd, I assure you the casting was wonderfully done. Sorvino fulfills the character of Daisy, somewhat ditzy, materialistic, and self-centered. And Paul Rudd has always been a wonderful actor (lets just pretend Clueless never happened). The rest of the cast is wonderful as well. As I mentioned in my review of the OTHER movie version of the Great Gatsby, I was disappointed that (among other things) there was no narrator. Nick DOES narrate this one. It is brilliantly accomplished as well, because he is only narrator at crucial moments where dialogue would otherwise be lost. This movie also includes the famous last words of the novel: So we beat on, boats against the current, born ceaselessly into the past which I feel is a crucial part to include in the movie. Scenes were also accomplished with more tact and finesse than the other. The important ones had more time to sink into your memory. Its shorter than the other one, yet you gain more from this version than the older. A&E does not dissappoint!

It is shocking that, in the Age of Political Correct-ness, students and teachers have moved away (with polite obtuseness) from the central issues of personality and identity--when they run parallel with race. Gatsby, for instance. Why was the character so willing to part with his original name, Gatz? --The answer: Gatz (a corruption of Katz) is a German Jewish name. The character--a social climber of the 1920s--was emulating the wealthy and privileged Anglo-Saxon society from which he was forever barred. This issue of the ethnic upstart, who tries--to somewhat embarrassing effect [old sport]--to efface his past and assimilate is a major theme of 20th Century American culture. But everywhere, this very obvious component of the story is neglected . . . or else passed over in an embarrassed conspiracy of silence as director after director cast they wasp-ish looking actors they can find--at one stroke eliminating the characters motivation in changing his name, moving away from his home and creating a false past. Secondly, it goes a long way toward explaining his rejection by the shallow Daisy character. In this current cinematic treatment of Gatsby, all of the mistakes are repeated from previous motion pictures--with a whole new batch of gaffes, blunders and just plain bad acting. For this reason, I suggest to anyone who sees it to read the novel--itll make much more sense.

This is probably one of the worst acted movies I have seen in a while...even the music was off...The only thing this movie has going for it is the set and the costumes...other than that I would suggest you dont waste your time! Unless ...you have insomnia...it will put you to sleep.