1. Warming up with your final Friday Freewrite (scroll to the bottom)
2. Watching the film version of The Great Gatsby with a focus on directorial choices/changes
In a New York Times review of the 2013 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, A.O. Scott writes the following in his article, "Shimmying Off the Literary Mantle":
"Mr. Luhrmann [the director] sticks close to the details of the story and lifts dialogue and description directly from the novel’s pages. But he has also felt free to make that material his own, bending it according to his artistic sensibility and what he takes to be the mood of the times."
As you watch the film today, consider the following:
- How has Baz Luhrmann (the director) made the material his own, and for what purpose?
- In other words, what artistic choices has Lurhmann made that differ somewhat from Fitzgerald's, and how do these choices affect your perception of characters, settings, symbols, and/or themes in The Great Gatsby?
- Please post your response to these questions on today's class blog at the end of class.
3. Wrapping up by posting your responses to the blue questions above on today's blog
HW:
1. Make sure your blog entry for Chapter 7 is complete.
2. Our fishbowl discussion of Chapter 8 is Tuesday, April 17. Please read Chapter 8 and complete your journal. Leaders should read ahead so that they can prepare their syllabus.
Both of the cars from the film were nonexistant in the 1920s Gatsbys car is from 1932, Toms car is from 1933. There is a lot more emphasis on the eyes on the billboard.
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