This week we conclude our Baz Luhrmann season with his most recent film, 2013’s THE GREAT GATSBY. We have disparate opinions on this — and differing levels of familiarity with the story — but then we move onto a discussion of the movie’s presentation of different ideas about wealth, concepts of class and race on-screen in various countries, and the extent to which the film works as a presentation of the very social dislocation that is its subject.
Next Week
Next week we begin our Ben Wheatley season with his 2009 film DOWN TERRACE — find it here: https://www.amazon.co. uk/Down-Terrace-Julia-Deakin/ dp/B00FYO0A0W.
This Week’s Media
R.I.P.D. (2013): Robert Schwentke, Jeff Bridges, Ryan Reynolds
DEADPOOL 2 (2018): David Leitch, Ryan Reynolds, Josh Broli
Recommendations
GANGS OF NEW YORK (2002): Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS (2017): Luc Besson, Dane DeHaan, Cara Delivigne
THE DEPARTED (2006): Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon
THE ICE STORM (1997): Ang Lee, Kevin Kline, Joan Allen
Footnotes
For more on the original 1925 novel, see here: https://en.m.wikipedia. org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby. As a reminder of the Brechtian separation we were talking about with ROMEO + JULIET the other week, there’s this: https://en.m.wikipedia. org/wiki/Separation_of_the_ elements. Here are articles on ideas of dramatic archetypes and dramatic dislocation: http:// dramaticapedia.com/2012/08/17/ the-8-archetypal-characters-2 and http://tvtropes.org/ pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ DramaticDislocation. This book is good on twentieth-century history, including The Great Depression and The American Dream: https://books.google. co.uk/books/about/America_in_ the_Twentieth_Century.html?id= sJ2KPwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y. And this is good on outsiders in US history: https://books.google. co.uk/books/about/Deportation_ Nation.html?id=irgpGACppy0C& redir_esc=y. Finally, Sam mentions THE BIRTH OF A NATION; if you really want to depress yourself, check out the 1915 original (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/ wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation) or the 2016 remake (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/ wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation_( 2016_film)).
3.19 - BIRDMAN (2014) & Renown
3.18 - BABEL (2006) & (Mis)Communication
3.17 - 21 GRAMS (2003), Change, & Grief
3.16 - AMORES PERROS (2000) & Violence
3.15 - REVIEW OF 2017
3.14 - LOVE ACTUALLY (2003) & Romance
3.13 - HOOK (1991) & Childhood
3.12 - VERONICA GUERIN (2003) & Fear
3.11 - 8MM (1999) & Voyeurism
3.10 - FALLING DOWN (1993) and America
3.9 - THE LOST BOYS (1987) & Subcultures
3.8 - DODES’KA-DEN (1970) & Dreams
3.7 - SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) & Class
3.6 - RASHOMON (1950) & Storytelling
3.5 - DRUNKEN ANGEL (1948) & Disease
3.4 - THE HURT LOCKER (2008) & Individualism
ZERO DARK THIRTY (2012) & The Other
3.3 - K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER (2002) & Camaraderie
3.2 - THE WEIGHT OF WATER (2000) & The Past
3.1 - POINT BREAK (1991) & The Female Gaze
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