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)).
2.29 - HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART ONE (2010) & Friendship
2.28 - HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (2009) & Desecration
2.27 - HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (2007) & Alternative Facts
2.26 - HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (2005) & Transition
2.25 - HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (2004) & Transformation
2.24 - HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS (2002) & Purity
2.23 - HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE (2001) & Introductions
2.22 - 2016 - Review Of The Year
2.21 - ALIEN: RESURRECTION (1997) and Captivity
2.20 - ALIEN3 (1992) & Sacrifice
2.19 - ALIENS (1986) & Gender
2.18 - ALIEN (1979) & The Thriller
2.17 - EVIL DEAD (2013) & Supernatural Memes
2.16 - ARMY OF DARKNESS (1992) & Genre Mashup
2.15 - EVIL DEAD II (1987) & Comedy
2.14 - THE EVIL DEAD (1981) & The Unknown
2.13 - THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS (2003) & Choice
2.12 - THE MATRIX RELOADED (2003) & Free Will
2.11 - THE MATRIX (1999) & Spectacle
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