The Great Gatsby - The Movie

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful
Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will

Ok, so I love reading books, fiction mainly, no exclusively! Non-fiction does not interest me much, except for books by Bill Bryson, and some other authors whose names I cant recollect. You see, I love drama, and real life (at least mine) just doesn't have enough of it! That's what leads me to books.

However, I've missed out on many classics, which I ought to have read in my childhood, and so am catching up now. And when I heard that a movie based on The Great Gatsby was gonna release soon, I went and got myself a copy of the book, so I could read it first and then watch the movie.

So, I started reading the book, but due to lack of time, I couldn't complete it by the time the movie was released, and so went for the movie before reading the book, a first for me!

• I liked the movie, I really did.
• Liked the way the camera kept sweeping across the landscape.
• Liked all the party scenes, all the colors and lights and people
• Really liked the haircuts of the ladies!
• Amitabh Bachchan was a waste in the movie, I mean he wasn't really required, was he? I'll have to complete the book to know for sure. 
• The end was a little depressing, but I'm really gonna have to read the book before saying any further.
• I've been watching Downton Abbey which is set in UK, and just realized that this movie is set in the same time frame, but in the USA! 
• Loved Leonardo DiCaprio & Carey Mulligan as Gatsby & his long lost love Daisy. I read somewhere that many others were considered for the role of Daisy (even Scarlett Johansson), but CM was perfect.

 

• I cannot get over how young Leonardo DiCaprio looks! I mean the he must be in early 40s or something, right 'ol sport'?

  

Found this on Google Images: :D :D

• And most of all, LOVED the music. Got the album the day after watching the movie!

Some of the songs that have stayed with me were:

Hot summer nights mid July
When you and I were forever wild
The crazy days, the city lights
The way you'd play with me like a child

- Young & Beautiful, Lana Del Ray

A hauntingly beautiful song. A quote I read somewhere (I think it was said by the Music Producer for the movie) sums it up nicely:

"I think it’s an unusual song, because on the one hand, it has romance and tells a love story, but at the same time, it’s filled with real yearning and melancholy, which I think is at the heart of the story"

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We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to, I go back to black

- Back to Black, Amy Winehouse

Another really good song, I thought it was an original song, but its actually a cover. It was written by Winehouse and Mark Ronson. Apparently it was inspired by a boy-friend, who left her for an ex-girlfriend, leaving her going to "black" with drinking and depression.

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 Book review coming up as soon as I finish reading it...