The novel, The Great Gatsby, is an amazing book with great plot and meaning. The book teaches many real-life lessons and even illustrates life in the 1920’s. F. Scott Fitzgerald, like many other authors, was an extremely creative artist with a vision of each character, action, and setting. Therefore, to make a Hollywood movie out of a novel, the makers must be able to see very close to that vision to portray everything accurately and send the same messages and lessons through the movie as the novel did. This would be a very hard task which they have already completed. The movie, The Great Gatsby, in my opinion, was not a very good imitation of the novel. It had a hard time creating the settings, casting, and following the novel.
As far as casting goes, the movie absolutely devoured it. It portrayed most of the characters horribly. I believe there were two characters that were accurately casted. One of them was Nick. He had the “innocent guy with all the secrets” personality that I had imagined when reading the novel. Gatsby was the other. He was a nice, loving, romantic man who cheated for wealth but not for benefit of himself, just to get to Daisy. Daisy’s character, on the other hand, was completely mangled. In the novel, I believe Fitzgerald pictured Daisy as an incredibly beautiful woman with, as Gatsby said, a voice “full of money.” However, in the movie, Mia Ferrell’s voice was annoying, the exact opposite of what was to be expected. Also, her acting wasn’t the best choice as you can obviously see as you watch the movie. I believe one of the most important characters, Daisy, who was the lifeline of the story, was pitiful in the film version. Tom was much older in the film then viewed in the novel. His personality, however, was matched well to the novels.
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote this novel in the time era of the 1920’s. Therefore, he had to make the lifestyles and environment that of the 1920’s as well. I think that the makers of the movie did a good...