# The Great Gatsby trailer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 24, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903 "2012-05-24T01:23:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/1 "2012-05-24T01:23:37Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7DonhNflsw) I love the book so I am gonna be wary of any attempt to make a movie of it but I watched the trailer and I am still holding out hope. Your thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/2 "2012-05-24T01:51:14Z")
From the trailer, it looks gorgeous and I would certainly go see it. Besides, I thought Moulin Rouge was a good film, and I can see him directing this film in that same wild, over-the-top manner. Plus, Leo is usually pretty good in films, and Toby has done some good work, so as mentioned, I’ll buy a ticket when it opens! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/3 "2012-05-24T01:58:56Z")
It looks pretty. But then, so did _Australia_. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/4 "2012-05-24T02:02:07Z")
I love the book as well. This looks better than I expected…we may be better off if it’s something stylized and different from the book, rather than an attempt at faithful replication. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/5 "2012-05-24T02:19:13Z")
3D Gatsby? Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/6 "2012-05-24T03:27:22Z")
I love the version with Robert Redford, Mia Farrow and Sam Waterston. That one was much more low key than this one seems. One of my favorite scenes in that version is the slow motion tossing of the shirts in Gatsby’s closet (it is slow-mo, right? I’m not misremembering?) In this trailer it looks like he’s just hurling shirts at Daisy! ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/7 "2012-05-24T03:36:39Z")
Yikes, this looks bad. I havent liked anything he has done before and this is another garish eye sore. Leo as Gatsby makes sense though. I dont think anybody can do the book justice, but i might pick a more measured director. PT Anderson or even Scorsese. Both have chronicled “The American Dream” in their work and this is the ultimate statement. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/8 "2012-05-24T03:53:45Z")
The music in the trailer was an instant turn off for me. I like Luhrmann. Really I do but this doesn’t look like what I would expect from a movie called The Great Gatsby. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky_the_Wonder_Spirit)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/9 "2012-05-24T03:56:52Z")
I tend to enjoy Baz Lurhmann’s movies, but the only book I hated more than The Great Gatsby in school was The Scarlet Letter. Sure looks pretty, though. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/10 "2012-05-24T03:59:26Z")
The music was wrong for the subject. Leo looked like he had Gatsby perfect. Which will make the music a lot more offensive. The music of the era would have been much better. The Great Gatsby was the quintessential Jazz Age novel. Why not jazz? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/11 "2012-05-24T04:21:11Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > 3D Gatsby? Sigh. It looks _fantastic_ - and it’s proper 3D, not a dodgy conversion. I haven’t read the book in about twenty years; very much looking forward to this. ---
**Author:** ![Craz3d117](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c4cdca/32.png) [@Craz3d117](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craz3d117)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/12 "2012-05-24T07:54:04Z")
I’ve hear quite a few people complain about the music. It’s just a trailer, there is slim to no chance of those two songs being in the actual movie. Do people really think they’re going to show people partying to Kanye West? Please. Anyways, I’m very excited for this movie. It seems a lot more adult and gritty than the previous film adaptation. It just looks like a lot more effort was put into this film. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/13 "2012-05-24T08:08:27Z")
> [@Craz3d117](#): > > Do people really think they’re going to show people partying to Kanye West? You’re obviously not familiar with the works of Baz Luhrmann. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/14 "2012-05-24T15:08:13Z")
It looks to me as if it will be a luscious, fun movie to watch. I’m sure I will see it at some point, maybe even in a theatre. I suspect I will be happiest if I judge it strictly on it’s own merits, as a separate entity from the book that I love. Embracing the Baz Luhrmanness of it rather than worrying about its faithfulness to the text will help. As long as there’s a T. J. Eckleburg sign, and some pretty flapper dresses I’ll be happy. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/15 "2012-05-24T15:57:54Z")
From the opening seconds of that trailer, I thought, “This looks like a Baz Lurhmann film!” It does look a lot more hectic than I remember the book being. ---
**Author:** ![wheresmymind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@wheresmymind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheresmymind)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/16 "2012-05-25T06:01:02Z")
I was kind of hoping this would turn out being directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Vincent Chase… ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/17 "2012-05-25T11:35:23Z")
It’s been 10 years since I read the book, and I didn’t understand it very well at the time. Maybe watching the movie will make me wanna pick the book back up. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/18 "2012-08-07T01:45:11Z")
Movie got bumped to next summer: > **[Warner Bros Moves 'The Great Gatsby' Release Date](https://deadline.com/2012/08/the-great-gatsby-release-date-moved-314312/)** > > BURBANK, CA, August 6, 2012 – Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures have moved the release date of “The Great Gatsby” to Summer 2013. The announcement was made today by Dan Fellman, P… Good news or bad for the film? ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/19 "2012-08-07T01:51:42Z")
Yeah I am pretty mad about moving the date back. I was really looking forward to it. Now I have nothing to do on Christmas. I guess I’ll have to watch the Lincoln movie instead ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/20 "2012-08-07T01:55:11Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Movie got bumped to next summer: > > [Warner Bros Moves 'The Great Gatsby' Release Date](http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/the-great-gatsby-release-date-moved/#comments) > > Good news or bad for the film? Sounds like they expect it’ll draw a bigger crowd in summer than during the winter. Sounds like a pure business decision, and not a “holy crap, we need to fix this shit before we embarrass ourselves in front of audiences” decision. I’m pretty excited. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903.md?page=2)