# The Great Gatsby trailer

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/21 "2012-08-07T12:53:09Z")

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> [@Maserschmidt](#):
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> Movie got bumped to next summer:
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> [Warner Bros Moves 'The Great Gatsby' Release Date](http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/the-great-gatsby-release-date-moved/#comments)
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> Good news or bad for the film?

Definitely bad news. The studio had been hoping for this movie to be Oscar bait, but that’s not going to happen now. There isn’t a specific date for next summer, but if it’s August then the studio is dumping it into a dead zone. (And if it was earlier, they would have said so.) Releasing in August means they know it’s not Oscar caliber. WB is going to lose money on this.

_TGG_ is widely acknowledged to be an unfilmable book. So when yet another try was announced, laughter ensued. If you Google around you can find articles pointing out the futility of even trying.

It doesn’t matter how pretty it looks, you can’t capture the Nick’s narration on film. At best you end up with something that has the same character names and settings but not the same mindset of the book.

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**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/22 "2012-08-07T13:24:00Z")

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Wow, I’m disappointed. I have been really looking forward to this one.

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**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, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-gatsby-trailer/622903/23 "2012-08-07T16:33:51Z")

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> [@ftg](#):
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> Definitely bad news. The studio had been hoping for this movie to be Oscar bait, but that’s not going to happen now. There isn’t a specific date for next summer, but if it’s August then the studio is dumping it into a dead zone. (And if it was earlier, they would have said so.) Releasing in August means they know it’s not Oscar caliber. WB is going to lose money on this.

I agree, though summer for a movie like this can be minor-nomination territory…sound, costumes, etc.

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> _TGG_ is widely acknowledged to be an unfilmable book. So when yet another try was announced, laughter ensued. If you Google around you can find articles pointing out the futility of even trying.
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> It doesn’t matter how pretty it looks, you can’t capture the Nick’s narration on film. At best you end up with something that has the same character names and settings but not the same mindset of the book.

For decades I described this as my favorite book, so I get that…essentially so many different moods wind their ways through Nick Carraway’s narration that it would likely come out hopelessly muddled on film. Still…there are some really smart writers out there, I’d like to think someone could pull it together.

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