Collider has posted some clips from Gatsby, five minutes worth. Check it out.
Collider has posted some clips from Gatsby, five minutes worth. Check it out.
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The clips were fine, I actually think Isla, Debicki, Edgerton and Clarkei are the ones having the most fun and inhabiting their characters brilliantly. Dicaprio is ok, but I agree that mulligan for daisy is indeed to far intelligent for this role. Daisy in the book is supposed to be this vapid airheaded beautiful creature the opposite of Jordan, and yet mulligan is making her I don’t know I can’t point it out yet. The less said about maguire the better.
I still can’t wait to see this though.
Off topic: I’m hopping mad right now because the Weinstein Co. isn’t promo’ing the Sapphires movie. Just wrote Harvey and if I could meet him, I’d wring his neck. If it’s a “Caucasian” led movie, he would have his marketing team out in force, but because it’s a movie about people of color (from AU), there’s nothing about it. It’s a real crowd pleaser. As for GATSBY — seems that the BIG movies with BIG stars get the MOST promo’ing by their companies. These little movies don’t have a chance do they?
I enjoyed The Sapphires. It was a warm movie.
I have nothing nice to say about this movie. I’m trying to refrain from saying anything at all, but seeing this footage again after having blocked the majority of the movie out of my mind has triggered all my frustration with it to come flooding back. You don’t quite get a sense of how badly they miss the mark with this footage, however. Anyone who writes it off after seeing this piece is just trying to dislike it. But on the other hand, that doesn’t mean their instincts are incorrect.
On a positive note, I saw a major Oscar contender in Pasadena this week, and it totally lived up to its pedigree. They were EXTRA strict about the non-disclosure stuff, so I can’t really say which movie it was, but there were some blogs who let the cat out of the bag, so it may not be terribly hard to figure out. The only thing I can say about it is that the filmmakers clearly studied HUD, and its got a major (unexpected) contender for Best Supporting Actress. The director was in attendance, but there was no Q&A. I so wish there was, though.
It’s so disturbing and discouraging to see these comments above. Catty, incredibly judgmental, and a bit much over some clips. “Leo’s accent is bad!”, “Mulligan isn’t projecting the ideal Daisy interpretation”, “Toby is boring”,” this person looks to be the best”, “this person looks to be the worst.”
Get a grip and appreciate the preview. You cannot make such an assumption based on clips. This is what new media creates: worthless criticism without any true support. It’s as if you are all vomiting from the mouth from judgment vodka. Make your ridiculous accusations after you have viewed the film. Appreciate talented people doing something inventive and invigorating a classic.
I for one am just excited.
I do appreciate the preview. But I’m not making any assumptions. I’m judging the clips. And how is it worthless? I’m not writing the film off. I’m expressing my disappointment at these clips alone.
Appreciate talented people doing something inventive and invigorating a classic.
Perhaps I don’t think it’s that inventive nor that invigorating. They may be talented, but I don’t think they appear to be putting their talents to very good use.
#getoverit
So you’re saying we shouldn’t make any assumptions based on what we see? By your logic you shouldn’t even be excited then. There’s something called “judging a book by it’s cover” (or looking at the film’s poster) and watching a preview…a PREVIEW…which means we’re being shown what is to come. Yes, we are allowed to judge based on a preview. I love the film medium, love it. Love it like all hell. It’s the only thing I’m truly knowledgable in so I’m confident in my abilities to judge a preview. Am I wrong sometimes? Yes, no one is ever completely right. But right now I’ve already made an assessment back when the first trailer played and it’s the same feeling I got when I saw Eat Pray Love. It’s a piece of shit disguised as a cupcake. But no one knows until it premiers, so we’re allowed to speculate. It’s called “buzz”.
I swear I was bored with these clips….just like I was with the book and the first GG.
Interesting…
Agreed with James above. If Davis thinks this is a high school production, I’m assuming he went to high school on Mars since the production value looks SPECTACULAR. Also, I’ve been monitoring the early reactions on twitter and while it’s still under heavy embargo… it looks like people are pleased… at the very least because of the return of Hot Leo. In any case, I am SO STOKED to see it! Mulligan sounds on point and looks to have good chemistry with DiCaprio. Joel Edgerton looks like he’s having so much fun with the character. Can’t wait!
Any idea when the heavy embargo drops away?
Whoa — it’s a bitchy day at AD. I happen to think the clips look great.
Just re-read the book and Leo, Carey, Tobey, JE seem to embody those characters well. Just check out the dreary, woeful 1974 version to see the difference.
Is this a high school production?
Is it bad that of all the actors in this movie, I’m most excited to see what Jason Clarke will do–the only person not being advertised in the posters or trailers?
Jason Clarke is turning it out. That much is clear from the mere snippets of footage we’ve seen of him. I suspect they’re holding back on featuring him for three reasons: 1 – he’s not very well known, 2 – his character isn’t glamorous, 3 – it’s an Oscar strategy, so his work can sneak up on people expecting to be blown away by Leo and Carey, yada yada yada.
They delayed this film for five months for what exactly? To make the VFX backdrops look even more fake? The only thing less believable than them is Leonardo DiCaprio’s accent.
Joel Edgerton is overacting, Carey Mulligan projects far too much intelligence for Daisy… FML, Tobey Maguire is actually so well-suited to the role of that intolerable drip Nick that he’s the darn best thing in those clips.
You have some good points I didn’t elaborate on. Jason Clarke also plays the pivotal character in the book who is wholly responsible for the ending, so the marketing team may not want to spoil that.
Yeah, Joel Edgerton’s speaking in an accent I can’t seem to place; Carey Mulligan doesn’t capture my interpretation of the Daisy character, though I grant it is hard to tell fully in just a few clips; and Tobey McGwire is typically dopey and uninteresting. Not my choices if I were casting the film, but some of the visuals look, well, visual. I liked the touch of opening all the doors at once in the Buchanan living room. I’m convinced now that Leo doesn’t have the gift of voice that is so crucial to being a great actor…it’s more than the accents not being convincing in his dramatic parts, it’s that he doesn’t seem to be able to maneuver and manipulate his tone. Not to be harsh, but I kind of always hear Leo, even when he’s trying so hard with the accents.
I swear he should have been nominated as Best Supporting Actor last year for ZERO DARK THIRTY instead of you know who