And my sister is NOT HAPPY about it. This is her favorite book, and she argues that both Gatsby and Daisy are ALL WRONG, and having read it, I see where she's coming from. It kind of looks like an entertaining trainwreck to me (as
ceilidhann says, "This will either be a stunning adaptation of a classic or a Showgirls style hot mess. There is no in-between"), but then, I've lucked out with Books I Care About. Mostly. If you'll excuse me, I need to go pour one out for the unfinished His Dark Materials movie trilogy.Also, I feel kind of bad--I don't picspam costumes on Tumblr anymore (mostly because I despair of trying to image-describe them sufficiently), but I have been using it for the kind of things I probably used to put on LJ. Mostly because there's a nice modular quality to it--a conversation here, a trailer there; you don't have to stop and collect enough stuff to merit a whole entry (or flail around when you have a backlog to deal with). But you can't get a good conversation going for shit over there, given the way commenting is (not) set up. So. I should probably make more of an effort to do a Tumblr roundup here. Thus, for example, we have an Avengers tag with Some cute Avengers fan art, Freakishly Lifelike Loki, and THORGI. (Also: Thorgi and Lokitty.) I also tend to throw any interesting conversations under the "twitter" tag. Which is where you find all the squamous ladies. So. \;;;/
And seriously, it being in 3D is like a Saturday Night Live sketch. This is the kind of thing we should be shouting "Have we lived and fought in vain?!" over.
And, yeah. This is a book so MANY people have read and have feelings about - good, like your sister who loves it or bad, like me who does NOT love it - that probably 9 out of 10 people have an opinion on why the casting is wrong here.
To be honest, I never really liked the novel. And the only adaptation I've seen was the disastrous late-90s opera.
It also seems a bit... dark. Gatsby's not a happy book, no, but it has that veneer of "look at us partying we like our lives we like our lives WHY DON'T WE LIKE OUR LIVES" up until the confrontation. That's how it struck me, at least, could be misremembering. Eh. Probably wasn't ranking that one high on my "must watch" list anyway.
Also, I could buy Leo playing Tom Buchanan before I could see him playing Gatsby.
http://greatgatsbygame.com/
Are image descriptions necessary on tumblr? I can't say that I've seen many posters there using them.
Image descriptions aren't necessary, and actually kind of uncommon, yeah. But I had a couple of people ask me to do them to be more accessible for the visually impaired, so... I don't want to go back on that. At the same time, I'm just completely at sea as to how to describe really detailed artowrk or complicated historical clothing, particularly if I don't have the artistic/sartorial vocabulary for it. So I try to post more video or text-based entries, or pictures I can think of something interesting to say about. A lot of people really dislike image descriptions (they can afford to dislike them, I guess), so I try to make sure mine are entertaining on their own.
I wonder if Tom is going to be as much of a racist, classist, misogynistic, xenophobe as he is in the book?
Edited at 2012-05-24 05:59 pm (UTC)
Gatsby is not one of my favorite books, but it brings, at least, a bit of subtlety and class to its dissection of America's total lack of subtlety and class.
Still can't see Leo as Gatsby, but I think Carey Mulligan will be very good as Daisy.