The Great Gatsby

"Gone is the romance that was so divine"

1974 2h 24m EN

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★6.3TMDB · 529

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Synopsis

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Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.

“Gone is the romance that was so divine”

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Cast

Robert Redford
Jay Gatsby
Mia Farrow
Daisy Buchanan
Bruce Dern
Tom Buchanan
Karen Black
Myrtle Wilson
Scott Wilson
George Wilson
Sam Waterston
Nick Carraway
Lois Chiles
Jordan Baker
Howard Da Silva
Meyer Wolfsheim

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Jack Clayton
Writers: Francis Ford Coppola
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 7

MONEY

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Made its money back 4.1× over at the box office.

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2 / 7

ERA

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52 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Jack Clayton, shot by Douglas Slocombe. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Editor Tom Priestley shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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5 / 7

CAST

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Robert Redford and Mia Farrow and Bruce Dern carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Gone is the romance that was so divine".

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7 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0071577 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Jack Clayton directs. Douglas Slocombe behind the camera. Tom Priestley cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Made its money back 4.1× over at the box office.
252 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Directed by Jack Clayton, shot by Douglas Slocombe. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Editor Tom Priestley shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Robert Redford and Mia Farrow and Bruce Dern carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "Gone is the romance that was so divine".
7IMDB entry: tt0071577 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Douglas Slocombe
Editing: Tom Priestley
Production design: John Box
Costume design: Theoni V. Aldredge
Makeup / hair: Charles E. Parker
Runtime: 144 min · 2h 24m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $6,500,000
Box office: $26,533,200
Return: 408% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: The Great Gatsby (1974)

Awards

Academy Award for Best Original Song Score
Academy Award for Best Costume Design

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CinemaSerf2024-07-23
★ 6/10
"Nick" (Sam Waterston) lives in a cottage on the edge of the estate owned by the enigmatic "Gatsby" (Robert Redford) and is fascinated by the man. He has old money wealth and regularly hosts lavish parties for strangers whom her barely knows and to which he rarely bothers to go. "Nick" is unexpectedly invited to one such party and then to meet the man himself who isn't quite what he was expecting. This is the start of an unusual friendship that introduces him to a life of shallow profligacy, duplicity and some fairly ghastly individuals. "Gatsby" has taken a shine to "Daisy" (Mia Farrow) who is married to the rather brutish "Tom" (Bruce Dorn) and much of the rest of this lengthy period melodrama follows the intricacies of the new relationship between these two men, and of the latter man's increasingly dubious lifestyle that isn't quite playing out as "Nick" anticipated. Now this adaptation is an almost literal one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel - and that might have worked were we in a theatre. We are not, though, and what we are presented with here is a wordy and frankly rather sterile and plodding character study. Too much reliance is placed on the aesthetic elements - the costumes, sets, lavishness of the parties; indeed the imagery is gorgeous. It's supposed to be a love story, but the purported relationship between Redford and Farrow just doesn't resonate. I never really understood why she was so acclaimed in the first place - her performances were always rather hit or miss. The narration from Waterston also becomes a little too flat and the contrasting existences of the fabulously wealthy and the subsistence poor is hardly developed at all. My star of the film is Karen Black's "Myrtle" - possibly the only persona here that exudes anything like a sense of personality as she juggles her marriage and her affair. This is a nasty story about selfish and thoughtless people, but this iteration simply fails to capture that emotion, or - indeed - any other emotion either. Lots and lots of style, but it's lacking soul.

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