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The Great Gatsby
Content
• The Book
• The Movie
• Videos
• Quotations
• Quiz
The Great Gatsby (1925)novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
themes:
• AMERICAN DREAM
• ROARING TWENTIES
• SOCIAL CLIMA
• SYMBOLISM
The Great GatsbyThe book
Main idea of the story
• Decline of the American Dream
• Rejection of a self-made man without noble blood
• The young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby
• Love of his Life - Daisy Buchanan
The Great GatsbyThe book
• narrator: Nick Carraway, Daisy´s cousin
• settings: Long Island and New York City, summer 1922
The Great GatsbyThe Movie (2013)
Plot
• Nick Carraway a bond – seller describing Gatsby’s life:
• As a life of a mysterious business magnate
• And the only truly good person to whom nobody had ever returned his hospitality
Interesting facts • "Scott would have been proud“
• The inspiration of Gatsby’s mansion
Interesting facts
• Sealed with a Kiss
• Ain't No Party Like a Baz Party
• Old Sports
Symbolism
• Green light
Symbolism
• The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
• The Valley of Ashes
Colour Symbolism
• WHITE
• GREEN
• RED
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
• Director Bazz Luhrmann of Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge - musical character of the movie
• Shawn JAY Z Carter as an executive producer
• Jazz from twenties covered in the new sound
The Roaring Twenties• Enjoy your life
• Charleston + jazz
• Modernist trends in art and culture
• Status of women changed (independence)
• Prohibition
Women´s Fashion
Men´s fashion
QUIZ
• Who was the director of The Great Gatsby?
• Where it takes place?
• Who was the executive producer of thesoundtrack?
• Do you remember any singing interpret from thefilm?
Thank YOU For YOUR Attention
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”