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.”