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May. 20th, 2013 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
issenlloWatched The Great Gatsby
1) OMG the clothes and bling and pearls and cars and mansions and PARTIES and those long white drapes in that lovely sitting room in that scene where we first meet Daisy.
2) Repeat (1).
3) I want that hairband. And I was never an Art Deco kind of person, I'm more Arts and Crafts and Art Noveau.
4) Room full of flowers (and cake!) in that sweet little cottage.
5) The rest of it was incredibly crude storytelling which (honestly?) included massive unsubtle montages and giant typewritten words (wtf) onscreen and helicopter visages which felt more like an expose into the lifestyles of the rich and the weird. If I hadn't read the novel I'd not care a bit about the characters - and I didn't, really, not by the end of it, not in this movie. There was a lot of noise (see (1)-(4)) but neither peaks nor depths.
It felt like an OOC reinterpretation of the Broadway reinterpretation of the novel.
***
Was chatting with a younger intern at my office about ships (more precisely, names of ships) and found to my surprise:
1) The name "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis" does not ring a bell. (Never mind the casually offered info that Greek families own shitloads of ships.)
2) Has not heard of the Odyssey.
3) Or Jason of the Argonauts.
4) Thinks Hercules was a god rather than a demigod (this I could blame Disney for - "but they threw him off the mountain!" - but was there no other source of pop culture?) when um, the part about his human mother is an essential part of his mythos?
5) Thinks Archilles is a demigod. Which is true. He is/was a demigod. I was wrong to mock.
1) OMG the clothes and bling and pearls and cars and mansions and PARTIES and those long white drapes in that lovely sitting room in that scene where we first meet Daisy.
2) Repeat (1).
3) I want that hairband. And I was never an Art Deco kind of person, I'm more Arts and Crafts and Art Noveau.
4) Room full of flowers (and cake!) in that sweet little cottage.
5) The rest of it was incredibly crude storytelling which (honestly?) included massive unsubtle montages and giant typewritten words (wtf) onscreen and helicopter visages which felt more like an expose into the lifestyles of the rich and the weird. If I hadn't read the novel I'd not care a bit about the characters - and I didn't, really, not by the end of it, not in this movie. There was a lot of noise (see (1)-(4)) but neither peaks nor depths.
It felt like an OOC reinterpretation of the Broadway reinterpretation of the novel.
***
Was chatting with a younger intern at my office about ships (more precisely, names of ships) and found to my surprise:
1) The name "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis" does not ring a bell. (Never mind the casually offered info that Greek families own shitloads of ships.)
2) Has not heard of the Odyssey.
3) Or Jason of the Argonauts.
4) Thinks Hercules was a god rather than a demigod (this I could blame Disney for - "but they threw him off the mountain!" - but was there no other source of pop culture?) when um, the part about his human mother is an essential part of his mythos?