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  • Essay / The Great Gatsby - 545

    A brilliant, romantic and glamorous film hit screens around the world on Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Following the infamous love story between the mysterious and mysteriously romantic millionaire Jay Gatsby, and his charming mistress, Daisy Bachanan, Baz Luhrmann managed to enchant an international audience. Luhrmann has delivered an energetic and dazzling adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's remarkable and most famous novel, written during his most prolific years as an established writer. The film is narrated and centered around the main character, Nick Carraway, who arrives in New York. in the spring of 1922. Luhrmann had the audacity to use Carraway as narrator, as he tells the story of an asylum as a form of therapy on the advice of his psychiatrist. Coincidentally, the date is December 29, 1929, and he is treated for alcoholism and anger management, the same way Fitzgerald was treated that year. Mr. Carraway begins writing a descriptive account of his time in New York during the Roaring Twenties. It was...