23 November 2010

Jay Gatsby

In 1974, Robert Redford played Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby. Mr Redford was beautifully, creamily dressed by Ralph Lauren.
Can Leonardo Dicaprio fill his shoes?

5 comments:

  1. One word: NO.

    Mr DiCarprio, fine thespian that he is, simply isn't blessed with the kind of luminous, almost demi-godlike masculine beauty that Mr Redford exuded in his prime. And 'Gatsby' is a role that very much requires a myth-like dimension.

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  2. I find the Leo man a pain to watch and with his last flick Inception, I really just gave up after awhile, it was a yawn inducing performance if you asked me, really.

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  3. Dear Anon: Indeed Mr DiCaprio doesn't have that Lord Jim quality - but I think it's probably a tall order for Hollywood to fill at this point in time. Dear FJ: I don't think you are responding to his performance so much as the rather needlessly convoluted, and ultimately rather empty movie.
    Which makes me sound like a Leo gfan, but there you go.

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  4. I hope they don't go and change the Daisy character and make her much more sympathetic and benevolent - and thus betray the book in the process - the way they did for Mia.

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  5. Dear Anon: Do you think Baz Luhrman is capable of that much subtlety and finesse? I think it's going to be all broad strokes. I hope I'm wrong of course. They had a good chance with Mia I think, to make her brittle and heartless but with ms mulligan, I'm thinking probably weepy? A bit hysterical? A touch of cute?

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