The Great Gatsby (2003, DVD)

This is a very interesting movie to follow, you will either get it or not. It is a challange! The era that it come from has wonderful clothing and the romantic in you will love the story line.

I cannot begin to tell you anything about this movie, since I still have not received it. Ebay should be well aware by now, of the bad business practices of "Discountmedialink", one of the worst sellers on Ebay. They have ripped off almost 400 buyers in the last 12 months, myself included. Scum like this give the whole Ebay community a black eye! I'm sure this would be a great movie, if I ever get the chance to see it.

I had seen the movie a long time ago and my young adult son had to read the book and said it was so hard to follow. So I thought when he finished the book, he should see the movie and think about the differences.

I haven't read Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' in almost two years. I picked it up again, to-day, though, and realized the truth of the notion that one learns something new each time one returns to a book. 'The Great Gatsby' just is a novel that must be returned to periodically to appreciate it properly.
While the characters in the novel remain ultimately unknowable at their indefinite cores, Fitzgerald does a great job tying his characters to their historical setting. The protagonist of the novel, to my mind, is Nick Carraway, the narrator. The hero of his story, which frames the novel, is the legendary Jay Gatsby - a legend in his own mind. Although Carraway's narration is often heavily biased and unreliable, what emerges are the stories of a set of aimless individuals, thrown together in the summer of 1922. Daisy Buchanan is the pin that holds the novel together - by various means, she ties Nick to Jordan Baker, Tom Buchanan to Jay Gatsby, and Gatsby to the Wilsons.

The novel itself deals with the shallow hypocrisies of fashionable New York society life in the early 1920's. It is almost as though Fitzgerald took the plot of Edith Wharton's 'The Age of Innocence' and updated it - in the process making the characters infinitely more detestable and depriving it of all hope. Extramarital affairs rage on with only the thinnest of veils to disguise them, the nouveau-riche rise on the back of scandal and corruption, and interpersonal relationships rarely signify anything permanent that doesn't reek of conspiracy. The novel's casual allusions to beginnings and histories often cause us to reflect on the novel's historical moment - when the American Dream and Benjamin Franklin's vision of the self-made man seem to coalesce in Jay Gatsby, a Franklinian who read too much Nietzsche.

No matter how you read it, 'The Great Gatsby' is worth re-reading. M.J. Bruccoli's short, but informative preface, and C. Scribner III's afterword are included in this edition, and both set excellent contexts, literary, personal, and historical, for this classic of American literature.

Would have given it an excellent review but the seller decided to ship the item via "Pony Express" which took FOREVER. As a matter of fact I probably could have convinced Robert Redford and Mia Farrow to come over and play out the movie faster than this guy shipped the dvd to me. I will never buy another DVD from E-Bay again heres some advice just go to Blockbuster when you want a DVD.

Loved it , hated the ending. As I'm a robert Redford lover!!! Loved the era, the clothes, the hair do's and all the wealth !!!! 4**** stars !!!! GREAT movie, Mia's as dumb as ever !!! haha

it's a film for you. Robert is very handsome and cool in this movie, Mia Farrow is acting wonderfully. Excellent movie in every aspects.

Sentimental, romantic, charismatic...much better than the newer Lifetime Movie version. This older version gives a flair to the roaring 20s that almost make you feel like you are present. It was great to view after reading the novel.

I hate to sound like a broken record here, but the movie just doesn't do justice to the book. This time however though, it's for a different reason. This movie follows the story better than almost any movie i've seen to this very day. The problem arises though, that "The Great Gatsby" is a book that uses A LOT of symbols. In fact almost none of the story should be taken at surface level, from the everwatching eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckelburg, to the flashing green light on Daisy Buchanan's dock.
The movie features a great cast, A young Sam Waterston (Nick), and Robert Redford. The acting in this movie was fairly good on the male side (though I feel Tom could have been played by someone slightly manlier than Bruce Dern). The women however, made it fairly difficult to actually sit through this movie. As someone who really enjoyed the book, but still wanted Daisy to die, I must say that the movie is harder to enjoy, and I wanted Daisy to die EVEN MORE.
Overall I say if you've read the book and are a fan of Robert Redford or Sam Waterston I would say buy it. Other than that, i'd say rent it in the dollar section, or watch it on Bravo or some other old people channel.

movie is okay, I bought it for my son because they studied this in class. music and clothes, dances of the 1920's era was cool.

Very good condition - I was in a bit of a hurry to recieve it and hoped the seller would be quick to get this DV to me. They were and I am very pleased with the whole transaction.