The Great Gatsby

            The Great Gatsby the book compared to the movie (or at least what I can remember of it.) So out of order I saw the movie the Great Gatsby (the new one because I think there’s an older version too) and then about a year later I decided to read the book. So which do I think is better? The book obviously since it has more details and always more happens in the book than with the movie.

            Comparing the book to the movie I was actually quite surprised at the length of the movie compared to the length of the book, because the book only has between 200 and 300 pages and the movie is about two hours long. But now that I’m thinking of it I guess with the first Harry Potter book, the Sorcerer’s Stone (the Philosophers Stone) it was about 300 pages as well and the movie was turned into a two and a half hour movie. Well, anyway like Harry Potter since the Great Gatsby is a shorter book more of the details are within the movie.

            During the movie I felt that everything went by slower in the events that occurred compared to the book, I don’t know why, but the movie just seemed to have a slower pace while the book it seemed like one thing happened and then the next thing happened and so on and so forth. One thing I will say is I thought that Daisy was a conniving evil little witch in both the movie and the book, but I feel like in the book it described her as being a more petite, sweet, and later mean than the movie did. Some of the actors and actresses in the movie fit the role quite well; while others I just didn’t seem them exactly like that as I had while reading the book.

            One thing that I think is a big difference between the book and the movie is I believe that no one shows up to Gatsby’s funeral except for Owl Eyes, but in the book Gatsby’s father shows up, but maybe I’m just recalling it wrong, but I think that if you liked the book you’ll like the movie since they are a pretty close fit to each other in my opinion.

            One good reason to go see the movie is that it had Leonardo DicCaprio in it (though he is older now sadly) and Tobey Maguire in it. Of course both of those people are famous for roles in other movies like the Titanic and Romeo and Juliet, and with Maguire he’s Spiderman and they will always be known to me by those roles and nothing else. But anyway the movie is pretty good, I don’t think they could have done any better, and the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald created a marvelous book for his time period.