Similarities Between Strictly Ballroom And The Great Gatsby

The famous Australian director that is Baz Luhrmann has a modern cinematic eye, therefore always evolving, keeping up with the modern generation and most importantly writing for the modern generation. “The Great Gatsby” and “Strictly Ballroom” depicts the constant changing and conforming along with the development of music and fashion.
“Strictly Ballroom’ and “The Great Gatsby” are best known for their eclectic music and intricate, yet extravagant clothing. Luhrmann ensures that both clothing and music are constantly developing. In “Strictly Ballroom” the first scene is a dance competition surrounded by dazzlingly colourful outfits to show the tone of this scene. Similarly to the glitter stemmed costumes at Gatsby’s first party that Nick Carraway is invited to. These two scenes corroborate as they give the audience an idea of how spectacular and out there Lurhmann’s films are. His costumes are the epitome of “go big or go home” Baz certainly goes big in both films always making sure that he delivers that immoderate and free-spending types of props and costumes throughout.

Luhrmann has chosen to allow the audience to become more involved in every aspect of the film. Going from the Grand Prix Pacific’s where we are the audience watching Scott and Fran dance with their exuberant dance moves, them being a form of entertainment to being taken inside of Gatsby’s parties which offers us a chance in which we peer more into the lives of characters and feel as though we, ourselves are more present than at a dance competition in ‘Strictly Ballroom.” Baz has gone over and above in the past years to ensure the modern audience are locked onto the