Baz Luhrmann's Film 'The Great Gatsby'

Baz Luhrmann directed a film called The Great Gatsby in 2013. The story is an adaptation from the novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. We follow a small cast of characters living in Long Island in the summer of 1922. Narrating the story, Nick Carraway witnesses the renewed love between a recently rich millionaire Jay Gatsby, and the beautiful, rich, and married Daisy Buchanan. During the conflict, Nick gets to experience the lavish lives and parties of the citizens of West and East Egg and witness the widespread poverty of the 1920s. In the end, Gatsby loses his life to Wilson, a man who lost his wife to a reckless Daisy, under Tom’s evil influence. Baz Luhrmann takes this dramatic tragedy and applies his own hybrid pop/jazz

music style and takes advantage of Gatsby’s parties to show off his prowess in lavish visual displays. The film was a decent adaptation of the book because of Baz Luhrmann's emphasis on visual splendor.
The movie does an excellent job portraying the magnificence of Gatsby’s parties. In the book, Gatsby’s parties are well attended and extravagant. People come from all over Long Island, most are not even invited. Gatsby provides buffets of food for his guests, crates of fresh oranges and lemons, and free alcohol. People can dance to the orchestra he has playing outside. To say his parties are luxurious and opulent is an understatement. In the movie, the parties are just as splendid, if not moreso. People are seen dancing everywhere, on the beach, around, and even in the pool. Fireworks explode, streamers and confetti fall from the ceiling covering everything. People talk for weeks afterwards about the crazy and fancy things they witnessed there.