Baz Luhrmann's Use Of Modernized Music In The Great Gatsby

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In the movie The Great Gatsby, the author, Baz Luhrmann used several techniques to bring in ideas and themes of the original book “The Great Gatsby” published in (April 10, 1925) to modern audiences . Baz Luhrmann added modernized music and he portrayed the characters as having a flamboyant and terrestrial nature towards wealth look to bring the old ideas from the book into the new movie. Baz Luhrmann chose to use modernized music in The Great Gatsby such as Lana Del Rey,Fergie,Jay Z, and Nero. Using modernized music, Luhrmann establishes a connection between the audience and the movie. By using music that is contemporary the audience compares current life to the life lived in the 1920’s. The music also gives the emphasis that the roaring twenties had a lot of partying, by using current pop songs. When F.Scott Fitzgerald was writing The Great Gatsby he portrayed his writing as a modernist and not as a nostalgic writer,so Baz Luhrmann wanted to follow the same path as Fitzgerald by keeping the modern theme present in the music. …show more content…

Both of these characters loved wealth and everything about it. They both had very flamboyant personality towards money. Daisy was first portrayed as her having true feelings for Gatsby in the movie but when it's revealed that his money is bootleg money she loses all interest in him. Another example of materialistic in The Great Gatsby is when Gatsby starts throwing all of his shirts down to the floor, this shows that he cares about wealth a lot to just be throwing shirts down onto the ground. Baz Luhrmann portrayed several of the characters as very materialistic people. A majority of people now are very materialistic, audiences relate to this in the movie while Luhrmann is still using a theme from the book which is a good way to draw the audience

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