Great adaptation from a American classic

Rating: 10/10 (16 June 2013)

The recent presentation of The Great Gatsby on the big screen, masterfully recreates an era, perhaps the last happy in the early twentieth century. Start relevance by a classic of American literature that focuses desire, strength and inspiration in a character who symbolizes the emergement of American society.
This literary work filmed in the 70's with Mia Farrow and Robert Redford, - written by Francis Ford Coppola-not dazzle at all in the use of film as a form of artistic representation. In the new opportunity in The Great Gatsby production, director Baz Luhrmann displays the skills and experience performed in the spectacular Moulin Rouge.
A careful casting molds believable characters thanks to the addition of small roles big role around the Jay Gatsby. I ask: is there in Hollywood and the rest of the world an actor that generates the magnetic field necessary to portray Jay Gatsby than Leonardo DiCaprio?. I think not. Think of the promises of today, Ryan Gossling, Ewan Macgregor, Jude Law, to name a few that may have body image but not DiCaprio's acting skills, a guy who has entered a maturity that lets you play big roles dramatic force, and expects a reward from the academies for the actor man, not the child of Titanic. Moreover, talking about the successes, the representation of the time, staged in New York City has no antecedent. The urban image, the skyline of skyscrapers springs and brightest public space in the world of that time until today, Times Square is drawn, scanned, colored by smoothing effect rendering, the newly invented neon light as the elevator and steel technology, massed and concentrated in this landmark modern urban city.
Speaking of mistakes do not find relevant. Beyond tastes to the means used by Luhrmann, the theatricality of the dialogue, a script that is very well done, combined with choreography and musicality reminiscent of Moulin Rouge, without falling into the musical. Luhrmann commitment exacerbate the last expense of a society, the excesses of happiness modernizing, capitalist progress and poverty of the periphery, which foresaw the punishment of slum come 1929. Also, before the construction of this frenzy, the film is intentionally literary pace and this film.
Storytelling, attached to a literary classic rhythms required to print a seemingly simple and everyday plot develops into a sum of complex moral situations of conflict of love. If production and the telling includes images of the letters that form words and sentences of the story on the screen, is a way, probably not the best, but the director decides to tell the story in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald on screen . Moreover, the soundtrack is spectacular, but not the film unfolds in the intensity of love is blindness in the version of Jack White.
Finally, returning to the hook of performance of actors led by DiCaprio, if you believe them. Gatsby believed in the hero of a generation, from one country into modernity, which built the American dream, rising and you can fall and die but never forget, that allows the construction of myth. From a man up, but that the same society will never accept, even love of your life will continue, the world will give back. "Gatsby, who represented everything so I feel real contempt. If personality is an unbroken series of gestures made, then something magnificent Gatsby was in a heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if connected to one of these very complex machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away ".
From there the drama of the story set in a way, an option, he found the best way to tell it and to express it. I was convinced that Leonardo DiCaprio is great. He is the Great Gatsby.