The Great Gatsby Final Project

Rating: 9/10 (21 May 2019)

Yael Cerero
Mr. Rice
Film Lit
20 May 2019
Great Gatsby-Final Project
Artistic Value- The Great Gatsby is a film that has many artistic values, which makes the storytelling very good. Its use of innovative style is what has made it such a great film. The use of modern and high-class clothing apparel throughout the film makes it interesting for the audience. Along with different use of camera angles, it provides the audience to really catch the emotions of the character. With these camera angles, it makes the audience feel as if they are part of the film. Artistically the camera is always zooming in or out really fast to capture all of the chaos and parties. But when the camera is on Gatsby it is very still and focused, to to show his deep purity and internal secrets/thoughts that he's holding on to. The Great Gatsby also has done a good job, with its style of music, it has a very modern twist to the 20's style of music. Every song throughout the film has played an important part because it helps the audience get entertained, and puts them on a dancing mood.
The film also has great use of color and lighting, from the warm and cool colors of their clothes to the lighting to capture all the parties and close up scenes. This film had more of non-diegetic style rather than diegetic, because of the music playing on the background and the cast talking to each other.
Entertainment Value- The popularity of this film is the storyline, the writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby captures and reflects America in the 1920s, shows how the corruption and the obsession of the American people through wealth and status, however it also tells us a love story; Gatsby is in love with someone who he thought loved him back. Gatsby never stopped loving her and he always did things just to see her and be with her. This has made this film to be known as a Classic; a film that won't get old throughout the years. It has become a film that many people have enjoyed and they continue to do so. A couple of scenes that have stood out the most were when Gatsby is shot from behind as he's coming out of the pool, he was waiting to receive a call from Daisy. A very powerful scene was when Gatsby's last words were " Daisy," this proved just how much he really loved her. He never lost hope and his love for her even though she wasn't the one who called the day he got shot. Another scene would have to be when Gatsby and Daisy are gathered with everyone in a room just hanging out and it was a very thrilling scene, because Gatsby was about to tell Daisy's husband who he truly was.
Literary Value- Throughout the film Gatsby has always been a very confident man, he has a lot going on but still manages to show those around him that he is doing fine. One of his internal conflicts would be the love he has for Daisy. He just can't seem to let her go. She was the love of his life when they were younger and before he went to war. He had high hopes that when he came home he would be reunited with her, but came home only to realize she was already with someone else. But this didn't stop him from trying to be with her. Gatsby did many parties in high hopes that one day Daisy would attend and could be with her once again. This all has been a huge conflict with himself. But one of the people who was truly there for him and could see who he truly was; someone who was in love and just trying to get things in his life back together was Nick, he looked up to him, he was one of the few people that Gatsby impacted in his life. Nick was there when Gatsby passed away and no one of the many people who would attend his huge parties were there. He realized just how Daisy truly was, because she wasn't even there when Gatsby passed away.
Educational Value- In this film there are so many scenes that we can learn from and use it in our own type of lifestyle. For example in the film Gatsby does so many things for Daisy but did she ever thank him for everything he was doing for her? Gatsby would throw parties for Daisy hoping that one day she would show up, but never did. This film also shows us that no matter how much we love someone, if they don't already love you for who you are, then it doesn't matter how many changes we make because you will never win, you will never be satisfied. Another thing we can learn from this film is that you can't buy someones love with money. That's simple a phrase; you can't just be spending money everywhere, and whenever you want because that person might not love you back, but we gotta live through it, we can't give up on love. Gatsby didn't give up, he kept going after Daisy, he even ended up passing away but with his last words being Daisy.
In conclusion, I liked The Great Gatsby film. The film was really good, I just didn't like how it ended on a tragedy. I would recommend this movie, I say 10/10. I loved the characters, color and very lighting that was created with the parties or when they would make the camera angles move and how they would make it look like we are there experiencing everything with them.