A fantastic adaptation of the book- a must watch!

Rating: 10/10 (20 April 2014)

It tells the story of a man named Nicki who goes to Long Island for the Summer, his house is across the sea from his cousins Daisy house. He also lives next door to a man
named Gatsby. When going to see his cousin, he comes across her friend, Jordan. When they are all eating, the phone goes off, Daisy and Tom go inside. Jordan then tells Nicki that Tom is having an affair with another woman. When he goes home, he spots a man at the end of the dock with his hand stretching out towards a green light across the sea. Nicki believes that this is Gatsby. A few days later, Nicki and Tom go on a train, when they get off, they walk towards a garage in which you see Wilson. He is a friend of Toms. A woman then walks down the stairs, she is Myrtle, Wilsons wife. Tom, Nicki, Myrtle and Myrtles sister are soon in a hotel room. This is when Nicki realises that Tom is having an affair with Myrtle. Myrtle and Tom soon get into an argument about Daisy, which causes Tom to punch Myrtle.
Nicki then wakes up at his house, a letter comes through his door from Gatsby, inviting Nicki to one of his parties. When going to the party, he bumps into Jordan, they talk about Gatsby and some people think that he is a spy, others think that he killed a man. He soon gets into a conversation with a man, and later realises that he hasn't introduced himself. Nicki asks who he is, he replies by saying that he is Gatsby. In which Nicki apologises for not knowing. Jordan is then asked to talk to Gatsby privately. Gatsby and Nicki become close friends over a few weeks, when Nicki asks Jordan why he wanted to talk to her, she replies by saying that she cant tell. Nicki soon asks Gatsby what they were talking about. Gatsby says that Jordan can now tell him... " Before the war, Daisy was very popular with men, but i remember one day that she was with a soldier in a car. They looked very much in love. They later met again at a party for the soldiers in which they kissed. This mans name was Gatsby. Gatsby wanted me to ask you if you could invite Daisy to come over and him over for tea so that they could talk. During the war, she heard nothing of Gatsby and later met Tom. She fell in love with him and was set to get married. On the day before her wedding, I walked in. She was in floods of tear and had a letter in her hand. It was off Gatsby, it said that he still loved her but was penniless. She tried to call off the wedding, but her mom forced her. Later that day she was married and looked as happy as ever". Nicki invites Gatsby and Daisy over at the same time, and it is obvious that they are in love. After talking, Gatsby invites Nicki and Daisy over to his house. When Gatsby is throwing down some shirts, Daisy bursts into tears, but blames it on the beautiful shirts. Over the next few weeks, Daisy and Gatsby meet regularly. Tom, Daisy and Nicki go to one of Gatsby's parties. Tom notices the chemistry between Daisy and Gatsby. When Gatsby and Daisy are together alone outside, she says that she wishes that they could just run off together. Gatsby asks her why they would want to run off. Gatsby is later called upstairs and Daisy leaves with Tom. Nicki and Gatsby later talk about what happened before the war with Daisy and how he just wants to repeat the past. Gatsby then tells Nicki that he wasn't born into wealth, but was poor. When Nicki, Jordan and Gatsby visit Tom and Daisy, Gatsby asks Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him. Tom and Gatsby swap cars for the day, so that Gatsby and Daisy can drive together Tom later confronts Daisy and Gatsby about their affair, in which Gatsby says that Daisy never loved Tom. Tom quizzes Daisy on this. She cannot however say that she doesn't, as she once did, but she now loves Gatsby. Tom then asks Gatsby about how he earned his wealth and confronts him on his dodgy deals. Gatsby gets into a fit of rage and threatens to punch Tom, which leaves everyone terrified and silent. Daisy leaves whilst crying.. Whilst Jordan, Tom and Nicki are driving home, they see a crowd near where Wilson and his wife live. They stop and walk inside the building, Myrtle is lying on a table, dead, with fatal wounds, and a crowd around her, this is including her husband Wilson who is crying his eyes out. Tom talks to Wilson who says that the person who killed her was in a yellow car. The car that Tom had earlier swapped with Gastsbys. Tom tells Wilson privately that Gatsby was the one who killed Myrtle. When they had driven home, Nicki saw Gatsby. Nicki asks Gatsby about what happened with Myrtle. He explains that Daisy was driving and lost control. Gatsby says that he will take the Blame. Nicki soon returns home and back to his job. Gatsby later takes a swim in his Pool, hoping Daisy will call. Soon the phone rings. Whilst waiting to see who it is, Wilson walks in and shoots Gatsby and then shoots himself. It was Nicki that had called. Nicki returned for the funeral, he expected Daisy to come, however Daisy and her husband and daughter had left. Except for paparazzi, Nicki was the only one who went to Gatsbys funeral. On his last day in Long Island, Nicki visited the house that was once Gatsbys. He walked to the end of the dock, and spotted the green light that Gatsby had once looked at.