I came to Scoff

Rating: Null/10 (11 May 2013)

I came prepared to scoff. I expected an over-the-top razzle dazzle Gatsby story after the previews I saw-in 3D yet. In fact, this was as good a filming of this classic book as has yet been done, and I believe, as good as can possible be done. There is a line in "The Last Tycoon" which says "you can't film great prose", but it is actually and literally done here.
This film starts out with a tongue in cheek style. The performers are doing comic book versions of their characters, but the plot continues and the movie gets quite serious and eventually even somber. This follows the emotional tone of the novel. As course there are differences between the novel and the film, primarily with the more subtle nuances of the novel, but this is a movie and subtlety doesn't work too well in big screen 3D spectaculars
BTW, Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker steals every scene she is in, even when she has no lines.
Go see it. If you are a "Gatsby" purist, you won't be disappointed.