November 26, 2013 (XXVII:14) Baz Luhrmann, THE GREAT GATSBY (2013, 143 min) Directed by Baz Luhrmann Written by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce (screenplay) Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald (novel) Cinematography by Simon Duggan Jason Clarke...George Wilson Elizabeth Debicki...Jordan Baker Leonardo DiCaprio...Jay Gatsby Joel Edgerton...Tom Buchanan Isla Fisher...Myrtle Wilson Tobey Maguire...Nick Carraway Carey Mulligan...Daisy Buchanan Jack Thompson...Dr. Walter Perkins BAZ LUHRMANN (Director, Writer—screenplay) (b. Mark Anthony Luhrmann, September 17, 1962 in New South Wales, Australia) has directed five features, all of which he also wrote: 2013 The Great Gatsby, 2008 Australia, 2001 Moulin Rouge!, 1996 Romeo + Juliet, and 1992 Strictly Ballroom. He also directed eight shorts, all of which (but on Schiaparelli) he F. Scott Fitzgerald (Writer—novel)(b. Francis Scott Key also wrote: 2012 Hard Chic, 2012 Naïf Chic, 2012 Schiaparelli Fitzgerald, September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota—d. & Prada: Impossible Conversations, 2012 The Classical Body, December 21, 1940 (age 44) in Hollywood, Los Angeles, 2012 The Exotic Body, 2012 The Surreal Body, 2012 Ugly Chic, California) worked in Hollywood for several years as a and 2012 Waist Up/Waist Down. He also produced four of his screenwriter. Many of his novels and short stories were made features: 2013 The Great Gatsby, 2008 Australia, 2001 Moulin into films, some of which are 2013 The Great Gatsby (novel), Rouge!, and 1996 Romeo + Juliet. He did ballroom dance as a 2012 The Lost Decade (Short, story), 2010 The Beautiful and child, taught by his mother. In 2004 Luhrmann directed the Damned (novel), 2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button world’s most expensive ad for Chanel No 5 with Nicole Kidman, (short story), 2000 “The Great Gatsby” (TV Movie, novel), 1987 a 4-minute short titled “No. 5: The Film..” His favorite films are “Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Pat Hobby Teamed with Star 80 (1983), 8 ½ (1963), War and Peace (1966). Medium Genius” (TV Movie, stories), 1985 Tender Is the Night (TV Cool (1969) and Fitzcarraldo (1982). He said about Gatsby: Mini-Series, novel), 1976 The Last Tycoon (novel), 1976 ”The novel wasn’t set in a period called ‘The Minimal Twenties’. “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” (TV Movie, story), 1974 The Great It was called ‘The Roaring Twenties’. So it had to roar.” And: Gatsby (novel), 1962 Tender Is the Night (novel), 1959 The Last “I thought if I could crack the inner voice of Nick, there was a Tycoon (novel), 1958 The Great Gatsby (novel), 1957 The Last movie to be made.” Tycoon (novel), 1956 The Young and the Beautiful (story), 1955 The Great Gatsby (novel), 1951 The Last Tycoon (book The Love CRAIG PEARCE (Writer—screenplay) has six screenplay of the Last Tycoon), 1956 Winter Dreams (story), 1955 Tender Is credits, all of them with Luhrmann: 2013 The Great Gatsby, the Night (novel), 1954 The Last Time I Saw Paris (story), 1949 2010 Charlie St. Cloud, 2009 “The 81st Annual Academy The Last Tycoon (novel), 1951 Bernice Bobs Her Hair (story), Awards” (TV Special), 2001 Moulin Rouge!, 1996 Romeo + 1949 The Great Gatsby (novel), 1926 The Great Gatsby (novel), Juliet, and 1992 Strictly Ballroom. 1924 Grit (story), 1922 The Beautiful and Damned (novel), 1920 Luhrman—THE GREAT GATSBY—2 The Husband Hunter (story "Myra Meets His Family"), and 1920 ISLA FISHER...Myrtle Wilson (b. Isla Lang Fisher, February 3, The Chorus Girl's Romance (story "Head and Shoulders"). 1976 in Muscat, Oman) has appeared in 37 films and television shows, some of which are 2013 Life of Crime, 2013 Arrested JASON CLARKE...George Wilson (b. July Development (TV Series, 9 episodes), 2013 17, 1969 in Winton, Queensland, Now You See Me, 2013 The Great Gatsby, Australia) has appeared in 54 films and 2011 “Bored to Death” (TV Series), 2009 television shows, including 2014 Dawn of Confessions of a Shopaholic, 2008 the Planet of the Apes (post-production), Definitely, Maybe, 2005 Wedding Crashers, 2014 Child 44 (post-production), 2014 2004 I Heart Huckabees, 2003 The Knight of Cups (post-production), 2013 Wannabes, 2002 Scooby-Doo, 2000 Out of The Better Angels, 2013 White House Depth, 1994-1997 “Home and Away” (TV Down, 2013 The Great Gatsby, 2012 Zero Series, 345 episodes), and 1993 “Paradise Dark Thirty, 2012 Lawless, 2011 Texas Beach” (TV Series). Killing Fields, 2011 Yelling to the Sky, 2010 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, TOBEY MAGUIRE...Nick Carraway (b. 2009 Public Enemies, 2006-2008 Tobias Vincent Maguire, June 27, 1975 in “Brotherhood” (TV Series, 29 episodes), Santa Monica, California) has appeared in 2008 The Human Contract, 2004 Get Rich 47 films and television shows, including Quick, 2003 “Farscape” (TV Series), 2002 2013 Labor Day, 2013 The Great Gatsby, “The Outsider” (TV Movie), 2002 “Home 2013 “The Spoils of Babylon” (TV Mini- and Away” (TV Series), 2002 Rabbit- Series, 6 episodes), 2009 Brothers, 2007 Proof Fence, 2000 Better Than Sex, 2000 Spider-Man 3, 2004 Spider-Man 2, 2003 Our Lips Are Sealed, 1998 Praise, and Seabiscuit, 2002 Spider-Man, 2000 Wonder 1997 Dilemma. Boys, 1999 Ride with the Devil, 1999 The Cider House Rules, 1998 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1997 ELIZABETH DEBICKI...Jordan Baker (b. August 1990 in Paris, Deconstructing Harry, 1997 The Ice Storm, 1994 Healer, 1994 France) has appeared in 4 films: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Revenge of the Red Baron, 1993 This Boy's Life, 1992 “Great (filming), 2013 Goedel, Incomplete (Short), 2013 The Great Scott!” (TV Series, 13 episodes), 1991 “Roseanne” (TV Series), Gatsby, and 2011 A Few Best Men. 1991 “Blossom” (TV Series), 1990 “1st & Ten: The Championship” (TV Series), and 1988 “The Twilight Zone” (TV LEONARDO DICAPRIO...Jay Gatsby (b. Leonardo Wilhelm Series). DiCaprio, November 11, 1974 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California) has appeared in 35 films and television shows, among CAREY MULLIGAN...Daisy Buchanan (b. Carey Hannah them 2013 The Wolf of Wall Street, 2013 The Great Gatsby, Mulligan, May 28, 1985 in Westminster, London, England) 2012 Django Unchained, 2011 J. Edgar, 2010 Inception, 2010 has appeared in 23 films and TV shows, including 2014 Far from Shutter Island, 2008 Revolutionary Road, 2006 Blood Diamond, the Madding Crowd (filming), 2013 Inside Llewyn Davis, 2013 2006 The Departed, 2004 The Aviator, 2002 Catch Me If You The Great Gatsby, 2011 Shame, 2011 Drive, 2010 Never Let Me Can, 2002 Gangs of New York, 1998 The Man in the Iron Mask, Go, 2010 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, 2009 Brothers, 2009 1997 Titanic, 1996 Marvin's Room, 1996 Romeo + Juliet, 1995 Public Enemies, 2009 The Greatest, 2007 “Doctor Who” (TV The Quick and the Dead, 1993 What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Series), 2007 “Waking the Dead” (TV Series), 2006 “The 1993 This Boy's Life, 1991-1992 Growing Pains (TV Series, 23 Amazing Mrs. Pritchard” (TV Series, 6 episodes), 2005 “Bleak episodes), 1992 “Poison Ivy” (TV Series, 12 episodes), 1990 House” (TV Mini-Series, 15 episodes), and 2005 Pride & “The Outsiders” (TV Series), and 1989 “The New Lassie” (TV Prejudice. Series). He also produced 12 films, among them 2013 The Wolf of Wall Street, 2013 Runner Runner, 2004 The Aviator, and 2004 JACK THOMPSON...Dr. Walter Perkins (b. John Hadley Payne, The Assassination of Richard Nixon. August 31, 1940 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) has appeared in 104 films and television shows, among them 2013 JOEL EDGERTON...Tom Buchanan (b. June 23, 1974 in Around the Block, 2013 Mystery Road, 2013 The Great Gatsby, Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia) has appeared in 60 2010 Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, 2008 Australia, 2008 films and TV shows, including 2014 Exodus (filming), 2014 Leatherheads, 2006 The Good German, 2004 The Assassination Jane Got a Gun (post-production), 2013 Felony, 2013 The Great of Richard Nixon, 2002 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Gatsby, 2012 Zero Dark Thirty, 2011 The Cartographer (Short), Clones, 1997 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1996 2011 Warrior, 2008 Acolytes, 2008 The Square, 2007 Whisper, Last Dance, 1996 “The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years” (TV 2007 “Dangerous” (TV Series, 8 episodes), 2006 Smokin' Aces, Movie), 1995 Flight of the Albatross, 1993 A Far Off Place, 2005 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, 2004 King 1988 “Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun” (TV Movie), Arthur, 2003 Ned Kelly, 2001-2002 The Secret Life of Us (TV 1983 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, 1982 “A Woman Called Series, 32 episodes), 2002 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Golda” (TV Movie), 1982 The Man from Snowy River, 1980 Clones, 2000 Sample People, 1998 Praise, 1997 “Big Sky” (TV Breaker Morant, 1979 The Journalist, 1978 The Chant of Jimmie Series), and 1996 Race the Sun. Blacksmith, 1976 Caddie, 1970-1974 “Homicide” (TV Series), 1971-1973 “Spyforce” (TV Series, 42 episodes), 1973 Libido, Luhrman—THE GREAT GATSBY—3 1970 “Silo 15” (TV Movie), 1970 “The Rovers” (TV Series), weren’t much interested in well-wrought narratives about the rich 1969 “Riptide” (TV Series), and 1968 “Motel” (TV Series). and rich-wannabes. When Fitzgerald died at the age of 44 in 1941, not one of his books was in print. The obituaries triggered a resurgence F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, was published in of interest in his work. “Between 1941 and 1949,” writes critic 1925. It was an immediate success, it became a stage play, there and Fitzgerald biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, “seventeen new was a film (now lost, though the trailer is available in the Library editions or reprints of The Great Gatsby were published.” (3) of Congress), and there were several more film and television Members of the military received 155,000 free copies.