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Genre | Drama |
Format | Widescreen, Blu-ray, NTSC |
Contributor | Joel Edgerton, Jason Clarke, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Baz Luhrmann, Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Debicki See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 142 minutes |
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Great Gatsby, The (Blu-ray) The Great Gatsby” follows would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without of the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 0.5 x 5.4 x 6.7 inches; 3.2 ounces
- Item model number : 27406587
- Director : Baz Luhrmann
- Media Format : Widescreen, Blu-ray, NTSC
- Run time : 142 minutes
- Release date : August 27, 2013
- Actors : Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher
- Subtitles: : Spanish, French, Portuguese
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS 5.1)
- Studio : WarnerBrothers
- ASIN : B00DHHWY9I
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #16,143 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,638 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
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Although there were considerable liberties and abridgements taken with the story, the core of it was definitely preserved and, more importantly, the contradictory but simultaneously elegaic and exuberant tone of the novel was preserved.
Earlier adaptations, such as the 1974 version with Robert Redford , were so plodding as to be almost unwatchable. The 1974 movie makes the fatal mistake of being too realistic, reducing the whole affair to something like a Lifeiime television movie. That's exactly what you get from the novel if you distill the bare plot and characters but lose the tone, because the novel is ultimately structured as a nostalgic remembrance of lost hope. The deliberately unrealistic excitement of a period in time when anything seemed possible is the perfect environment for Baz Luhrmann.
In the new version, the cinematography and costumes mesh well to convey the excitement of the Jazz Age at its peak.
The music was surprisingly appropriate, the exact opposite of "Moulin Rouge," with George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" -- one of my all-time favorite pieces -- as a significant recurring motif. Even the new music, especially "Young and Beautiful," fits in well.
The movie is visually very impressive in a way that the novel cannot be, but it does conjure an imaginary and unrealistic world of grandiose excess that is worth seeing. The 3D gimmick is kind of pointless, but that is true for most movies.
Without spoiling anything, the opening credits begin in rough black and white with uneven lighting and flicker, very much like watching an old movie actually made in the 1920s, before the credits change to sharp and colorful gilded art deco designs. The effect is clever, making all of the flashy color that is the movie seem almost dreamlike, copying the elegaic tone of the novel. Eventually the closing credits reverse the effect back to fuzzy black and white.
Gatsby is an archetypal character whose purity and single-mindedness are his defining elements, creating a kind of naivety that distinguishes him from everyone around him -- and which eventually destroys him at the hands of those more cynical. One of the main reasons why the novel has become what it is today is that it presciently in 1925 understood that the Roaring 20s were an unsustainable party that must come to an end, which we know now from hindsight would happen with a horrific crash and decade-long hangover of the Great Depression. F. Scott Fitzgerald's almost puritanical discomfort with the Jazz Age, despite being its most enthusiastic contemporaneous chronicler, proved to strike just the right chord. A very good book about the 1920s Paris expatriate community (of which Scott and Zelda were prominent members) borrows a quote from a less well known writer as its title: " Everybody Was So Young ."
The characters are all very dislikable, with the exception of Jay Gatsby himself. Nick Carraway is extremely self-critical, regarding himself as a failure. One of the most common criticisms of the novel is that Gatsby's interest in Daisy lacks credibility because she is something of a petulant child who needs to be taken care of, but of course she mirrors to some extent Scott's real-life wife Zelda and their co-dependent marriage. Regardless of the truth about Zelda, who was by all accounts a remarkably capable and intelligent woman, there can be no doubt that she was treated as someone who needed to be taken care of and eventually ended up confined to a mental hospital. I don't want to fall into the trap of misidentifying authors with their characters, but it seems clear that Scott intended Gatsby's interest is Daisy to be entirely credible, even if Gatsby's perception of her was idealized as a result of his naivety and boundless optimism.
The original novel is unstinting in its portrayal of the mistreatment of servants, which is intended to be offensive. What Scott Fitzgerald fully intended to condemn in 1925 looks even worse to us now, but it is an important part of the story and is an essential literary device used repeatedly to illuminate the defects of Tom Buchanan's character and worldview. The novel draws explicit parallels between Gatsby, as what would then be disparaged as a "self-made man," and the servants --- both of whom Tom believes are limited and inexorably predestined by their circumstances of birth. Indeed, one of the reasons Tom is so disgusted at being described as "the polo player" is because being known for what he does instead of how he was born degrades him, in his own view, to the level of competition with Gatsby and the servants.
I should explain somewhat my comment about "liberties and abridgements." There are a number of lines of narration and dialogue that, although quite widely known and remembered from the novel, are simply gone in the movie. The opening and closing text is preserved, as it had to be, but everything else was apparently up for challenge about inclusion.
Almost all of the subplots are removed, which reduces some of the characters to very minor status, especially Jordan Baker who in the novel is an iconic representation of the independent "new woman" that we might today call a "feminist," and is therefore a counterpart to narrator Nick Carraway who, although of respectable pedigree and a Yale alumnus, has to actually work for a living. The screenwriters were probably correct in thinking that this was of much less interest to the modern audience than it was when the novel was published. On the other hand, it makes some things incomprehensible, such as why Tom Buchanan gets so annoyed at being introduced as "the polo player."
The handling of the Meyer Wolfsheim character is outright bizarre, probably because there were fears of the portrayal being regarded as anti-Semitic despite the character unquestionably being based on the real-life Arnold Rothstein. For one thing, he is played by an actor whose ancestry is from India, a pretty extreme case of "funny, he doesn't look Jewish," and who is the only actor who seems to have any identifiable ethnicity with a speaking role that is not a black waiter. Odd things are changed, such as his cufflinks made from human teeth turning into a tie-pin, possibly because the screenwriters were worried that the modern audience would be too confused as to what cufflinks are, but the cufflinks are significant because they are something that would not be noticed immediately but when noticed would pierce the veneer of civility -- a major theme in the novel.
It's a vibrant, colorful movie that successfully evokes, if not the real Jazz Age, then our collective historical memory of it.
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Jag var lite orolig först för det stod inte att svenska undertexter skulle vara med, endast spanska, franska och nederländska finns listat på baksidan.
Oftast är Bluray 4K UHD samma, men ibland kan det finnas lokala utgåvor. Detta är dock inte en sådan, en uppsjö av språk finns med, bland annat svenska.
Filmen saknar Dolby Atmos fast bilden ger sken av det, men den utgåvan som funnits sedan tidigare har bara haft DTS.
Bilden är endast i HDR men ser väldigt bra ut, filmen är något av ett visuellt mästerverk.
Ci sono spesso offerte e sconti relativamente a libri e film, così ogni tanto ne approfitto per aggiungere un pezzo alla collezione e per sostenere nel mio piccolo, piccolissimo, la produzione di audio, film e libri originali, stranieri o italiani che siano, poco importa. Credo che ciò sia molto importante, soprattutto in questo periodo storico che stiamo vivendo e, quindi, quando posso, non perdo occasione per farlo.
FORMATO VIDEO
Il disco Blu-ray ha immagini tutte quante in formato Full HD, sinceramente con un buon lettore e televisore si possono distinguere tutti i dettagli anche nelle scene con meno luminosità.
FORMATO AUDIO
La qualità di registrazione del formato audio è al pari molto buona.
In particolare, il formato audio Dolby Digital 5.1 è disponibile in italiano, spagnolo, francese, tailandese, tedesco e cinese. Il formato audio DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 è disponibile soltanto in lingua inglese.
SOTTOTITOLI
I sottotitoli sono disponibili in italiano, inglese, spagnolo, francese, tedesco, portoghese, tailandese, cinese, coreano, danese, norvegese, svedese, finlandese e indonesiano.
CONTENUTI SPECIALI
Tra i contenuti speciali extra troviamo:
- il trailer del film;
- le scene tagliate;
- un finale alternativo;
- una sorta di dietro le quinte con le scene del set;
- la realizzazione delle musiche che accompagnano il film;
- un approfondimento sull'era del jazz e sulla moda negli anni '20 del Novecento;
- uno sguardo al processo creativo che ha generato alcune delle scene più iconiche del film;
- infine, il commento del regista sulla sua interpretazione cinematografica rispetto al romanzo.
IN CONCLUSIONE
Non commento il film in quanto non è la piattaforma adatta per la critica cinematografica né mi ritengo sufficientemente competente per dare un parere rilevante. Posso dire che mi ritengo soddisfatto dell'acquisto in quanto il rapporto qualità-prezzo era ottimo al momento del mio acquisto. Spesso poi ci sono dei ribassi, quindi quando lo ordinai ricordo che spesi la metà di quello che avrei pagato nelle solite famose catene commerciali della mia zona. Spero di essere stato utile e se è così ti ringrazio.