The Great Gatsby film versions

The novel The Great Gatsby has been made into three different films. The first film was featured in 1926 as a silent film. It was directed by Herbert Brenon and starred Warner Baxter as Gatsby and Louis Wilson as Daisy Buchanan. It was the very first film version of the novel and many could not argue with how perfectly it had been done. It opened on Broadway in 1926 on February 2. It was eighty minutes long and mainly focused on the parties Gatsby had at his mansion. It has been called the lost film because none of the copies exist anymore.
In 1949 another film was released and directed by Elliot Nugent. It was not another silent film and focused more on the moral of the story. The 1974 version however has kept it from being released on television. This version disappointed many as the box office showed. The symbolism and imagery the book portrayed was going to be impossible to layout in the film. F. Scott Fitzgerald also includes sounds and weather change which are difficult to lie out on the big screen. Although it did not satisfy everyone it expressed the optimistic nature of the novel and was a success to many.











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