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Alice Warner
Making $323,625,739 on the worldwide box-office, with the budget for the film being $105,000,000, the film made an estimated $218,625,739 worldwide. The film was also shown in 3D which could have contributed to its fame, as it makes it more interesting and appealing to families and young adults who are interested in technology and the media. The Great Gatsby was originally planned to be filmed in New York City as it was being filmed in September, however the director took the decision to shoot the film using live action in Sydney Australia in fox studios on the 5th September and then shooting finished on 22nd December 2012. The music for this film included Florence and the machines Over the Love which included lines which responded to lines from the original book by F.Scott Fitzgerald. Also the main soundtrack was sang beautifully by Lana Del Rey Young and Beautiful which marries well with the theme of love and sadness within the film, which magazine Rap Up said was Haunting which is fitting with the ending of this film, which is all but happy for Jay Gatsby. As an end result the film received mixed reviews from the public, cinema score gave the film a grade B at an average, which is not an excellent score for a film with so many famous faces in the line-up and with so much money put into it. Also the Chicago Reader quoted Luhrman is exactly the wrong person to adapt such a delicately rendered story which could be correct as the novel that the film is based on is a vintage and loved one and should only be put onto the big screen if it is perfect and some people do not agree. However Baz Luhrman has produced such classics as Romeo and Juliet, and the Moulin Rouge therefore viewers may have thought that he would have been excellent for the role of producer of this film. Baz Luhrman also said it was a re-imagined version of the classic which could mean that he has put his own twist on the classic. In addition to this review, The Boston Globe believed Magnificent is the only way to describe this performance this was regarding Leonardo Di Caprios performance as Jay Gatsby. In my opinion the adaption of the book was such a success and was not only excellent on the big screen. It proves that the novel was such a haunting and entertaining read and it transfers into this modern remake on the vintage read. After the research that I have done on Baz Luhrman and his co director Craig Pearce I think that they had enough knowledge to know how to delicately transform the haunting novel into a contemporary advanced version. The use of 3D which is common in the new world of cinema, styles the film making it more theatrical which shocks and creates a more in-depth atmosphere and mood during the film. I also feel that the actor Tobey Maguire playing Nick Carraway who is the narrator of the film, uses his imagination to portray the life that F.Scott Fitzgerald has written, Tobey Maguire also lets us see the depth beneath the words in the novel and allows us to appreciate its inherent poetry and message beneath.