GREAT GATSBY - Trailer review

When I first hit the Play button to watch the trailer of the new Baz Luhrmann film, I thought I had made some mistake and that I was in fact watching the first seconds of a r’n’b videoclip. But no, this was indeed the trailer for the adapation of Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gasby, starring the talented Leonardo Di Caprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire.

For those who are fond of Baz luhrmann’s style, you might rejoice in this «bling bling» version of the classic and look forward to the opening of the film on January 11th.
The director seems quite faithful to his usual aesthetics and photography and to what made the success of his previous films.

For others, more conventional perhaps, you might watch in sheer horror the vulgar spectacle portrayed in these few minutes of film - heavy make-up, hard partying scenes, the excessive use of crane shots, zoom in and zoom outs that make you sea-sick... Is this to be Moulin Rouge revisited? And more importantly, have we read the same book? 

Because I like being shocked and surprised I WILL go to the theater to be proven wrong and hope that what appears to be yet another exemple of bad taste, will transform into a refreshing, up-to-date adaptation of an all-time classic. However if that is not the case, I am glad Leo has other releases to fall back on this year.

Viddy Well, 

E.D.