This is not to say that the actors were bad. The 2013 Gatsby is made for a generation of people who don’t read, have no attention span, have no depth or subtlety, and must be enticed by plastic characters with obvious emotions and by loud glitzy things in order to get the point. In fact, the 2013 film is a circus … No subtlety, no depth, too loud, in your face, and over the top. God forbid anyone actually sweat in a movie nowadays. The scenes in New York show the beads of sweat on everyone’s faces, because the fact that it was hot is part of what drives the plot and the emotions along. The scenes that portray the glamor of Gatsby’s life are much more realistic to the time period of the novel, as are the scenes that portray the squalor and desperation of Myrtle’s life. The 1974 film (with Robert Redford as Gatsby, Sam Waterston as Nick Carraway, and Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan) is more faithful to the novel, the characters are closer to the characters as described by Fitzgerald, and the portrayals of emotion are more subtle. The 1974 film, though it has been criticized, is far superior as a film to the 2013 version. I think the key difference between the two films is 'subtlety'.
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