Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hollywood, creator of America's next breed of immortals could possess them as completely. Representing for America the great internationalization of the great American dream, it created another race of stars apart, another generation of lucky creatures locked in another as different a world...
...Hollywood's attributes were so amply like West Egg's, Hollywood was bound to lure Fitzgerald into a mad hate-love affair. Its attraction could magnetize the man as certainly as it could rot his art. As the peeling Dr. Eckleberg--monument to America's first age of advertising and god of the ash heaps--mocked the death of Gatsby's dreams, so Hollywood--monster bulwark of materialism and smug summit of the equation--tortured Fitzgerald. Yes, the place could be as hostile to Fitzgerald as West Egg had been to Gatsby. Though both could dream unto death, neither could...
...Hollywood could not. Hollywood had been blinded by the very inversion of values that Fitzgerald had been able to objectify so powerfully. If Hollywood's ambition derived at all from the purblind ambition of Gatsby, then it would prove as poisonous. And it would as inevitably lead Hollywood to reproduce Gatsby's mistakes...
Then when Hollywood aspires to make The Great Gatsby, how easily might it be bound by the very forms Fitzgerald criticized. How spectacularly would it make the Gatsby story. Make it--it would make it over. Imagine the spectacular to come of the match. It's the Hollywood movie dream. It's also Hollywood's hubris--Fitzgerald's devil returned to bedevil Hollywood...
...movie is no more than another Hollywood spectacular, all the show and the glitter, the gold and the tinsel, all sunbursts and exploding skies. It tells a good story with lots of yummy mush and death to boot; it's a nice little Hollywood bit. It runs just like an American beauty pageant, stargazing from start to finish. From the first laborious pan over Gatsby's shining bedspread the movie shows off its affects. Come, you are cordially invited, to this miracle of Gatsby masquerading...