Word: nick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film is faithful to the letter of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel but entirely misses its spirit. Much of Fitzgerald's prose has been preserved, especially in Nick Carraway's narration, but it only gives the film a stilted, stuffy tone that is reinforced by the dialogue. Fitzgerald wrote dialogue to be read, not said; and the Coppola screenplay (much rejuggled by Director Clayton) treats Fitzgerald's lines with untoward reverence. When Daisy sighs, "We were so close in our month of love," she sounds like a kid in a creative-writing course reading her first...
...rough edge required for the role, but he is surprisingly good at conveying Gatsby's uneasiness. The social graces are not natural to him. He has a tenuous poise, a mask that falls away when he is introduced to Daisy's small daughter or when Nick pays him a sincere compliment that makes him, for the first time, smile genuinely. Redford also has a sense of Gatsby's obsession. His look of longing, fulfillment and hopelessness when he sees Daisy for the first time has, momentarily, the depth of passion that the movie never achieves again...
...Waterston makes a gentle, intelligent Nick, but the role is largely passive. The movie's sharpest characterization is Bruce Bern's Tom Buchanan, a figure of imperiousness, steeped in contempt that comes from too much ease, too much money. When he and Gatsby confront Daisy in a hotel room one afternoon, the film catches the intensity that Fitzgerald conveyed in the sculpted contours of his prose...
...length just prolongs the film's al ready extravagant failures. "You can't repeat the past," Nick tells Gatsby, who disagrees. Nearly everything about The Great Gatsby, though, supports Nick. At least, no one here...
...League teams will be able to match a healthy Harvard quarter mile line-up. When Nick Leone and Joel Peter aren't nursing injuries, they have a one-two punch in the low 50-second range that could be tops in the 440 circuit...