I really liked The Great Gatsby movie. There were many appealing elements that went into this movie like the music and special effects. I also enjoyed it because it helped clear up the confusion and frustration that The Great Gatsby book left me with.
I always notice the music in movies and I really liked the music in The Great Gatsby. It was very cool how the music was both from the 1920s but also from the current time period. Energetic swinging jazz was intertwined with the rap and pop we are familiar with today. The song, "Young and Beautiful" was also played periodically in the background, sometimes quickly and sometimes drawn out and longingly. I fell in love with this song before I had even seen The Great Gatsby but now that I have seen the movie I can appreciate the song more. The lyrics really fit with some of the major themes in The Great Gatsby.
I also loved the special effects and setting of the movie. The environment that the characters were living in was just so different than the one I am used to and it was so vividly portrayed that it was almost as if I was in the same room as Gatsby himself. My favorite scene was probably when we first meet Daisy and Jordan as they are sitting on the couch. The way the white curtains dance around the room and just the airiness of it all is magical. It was like a dream that made it so life could go on in perfect happiness forever.
