He has a plan and he is going to execute it and as far as he is concerned, for all the right reasons. DeCaprio's Gatsby is forceful, decisive he is a determined man of significant accomplishment and great ability. Redford's Gatsby seemed reticent and insecure about his past regretful that he must live a lie in order to accomplish his goal. Leo DeCaprio is the only actor of this generation that could play Gatsby, just as Robert Redford could only play Gatsby the previous generation. He is going to win her back and make things as they should have been. Daisy was Gatsby's great love, but he lost her, and now in one final herculean effort he is going to correct his past this one last time. No, he did everything, and I mean everything, for the love of a woman. But it is not for them that Gatsby has made this remarkable metamorphosis. This belief, that he can change his past, to correct it as it were, has given him a veneer of respectability that has put him in good stead with his underworld connections. He has acquired his fabulous wealth through bootlegging and stock swindles. Unlike Alger's heroes, he has not followed the straight and narrow. He is the American success myth both personified and perverted. He is the self made American man in every way. In true Horatio Alger tradition he has worked hard to improve himself, but when his past creeps up on him and threatens his well crafted self image, he suavely and effortlessly changes it, his past, and he inhabits the change until it becomes the reality. Jay Gatsby has achieved success in a fashion beyond most imaginations, excepting his own. Especially this Aussie, Baz Luhrmann, who is known to overload, over-hype and overcook his theatrical product into a glittery miasma of small meaning and little consequence. How dare some Aussie come over here and tell us about the meaning of one of the great works of American literature.
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THE GREAT GATSBY There is no movie I have been more prepared to dislike than this one.