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"Gatsby Believed in the Green Light, the Orgiastic Future that Year by Year Recedes Before Us "

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (21)



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“Filled with faces dead and gone. Filled with friends gone now forever. I can’t forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal there….they shot him three times in the belly and drove away.”

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“Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.”

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“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself.”

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“A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: ‘There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.’”

(Source: HuffPo)









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Comments

Beautiful Rowles! Just beautiful!

Posted by: PaddyDog at November 22, 2011 10:08 AM

Oh, and to the commenter who will inevitably appear here in a few minutes with some trite comment about Fitzgerald being over-rated and blah blah.....

Piss off to a different thread.

Posted by: PaddyDog at November 22, 2011 10:10 AM

thank you, made my day!

Posted by: magslivs at November 22, 2011 10:18 AM

Though the English professor in me takes offense at the bastardized "orgiastic," rather than the original and more elegant "orgastic."

Posted by: Doombear at November 22, 2011 10:22 AM

I don't think you can really demand that people with differing opinions not post. I don't think that's how it works. For the record: not a Fitzgerald fan, wasn't planning to post until I read your comment telling me not to post.

Posted by: Craig at November 22, 2011 10:28 AM

I'm sure that haircut is period, but the style is not doing Carey Mulligan any favors.

And is Tobey Maguire a little too... eager in that last photo? I assume he's playing Nick. It's been a long time since I've read Gatsby, but I remember him as being world-weary but still naively impressed with the lifestyle he gets dropped into. Mulligan doesn't look haughty enough.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at November 22, 2011 11:03 AM

I know there are some lovely words up there, but I can't take my eyes off Leo.

Stay outa here, Jay!

Posted by: Cindy at November 22, 2011 11:06 AM

I was quite stunned by the resemblance between Di Caprio and Redford in the first picture up there!

Posted by: frank_247 at November 22, 2011 11:09 AM

Could it be that Leo is actually starting to look like an adult?

Posted by: Todd at November 22, 2011 11:20 AM

First time in a while that I have found Leo quite attractive... That second picture is quite fetching!

Posted by: Laura at November 22, 2011 11:22 AM

Oh, and to the commenter who will inevitably appear here in a few minutes with some trite comment about Fitzgerald being over-rated and blah blah.....

Piss off to a different thread.

Posted by: PaddyDog at November 22, 2011 10:10 AM

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Just needed repeating.

Posted by: zeke the pig at November 22, 2011 11:25 AM

i'm probably the one not to be excited by this movie!

Posted by: carrie at November 22, 2011 11:57 AM

J.D. Salinger did it better. :D

Posted by: tallulahc at November 22, 2011 12:39 PM

Yeah, I'm ambivalent to Leo, but he is wearing both the suit and the haircut really well. Not so much for Carey - she looks a little fussy (I think the dress, though beautiful, is too froufrou)

Posted by: Sara Tonin at November 22, 2011 1:24 PM

I love the Great Gatsby, and there was never a more appropriate time for a film adaptation. I just can't picture Tobey Maguire as Nick, though. He just seems too "aww-shucks".

Posted by: Freller at November 22, 2011 1:35 PM

Those irises are lovely.

I think that Daisy's froufrou dress is kind of appropriate and speaks to her character.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 22, 2011 1:57 PM

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had."

Unless, of course, you are posting on Pajiba.

Posted by: MRod at November 22, 2011 2:18 PM

Fitzgerald is one of my favourite writers of all time. If they fuck this up, I will fight them.

Posted by: A-schaef at November 22, 2011 2:53 PM

I'm really nervous about this movie, I'd really prefer them to leave Gatsby alone.

Posted by: Alex at November 22, 2011 5:24 PM

He frontin' with all them books, but if you pull one down off the shelf, ain't none of the pages ever been opened. He got all them books, and he ain't read near one of 'em. Gatsby, he was who he was, and he did what he did. And 'cause he wasn't ready to get real with the story, that shit caught up to him.

Posted by: Andy at November 22, 2011 6:24 PM

He,This is a great and usefull blog.Keep up the good work.

Posted by: scorpion motors at November 23, 2011 8:06 PM