Oxford, New Mexico | The Great Gatsby | Robert Redford, Mia Farrow

movie 'The Great Gatsby' | The Great Gatsby | Robert Redford, Mia Farrow

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	• The Great Gatsby Robert Redford, Mia Farrow Paramount Pictures, 2003 average customer review:based on 133 reviews view larger image
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic

A Classic F.Scott Fitzgerald Novel turned into a Good Movie but not great.
It is worth viewing and for the Movie Collectors. ****

Oxford, New Mexico

To see the extent to which the filmmakers misunderstood the novel, all you have to do is to view one brief scene. Recall this passage from the book:

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"About Gatsby! No, I haven't. I said I'd been making a small investigation of his past."

"And you found he was an Oxford man," said Jordan helpfully.

"An Oxford man!" He was incredulous. "Like hell he is! He wears a pink suit."

"Nevertheless he's an Oxford man."

"Oxford, New Mexico," snorted Tom contemptuously, "or something like that."
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Tom quips "Oxford, New Mexico" here to mock the notion that Gatsby could have possibly graduated from Oxford. While Oxford University represents the ultimate in upper class respectability to blue-blooded Easterners like himself, anything having to do with New Mexico is no doubt considered vulgar and hopelessly lower class. Tom "snorts" the words "Oxford, New Mexico" because it is literally laughable to him that a nobody like Gatsby would try to pass himself off as an upper class elite.

But in the movie, Tom does not "snort" the words. He looks at Jordan with a serious expression and and says "Oxford, New Mexico" in a chiding tone, like a father reprimanding his misbehaving young daughter.

In other words, the filmmakers completely miss the point of that little exchange. And if they don't grasp something so obvious, well, they really don't understand the character, Tom Buchanan, do they? And if they don't understand basic stuff like that, they don't understand the book at all, and it shows.

Not all is lost. I'll give the movie three stars for all the visuals: the lavishly decorated mansions, Gatsby's huge parties, the chic 1920s attire of the moneyed class...it's all beautifully filmed, looking the way you imagine it does in the book.

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movie 'The Great Gatsby'

An excellent movie I saw when it first came out and thought it was so good, I wanted it in my collection! Terrific acting!!

Adaptation of the Fitzgerald novel about a dashing enigmatic millionaire obsessed with an elusive, spoiled young woman.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 8-AUG-2006
Media Type: DVD