tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458014429977788114.post7226254066397598913..comments2024-03-14T05:12:16.728-05:00Comments on Cinema Style: Gatsby Times FiveCathy Whitlockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10095201030211587623noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458014429977788114.post-85301891296384591682011-03-20T09:30:10.698-05:002011-03-20T09:30:10.698-05:00I agree Nita and hope they scrap the Gatsby in 3D ...I agree Nita and hope they scrap the Gatsby in 3D idea though!Cathy Whitlockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10095201030211587623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458014429977788114.post-73299466935997746262011-03-19T23:35:58.624-05:002011-03-19T23:35:58.624-05:00The Great Gatsby is one of my most favorite books....The Great Gatsby is one of my most favorite books. I reread it every few years. I think Leonardo is going to be perfection in this role. Carey Mulligan would not first come to mind for the part...but she has been good in everything she's been in and I expect her to be good here. I hate it that a historic mansion will be taken down - only to be replaced by McMansions.Nita Stacyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13833196166679983378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458014429977788114.post-92143677765213615862011-03-19T13:14:55.529-05:002011-03-19T13:14:55.529-05:00Thanks and yes, always sad to lose a piece of hist...Thanks and yes, always sad to lose a piece of history. Happening too often!Cathy Whitlockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10095201030211587623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458014429977788114.post-75360954570661732222011-03-19T12:05:54.730-05:002011-03-19T12:05:54.730-05:00Great post. So sad to lose another piece of histo...Great post. So sad to lose another piece of historical architecture.Mary Ann Picketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11885030768216528362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458014429977788114.post-90485899177748626672011-03-13T13:57:44.440-05:002011-03-13T13:57:44.440-05:00Thanks for your comment and would love to have hea...Thanks for your comment and would love to have heard your lecture. Maybe Carey M was cast as she looks like a young Mia:)Cathy Whitlockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10095201030211587623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458014429977788114.post-48610060375789586582011-03-13T11:03:20.193-05:002011-03-13T11:03:20.193-05:00Marvelous post, as always. And there in the comme...Marvelous post, as always. And there in the comments I find myself quoted. I wish to point out that in the actual quote I said that the legend that the Belmont/Hearst house inspired the Oz castle was probably apocryphal.<br /><br />Carey Mulligan as Daisy. Really..The Down East Dilettantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13950254669198151850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458014429977788114.post-84425386683577719572011-03-13T10:31:18.916-05:002011-03-13T10:31:18.916-05:00I think the Gatsby films are as jinxed as the char...I think the Gatsby films are as jinxed as the character himself!Cathy Whitlockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10095201030211587623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458014429977788114.post-64264686539870974992011-03-13T09:10:27.534-05:002011-03-13T09:10:27.534-05:00Having Leo DiCaprio die (drown, get shot, whatever...Having Leo DiCaprio die (drown, get shot, whatever) at the end of your movie seems to lock-in your chances for Best Picture.<br /><br />So perhaps Luhrmann has found a way to beat "the Gatsby jinx."The Ancienthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11662492574558280077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458014429977788114.post-45549441954464213932011-03-12T19:58:06.984-06:002011-03-12T19:58:06.984-06:00Interesting! The Emerald City was inspired by a ph...Interesting! The Emerald City was inspired by a photograph of a post war town in Germany - Cedric Gibbons (the art director on the film) said it looked like upside down test tubes and that was his starting point for the film as well.Cathy Whitlockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10095201030211587623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458014429977788114.post-10100455665194031022011-03-12T19:25:10.297-06:002011-03-12T19:25:10.297-06:00At today's presentation to Decorative Arts Tru...At today's presentation to Decorative Arts Trust, Hearst Castle historian Victoria Kastner stated that Mrs Wm R Hearst's home, Beacon Towers, at Sands Point, Long Island, inspired Fitzgerald to be the model for Gatsby's house. Designed for Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont by Hunt & Hunt, c. 1917, it was demolished in the 1940s. See photos on the Old Long Island blog by clicking on the Vanderbilt family category and scrolling down. Our fellow blogger The Downeast Dilettante comments that this house was an inspiration for the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz film.The Devoted Classicisthttp://tdclassicist.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com