#Great Gatsby adaptations

[newyorkthegoldenage]

"[Owen] Davis’s play was well-received, running at Broadway’s Ambassador Theater (now home of Chicago) for 112 performances over three months in 1926, then spent eight months on the road. To put that Broadway run in perspective: There were 262 productions on Broadway that season. Ticket prices for the play ranged from one dollar all the way up to $3.20."

The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script

Since the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel of the Jazz Age – on April 10, 1925, 99 years ago today —  “The Great Gatsby” has been turned into an opera, a ballet,  several movies, and a musical that will open on Broadway later this month, with a completely different musical adaptation of the novel also aiming for Broadway. The avant-garde theater company Elevator Repair Service even made…

[wuwubean]

i’ve already had to deal with my sister playing the great gatsby musical on loop for the past two months, and the moment new money finally leaves my head the book of bill makes the great gatsby a huge part of it’s puzzles. i can’t escape it. send help please.

[svdaily]

Stop yearning so desperately for the next best thing that you forget to appreciate the present. Sitting in a brand new BMW wishing it was a Bentley, chasing some elusive end point, and losing the magic of today. You do not have to keep pursuing, acquiring, moving. There can be satisfaction in contentment. There can be satisfaction in the now.

[sillybillywaffl]

(GREAT GATSBY MUSICAL SPOILERS(ish) AHEAD BTW!!!!!!!!!!)

just recently saw the great gatsby musical on Broadway and had a thought I wanted to share about how much I love the inclusion of roaring on as the opening and closing numbers of the show.

to my knowledge, the lyrics of the chorus remained unchanged for both versions (original and reprise), and I think that is what elevated it to such depths. the lyrics talk about moving from one party to the next, paying off the cops and doing anything to keep a glamorous life "roaring on". at the beginning of the musical, it sets the tone for the main drive; all the characters want to maintain their lives while still doing whatever they can to keep being swept up in the glamour of high class 20's society. it was a gorgeous spectacle of an opener, a dazzling song meant to draw you in and set the scene.

now at the end, even though it all stays essentially the same lyrically, my analysis of it completely changes. after Nick has to watch everything burn so bright and then horrifically die out (literally die out for several characters), and yet everything... really doesn't change for people. the parties and society life will still continue with or without Gatsby's parties, Daisy will still be able to live a privileged life like she did in the beginning, and everything just moves on. applying this to roaring on, it now has a much deeper meaning; it more so represents the fleeting nature of life, and how people can just move on so quickly to the next shiny thing they see. How you may seem on top of the world at one point, but how eventually the party ends, which may affect how your life pans out, YET people will just find another to attend and be swept up in their lives, making yours almost meaningless once all the guests have departed. I really admired just how much the exact same words could create such a different tone in this musical.

[i-didnt-do-1t]

Arts Gatsby and the reason their interpretation of Gatsby as non-white and his father as explicitly Indigenous American is important and so embedded in the text, as taken from my dissertation <3

and this (which I specifically more about minority vs social mobility but stills stands as relevant to the conversation)

[jokest3r]

The Great Gatsby and the Twelve Accounts of Queer Erasure the Musical

[heatherfield]

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Kissing in the Rain, Episode 10 “Daisy & Jay” [x]

[djscratch]

The Great Gatsby (2013) dir. Baz Luhrmann

[gayest-classiclit]

ROUND 2; classic lit adaptation bracket

GATSBY GAME:

based on: the great gatsby, f scott fitzgerald

medium: video game

propaganda: you play as nick and you throw your hat at enemies and collect margaritas for points. there is a level that takes place on a train. it slays tbh.

DUODECIMAL:

based on: twelfth night, william shakespeare

medium: short story

propaganda: 'It’s so fucking good! It has symbolism! It delves deep into the Malvolio Plot—which is often brushed aside due to its messiness, but Goosebooks dives fully into that messiness and emerges from the other side with a heartbreaking, hopeful, and humorous story about mental illness, neurodivergence, and gender. It has OCD neurodivergent queer Malvolio what more do you WANT from me guys. Go read Duodecimal I am sending you psychic waves to go read Duodecimal.'

[i-ideate]

the urge to learn filmography and raise a budget and get a proper team of writers just to do your favorite piece(s) of literature famous

It CANNOT be that hard to adapt a piece of media. Really, it can't. It's my number one question when reading comics or books - how the hell can someone mess this up? I can understand tweaking minor things in the context of the story, eg: setting or time or whatever (again, as long as it doesn't affect the story). BUT SIBLINGS?! As so many users have written on here already, it is just a disgrace to Oscar Wilde and so many other authors when their piece of media is put to shame in such a way. SIBLINGS?!?!?!?!!? This not only disregards the content, but the context! I am hoping so hard that this is like some massive prank and Netflix is doing this to get people to rage-watch the show, and then it turns out theyre not siblings and actually gay. I am hoping so damn hard that that's the truth. Anyways, I want to prove that its not that hard to make an adaptation of a piece of media, so artist, animators, and more of tumblr, UNITE! Feel free to reblog this post with comics or animations or anything that can count as a plausible adaptation, or with examples of good adaptations of a piece of media! Also feel free to add tags of other pieces of media that you feel were treated unfairly.

[the-kestrels-feather]

So I'm watching the Great Gatsby movie (the 2013 Baz Luhrman one because I love it a lot), and Leonardo DiCaprio says "sport" weird it goes back and forth between "spohwrt" "spahwt"

[real-odark]

gatsby bway has a Lot. of characteristic flaws

but i Will give them that i like how they start/end with roaring on, and have the transition of nick's enamoration with the life of the party to his distaste once he's seen what's behind it and everyone else just has. no development. theyre as ugly as they ever were in their choices but nick has learned better

[wordswhisperinthedark]

I want the full album to be released already😍😭

[thegreatgatzbi]

i finally caved and listened to the only tracklist i could find for the great gataby musicaland By God This Sounds Like Shit. Dear Fucking Lord.

maybe they changed things up after that recording but LORD ALMIGHTY it seems like they just didnt understand the story at ALL from what i could bare listening to.

[toastery]

we're reading the great gatsby in english class and we're all in agreement that nick is absolutely infatuated and in love with gatsby right?? right????

[transgirltinkaton]

you know what's fucked up? with all the talk of public domain media, i don't think we've ever seen a visual novel adaptation of a public domain novel