![]() Luhrmann began to consider adapting the novel after listening to it as a recorded book while traveling on the Trans-Siberian Railway after finishing 2001’s “Moulin Rouge!” But it took a while to figure out how to translate “Gatsby” into a cinematic language that preserved Fitzgerald’s voice. and Village Roadshow), and numerous production delays, some tied to weather, postponed the film’s release from last fall to May. Worried about its budget, Sony Pictures backed out of the movie (the film was ultimately co-produced by Warner Bros. The director briefly needed his own adhesive to keep “The Great Gatsby” from falling apart. “It was our poetic glue,” the director said of 3-D. He filmed several sequences in long takes, as if “The Great Gatsby” were live theater, and shot it in 3-D the stereoscopic technology, Luhrmann said, heightens the film’s emotions, moving the audience from spectators to participants. While Gatsby’s famous bashes are even more excessive in Luhrmann’s imagination than in the novel, with fireworks choreographed to Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” the director said he labored to keep the story intimate and immersive. “I have one duty - to the best of my ability to captain the storytelling team, and to tell and reveal the story,” said the 50-year-old Luhrmann, who followed his Oscar-nominated “Moulin Rouge!” with the critical and commercial disappointment “Australia.” “I set out to reveal ‘The Great Gatsby,’ but I also set out to do a movie of it.” The full note never appears on screen, but the fact that Luhrmann felt compelled to create it in such detail speaks to the director’s attention to detail and the intricacies of his creative embellishments. “You see my uniform hid the truth that I was poor,” the letter reads in the film’s imagination, its lines meticulously inked with a turn-of-the-century fountain pen on vintage paper (in handwriting that mimicked Fitzgerald’s, no less). Luhrmann and his team decided that the missive was Gatsby’s confession of undying love in a relationship doomed by his poverty and set out his thoughts to Daisy. The book never reveals the contents, but its impact on Daisy is profound. A case in point: The novel suggests that Gatsby, a former soldier, penned a heartbreaking letter to Daisy on her wedding day. According to The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia, a PR rep advised the princess be “a timeless beauty with classic appeal.” He suggested they name the princess after the wife of the famous American author, an “eternal beauty.When the source material left some questions unanswered, Luhrmann followed his own hunches. (Of course.) Japanese game creator Shigeru Miyamoto just needed a name. Players would enter the world as Link, an elf-like character set on saving the captured princess. ![]() And she was the muse for The Eagles’ “Witchy Woman.” But did we know that her reach expanded to video games? That’s right: Zelda Fitzgerald was also the namesake for Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda.Īs the story goes, the plot was set. ![]() She served as the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan, for one. We know she’s been immortalized in literature. In fact, people are still so enamored by the couple that they’d pay $72 a night to stay in their old Alabama home. Their love story continues to fascinate us. She was a writer, a socialite, and (obviously) the wife of F. What’s there to say about Zelda Fitzgerald that hasn’t already been said? She was an icon of the Jazz Age, the first flapper, the face of the roaring ’20s.
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