What a way to celebrate entering our own roaring 20s by looking at a character that optimizes that crazy era.

@thomaskressig3829

3 жыл бұрын

“Roaring 2020’s” hasn’t aged so well so far

@filmisjustmovingpictures

3 жыл бұрын

lol. I was just talking about that today.

@sylveteraforve7264

3 жыл бұрын

I really like the way you write

@filmisjustmovingpictures

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@sanidhyashivhare

2 жыл бұрын

hahahahah man man man, i just wish now to be born in different era

I think when Fitzgerald started the novel he intended it be about Nick and Jordan (since that reflected what was going on in his real-life) then somewhere along the way he as a writer discovers Gatsby in much the same way as Nick discovers him in the narrative, and the novel becomes a letter home to the America he left behind.

@aryasorensen4028

3 жыл бұрын

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Woah him dying on the poor part of town and him being brought up poor . He meant his demise so poetically .

From one Great Gatsby video essayist to another...respect.

@filmisjustmovingpictures

3 жыл бұрын

Respect back

You don’t touch on how it was daisy that was driving the car though. Gatsby chose to take the blame

Gatsby could handle almost everything but being called out for the reality of his situation. He couldn't handle being called out in the sense that he built his fortune on criminal activity and was always one step away from having to deal with gangsters who would catch up with him. I find it boggling that while they did have an attachment and they did care about each other, it is clear to me that he really did in fact view her as buy-able and that she should flip her life and obligations and not run off with him, but redo the courtship, this time with him in the role of the respectable upper class man of wealth, despite the fact that the class Daisy comes from would have in fact sniffed out his criminal activity and run him out and Daisy would have been a fallen woman.

I have not seen a more talented...no... extremely talented actor like Leo caprio....he just mesmerizes us with his performance...its not like he's acting but real shot of his real self...

I just finish reading the book, great analasys. I didn t realize the metaphore betwen the eyes glass in the poster and god watching the sins of men. Thx for your video

@filmisjustmovingpictures

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the video! What's better the book or movie?

@FN0765

3 жыл бұрын

I was reading the book then couldn’t contain my desire to watch the movie. I always try to read a story then watch it. Now that I’ve watched it I don’t feel like reading it. It’s such a bad feeling. 😭

This was an amazing analysis of the movie. Great work.

@filmisjustmovingpictures

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment. This is one that I am proud of so it's cool when others enjoy it!

If the stock market crashed in 1929 and the great Gatsby was written in 1924, how could Fitzgerald have been alluding to the crash?

@filmisjustmovingpictures

2 жыл бұрын

Wizardry power?

@joemontano71

Ай бұрын

@@filmisjustmovingpictures Nonsense.

Daisy embodies the lack of virtue and foolishness of the 1920's boom and the untouchable realms of old money that only few could fall back on. Underneath she's cruel, shallow and uncaring and nothing that those dabbling in illegal activity to make one's wealth could rely on. She's the enlightment that so many sought after during the 1920's, she's class and luxury and everything bootleggers like Jay Gatsby want to have. She is enthralled by Jay's wealth only to discard him when disaster strikes (encapsulated by Jay's death aka the great depression) because it's easier to hide behind empires and old money than to struggle amongst the masses. The reality is she cannot be with Gatsby because he encapsulates the holy grail that is the "American Dream", the hard climb out of poverty into extravagent wealth, something that can be dashed in the course of a day (like their accident with the mistress in the valley). He represents the harsh reality of the socio-economic atmostphere of the 1930's. It's an illusion that Jay holds so dear, the American Dream that he can almost grasp, the green light just across the bay that will never be touched. Obsessiveness, excessiveness and dream-like mentality was the ultimate downfall that Fitzgerald want readers to heed, thus any future listeners fall into its trap. The all-seeing eye of the occulist in the Valley of Ash is the only true source of unbiased reality, he sees the discardment of the shiny city's waste and it's inhabitants surviving on the meagre rations the city spits out. That is what Fitzgerald was living in, he has seen the Great Depression's beginning and put it into the story as a way to showcase the alpha and omega of a society so enthralled by greed and grandiose that it's beginning and end of the film was impacted by this true, dark actuality. Fascinating narrative, thankyou for this analysis!

@filmisjustmovingpictures

Жыл бұрын

This was such a good read! Thank you!

I think Gatsby had MAJOR self loathing issues and if Daisy had run off with him, Gatsby would have never been able to move past his own neurosis about his impoverished past. There is no way that Gatsby would have been able to rewrite his past and I am certain that he would have ended up mistreating Daisy, since Daisy could never have turned him into a member of the blue blood set by birth. There is no way that Daisy could be that perpetual fantasy and there is no way that Daisy would have made him respectable. He was a money-laundering bootlegger and had ties with the mob and he would have been either arrested, killed, or gotten Daisy killed in some kind of retaliation if Gatsby had ticked off a mobster or messed up a deal. I do not think that he would have ended up making her happy and he would likely have disliked Pammy (Daisy and Tom's daughter).

@TJ22_83

2 жыл бұрын

Gatsby did everything for Daisy. He became rich, built a castle, threw parties just hoping she'd walk in... and ultimately died for her. Them no one showed up to his funeral besides Nick. Not even Daisy. Let's be honest, Daisy was not a great person.

@dianecrow6887

2 жыл бұрын

@@TJ22_83 He did all that, but thing is, that Daisy was married with a life of her own, a family of her own. I also believe that Daisy was just an image, an access key to his inner view of himself. For Daisy to leave her husband and then for him to court her from the home of her parents does not take into the reality of the situation. Daisy would be ostracized and since Gatsby is laundering money and smuggling in booze, he would be even worse than a poor soldier since he would be engaged in criminal 'work'. Daisy was a realist and was also a mother. Daisy also liked him until Tom revealed that Gatsby was a criminal running with criminal cohorts and money laundering is still a felony and bootlegging is the equivalent of drug smuggling/dealing. There is no way that Daisy would have ended up being happy with Gatsby and she would have lost Pammy if she had left Tom. She would never have left her daughter and she would never have married a man engaged in criminal activity. There is also the underlying anger/rage that Gatsby had simmering in him.

@mariecohen3052

2 жыл бұрын

@@TJ22_83 Daisy was the symbol of Scott Fitzgerald leaving his country Daisy was pretty but shallow Daisy was Gatsby great obsession And that is that obsession that fueled Gatsby ambition and ascension to greatness And at the same time she was the catalyst of his downfall Great era 1920

@dianecrow6887

2 жыл бұрын

@@TJ22_83 Daisy didn't owe Gatsby shit. They had a good time together years ago, did have feelings, but Gatsby decided to go into criminal enterprises and also basically worm his way into her life via her dolt cousin Nick who was taken in by Gatsby completely. he threw those parties hoping Daisy would show interest, despite the fact that she had a life and small daughter to pay attention to. She had responsibilities FIRST as a mother and it is clear that Gatsby was exhibiting red flags all over the place from his shady side of life (Tom noticed this right away) and the fact that Gatsby was delusional to believe that having the same amount of money made them the same. Gatsby was making his money through two major criminal enterprises and I would have flipped if I found out a guy I liked as committing felonies regularly and was in fact a lowlife gangster. Gatsby also had major self loathing and anger issues and she HAD A FUCKING DAUGHTER to think of always. As for the funeral, he had led a life of criminal enterprise and disrepute and was in fact psychotically obsessed with Daisy in ways that would have gotten him a restraining order.

@againcs2386

Жыл бұрын

@@dianecrow6887 didn’t read the book but if we just take the movie… protecting here from a hit and run… she owes him..

Great video and great analysis. very well done. wish you luck and success

@filmisjustmovingpictures

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Really appreciate the support!

This video was really interesting, it deserves way more attention!

@filmisjustmovingpictures

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Enjoyed a lot. Awesome video!

@filmisjustmovingpictures

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

This was a great vid man

@filmisjustmovingpictures

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I thought It was about warning about adultery and how someone always gets hurt when it’s to do with adultery

Very cool analysis

@filmisjustmovingpictures

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

i think the flowers were exessive maybe, but also a symbol for love and pure goodness just like daisy was a symbol for female beauty

Great video, thanks man.

@filmisjustmovingpictures

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Good work ❤️❤️

@filmisjustmovingpictures

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Appreciate the support!

Wow... 😅 Someone’s been reading my journal

So Gatsby could have avoided all the shit he went through by just having manned up and asked out the girl he liked.

@aryasorensen4028

3 жыл бұрын

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@sampuatisamuel9785

2 жыл бұрын

Daisy would never have married a poor boy, which is why Gstsby needed to become extremely wealthy in order to win her over

@davecullins1606

2 жыл бұрын

@@sampuatisamuel9785 Or just middle-class.

@mariecohen3052

2 жыл бұрын

@@sampuatisamuel9785 even rich she never loved Gatsby Gatsby is a novel and quite entertaining Enjoy it don’t analyze it

@imlaughinq7445

4 ай бұрын

@@sampuatisamuel9785but what was that bit when daisy threw the pearls and said she changed her mind ? Wasn’t she saying she was gonna wait for gatsby ?

HOW DID GATSBY BECOME RICH AFTER HE WAS OUTCASTED ??

@TraGamer1606

3 жыл бұрын

The mob

@BoydDoghouse

3 жыл бұрын

Just like tom said, by buying up drug stores in small towns and using them to distribute hooch

so griffith is gatsby ?

The hell did Scott Fitzgerald do?

I thought we all knew at this Point that not Fitzgerald wrote the book and IT was his wife instead

@truffle6082

3 жыл бұрын

What really how did you come to this information?

You are completely and entirely wrong. Fitzgerald wrote the book prior to the stock market crash. Prior to any sort of understanding that it could even take place. Based on that merit, this interpretation is defunct.

@filmisjustmovingpictures

4 жыл бұрын

I know. I say that in the video. I even say Fitzgerald never knew what was right around the corner at the end of the decade.

@BoydDoghouse

3 жыл бұрын

He didn't now how it would end or when it would end, but there's no way the 20's could roar forever. The lost Generation were a pretty pessimistic bunch too, so this feeling that there was a sword dangling over America's head was a common theme among them. I always thought if he wrote a sequel it would have opened with Tom drinking himself to death after losing his estate in the great fall.

non sense, worthless story, Terminator is lot better than this garbage.

LOL, Shocking how basically nobody understands the plot. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Great Depression, or the working class being poor, or the loss of the "American Dream." LOL, it has everything to do with human vanity as manifest in Gatsby, yet it is told from a sympathetic voice from NIck Galloway. You see, old sport, vanity is not a sin, so long as you are a decent human, as Gatsby was. While the Daisy and Toms of the world are not decent. Daisy is from old money family in the Midwest. That's why Tom Buchanan wants to marry her and refused to divorce. Neither Bucanan or Gatsby really loves Daisy. They love the IDEA of being married to Daisy. Because clearly it is implied that Daisy's family status gives a level of social standing that money alone does not grant, because Bucanan and Gatsby were already rich at that point. Also don't forget Nick Galloway went to Yale with Bucanan, and looks down upon Bucanan as a brute. That is not simply because of his good heart. Galloway is also from elite family with status, even if he is relatively poor. He can look down upon Bucanan as a crass polo player, while even though Gatsby also came from no social status, Nick can sympathize with him because he sees a vulnerable and ultimately decent person, despite his shortcomings as a social climber. It is surprising how nobody notices basically Bucanan and Gatsby actually do seek approval from Nick, even though he's just another poor dude. LOL, when Gatsby says to Tom: the only thing respectable about you is your money. I have just as much as you do, so we are equal. Tom Bucanan retorts back: no, we are different. I am, we are, she is. You see, we were born different, it's in our blood. Really, Daisy and Nick actually have the status. Bucanan just wants to attach himself to it, even though he doesn't really have it, either, just slightly better than Gatsby. Bucanan, after all, is an Irish name. Nothing here is accidental. LOL.