Apparently Tom's favourite book, The Rise of the Colored Empires, is a thinly-veiled parody of a real publication. Would a 1920s audience have understood Tom as a racist and seen it as negative?
###Muppets Present "The Great Gatsby" Screenplay
###Muppets Present "The Great Gatsby" Poster
Logline: "See the Muppets in their latest classic literary adaptation of "The Great Gatsby." The rich and mysterious Gatsby the Frog seeks help from his narrator neighbor in wooing the heart of Miss Daisy, an old-money socialite."
I OWN THE RIGHTS TO NONE OF THE MUPPET CHARACTERS
For those interested, here is the cast:
Gatsby - Kermit the Frog
Nick Carraway: - Actor [Dream cast - Tom Holland]
Daisy - Miss Piggy
Tom Buchanan - Actor [Dream cast - Taron Egerton]
George Wilson - Fozzie Bear
Myrtle Wilson - Actress [Dream cast - Rebecca Ferguson]
Jordan Baker - Actress paired with Camilla the Chicken [Dream cast below]
Fitz & Gerald - Rizzo & Gonzo (new 4th wall breaking characters paired with Nick)
Meyer Wolfsheim - Pepe the King Prawn (known here as Meyer Wolfprawn)
Klipsrpinger the Pianist - Rowlf the Dog
Owl Eyes - Scooter
Hope y'all enjoy!
EDIT: To clarify, all of the other Muppets make appearances. Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem play at Gatsby's party, Bunsen Honeydew and Beeker crash a car leaving the party (a scene from the novel), the Swedish Chef is Tom and Daisy's personal cook, etc. Even Walter... eventually shows up.
EDIT #2: Jordan Baker was actually my favorite (human) character to write for and I didn't dream cast her because I like the idea of an unknown playing her. She also has the most difficult singing demands of any character so that knocked out a lot of actresses who I know can't sing.
A couple of people have asked so here is who I've considered (in no order):
- Margaret Qualley
So like everyone else on the planet I studied the Great Gatsby at school. I loved it, and have read it a few times since. I’ve always had a great appreciation for Fitzgerald’s skill at conveying a national mood in a story, but my recent re-reading was a totally new experience.
The parallels between the 1920s and 2020s are a cliche at this point, and it’s only 2021, but I do think this last year gives a new kind of reading to the book where you feel the atmosphere so readily it’s almost dizzying. I did some academic reading recently about the cultural amnesia of the 1918 influenza pandemic, because (along with WW1 of course) it was this staggering global trauma, but it undoubtedly contributed to the glorious, dangerous hedonism explored in Gatsby.
Between the traumatised hedonism and rampant socio-economic inequality that, imo, form the axes of the Great Gatsby, I honestly think the collective experience of the last year(s) lends a whole new dimension to reading this classic.
Something that covers the pop culture of 40's to 70's and has themes of wealth, lust, grandeur. Like a good book that immerses you in the time it was set. You get the idea.
Thanks
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/THE-GREAT-GATSBY-Musical-Scored-by-Florence-Welch-and-Thomas-Bartlett-Headed-for-Broadway-20210428
Why? I've read the book and nothing in the book strikes me as musical material. This may not be a popular opinion but I think I'll pass on seeing this...I read the book The Great Gatsby in english class and it practically put me to sleep
kinda stupid but these really pretty hardcover editions are available at a discounted price on amazon and I can only buy one so I just need to know if there are prettier covers out there for these or should I just go for it cause these are classics i'm gonna preserve on my bookshelf for the rest of my life so I don't want to settle for less, iykwim. These are the covers i'm talking bout;
Is there a more beautiful edition somewhere out there which I should buy instead of this or should I just go for this?
I need answers
The ticket to get in? A paper share of the stock I like the most...
And if so, would it have been more because the Americans joined at the end of the war or because Nick was just rich?
Hey, I’m doing a debate essay on how gatsby is actually great and escaped his past. (My teacher said this was the hardest one to do and now I’m stuck with it). I have to find a quote in the book and I can’t really find anything to help my case.
Nick Caraway: his eyes had a romantic readiness to them.
Also nick: he flashed that understanding smile again.
Nick yet again: (strips to his underwear in another mans bed for an unexplained reason)
Any rational high school student: wait, is he gay?
Half the English teachers that cover this: Ew no why would you think that?
Literally every great gatsby movie: (leaves the bed scene out because in literally all media, being shown naked in someone’s bed after a short time jump is shorthand for “they had sex”)
Also the movies: keeps in Jordan baker because she’s totally not a pointless character who despite being written as a love interest, is so poorly handled that nicks attraction to her has been ascribed to compulsory heterosexuality, because that genuinely makes more sense than thinking he actually likes her.
But uh, the gays totally wants to make everything about THEM, right. How dare you imply that sharing a bed with a man you barely know for a night while in your underwear is a thing you do after having a one night stand!
