![]() Nick is responsible for reuniting the lovers who both have come to different points in their lives five years after their aborted romance. Narrating the events is Nick Carraway, Gatsby's modest Long Island neighbor who becomes his most trusted confidante. The focus of the plot is still the interrupted love story between Jay Gatsby and his object of desire, Daisy. The result is an evocative but overlong 144-minute epic movie based on a novel that is really quite intimate in scope. The central problem, however, is that Jack Clayton's overly deliberate direction and Francis Ford Coppola's literate screenplay are really too faithful to the book to the point where the spirit of Fitzgerald's story becomes flattened and plot developments are paced too slowly. Interestingly, looking at the film over thirty years later, I am taken by how faithful the movie is to the original book both in text and period atmosphere. ![]() So much media hype surrounded the production, including a Scarlett O'Hara-level search for the right actress to play Daisy Buchanan, that it was bound to disappoint, and it did critically and financially. Scott Fitzgerald's literary masterwork was when it was originally released. It seems something of a shame how maligned the extravagant 1974 movie version of F. ![]()
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