They really need to make a movie based on this masterpiece
>>69116180
0/10 attempt at a ruse cruise
>>69116209
What? It's a really good piece of literature. A classic you might say.
I miss Quentin. Like him or hate him, he brought character wherever he went.
He had a real knack for riling up some of the more despicable losers on 4chan.
![Dxcover[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/La01M3o.jpg "Dxcover[1].jpg")
They really need to make a movie based on this masterpiece
>>69116253
Potheads are degenerates
>>69116232
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby_%282013_film%29
>>69116302
I watched this flick. It's not Great Gatsby movie
>>69116253
Agreed. He was right about the culture thing.
>>69116302
We don't talk about this trash here
>>69116328
>>69116364
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby_%281974_film%29
Stupid reddi/tv/irgins
Yeah it had Sam Waterson in it.
>>69116302
Why is Luhrman such a hack? That was just vomitive.
>>69116180
I wanna fuck that skyface.
>>69116328
>>69116364
>>69116540
>they really need to make a movie based on this masterpiece
>n-not that one, it doesn't count
>>69116364
It had a few things going for it
>>69116259
true
>>69116302
I hate this movie so much
Talk about butchering the book. And it spawned the stupidest normie shit because LE GATSBY IS ABUOT LE PARTY XD
>>69116259
>>69116626
Who will play JC Denton?
>IM GONNA TAKE YOU TO THE BLOOD BANK, BOB PAGE
>ANYBODY KNOW WHO DID JOJO
>>69116699
You think you know better than FEMA what to do with this month's birthday shipments?
>>69116768
ANYBODY SEEN JOHNNY LEBEDEV?
>>69116574
That was a joint, not a movie you retard.
>>69116699
>TELL ME ABOUT MAJESTIC 12, WHY DO THEY MAKE THE GRAY DEATH
>>69116328
>flick
Fucking kill yourself, OP. This thread isn't even funny. It's just shit.
>>69116830
>joint
>notjernt
Do you even jazz age? Kill yourself, you plebeian.
>>69116831
LOTTA LOYALTY FOR A NANOAUGMENTED SOLDIER
why are all the great gatsby film adaptations shit?
>>69117259
Same reason all the Dune movie adaptions are shit
>>69116259
I never asked for that
>>69116180
Quentin go to bed.
>>69117259
because the book itself is shit
>>69116253
Is there an archive of all of his comics?
>>69117401
Please explain what's so bad about it.
>>69116830
>joint
DUDE
WEED
LMAO
>>69117469
You have a man who fought for his country and became incredibly rich through his own means, hard work, and ingenuity. Does he enjoy his wealth and new found social status? Does he honor his fallen comrades by living the life they no longer can? Does he find happiness and peace after a long struggle that was his life?
No, he does not. You have a crybaby who pines after a woman whom she herself does not recognize as a man by throwing parties for people he does not care for and who neither love him, nor accept him, in return. He's so desperately in love with this shade, this thing that can't be described as human so akin is she to be more properly described as an ornament, with no interesting qualities or redeeming features except her face and body, that he buys a house, an entire structure with the surrounding land, right across from where she lives. He himself does not even have the courage to properly face and express his love for her, even if it means facing off against an obvious, if not mentally deficient, at the very least emotionally disturbed, terrible and insufferable human being. So what is his reward after all of this? A death that no one acknowledges, save for one sniveling coward.
So to reiterate, and tl;dr, fuck this book, fuck the people in it, fuck the "scenery" and "imagery", fuck everything in it, and fuck you and everyone else for thinking this was anything other than a glorified pseudo-psychological bullshit profile into the mind of a self-destructive, whiny, sad sack of shit known simply as Gatsby.
>>69117469
>>69116180
>>69117941
I hate this book so fucking much.
>>69117941
>>69117996
So you don't like it because your /pol/ proclivities make you unable to understand- in many levels- it? Wow, everybody's surprised. Such rich criticism and analysis.
>>69118062
>/pol/
>many levels
>implying
>>69118062
Don't understand how anything in either of those posts was /pol/ related. You okay there, bud?
>>69116589
>tfw no giant gf
;_;
>>69117941
when you put it that way, now i must read the book. sounds like it's a story that mirrors modern day america with themes including unrequited love, longing, the futility of endeavor, and economic struggles told through complex character. thanks for the rec, mate!
>>69116589
post more semon demon
>>69118062
>>69118110
/pol/ proclivities, it's easily understable. A view of the world in which you're unable to accept certain behaviors, races, genders, etc. The non-ability to sympathize and then acting as if this is bad- or a failure, a problem- on the thing itself.
Very widespread ideology currently in the world.
>>69118319
>projection
not an argument
>>69117941
But that's nonsense, and you're just reading it like a fifth grader would: for the plot.
The Great Gatsby is essentially about the fact that life disappoints us. Look at Gatsby: he's basically a Romantic superhero who has spent his entire adult life in search of a single transcendent thing (i.e., his nostalgia-mottled idea of Daisy), and who, unlike many people, actually follows his ambition through. Everyone has that sort of abstract longing for permanent fulfillment. It's why we enjoy escapist narratives that show adventures, or whatever.
But Fitzgerald points out the failure of that mindset, and how, ultimately, real life doesn't give happy anime endings. Gatsby almost has what he wants, but he needs it to be absolutely perfect (like it's in a fucking fairy tale, he can't accept that Daisy was ever in love with Tom Buchanan) and so he ruins it. People can't really achieve that permanent, immortal transcendence that they want. Worldly concerns (monotony, banality, social status and structures) simply prevent it.
If your argument is that everyone in the novel is terrible, then yeah, no shit. That's basically the point. They're all immensely flawed people because that's how human beings are in real life. The vibe I get is that you don't like ambiguity, which is unfortunate, because real life--and actual, serious literature--tends to contain a lot of that.
tl;dr: You're a retard. It's basically a poignant depiction of how Romanticism (and our tendencies to solipcize the world around us into something that has more personal meaning than it actually does) fails miserably, and how the real world doesn't give a shit about your inner narrative. It's a great novel and you read for the plot like a nine year old.
>>69118404
It was nihilistic wank and you trying to picture it as grandeur is insulting.
>>69118404
>you're just reading it like a fifth grader would: for the plot.
Well, that's exactly how Baz directed the movie.
>>69116540
>>69116630
Why does Luhrman's Gatsby fly over so many people's heads? Is it some meme I'm not informed of?
>>69118554
>nihilistic
Yes.
>wank
It's around 180 pages. It's actually immensely impressive how compact Fitzgerald was with his meaning.
>you trying to picture it as grandeur is insulting
I guess you picked up on something that 75+ years of criticism missed out on, then.
>>69118584
I'm not a terribly big fan desu senpai
>>69116259
>>69118554
>insulting
to whom in particular? Gatsby is considered by academics world-wide to be the quintessential great American novel, mate. it's okay to dislike it, feel free to do so, but let's not get carried away and refer to the novel as drivel. it clearly is not.
>>69118404
i hate people like you
>>69118812
>I really hate people who know how to approach literature critically
Seems like a dumb, specific thing to go out of your way to dislike.
>>69118851
Not that guy, but what do you think of Joseph Conrad? You read much of him?
>>69116259
this and pic related, although an HBO series would probably work better
>>69117941
>Does he honor his fallen comrades by living the life they no longer can
>>69118851
What do you make of that billboard no one will shut the fuck up about?
>>69118916
I'm glad to hear you never lost someone close in your life.
>>69118851
Also you like winter of our discontent?
That was another book everyone botched about in my school.
>>69116259
>>69118404
BTFO
T
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>>69118812
wow, someone went full sperg here. is this when /tv/ bows to /lit/ as the superior board? is this when /tv/ finally has a moment of introspection and realizes contrarianism for its own sake is rather imbecilic?
naaaaaaaah.
>>69119081
contrarianism = shit taste
this is known.
>>69118873
I'm a little embarrassed about it, but Conrad isn't really to my personal taste. I've probably read more stuff about him than I have by him, which is a shame, because by most academic accounts he's pretty great.
I will say that that, all preference aside, he's a killer prose stylist when he wants to be. Heart of Darkness is another one a lot of high schoolers complain about, and it's unjustified. If you get the chance, just reread it for the language alone. Some of the passages about the jungle are brilliant on their own.
>>69118984
>The Winter of our Discontent
Honestly never read this one, despite its classic status. I have a friend who told me Travels with Charley was one of the worst things he's ever read, so I have a reflexive aversion to Steinbeck, which probably isn't warranted.
>>69116180
old sport.
>>69119227
/thread.
>>69118899
The Sith Lords was trash though.
>>69119269
Wrong opinion
>>69118286
>>69119304
oh god shes so fuccn long
>>69119175
nothing to be embarrassed about, mate. Conrad's prose is rather dense and off-putting to some. i've read several of his works, my favorites being The Secret Sharer and Heart of Darkness, but i tend to quit reading his longer works several pages in. maybe he's not for me either. i'll try to tackle him further down the line because i never really truly give up on any author considered master class without reading at least two of his major works.
>>69119304
Bless you anon, she was the only thing I enjoyed from the film besides some of the visuals
>tfw Gatsby should've went for best girl instead of a shit like daisy
>>69119434
I''m floored whenever I remember Ebglish was his third language
>>69116180
Pretty decent soundtrack, haven't scene it.
Get it? Scene it? Fuck off I'm drunk.
>>69119434
I'll have to check out The Secret Sharer; I've never really disliked Conrad, per se, so I might as well revisit him while he's on my mind.
Seriously, I'd kill for a quarter of the facility with language that people like he and Nabokov had, with that polylingual fuckery. It really makes you wonder what his work would look like if it were originally written in his native language.
I like the film because it caused every teenage/20-something girl who saw it to spout lines from it all over social media because it was so "deep".
>>69118404
Nigga,
Madame Bovary did it better.
>>69117393
wow you have really shit taste in anime
>>69117393
>lost
>cloud atlas
>that anime list
>tree of life
>meme kane
There will be blood is not bad but it's also not special or anything really
>>69117393
>Lost
>Blue is the Warmest Color
toppleb
>>69119952
I prefer Carey
>>69119952
SHES
SO
LONG
>>69121154
Lain is GOAT
>>69121339
you're right, Tree of life should be put into the kino section
