We finally watched The Great Gatsby after procrastinating this long after its first release. It was like watching Moulin Rouge. You have a writer, but instead of narrating about his love story, it’s someone else’s. Kind of the same concept of a love story between an opportunist and a pauper and there’s death in the end. Then you have these 20th century music and dancing. I thought that the movie was kind of depressing. I think that Gatsby was an idealist holding on to something that could never belong to him. Tom and Daisy had a more similar background than Gatsby and Daisy could’ve had. Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s husband, came from old money and Daisy herself was no peasant, although not as rich as Tom, she was kind of born with a silver spoon in her mouth too, while Gatsby is new money through an unrespectable profession. Although the story was mostly fictional, it gave a realistic view of the affluent. Carey Mulligan, the lady who played Daisy resembles this actress in the late 80s named Julie McCullough. Julie never became a household name but she was in several episodes of that tv show Growing Pains, with Kirk Cameron. Kirk’s character Mike Seaver had two major girlfriends in the show. One was the nanny for the family named Julie Costello, played by Julie McCullough, and Kate MacDonald played by Chelsea Noble, who also became Kirk’s wife in real life. Anyway Carey Mulligan is kind of a mirror image of Julie, she could have been Julie’s younger sister. I wonder what ever happened to Julie McCullough. She was written off the show in Growing Pains because she had posed for Playboy, and Kirk Cameron was some self-righteous born again fundamentalist who thought she was a bad role model. Oh brother!
Posted on: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 15:10:01 +0000
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