The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby (2013)

Timing: 2:23 (143 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2013-05-09

Country

United States, Australia

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, Red Wagon Entertainment, Bazmark, A&E Television Networks

Genre

Drama, Romance

Budget

$105 000 000

Revenue

$351 040 419

Website

https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/great-gatsby

Director

Baz Luhrmann

Actors

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Elizabeth Debicki, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke, Amitabh Bachchan, Callan McAuliffe, Adelaide Clemens
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Scenario

Producer

Douglas Wick, Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Catherine Knapman, Lucy Fisher, Barrie M. Osborne, Bruce Berman, Jay-Z

Operator

Simon Duggan

Composer

Craig Armstrong

Artist

Simon Elsley, Jenny Hitchcock, Christopher Tangney

Audition

Ronna Kress, Nikki Barrett

Editing

Jason Ballantine, Matt Villa, Jonathan Redmond
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• The film is based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” (1925).
• Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Hall, Rachel McAdams, Keira Knightley, Blake Lively, Abby Cornish, Michelle Williams, Natalie Portman, Eva Green, Anne Hathaway, Olivia Wilde, Jessica Alba, and Scarlett Johansson were considered for the role of Daisy Buchanan.
• Ben Affleck was considered for the role of Tom Buchanan, but due to scheduling conflicts, he had to decline. Luke Evans and Bradley Cooper were also considered for this role. However, the role ultimately went to Joel Edgerton.
• There were rumors that Hayley Atwell would play the role of Jordan Baker.
• Carey Mulligan was at the Fashion Awards when Baz Luhrmann called and told her she had been cast as Daisy Buchanan. The actress said that after that call she burst into tears, right in the middle of the room with Karl Lagerfeld, and the people standing around looked at her like she was crazy.
• Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire have actually been friends since childhood. And this is the first time they have appeared together on screen since the release of the film 'Don's Plum' (2000).
• Work on the film was suspended when director Baz Luhrmann was hit in the head by a moving camera crane. He ended up needing three stitches.
• The film was initially scheduled for release in December 2012, then the date was moved to July 2013, and eventually postponed to May 2013.
• The film features several references to "Arrow Collars." This type of detachable shirt collar was a widely popular men's fashion accessory in the early 1920s, and models wearing them appeared in a very successful and popular advertising campaign.
• Genuine Duesenberg automobiles are too rare and valuable to be used for driving action scenes (a Duesenberg SJ convertible coupe was sold at auction in March 2013 for $4.5 million). Two replicas of the Duesenberg Model J were painted yellow and modified to match each other for filming.
• Tom mentions Kapiolani and Punchbowl in a key scene with Daisy. Kapiolani Park is located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, between Waikiki and Diamond Head. The Punchbowl Crater is located 6 miles northwest of it.
• The film's director, Baz Luhrmann, played a cameo role in the film – a waiter in the restaurant where Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker met.
• The film was shot using a RED Epic camera.
• Baz Luhrmann conceived of this film during the global financial crisis while in Siberia. In one interview, he said: "If you put people in front of a mirror that tells them: you were drunk on money—they won't want to look into it. But if you project the reflection onto another era, such a story will be in demand."
• Leonardo DiCaprio wanted to play Gatsby because he liked the "idea of a man who was absolutely nothing and created himself, starting only from his own imagination." "Gatsby is one of the iconic characters because he can be interpreted in different ways: a hopeless romantic, an obsessed madman, or a dangerous gangster clinging to wealth," says DiCaprio.
• A painting of Zelda Fitzgerald can be noticed on the wall in the apartment where Tom and Myrtle live.
• The "French" telephone in the scene where the characters talk about the intrusive unwanted guest who called Tom was not invented until the mid-1930s. In 1922, you still had to hold a candlestick-style telephone in one hand and speak into the microphone while pressing the earpiece to your ear.
• The events unfold in 1922, but Gatsby's yellow car is a 1929 Duesenberg Model J.
• Some general shots of Manhattan show the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building still under construction. The film is set in 1922. Construction of the Chrysler Building began in 1928, and the Empire State Building in 1930.
• Almost all of the cars used in the film are from later years than 1922, the year the film is set in: a 1930 Buick Series 60, a 1932 Cadillac V-16, a 1930 Chevrolet Universal, a 1928 Chrysler Imperial, a 1930 Chrysler Six, a 1929 De Soto Six, a 1924 Dodge Brothers, a 1929 Ford Model A, a 1929 Packard Standard Eight, a 1929 Packard Standard Eight, a 1927 Rolls-Royce Phantom I, and a 1929 Studebaker President.
• The very first day of filming, director Baz Luhrmann dedicated to working on the tea party scene in the rain with characters played by Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan. It was a beautiful spring day, and creating the downpour shown in the film required 100,000 liters of water. Real rain started the next morning and didn't stop for three days.
• In the interior of Gatsby's mansion, director Baz Luhrmann reflected his own memories of the interior of the school he attended in Australia.
• The film contains several mentions of "Arrow Collars." This type of detachable shirt collar was a widely popular men's fashion accessory in the early 1920s, and models wearing them appeared in a very successful and popular advertising campaign.
• Baz Luhrmann conceived of this film during a global financial crisis while in Siberia. In one interview, he said: "If you put people in front of a mirror that tells them, 'You were drunk on money,' they won't want to look at it. But if you project that reflection onto another era, that story will be in demand."
• Leonardo DiCaprio wanted to play Gatsby because he liked "the idea of a man who was absolutely nothing and created himself, based solely on his own imagination." "Gatsby is one of the iconic characters because he can be interpreted in different ways: a hopeless romantic, an obsessed madman, or a dangerous gangster clinging to wealth," says DiCaprio.