The
Great
gatsby
Great
gatsby
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Story
Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprio as James Gatz / Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire who hosts wild parties at his house with the hope that his former lover Daisy will return.
- Tasman Palazzi as young James Gatz
- Callan McAuliffe as teen James Gatz
- Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, a would-be writer, Gatsby's friend, and the film's narrator.
- Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby's former lover, Tom's wife, and Nick's cousin.
- Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan, an old-money socialite who hates Gatsby because of his new-money status and relationship with Daisy.
- Jason Clarke as George Wilson, Myrtle's husband and owner of a gas station in Valley of Ashes.
- Isla Fisher as Myrtle Wilson, Tom's mistress and an ambitious social climber.
- Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker, a golf star and Daisy's best friend.
- Jack Thompson as Dr. Walter Perkins, a doctor at the psychiatric hospital that Nick is at.
- Amitabh Bachchan as Meyer Wolfsheim, a gambler who met Gatsby in 1919.
- Adelaide Clemens as Catherine, Myrtle's sister.
Posters
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Culture
The original novel The Great Gatsby is set in the prosperous Long Island in 1922, while the story in the film begins in 1929,The Great Gatsby provides a critical social history of [Prohibition-era America]during the [Jazz Age].
Jazz Age(1920s–1930s)[2]
The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained nationwide popularity in the United States. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions were primarily felt in the United States, the birthplace of jazz. Originating in New Orleans as mainly sourced from the culture of the African diaspora, jazz played a significant part in wider cultural changes in this period, and its influence on popular culture continued long afterwards. The Jazz Age is often referred to in conjunction with the Roaring Twenties, and in the United States, it overlapped in significant cross-cultural ways with the Prohibition Era.
Roaring Twenties(1920–1929)[4]
The Lost Generation
The Lost Generation was composed of young people who came out of World War I disillusioned and cynical about the world. The term usually refers to American literary notables who lived in Paris at the time. Famous members included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein. These authors, some of them expatriates, wrote novels and short stories expressing their resentment towards the materialism and individualism rampant during this era.(Gertrude Stein with Ernest Hemingway's son Jack in 1924. Stein is credited with bringing the term "Lost Generation" into use.)click picture!
Economy
US annual GDP change(1921~1940)[1]Great Depression[5]
Between 1929 and 1939 was a period of great economic depression worldwide that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States.The economic contagion began around September and led to the Wall Street stock market crash of October 24 (Black Thursday). The economic shock impacted most countries across the world to varying degrees. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century.
Prohibition in the United States(1920–1933)[3]
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.