#see great gatsby

[sandersstudies]

Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

#see great gatsby #or wuthering heights #I LOVE wuthering heights #but do I give a shit about any of those bitches? #lol no

[savpumpkinhead]

queer unreliable narrators in love with the subjects of their work, voyeuristic themes, gothic romance, im fucking insane for this shit

#saltburn #is it possible to be fixated on a film before seeing it!?? #because thats me with saltburn #anyways HEHE #the great gatsby #the pale blue eye #saw (2004) #theres so many examples #emerald fennell #SHE LITERALLY SAID GREAT GATSBY WAS AN INSPIRATION #AND SHE ANSWERED MY QUESTION #AHHH #the batman #the batman 2022

[scotchballs9]

no bc the way I’m constantly thinking about Gatsby tenderly kissing Nick’s fingertips and knuckles when he’s visiting him in the hospital if Gatsby did survive is making me go insane

#natsby #nick carraway #jay gatsby #the great gatsby #nick x gatsby #we love to see it

[horror-aesthete]

The Fall of the House of Usher, 2023, dir. Mike Flanagan

SE01E05 The Tell-Tale Heart

#if you havent seen this show yet #the blonde woan is dressed as daisy buchanon from the great gatsby #and the dawning GLEE i felt at seeing a woman dressed as daisy buchanon kiss a woman coudlve lit candles #fuck you f scott #horror aesthetic #horror tv #horror quotes #the fall of the house of usher #queer fear

[neo--queen--serenity]

I can’t believe I only just now noticed this.

But when Francis is using his ability, which is named after the irl Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, he glows GREEN.

The GREEN LIGHT was a central narrative tool used throughout The Great Gatsby novel. It was a huge deal to Gatsby, and was a consistent metaphor for his love for his romance interest, Daisy.

Fitzgerald, whose character in BSD is meant to directly mimic Gatsby, has a wife and child he would commit atrocities for. He believes what Gatsby believes: that only through money and power can he can live happily with the people he loves.

He embodies the Green Light and everything it stands for when he activates his ability, and that’s so fucking cool to me.

#bungou stray dogs #bsd #francis scott fitzgerald #francis fitzgerald #francis scott key fitzgerald #the green light #the great gatsby #the great fitzgerald #bsd season 2 #green is also the color of american money. but this SHADE of green?? the way it’s lit up like that??? #I CAN SEE THE GREEN LIGHT #I CAN SEE IT IN YOUR EYES #i may or may not have figured this out while listening to ‘over the love’ by florence + the machine on the great gatsby soundtrack #bsd meta #neo queen serenity’s posts #bungo stray dogs #bungou gay dogs #f scott fitzgerald #f. scott fitzgerald

[justaasexual]

ok, so Nick is DEFINITELY not Straight™

the dude has fucked men, I’m just stating the obvious

literature is fun when you ignore your teacher’s analysis of the situation and make your own up

#the great gatsby #nick carraway #jay gatsby #nick x gatsby #i see I’m not the only one that thinks so #classic literature #high school lit

[thegreatgatzbi]

trying out some minor changes to gatsby's design. Im not quite settled on some features but generally i want him to have a softer fame and frame. i want him to have blonde/light brown curly hair, but it blends in with his skin too much i feel, so i still am working that out.

#any thoughts on his design are appreciated! #i do like lil pencil mustache gatsby tho hdvdhdv #black gatsby is so important to me but idk how to make that appearent in my design while still keeping in general line with the book #much LEss making him white passing enough for tom not ro suspect anything right off the bat #tis a strugglw #but im enjoying working it out! #tgg #the great gatsby #the great batsby #you can kinda see jays fangs here too hehehe #gay #mlm #lgbt #nick carraway #jay gatsby

[fauvester]

You see, old sport… I am Crimson Rain Sought Flower!

#hua cheng #baz luhrman great gatsby on netflix and it is SUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH A HUALIAN SLAY #YOUR HONOR ….. #ITS THE LONGING… THE BUILDING OF AN ENTIRE LIFE OF GLAMOR AND SECRECY IN THE FAINT HOPE OF SEEING YOUR BELOVED AND WINNING THEM…. #fauve watches tcgf

[traggalicious]

Discussion on the Great Gatsby and I guess I overestimated the open-mindedness of my classmates bc like… the response when i said “so do y’all think Nick’s kinda got smth for Gatsby” was Interesting. They seemed shocked, as if Nick is Not a bisexual man. (This guy legit can’t choose anything, he’s non-confrontational, describes women and men kind of equally in both appearance and Vibes, and come ON that scene w/ the ellipsis (commonly used for fade-to-black sex scenes) and then HIM WAKING UP W/ MCKEE IN BED. HOMO 🫵🫵🫵.) Anyway. Nick/Gatsby/Daisy seemed to be the general ship consensus here

#the great gatsby #nick carraway #jay gatsby #bisexuality #nick carraway is a bisexual man truther #you cant fucking change my mind #bc im RIGHT #/hj #pls try to tho I wanna see other people’s perspectives #hey wouldn’t it be nice if nick had green eyes so the green light gatsby reaches for is really Nick— #what he wants #far across the lake #shining from the dock #is really right beside him #right in front of him #you’re smiling at him #he’s feeling more understood than he ever has #also gatsby totally has PTSD from the war and is using the parties to live vicariously through others #experiencing a microcosm of society as he can no longer experience it #and that’s as close as he can get #rambles #traggy’s shit

[neverland-royaltie]

I GIT TO SEE JEREMY JORDAN PREFORM LIVE?!?!

IM STILL REELING WHAT THE FUCK

#newsies #jeremy jordan #jerjor #the great gatsby #gatsby #gatsby musical #broadway #broadway theatre #jack kelly #Santa fe #aleks rambles #I can’t believe it #I got to see this man live #also I noticed he uses pixel products #which sadden me #because I hate pixel phones #(I say as a store manager of a phone store)

[kairithemang0]

The second I get my silly gay hands on this cast recording it is OVER

#the great gatsby musical #guys why are they both so pretty #im gonna lose it when i see this #I LOVE EVA SO MUCH OJFPWJRPEWJW #the great gatsby #also if they don't make a cast recording #im just gonna cry #Youtube #eva noblezada #jeremy jordan

[the-great-kazooy]

It’s once again time for ✨random Gatsby hc corner✨

Nick has a childhood blanket. He’s had it ever since he was five years old and he’s kept it ever since. He tried to keep it in the best condition as he can, constantly washing it and folding it with care. Though, throughout the years, it has gotten a little rough around the edges.

Especially since his parents tried to throw it out when he was younger. Though, he dug it out of the trash, hiding it under his bed. Now he keeps it well hidden from the rest of the world. He hasn’t told many other people about it because he doesn’t want to be seen as childish.

But due to his trauma with the war (and sensory issues) he tends to wrap it around him to calm him down. It’s soothing to him.

If he were to find it ripped or torn in some way, he would be absolutely devastated. So, he’s trying to learn how to sow.

#I think the only other person who’s seen the blanket is Jay #but that’s bc Nick was having a panic attack #and they basically live with each other #in my au at least #but in canon of the books Nick would probably never let that blanket see the light of day #the great gatsby #nick x gatsby #natsby

[meiloorunsmoothie]

help i've already watched this three times

#in the first 7 minutes of it premiering #the sets look SO GOOD? #also hearing the new versions of the songs!!! #still not the hugest fan of the past is catching up to me but we'll see when the album drops #great gatsby #bwaygatsby #jeremy jordan #eva noblezada #Youtube

[menelaus-blue]

i had a very important realization while i was out walking today. out of the main four vnc characters, noé is the one we know the least about. he fits into a category of what i would call the glass protagonist–a guy who basically exists only to narrate the story, joining the ranks of those like nick carraway and richard papen, except he's just like way more mysterious.

see, part of what makes a narrator like nick work narratively is that we know just enough about him to 1) understand his perspective on the events of the story and 2) know what his role in the story is. nick is able to give his insider/outsider view of gatsby because he is neither part of the buchanans' world nor part of gatsby's, and his role in the story is to serve as a kind of mediator between the two of them. he's daisy's cousin in long island, but he's also a working man in city, etc, etc.

the funky thing about noé is we just...don't know anything about him. we're told a couple of things about his childhood; that he was adopted by an old couple in the human world, that they died and he was somehow on sale in altus, and that the comte took him in. but really, the time before and after louis's death is uncannily empty for the guy who we're following through this world. yes, of course it's fair to say that we know the most important things about noé, but we honestly know way more of vanitas's childhood than his, and that's a big part of the central mystery of the story.

(there's an element to this, of course, that comes from both of the examples i gave before, the great gatsby and the secret history, being novels. as readers, we get an extra level of introspection from nick and richard that is very difficult to translate directly into manga as a medium. however, i would argue that it's not impossible, and all that being said it does sometimes feel intentional on mochijun's part just how little of noé's background she's shown us.)

both nick and richard narrate their respective stories onto the reader from their position as outsiders, which we know is noé's role in vnc from the get-go. i mean, he says this explicitly in chapter one: "this is the tale of how i met vanitas, and how we walked together, of all we gained and lost, and of how, at the end of that journey, i would kill him with my own two hands". he's the narrator and this is his story, just like nick and richard, right?

but while nick and richard are the narrators, and give us, the readers, an excuse to look into their worlds, they are not exactly essential players on the board. both the great gatsby and the secret history give the impression that, without their narrators, they would have continued nearly exactly as written; the characters were doomed to fail long before the story began, and the intervention of some white guy isn't enough to either stop that. and yes, vanitas is doomed as well, but we are introduced to his death as an event that is intrinsically tied to noé himself.

"with my own two hands", noé says. he is not only an actor in the saga leading up to vanitas's demise, he is a starring player in it. (and yes, we ofc later learn that vanitas is going to die with or without noé's intervention but i think it's important to understand that this is our introduction to noé, vanitas, and the story itself) in this way, noé differentiates himself from his glass counterparts, in that he inserts himself irrevocably into the plot. he is both a character in the story and an observer, a chess piece and the one playing the game. this is why the gaps in his backstory feel so jarring, at least to me, because we are not meant to view him as solely a window into the world of vnc, but as a character all on his own.

anyways, all that being said, i'm hoping with the introduction of lady archiviste we're finally going to learn more about noé and his time with the comte, just because it's like a HUGE gap in the story.

#i think it goes without saying that domi's line about noé being a hermit for the past several years really stuck with me bc like. what. #she just dropped that line and then it was never mentioned again #noé also says in chapter one that he was sent to paris by his “former teacher” #like what does that mean. has he just not seen the comte in several years? has he been living somewhere else? what happened between them? #sometimes i think that maybe noé himself doesn't remember everything but ig we'll see #noé archiviste #vanitas #vnc #vanitas no carte #the case study of vanitas #the great gatsby #nick carraway #the secret history #richard papen #sorry if this got a little rambly by the end ahhhh

[stillnotyourmusebitch]

When I tell you how excited I am for the Original soundtrack to drop. You have no idea. I love Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada. Each are great in their own way but together. I'm obsessed with seeing the behind the scenes of the musical and now this music video has dropped I'm very emotional okay

#jamie talks #the great gatsby the musical #the great gatsby #jeremy jordan #eva noblezada #i wish i could see this show live but it's never gonna happen #i love musicals #Youtube

[droughtofapathy]

"Welcome to the Theatre": Diary of a Broadway Baby

The Great Gatsby

April 27, 2024 | Broadway | Broadway Theatre | Evening | Musical | Original | 2H 30M

All the sparkly costumes and grandiose set pieces can't disguise this show's intellectually and musically filthy core. With a creative team that seems to have missed the entire point of Fitzgerald's book, Bad Gatsby is a Vegas spectacle best suited to theme parks and audiences bereft of critical thought. I have no loyalty to the source material. As a lesbian, I didn't much care for the book and its protagonist who seems disinterested in women, and spent pages waxing poetry about the male physique. But even I know it's a classic brimming with intellectual nuance, while this production is anything but. The relationship between Gatsby and Nick is now only ever a passing acquaintance, rather than the very foundation. The show's aggressive heterosexuality sees Nick and Jordan (a forcibly-feminized, pick-me girlboss type) romping about as Gatsby and Daisy, somehow even duller than the book (and how was that ever possible?) sing power ballads at and about each other that say nothing, and move the plot even less.

This adaptation of the beloved classic novel gleefully excises any and all purpose. Nick's idolization and homoerotic love for Gatsby drives the book's narrative. Here, he's doing basically nothing. My kingdom for a dramaturg who seems to actually like and understand the book, rather than someone who just wants to capitalize on it being newly public-domain. Why, oh why, do people keep adapting classics they clearly do not like? I don't like Gatsby, so I'd never bother to write a musical adaptation of it.

And speaking of music, it's ill-suited to both the period and the story. Everything is all contemporary pop ballad, and as someone who doesn't care about or know much of Jeremy Jordan, it's not working. Perhaps it's my blatant lesbianism and pretentious disregard for the allure of youth, but he's never seemed overly remarkable. He's a white male tenor. There are fifteen-thousand who look and sound just like him. But from the constant shrieking up in the mezzanine, you'd have thought the Beatles had come back for a one-night-only reunion. Thankfully, in my front side-orchestra section, I was surrounded by older patrons who politely clapped and refrained from any such screaming. Also, Jeremy Jordan's accent is all over the place, and I can't imagine why.

The shallow production that sits in the (possibly cursed, at this point) Broadway Theatre, has been robbed of its social commentary, its purpose, its depth. The characters are caricatures, the subtext is spelled out on a chalkboard (A song entitled "The Green Light"???) and is in some fascinating way, a meta commentary in and of itself. A massive budget allows for not one, but two working cars to drive around on stage. The glitz and glam blinded the creatives to anything...creative.

And don't even get me started on the baffling decision to cast a Mexican-Asian woman as Daisy, the quintessential image of white privilege. What are we saying by having Eva Noblezada in that role? It's such a thankless role that it's not like her talents are being utilized. And her character is so weak and dull, even more so than the book itself. And she's out here doing a hit-and-run, and yet we're just gonna...gloss right over that, I guess? And Nick's disgusted by Jordan saying they shouldn't tell the police what they know, but then immediately goes to plead with Gatsby to get out of town? Having done no work in the show to justify this loyalty, it's just inconsistency.

Also, and now I'm just jumping around to things I didn't like, the scene where Gatsby gets shot is staged so that Wilson is pointing and shooting that gun right at the front right orchestra section. And staring down the barrel of a gun is not what I want to be doing on a Saturday evening at 10:30 p.m. He shoots that thing twice while pointed at the audience, and no thanks.

Anyway, the Florence Welch Gatsby is at the ART now, so let's hope that one actually understands the damn book.

Verdict: Someone Put This Dumpster Fire Out

A Note on Ratings

#the great gatsby #broadway #welcome to the theatre: diary of a broadway baby #musical theatre #theatre #i'm so tired of bad musicals i just need to see kimberly akimbo today and have my faith restored #and my heart broken...final performance