Review 4. The Great Gatsby.

Cast:

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby

Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway

Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan

Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan

Isla Fisher as Myrtle Wilson

Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker

Adelaide Clemens as Catherine

Jason Clarke as George Wilson

Amitabh Bachchan as Meyer Wolfsheim

Max Cullen as Owl Eyes

Brendan Maclean as Klipspringer

Jack Thompson as Nick Carraway's Doctor, Walter Perkins

Gemma Ward as Languid Girl

Callan McAuliffe as Young Jay Gatsby

Gus Murray as Teddy Barton

Stephen James King as Nelson

Director: Baz Luhrmann

           

           The Great Gatsby is  $125 million verson of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel – directed by ‘Romeo + Juliet’ and ‘Moulin Rouge’ director Baz Luhrmann – started shooting in Sydney in September 2010 with a cast including Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan.

            This story had happened in America. The young man by the name of Nick Karruey moved to New York. He had a dream to be rich. He lodged near the lavish mansion of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious business magnate who held extravagant parties. The Nick joined this unceasing fun and having made friends with Gatsby. Gatsby was surprisingly young and rather aloof, in person. Gatsby seemed to take a liking to Nick and the two became mutual friends.

Jay Gatsby asked Nick to arrange him a meeting with Daisy. Through Jordan, Nick later learnt that Gatsby had known Daisy from a romantic encounter in 1917, and was still madly in love with her.

            After party Gatsby’s car had struck and killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover. Tom told Myrtle’s husband, George, that Gatsby was the driver of the car. Jay was abruptly shot and killed by George, who immediately turned the gun on himself. 

No one came to the Gatsby’s funeral.  Back in the sanatorium, Nick finished  his memoir and titles it, "The Great Gatsby.

            As for the cast, it is amazing. DiCaprio carries the role off reasonably well; he is probably the only possible casting, and Mulligan's Daisy has gentleness and vulnerability. Their initial intimate meeting over tea in Nick's cottage has some charge, and DiCaprio and Mulligan handle it well. Their initial intimate meeting over tea in Nick's cottage has some charge, and DiCaprio and Mulligan handle it well. Joel Edgerton was very good! He is juxtaposed to Gatsby, the husband of Daisy, he was a real aristocrat!

It’s interesting to note about music of the film. Although most of songs are modern, it conveys the atmosphere of that time.

            Of course, this is a great film.  Although most of songs are modern, it conveys the atmosphere of that time. According to this film, we all must dream, hope and above all we must try. Ana it’s absolutely right. To sum up the film involved many interesting, talented actors and exceptional and touching atmosphere in the film, all these points create an incredible atmosphere during watching this film “The Great Gatsby”.

Pleasure reading. Summary. Ch. 30 - 36

 1. A few days after how Lena stopped speaking to Ethan after conversation with a Locator Caster, Ethan drove to Ravenwood. 2. There he saw Sarafine for the first time. 3. With persistence, Ethan was able to enter Lena's room and from his thoughts Lena knew about Ridley’s secret party for Lena’s birthday.
4. When Lena and Ethan went to the party, all family had already been there. 5. Link distracted Ethan by his father from Lena to Sarafine could tell with her. 6. After making sure his dad was safe, Ethan rushed back to the scene of the party to check on Lena, but he Ethan was unable to communicate telepathically with Lena. 7. The Dark Casters prepare to convince Lena to go Dark and Macon and Sarafine continued to play tug-of-war with Lena, her fate, and her feelings. 8. Ethan discovered that The Book of Moons, which had disappeared that morning, had found its way back to its resting place on the stone dais in the crypt.
9. Unfortunately, Ethan did not have time to take that book because the surrounding field was on fire.
10. Lena had climbed to safety atop the crypt, but the fire was moving in fast. 11. Ethan climbed up to help her got down, but Sarafine was there waiting, and she stabbed Ethan. 12. Then, with Amma's help, Lena recited the resurrection spell from The Book of Moons and a lot of confusing stuff happened, but Ethan was still lying motionless on the ground. 13. Soon, the moon returned and Lena surged with heat and power, she vaporized the Dark Casters with lighting, 14. Then, it started to rain, clearing Lena’s vision. 15. In the end of the battle, Lena saw Macon lying where Ethan had been moments before. 17. Amma explained to Lena that she could not ask anything from The Book of Moons without a trade, but Uncle Macon was dead, which meant that Ethan was still alive. 18. Ethan wasn't aware of everything that had happened. 19. By using the Book, Lena had blocked herself from being Claimed. 20. The next day, Ethan found Lena crying in the crypt and he promised that he would never let Lena go. 21. But as a result, Lena decided that it was better for Ethan to forget her and even she trued to do the best things for that. 22. Despite of her attempts, Ethan’s love was so much and all her attempts were failed. 23. It was really the great force of love.

Rendering 16. Music.

            The article “Britten's War Requiem, CBSO, Birmingham” was published by Ivan Hewett on May 29, 2013. It discussed that The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's performance of Britten's War Requiem under Andris Nelsons was revelatory.

            Speaking of this article, it’s necessary to say, this may be Benjamin Britten’s centenary year, but it was last year that marked an important anniversary of what some say is his greatest piece, the War Requiem. Of course the anniversary performance had to take place in the very same spot. And it had to be given by the same orchestra that performed at the world premiere, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

            In addition, it was an emotional occasion, which gave an extra gravity to the music. The orchestra the CBSO chorus and the three soloists came together to perform the piece again, this time in Birmingham’s Symphony Hall

            In fact the clarity of sight and sound was all to the good. They showed up the special virtues of the conductor, Andris Nelsons, who refused to approach the work with the reverence it sometimes receives from British conductors. He just wanted to make it as thrilling and immediate as possible.

            The result was that passages which can sound like a somewhat dim echo of earlier Britten came up fresh and new. The word “revelatory” is overused in concert reviews, but there it’s exactly right.

            This added to the work’s expressive amplitude, because it made the sombre moments stand out in sharper relief. Much depends on the quality of the two male soloists, and there they were ideally contrasted. Mark Padmore’s tenor captured the consoling, empathetic element in the piece, while Hanno Müller-Brachmann’s grainy baritone caught its weight of fatalism and sadness.

            In conclusion, I’d like to say that I have never been at the Symphony Orchestra’s performance, but now I’ d like to visit it with great pleasure. This article amazed me, because when I was reading it, I imaged every sound and all the picture of that performance.

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            The article “Depeche Mode, O2 Arena” was published by Bernadette McNulty on May 29, 2013. It discussed  that The Basildon synth pioneers' lusty stadium show is strictly for the faithful, writes Bernadette McNulty.

            Speaking of this article, it’s necessary to say, in The Posters Came from the Walls, the entertaining 2007 documentary by Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams about Depeche Mode fans around the world. Going by the packed arena for their latest world tour, the Basildon-born boys are hardly on their uppers in the UK although the black-clad but jovial crowd was markedly pan-European.

            Yet despite being the most successful electronic band in the world with 100 million record sales under their belt and a fundamental influenc

e on the Eighties synth revival, name-checked by younger acts from Arcade Fire to La Roux, Depeche Mode are still dwarfed in prestige by more intellectual groups like Kraftwerk.

            In addition, Depeche Mode have always been lustily Catholic, ramping up the human drama of sex, death and damnation along with lashings of rock, industrial and, on their 13th album Delta Machine, blues influences.

            It’s important to point, Loaded with album tracks from the latter, less chart-troubling phase of their career, the now-threesome were firmly staking out their territory, far from their early-1980s incarnation as a synth-pop boy band, where across the river in Canning Town they had caught the ear of Mute records. Here were men who had survived bad fashions, band implosions, drug abuse and near death

            The faithful lapped it up, including ballads from Gore, but for the layman it was like listening to Latin – exotically mysterious at first, wearying after two hours with only a fantastic Policy of Truth to break up the industrial dirge.

            To conclude, those who stuck with it were consecrated at the end with a smattering of the transcendent hits that have kept the band going for 30-odd years – Enjoy the Silence and a version of Personal Jesus that morphed into Daft Punk’s Get Lucky. But by the time they finished on crowd favourite Never Let Me Down.

            I can say I have never been a fan of music articles because, as highlighted here, they are always subjective rather than objective. Rather embarrassingly though, here we have someone who is paid an inordinate amount of money, writing ineptly about something of which that person clearly has little understanding.

Pleasure reading. Summary. Ch.24 - 30

1. Lena and Ethan started to study The Book of Moons. 2. At school the next day, Link, Lena, and Ethan told about the winter dancing party, and actually Ethan asked Lena to go to there together. 3. Unfortunately, that party brought many problems for Lena. 4. As a result, Lena was blamed for the winter dance debacle, and the Jackson Disciplinary Committee held a hearing to kick her out of school. 5. Mr. Lincoln told many facts about Lena’s past, he also revealed a secret that Lena’s mother killed her father, but in that moment Macon Ravenwood showed up with Marian. 6. They got some excellent verbal jabs and Lena was saved from expulsion. 7. The next day, Ethan took Lena into his dad’s study. 8. There they found the secret painting in the book. 9. The painting was of Ethan in a Confederate uniform, but actually, it was Ethan Carter, but he looked just like our narrator. 10. Also, in that book Lena found the message “Claim Yourself”. 11. Those words were the most important for her. 12. It was a week until Lena's birthday, but they did not how to save her. 13. Lena was losing hope.

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            The article “BBC Symphony Orchestra, Barbican” was published by Ivan” on May 26, 2013. It discussed the BBC Symphony Orchestra performed a moving concert at the Barbican, London.

            Speaking of this article, it’s necessary to say that this concert had something perfect at its core, book-ended with things that were interesting and moving, sometimes even overwhelming, but problematic.

            In addition, the first of those problematic things was Wolfgang Rihm’s Nahe fern 1, a 10-minute orchestral Adagio which evoked the Romantic fascination with It arose out of sighing figures in the deep bass, broken up with silences, but it was never more than a dim light. Was this a real musical experience, or merely a second-hand one? It was hard to be sure, with music that shrouded itself so determinedly in dimness.

            By contrast Shostakovich’s 11th Symphony, which ended the concert, was almost painfully bright. It painted the heroic but doomed 1905 Russian Revolution, in a long arch that rose from frozen-dawn stillness to deafening martial clamour.

            It’s important to point that the impact of Shostakovich’s symphonies is always magnified by our knowledge of the political and personal torment behind them. But last night I found myself rebelling at the sheer brute insistence of the music, which all the BBC SO’s fervency and conductor Ingo Metzmacher’s shrewd pacing couldn’t disguise.

            Before this came something that plumbed equal depths of anguished feeling, but without any bullying insistence. This was a selection of songs from Mahler’s setting of folk poems Den Knaben Wunderhorn, made by the Danish baritone who performed them, Johan Reuter.But mostly he focused on military songs, with their evocation of ranks of ghostly soldiers. Whatever the mood, Reuter embodied it with the commanding presence and naked honesty that only truly great singers can muster.

            In conclusion I’d like to say that I think it was great performance. Unfortunately, I should say, that I have never been at the Symphony Orchestra performance, but thanks to this article, now I’d like to visit it. 

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The article “Maria Schneider takes a furtherstep towards ‘classical’ discipline on her new double album” was published by Ivan” on May, 28 2013. It discussed Maria Schneider's new double album.

            Speaking of this article, it’s necessary to say that Maria Schneider is a jazz musician who works on an orchestral. Also she is a master orchestrators whose handling of a big-band palette is as sophisticated as anything you’ll find in composers who write for standard orchestras.

            In addition, on her new double-album she’s taken a further step towards ‘classical’ discipline – though as she’s quick to point out, the music is still strongly informed by a jazz sensibility. Each CD offers what is in effect a "classical" song-cycle, for mezzo-soprano Dawn Upshaw and chamber orchestra. One sets poems by the Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, the other poems from the collection Winter Morning Walks by the American poet Ted Kooser.

            It’s important to point, the thing that about her music that challenged classics is that some of the songs have a groove, a driving forward that might come from jazz or a flamenco rhythm like the buleria.

            She really believes that in music colleges all classical musicians should have to take a course in time, meaning that they should have to play along with grooves played by tabla or whatever. Getting classical musicians to play in the groove was one big challenge; an even bigger one was raising the $200,000 needed to record two song-cycles with a star singer and two different orchestras. She couldn’t do it without the support of the Artistshare web-site, which started the whole crowd-sharing phenomenon. She dicided to build up a fan-base through the web-site which helped her to contribute big sums.

             To sum up, the result is something subtle and polished and suggestive. Winter Morning Walks is the gentler of the two, reflecting the rural quiet of Ted Kooser’s poems. The other cycle catches the very different mood of Drummond de Andrade’s songs.

            To conclude this article, I can say that this talented person like Maria Schneider is the person of her business. She wanted to realize her plans and she did the best things for that.