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Like the Lord of the Rings, it is difficult to portray the exact story in a novel onto film, for there is time limit and a different audience to consider. Also, the director tends to take numerous liberties in changing the original story into his own. This is the same case for the movie The Great Gatsby. Instead of adhering to the author Fitzgerald’s perspective, the director of this movie takes freedom in describing a “Great Gatsby” story of his own.

In the movie, Nick first meets Gatsby privately in Gatsby’s house during Gatsby’s party. He is lead by a bodyguard through the crowd of people into Gatsby’s private room. While Nick is lead through the stairs and hallways, he has no idea where he is lead. The bodyguard does not open his mouth even when they are left alone in the elevator. The director of the m

By taking certain liberties, the director of The Great Gatsby movie creates certain events and scenes that make a different type of story. By alternating the original, the movie becomes a story with a different voice and different perspective. The characters and plot are the same, but the god who spawned the story is of a different originality. Therefore, although The Great Gatsby movie originated from a novel, the movie has its own “Great Gatsby” story to speak of and to describe of by its own director.

In the novel, when, for the first time, Nick Carraway attends Gatsby’s party, he comes face to face with a character called “Owl Eyes” in the library. In here, Owl Eyes tells Nick and Jordan, who was also in the library, that all the books were real. Owl Eyes had thought Gatsby a swindler, but by assessing that the books were genuine, his belief was altered. He says, “Absolutely real—have pages and everything. I thought they’d be a nice durable cardboard. Matter of fact they’re absolutely real. Pages and—Here! Lemme show you. (p. 50)” Also, Owl Eyes is the only person who attends Gatsby’s funeral. At the funeral he says, “The poor son-of-a-bitch (p. 183),” naming Gatsby. Owl Eyes was one of the only characters that believed Gatsby as a genteel, trustworthy man; he was a significant character. However, in the movie, Owl Ey

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