The Great Gatsby: Book vs. Movie
Jack Clayton’s The Great Gatsby (1974) adapts F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, with a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola. Robert Redford plays Gatsby, who hopes to recover his earlier romance with Daisy Buchanan.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Year
- 1925
- Pages
- 162Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 5 hr 59 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Seth Numrich, Eleanor Lanahan, James L. W. West III
New to Long Island, Nick Carraway rents a small house beside the mansion of Jay Gatsby, whose parties attract crowds who know little about their host. Gatsby draws Nick into an effort to recover his former relationship with Daisy Buchanan, now married to another wealthy man. As Nick learns how their lives connect, the freedom that money seems to offer begins to look less convincing.
- Director
- Jack Clayton
- Writer
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Year
- 1974
- Runtime
- 2 hr 18 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Sam Waterston, Bruce Dern
- Genre
- Drama, Romance
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Jay Gatsby fills his Long Island estate with guests, hoping to draw the attention of Daisy Buchanan across the bay. Her cousin Nick becomes the means of bringing them together, and Gatsby asks Daisy to turn an affair into a complete return to their earlier love. Daisy’s marriage and the other relationships surrounding it make that demand more dangerous than Gatsby is willing to recognize.
Other adaptations of this book
The Great GatsbyMovie · 2013Details
- Director
- Baz Luhrmann
- Writer
- Craig Pearce, Baz Luhrmann
- Year
- 2013
- Runtime
- 2 hr 22 min
- Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton
Encouraged to write about the summer that unsettled him, Nick Carraway recalls entering the orbit of his mysterious neighbor Jay Gatsby. Behind the parties, Gatsby is arranging a reunion with Nick’s cousin Daisy and believes that his new fortune can erase their years apart. Nick becomes both his intermediary and a witness as Daisy’s husband resists the future Gatsby has planned.
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