The Great Gatsby Archives | Wonderland https://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/tag/the-great-gatsby/ Wonderland is an international, independently published magazine offering a unique perspective on the best new and established talent across all popular culture: fashion, film, music and art. Wed, 27 Jan 2021 17:00:11 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 The Great Gatsby Reboot /2021/01/27/the-great-gatsby-television-series-adaptation/ Wed, 27 Jan 2021 17:00:11 +0000 https://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/?p=182801 The Great Gatsby is getting a more “diverse, inclusive” TV series adaptation – and we’re so ready.

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]]> 7 Wonders: Baz Luhrmann /2014/09/17/7-wonders-baz-luhrmann/ Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:40:05 +0000 http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/?p=36993 On the day he turns 52 we made a list of our seven favourite things about Oz’s most famous director, Baz Luhrmann His wisdom Baz is famous for his 1999 #1 hit, “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)”, a remix of the classic “Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good)” which samples Mary Schmich’s 1997 column, “Advice, Like […]

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]]> On the day he turns 52 we made a list of our seven favourite things about Oz’s most famous director, Baz Luhrmann

His wisdom

Baz is famous for his 1999 #1 hit, “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)”, a remix of the classic “Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good)” which samples Mary Schmich’s 1997 column, “Advice, Like Youth, Probably Just Wasted on the Young”. With such nuggets of wisdom as “Don’t worry about the future, or know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind the kind that blindsides you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday” it’s the perfect imaginary commencement speech.

His fabulous taste in music

Baz has consistently produced soundtracks for his films which sit in the happy place between eclectic and bizarre. He soundtracked his 2012 Great Gatsby with songs by Beyonce and Jay-Z, and is personally responsible for my first introduction to Prince, via his cover of “When Doves Cry”, sung by a choirboy in Romeo + Juliet.

His excessively decadent vision

In Moulin Rouge Nicole Kidman lives in a giant elephant and swings through a bedazzled club in a bejewelled, feathered corset. It’s hardly surprising, then, that Baz decided to adapt the finest ode to decadence in the literary canon, The Great Gatsby. It’s a feast for the eyes unlike anything else in film.

Great Gatsby Party gif

His imagination

He opened up Shakespeare to a whole generation with his astonishing re-imagining of the bard’s classic: Romeo + Juliet – still one of the best Shakespeare productions ever.

His commitment to high fashion

He’s married to Oscar-winning costume designer Catherine Martin and he got Miuccia Prada to design the costumes for The Great Gatsby. ‘Nuff said really.

Great Gatsby clothes

His truly spectacular casting choices

I don’t think any of us will ever get over our teen crushes on Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo.

R+J Gif

His patriotism

His mammoth three hour epic Australia acted as both an ode to his beautiful homeland, as well as a wonderfully entertaining piece of melodrama, spanning topics as vast as racism, cattle farming and the second world war.

 

Words: Maya Hambro

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]]> SEVEN WONDERS… Baz Luhrmann moments /2012/05/23/seven-wonders-baz-luhrmann-moments/ Wed, 23 May 2012 16:54:47 +0000 http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/?p=8164 The trailer for Baz Luhrman’s forthcoming adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s Great American Novel The Great Gatsby premiered today and we’re excited – hell, just glance your peepers through its cast list – Leonardo Dicaprio, Carey Mulligan, Isla Fisher, Tobey Maguire and Amitabh Bachchan to boot. From Ewan McGregor downing absinthe out of pixie-Kylie’s clasp […]

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]]> The trailer for Baz Luhrman’s forthcoming adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s Great American Novel The Great Gatsby premiered today and we’re excited – hell, just glance your peepers through its cast list – Leonardo Dicaprio, Carey Mulligan, Isla Fisher, Tobey Maguire and Amitabh Bachchan to boot.

From Ewan McGregor downing absinthe out of pixie-Kylie’s clasp to DiCaprio wailing Shakespearian love-loss prose into a thundery night sky, here’s our breakdown of the best in the way of Baz moments… The best of the Baz, if you like.

(1) Romeo, meet Juliet…

(2) Strictly Ballroom’s triumphant closing dance.

(3) Medley after medley after medley after…

(4) “Time After Time”. Ahhh…

(5) Arch-y orgasm feet scene in Australia.

(6) Pixie-Kylie.

(7) I am Leonardo, hear me roar.

The Great Gatsby is out on Christmas Day.

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