The Great Gatsby film is one of the most popular throughout the world. The Baz Luhrmann version incorporates classical 20's jazz, but with a hint of newer music to attract the younger generations. By doing this, it strengthened the movie as a whole. Music, to me, helps the audience understand the movie. The music tells us if it is a sad, happy, angry, or suspenseful scene. By adding the newer music that the audience is familiar with really reals them in and assisting them with identifying each character and what kind of person today they would relate to.
One thing I vividly remember when reading The Great Gatsby is how everything and everyone was personified to symbolize money. Gatsby’s silk-spun shirts are either gold or silver or green-colored. Every one of the characters is assigned a specific value, which Nick precociously weighs in his mind. In short, everyone in this book looks like money, and fittingly, this soundtrack resounds like thick coins clinking together in a pile. Luhrmann and Jay-Z both know that hype sells.
