the Great Gatsby_ppt

Carey Mulligan....Daisy Buchanan
Nick's cousin, wife of Tom Buchanan. once had a romantic relationship with Gatsby attractive but self-absorbed
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Joel Edgerton....Tom Buchanan
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honest and responsible
Leonardo DiCaprio....Jay Gatsby
young, mysterious millionaire with shady business connections
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A romantic dreamer believing love can be recaptured
Daisy and Tom shift the blame on to Gatsby,saying he has an affair with Myltle and kills her enventually.Then Myrtle's husband breaks into Gatsby's house and shots him to death.But the Buchanans eacape.
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the great gatsby
name: Lai Qi number:0132343
Contents
The overview of the moive The director and main actors The st
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Comments
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Type： Drama/Romance based on:The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Directed by: Baz Luhrmann Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio ; Carey Mulligan ; Tobey Maguire ; Joel Edgerton Country： America/Australia
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13 By chance,his next-door neighbor--Nick is Daisy's consin and he helps Gatsby to make an appointment.
They date often but he
finds Daisy is no longer the ideal love of his dream.Although feeling a sense of loss ,he still insists and wants to repeat the past.
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tragic but great
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Gatsby engaged himself in Bootlegging and other illegal activities,thus earns enough money to buy a magnificent mansion where he hosts huge parties every weekend in the hope of attracting Daisy to come.
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15 the only two persons attending Gatsby's funeral are Nick and Gatsby's father.
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"so we beat on,boats against the current,borne back,ceaselessly...until into the past."
14 Daisy and Tom don't really love each other.in fact,Tom has mistress .
One day Daisy quarrals with Tom .She drives Gatsby's car and kills Tom's mistress by accident .
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a millionaire Daisy's husband, lives life irresponsibly.
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10 The story began with the meet between Nick and Gatsby.Nick moved to West Egg and became Gatsby's The neighbor.He had an interest in Gatsby and understood that there was a lost love in his deep heart.
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what Gatsby had paid ,is just for returning to the past to win back his pure love.he never stops struggling and he is a really brave and true man.
Just like ourselves,we kept working for something we owned before but then disappeared soon such as love and friendship.we hope that we can have them for good with our own efforts.
11 Gatsby was a poor youth when he joined army and he fell in love with Daisy.But then he left and took part in a war .5 years later when he came back from the Europe,Daisy had married to a rich man--Tom.
Baz Luhrmann
New Socoth wales,Australia. Film director, screenwriter and producer.
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main actors
Tobey Maguire....Nick Carraway
The first-person narrator of the film. a bond salesman from the Midwest Gatsby's neighbor.