blessing ☁️ on Nostr: #[0] baz has such a special place in my heart, i feel like he’s almost above ...
PonyPanda (npub17yq…d2qm) baz has such a special place in my heart, i feel like he’s almost above criticism for me. i know it’s bad. i was very young when moulin rouge came out; i loved it then and i love it now. i rewatched it as recently as yesterday and it’s a cheesy hypermelodramatic hot mess but it’s MY hot mess and i still love it so much it makes me cry, lol. even as a little kid, i remember finding the plot dumb but still loving the movie for the music and atmosphere.
gatsby, similarly, is just.. such a perfect storm of crossed interests for me that there’s no way for it not to be my favorite movie. i love the novel, i love the time period, i love the costumes, i love the jazz, i love the baz, i FUCKING LOVE his musical scores, i love his cinematography and frantic style. he even used one of my all-time favorite songs in the score of gatsby, just incidentally. just for like 20 seconds, he subtly wrote it into the orchestral score while the green light is going around. and in an interview, he was just like, “oh yeah, i love that song! i’ve been trying to find a place for it for years!” that stuff just kills me. i can’t. 😭❤️
that being said, i absolutely recognize the flaws in his movies. gatsby in particular has quite a few. i think tobey and leo weigh the movie down big time. gatsby himself definitely gets a coat of cool paint when i feel like in the novel, people were slightly less sold on his act. but, i still appreciate the fuck out of the movie and i appreciate how much he lifted directly from the book by way of tobey’s shitty voiceover throughout. (idk if you remember, at the end, tobey recites the final few lines of the book, and i can’t imagine a worse and more childish reading of these very good lines of literature.. “GADSBY BALEEVED IN THA GREEN LIGHT..”)
but i love him nonetheless. and when i saw he was making an elvis biopic, it was like.. of course he is, lol. that’s like the perfect level of flamboyance and gaudiness and melodrama for him. and of course i fucking loved it. xd i’m a fangirl, i can’t help it.
gatsby, similarly, is just.. such a perfect storm of crossed interests for me that there’s no way for it not to be my favorite movie. i love the novel, i love the time period, i love the costumes, i love the jazz, i love the baz, i FUCKING LOVE his musical scores, i love his cinematography and frantic style. he even used one of my all-time favorite songs in the score of gatsby, just incidentally. just for like 20 seconds, he subtly wrote it into the orchestral score while the green light is going around. and in an interview, he was just like, “oh yeah, i love that song! i’ve been trying to find a place for it for years!” that stuff just kills me. i can’t. 😭❤️
that being said, i absolutely recognize the flaws in his movies. gatsby in particular has quite a few. i think tobey and leo weigh the movie down big time. gatsby himself definitely gets a coat of cool paint when i feel like in the novel, people were slightly less sold on his act. but, i still appreciate the fuck out of the movie and i appreciate how much he lifted directly from the book by way of tobey’s shitty voiceover throughout. (idk if you remember, at the end, tobey recites the final few lines of the book, and i can’t imagine a worse and more childish reading of these very good lines of literature.. “GADSBY BALEEVED IN THA GREEN LIGHT..”)
but i love him nonetheless. and when i saw he was making an elvis biopic, it was like.. of course he is, lol. that’s like the perfect level of flamboyance and gaudiness and melodrama for him. and of course i fucking loved it. xd i’m a fangirl, i can’t help it.