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The Last Gasp On Gatsby
This long, long, two-and-one-half hour film is the slowest motion visual aid imaginable, a reverent Classic Comic in which the actors have been substituted for line drawings with only the sense of animation suffering. Even Rona Barrett knows why they made this one.
The Last Gasp On Gatsby
MOVIES
Henry Edwards
by
GATSBY
Directed by Jack Clayton (Paramount)
This long, long, two-and-one-half hour film is the slowest motion visual aid imaginable, a reverent Classic Comic in which the actors have been substituted for line drawings with only the sense of animation suffering.
Even Rona Barrett knows why they made this one. First of all, everybody's read this revered, respected best-of-allpossible books. (And if everyone who read the book bought a ticket to the movie...)
Two, lots of people are enamored with the man who made The Great Gatsby. There is indeed much Romance to be gleaned from the story of Mr. and Ms. Fitzgerald: Scott, ,a genius with a true bent for self-destruction, an alcoholic married to Zelda, a lunatic.
And then there's nostalgia. Gatsby provides the opportunity to recreate the Twenties. (Ha Cha.) And it also provides the opportunity to have Nelson Riddle dish up some soupy, mushy charts of "What'll I Do," "The Shiek of Araby," "Five Feet Two," and a gaggle more of those great old tunes.