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3	''The Great Gatsby'' is a 1974 film adaptation of the [[Literature/TheGreatGatsby 1925 novel]] by Creator/FScottFitzgerald. Directed by Jack Clayton and featuring a screenplay by Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, it stars Creator/RobertRedford as Jay Gatsby, with Creator/MiaFarrow as Daisy Buchanan, Creator/BruceDern as Tom Buchanan, Creator/SamWaterston as Nick Carraway, Creator/KarenBlack as Myrtle Wilson, Creator/ScottWilson as George Wilson, and Creator/LoisChiles as Jordan Baker.
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5	The 2013 version has its own page [[Film/TheGreatGatsby2013 here]].
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8	!!In addition to various tropes shared with the novel, this movie provides examples of:
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10	* AdaptationDyeJob: Daisy is blonde and Jordan is brunette. It's the other way around in the book.
11	* AdaptationalHeroism: Tom is a horrible person that hits Myrtle once but it's also fairly clear he really is THAT dumb and believes Gatsby is a monster, which mitigates some of his actions towards him. He also seems genuinely fond of Nick, his wife, and family despite being a pompous jerk. As a result, he comes off as mostly just spoiled and dim versus an ignorant monster. [[spoiler: It's clearly Daisy who is the more evil of the two.]]
12	* AdaptedOut: Dan Cody and the section of Gatsby's backstory that included him has been excluded from the film completely.
13	* AnimalReactionShot: After Tom and Myrtle have a fight in the middle of the party, the scene cuts to the dog they bought alert and whimpering.
14	* AteHisGun: After shooting Gatsby dead in the pool, George Wilson turns the gun on himself and shoots himself through the mouth.
15	* TheFilmOfTheBook: One of five film adaptations of Creator/FScottFitzgerald's novel by the same title.
16	* KilledOffScreen:
17	** Unlike in the book, Myrtle isn't seen running towards Gatsby's car and getting fatally run over by it, as the scene where she tries to leave the Wilsons' garage cuts straight to Nick, Jordan and Tom finding a crowd surrounding her corpse.
18	** George Wilson's suicide happens offscreen, with [[AteHisGun a gunshot and the gun itself]] falling into a small pool of water to indicate that he killed himself.
19	* KosherNostra: The film features the character Meyer Wolfsheim, from the original book. He's a Jewish gangster based on Arnold Rothstein who wears human molars as cufflinks and serves as Jay Gatsby's shady business partner.
20	* LonelyFuneral: Only Nick Carraway, Henry Gatz and one other man show up at Gatsby's funeral and burial to demonstrate how fair-weather his social circle was.
21	* MoodWhiplash: After the prolonged sad LonelyFuneral and Nick monologuing about the life of Gatsby over his deserted home, the credits ironically roll to a chorus of [[TheFlapper flappers]] jauntily singing "Ain't We Got Fun?".
22	* WeddingSmashers: After the hotel confrontation, Gatsby and Daisy run away from a screaming Tom through the wedding going on downstairs. The book mentions the wedding for {{Irony}} but lets it go on without incident.

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