But Luhrmann, the Australian who also directed 1996’s Romeo + Juliet, 2001’s Moulin Rouge!, and 2008’s widely mocked Australia, needed all the help he could get. “Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business,” Fitzgerald wrote in a letter to his daughter in 1940. Moët & Chandon is an official sponsor of the film, and the French champagne brand is releasing a 1921 vintage to coincide with the movie’s première on May 10. They’re sipping Moët and dancing wildly to Jay-Z’s Izzo (the movie, set in 1922, has a modern soundtrack) the camera slows down and lingers lovingly on the champagne bottle labels as Jay-Z raps nonsense like “Fo’ shizzle my nizzle.” Is Luhrmann commenting on the racial politics of the Jazz Age? Is he somehow connecting expensive alcohol to greed? Does he just really like the song?
Scott Fitzgerald’s classic eighth-grade required reading, in which Nick Carraway, played by a familiarly wide-eyed Tobey Maguire, sees a car full of black dandies and flappers.
There’s a scene early in The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of F.
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