Film adaptations of The Great Gatsby
Friend Jordan Baker on Daisy Buchannan: “I was the bridesmaid. I came into her room half an hour before the bridal dinner,; and found her lying on her bed as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress–and as drunk as a monkey.”
I guess the point here is that Daisy has made a mistake by marrying Tom Buchannan. Her real love was Gatsby.
There have been two film versions of the novel. I think they were both good but liked the actors in the first one better. I think Robert Redford had more gravitas as Gatsby than Leonardo de Caprio, and Mia Farrow was more beautiful and alluring to me than the latest actress. “Everyone in the world is a critic,” as my young niece says.