Casey Manzella Features Editor While it has generally been assumed that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic American novel, The Great Gatsby was influenced solely by Great
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The Great Gatsby Movie
Julia Hardy
Arts, Entertainment & Technology Editor
Get ready, old sport, because the movie “The Great Gatsby” opens May 10 after almost a year of build-up. While the movie follows the story line from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, director Baz Luhrmann has made The Great Gatsby modern and unique. From changes in the music and fashion to more drama in the party scenes, modernizing the world of Gatsby could as easily be called a path to inaccuracy as a fresh outlook. So do these updates help Luhrmann’s vision or destroy Fitzgerald’s?