Highlights of 2017

Jillian Augustine, Executive Editor @jillaugcourant Caroline Castle, Senior Editor @ccastlecourant As with any year, 2017 has brought along many memorable headlines that will be looked

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?