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19 Jun 2013 16:06 #25458 by Bob Roller
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Bill,
Different strokes for different folks.Nothing wrong with that.This weekend we will probably take our 11 year old grandson to a move called "Monster University" (I think.) I still like the old Disney cartoons as well as Tom&Jerry,Woody Woodpecker and others of the 1940=1960 time frame.
Historical movies like "Red Tails" or "Enemy at the Gates" are certainly worth the time along with epic mini series like "Band of Brothers" and
"The Holocaust".

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18 Jun 2013 20:48 #25454 by Bill Hummel
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What's wrong with me? I loved the movie!

See my review in the GENERAL TOPICS area ....

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07 Jun 2013 13:40 #25353 by West Peterson
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The affects of this raping of [i:97yir58i][u:97yir58i]The Great Gatsby[/u:97yir58i][/i:97yir58i] book are now being seen in the planning of car shows wanting to jump on the band wagon.

I quote:
"This fall, the Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival and Concours d?Elegance will be exhibiting some of the finest automobiles of the Great Gatsby era."

What are the cars they are featuring?

1930 Locke bodied Lincoln Sport Roadster
1931 Rolls-Royce P1 transformable sedan
1931 Pierce-Arrow Model 42 Convertible Coupe
1932 Auburn 12 , 12-160 Speedster
1931 Duesenberg
1928 Packard

Sic transit gloria mundi!!~!

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07 Jun 2013 01:28 #25351 by auburn-kid
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All I can say is that is 2+ hours of my life I'll never get back.

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28 May 2013 11:45 #25233 by Bob Roller
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Brad has it down right. Free would be a big price for such a historical misrepresentation. Remember the old Westerns where they fought the
Civil War with Winchester rifles that didn't come into use until 1894?
Rap and music? Vast be the gulf that seperates.

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28 May 2013 04:18 #25231 by silverghost
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Rap music (You can see the movie's target audience age group!)
Computer Generated Graphics ( Kids like CGI ~BUT I dislike fake looking "video game style" graphics & CGI Movie special effects !)
Melancholy and strange plot tone ? ?
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Added to the above~
Fake reproduction fiberglass Duesenbergs used in a movie's plot supposedy to have taken place just after WW I , in the early 1920s~~~

I think I will pass~~~ and wait until it appears free on cable TV~~~ later this year ~~~ I suspect ! ?

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27 May 2013 20:00 #25228 by BSteinIPMS
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I thought the tone of the movie was somewhat melancholy and strange, but I was glad to have seen it. I loved the cinematography and computer-generated graphics. I thought Leonardo is maturing as an actor and did a commendable job.

The Duesenberg film sequences were fast-paced, exciting, the engine sounds were superior, and the whole thing got the pulse racing. I admit I had difficulty with the Rap music dubbed in since I really couldn't relate "street music" with the Art-Deco era.

That criticism aside, I'd give it two thumbs up.

Cheers!
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25 May 2013 11:06 #25221 by Bob Roller
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The reason "rap"was used,if it was is because the whole show is based on a line of BS that never happened. Howard Hughes WAS a REAL person and it is sad to think of his demise by dementia and madness.We haven't seen anything but short clips on TV about the Gatsby movie and that is all we will see.

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25 May 2013 07:46 #25220 by silverghost
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Has anyone here seen this Great Gatsby movie yet?

My backyard neighbor's daughter said that they used out of place modern Hip~Hop rap "Music" through the entire movie !
WHY ? ? ?

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21 Apr 2013 17:21 #25057 by Bob Roller
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I remember seeing the original version that had Duesenbergs in it but that was many moons ago. The last movie we went to see and paid to see it was "Red Tails",a story of the Tuskeege airmen. I never really knew if Gatsby was fact or fiction or a composite character.

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21 Apr 2013 02:52 #25053 by silverghost
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West Peterson wrote:

silverghost wrote: Not much of a DeCaprio fan ~~~
He seems to be far to young an actor for the movie parts he seems to play in my opinion.
Howard Hughes, Herbert Hoover, etc~
He is still in fact a young actor~

How old of an actor would you prefer? You mentioned the man that FSF based the story on retired in his early 40s.
In regard to Hughes, he was 37 when WWII broke out in 1942, and just 23 when he directed his first movie.
Perhaps he was too young to play Hoover. I didn't see the movie so I don't know what period in his life it took place. I have to strongly disagree with you about the other two.


West~~~
Just MY opinion here about DeCaprio beig too young for these roles..

The Hoover film plot traced Hoovers FBI life unti his death.

The Hughes film's plot took place mostly in the after WW II era with the giant wood "Spruce Goose" transport seaplane, TWA airlines & Pam AM fight, Congressional hearings etc. and his early signs of mental illness & possible onset dementia.

The fictional Great Gatsby was based on a composite of several of F. Scott Fitzgeralds super wealthy society friends~~~ not just one person.

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20 Apr 2013 22:25 #25047 by johnmereness
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Drove an unrestored Packard Yellow 1935 V-12 Convertible Sedan (with the top down) across Dayton on Wednesday (in 5:00 rush hour traffic) and people nearly fell out of their cars looking - nothing beats the statement of Americans and their big yellow circus wagons !

And, imagine the impact that it had in 1935 with its Santa Barbara Peach farmer owner behind the wheel.

JMM

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18 Apr 2013 14:41 #25040 by Steve Derus
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There was another film version starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. If I recall correctly they used a yellow Rolls phaeton in that one.

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18 Apr 2013 13:08 #25039 by West Peterson
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silverghost wrote: Not much of a DeCaprio fan ~~~
He seems to be far to young an actor for the movie parts he seems to play in my opinion.
Howard Hughes, Herbert Hoover, etc~
He is still in fact a young actor~

How old of an actor would you prefer? You mentioned the man that FSF based the story on retired in his early 40s.
In regard to Hughes, he was 37 when WWII broke out in 1942, and just 23 when he directed his first movie.
Perhaps he was too young to play Hoover. I didn't see the movie so I don't know what period in his life it took place. I have to strongly disagree with you about the other two.

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17 Apr 2013 03:52 #25029 by silverghost
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In the original movie hype put out in the press months ago the producers were telling everyone that they spent Big $$$ Money to buy "Original Three Million $$$$ Dollar Duesenbergs"~~~~

Which we all now here know they did not !

I had thought that the original movie release date was supposed to be around Christmas week 2012 ?
My neighbor's teenage daughters were anxiously hoping to see it during Christmas week ?
Perhapps it needed re-working or re-editing ?

F. Scott Fitzgerald clearly writes about a yellow Rolls~Royce Silver Ghost in his Great Gatsby Novel ~~~
In fact several Rolls~Royce~ "Circus Wagons"
The novel story plot in Fitzgerald's book takes place just shortly after WW I in approx 1922~
The book itself was first actually published in 1925 .

Why then are the movie producers using reproduction Model "J" Duesenbergs in their Great Gatsby film ???
As we all here know the Duesenberg model "J" was not built in this eary 20s time period !

Fitzgerald seems to be making fun at the very rich , and their care free & fun attitudes about their free spirit party lifestyle, and their indifference to the day to day life struggle of the average everyday worker, in this Great Gatsby novel~~

But~~~
Most of the wealthy folks he actually loosely based the Gatsby story line on were in fact his real life super wealthy Long Island NY "Blue Book" Society friends~~~

My Springfield Phantom I (S-136 PM), Wimbledon "Special" Coupe' a, Commodore Hotel Salon Show Car, was in fact owned by one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Southold Long Island NY close friends.
His name was Alfred H. Cosden; and his famous race horse Vito won the 1928 NY Belmont Stakes Race.
Cosden had his own private golf course, vinyard, on his very large estate called "Eastward" on the bluffs overlooking Long Island Sound in Shouthold Long Island NY.
His Carriage house still stands today, now a private home, where my Springfield Wibledon Coupe' was once stored & garaged, as well as several other estate service buildings, worker's houses, & the golf course.
He used this powerful high-speed R~R Coupe' auto to commute to New York City from his large Southold Long Island NY county estate.
He was also a member of the Long Island Expressway highway built as a private limited access "members only" high speed expressway road to New York City built by his friend Vanderbuilt. Basically it was the very first modern high speed expressway in America with no real speed limits.
Cosden's early 50+/- store drugstore chain "Riker Drug Co." of NY in fact sold prescription "Rum" and other "Medical" alcohol products legally when you could not in fact buy it legally anywhere else in a tavern at this "Dry" prohibition time period.
I have one of the empty "Riker Drug" Prescription Rum bottles at home here to go along with the history of my car.
I suspect this is where Cosden & Riker Drug Co. made much of his very large NY "Drugstore" chain fortune ?
He was a true Rags-To-Riches guy who came from a MD farm area and was self-made just like the fictional Jay Gatsby .
He retired in his early 40s a multi-millionaire and spent the rest of his life racing & breeding race horses, trotters, golfing, yachting, as well as collecting fine art & rare books!
He was also a long time member of the NY road driver's association.
Some folks, & historians, in Southold Long Island NY say that Cosden, among several other of his very wealthy friends, were the actual Real Life Basis of Fitzgerald's fictional lead character~~~Jay Gatsby .
The Gatsby persona I believe was a composite based on a number of people,and close friends, that Fitzgerald actually knew in his real life.

Funny & odd fact~~~Fitzerald too ~~~owned a new Springfield Rolls~Royce himself at one point in real life !
His car is mentioned on the aft pages of the Springfield Rolls~Royce production listing in my late friend John Webb De Campi's great Springfield R~R history book "Rolls~Royce In America"
I do not know if his Springfield R~R auto still exists ?

And a Springfield Phantom I (posing as a Silver Ghost) was also used in the 1973 Robert Redford / Great Gatsby movie.
With the exception of the more advanced OHV Phantom I engine it basically is the very same earlier Silver Ghost car chassis.
Several Rolls~Royce autos were indeed featured in that 1973 movie.
I have seen this yellow former Great Gatsby movie Springfield Rolls~Royce Phantom I auto in person twice.
It just sold at auction only a few years back after being in the very same private ownerhip since well before that 1973 Robert Redford Great Gatsby movie.

Mira Sorvino starred also in yet another Great Gatsby Movie remake only a few short years back as Jay Gatsby's former lost love obsession~~~ Daisy~

I think I too will wait for this new Great Gatsby remake movie to appear some time later on cable~~~
Not much of a DeCaprio fan ~~~
He seems to be far to young an actor for the movie parts he seems to play in my opinion.
Howard Hughes, Herbert Hoover, etc~
He is still in fact a young actor~

At least all the teenage girls & 20 Year olds, will be very happy to see him again in this Great Gatsby movie remake !
This seems to be his current target audience.

There is also another earlier DeCaprio Gasby forum thread posted on this ACD forum~~~use the search function above to view it.

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17 Apr 2013 00:14 #25028 by RandyEma
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The use of a Duesenberg in this movie probably stems from the first film version in which they used two matching Duesenberg J.Ns conv coupes. Randy

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17 Apr 2013 00:07 #25027 by auburn-kid
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Especially since Gatsby didn't drive a Duesey, it clearly states that he drove a Rolls in the book. I just re-read one of my favorite classics after seeing the previews. Believe me, I would have remembered if Gatsby had driven a Duesey!

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16 Apr 2013 15:00 #25022 by RandyEma
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This movie is using original Duesenberg sounds in there final mix. Randy

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16 Apr 2013 14:21 #25021 by Chris Summers
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They bought two Duesenberg II phaetons and a replica 1933 Auburn speedster, and refinished the Duesenbergs in matching yellow.

I'm going to skip seeing what the CGI version of my favorite book looks like. <!-- s:oops: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_redface.gif" alt=":oops:" title="Embarassed" /><!-- s:oops: -->

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16 Apr 2013 08:28 #25018 by 1930 Jordan
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In or on MAY 10th 2013 there is a new movie the Great Gatsby comming out. The Car that Gatsby drives is a dussy "J" Phaeton 1930's?? Look at the reviews in "google". Looks to me like a 1970's car. The repos that they made at that time. Leonardo DiCaprio is playing Gatsby so it should be good. God I hope so!!! <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=":wink:" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: -->

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