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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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See my review in the GENERAL TOPICS area ....
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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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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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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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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.
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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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West Peterson wrote:
How old of an actor would you prefer? You mentioned the man that FSF based the story on retired in his early 40s.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~
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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And, imagine the impact that it had in 1935 with its Santa Barbara Peach farmer owner behind the wheel.
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How old of an actor would you prefer? You mentioned the man that FSF based the story on retired in his early 40s.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~
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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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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1930 Jordan"G" line 90,1953 Plymouth,1951 Chrysler Saratoga,1975 Dart,1974 Schwinn Collgate,1978 Schwinn Continental,1971 Honda 500"4",1973 Honda 350"twin",1975 Honda 500"twin",1955 Norton,1988 Honda Shadow custom,05 crossfire roadster.
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