The cast of the 1949 version of The Great Gatsby is quite pleased with themselves, mainly because they consulted a psychic who assured them that their version will prove far more pleasing than the 1974 version (Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, making questionable career choices) and the 2013 version (Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan fall under the spell of director Baz Lurhmann, who seems intent on modernizing things that don’t need to be modernized). Still, none of the dozen or so film adaptations has managed to explain why anyone would want to live in a town named “West Egg”….
Note: This is Exhibit #12 in Bonnywood’s March Madness. Details found here.
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There’s nothing like the smug self-satisfaction that comes from a group cross-your-legs-in-the-same-direction photo. 😉
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It IS very smug and a bit pretentious and reeks of “high school cheerleading squad”. Of course, in this case, that one guy on the left sort of screwed things up. He’ll probably be cut from the team….
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why anyone would want to live in a town named “West Egg”…. The Real Estate market was a shell game – the bidding wars were just a game of chicken for the very rich yokels wanting to be the cock of the walk. ….and now, omelette outta here. 🧐 😎
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Yeah, If I lived there I’d beat it as soon as possible too.
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elmediat: Lovely comment. I always enjoy it when you jump into the Bonnywood mad whirl of twisty words and obscure meanderings, fully-armed and ready…
obbverse: I’m hearing a faint inner bell that “West” is somehow involved with where you live. Is that close to reality or a false echo?
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I eggscaped down a nearby rabbit hole, now live in a neo-Gothic venerable fourth wall metaphor, № 6^~0, Pataphor Parallarllagram-La-La Ave. , Tesseract Town – a short walk from Wits’ End.
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Sorry Brian, a false eggo- er, echo.
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Is that Fleetwood Mac in their younger, cleaner cut days?
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I think you might on to something, as my first glance back seems to confirm this. Wait, where’s Mick Fleetwood? He’s something like 8 feet tall, and I’m not seeing that. I remember watching the Grammy Awards when the band won their statuettes for “Rumours”, and the camera had to keep pulling WAY back to get them all in the picture…
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A difficult job for a cameraman, when you consider that Stevie Nicks is only 4 feet tall, too…
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And that shortness is the real reason why Stevie wrote the song “Stand Back”. She was afraid people might step on her on their way to the loo…
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Dude on the left didn’t get the memo on leg crossing… is he a commie or something? Quick, get McCarthy on the line or maybe Mr Turtle, McConnoll…
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Nope, Dude didn’t read the script, with his inability to do the right thing when the time came. Speaking of Turtle McConnell….
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I googled and I know none of these actors–The film stars Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Ruth Hussey, and Barry Sullivan, and features Shelley Winters and Howard Da Silva.
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All of those actors had lengthy careers and were somewhat famous in their time. (Shelley Winters eventually won two Oscars, for example.)
Bit of Bonnywood trivia: Betty Field and Ruth Hussey also appear in another still from this same film in “Past Imperfect – #193”. That one always gets a ton of hits every time I share it, not sure why…
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I’m surprised they didn’t rename it Good Egg.
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With all those fancy cocktail parties, they just didn’t have the time to fill out the paperwork…
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I always assumed it was because the islands were shaped like eggs. Either way, I’m still waiting for someone to make a good screen adaptation of Gatsby. The Luhrmann version is def better than that 1970s piece of crap, but I haven’t seen the black and white one…
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That’s an interesting take, with the shape of the islands, especially since I don’t really remember islands being involved. (Clearly, it’s been a while since I read the book.) And I do agree that we’re still waiting for a good film adaptation. (The 1949 version does what it can, but it’s very sanitized, as was most everything in the 1940s.) Perhaps we should mount our own production? We certainly couldn’t do any more damage than has already been done.
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Isn’t Long Island an island? I’m not good with geography as you probably know! We could do our own version but you know it would teeter into absurdist comedy!
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Oh, you’re right, Long Island IS an island. (For once, we have truth in advertising). I clearly wasn’t functioning with all cylinders during my previous comment. This does give me pause concerning our impending production (I was already scouting locations), mostly on my part, but I still think we should proceed. I’ll send you some storyboards to see what you think… 😉
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Excellent—and if you’re looking for an island, may I suggest Manitoulin?
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East and West Egg are all the same to those stuck in North and South Egg.
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And in the end, the chicken never crossed the road… 😉
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I was trying to figure out who was in the original cast. Alas, I can’t believe they had a remake two more times. It’s a cool name – Gatsby -and memorable.💗
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Oh, they’ve done quite a few remakes over the years, but I just mentioned the two that I’ve actually seen. Some people just don’t know when to quit…
The cast of the 1949 movie can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby_(1949_film)
And yes, “Gatsby” is a cool name. Not necessarily pleasant sounding, but nice and crisp… 😉
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You are attracted to their lives during the roaring 20’s and that the story is about their own lives makes it more tantalizing. It has all the elements of a time gone by..about the idle rich. although F. Scott Fitzgerald was not the idle one.
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