The Great Gatsby - Behind The Scenes - Leonardo DiCaprio / Tobey Maguire

Zelda's made entirely your own imagination no we're there all along the idea did you see the young man that came from humble beginnings that sort of recreated himself according to his own imagination for the love of a woman named Daisy who belonged to a different glass structure than him he was a film about a person who had come from nothing and who had created himself but actually it turns out that he has a cause and it's all for issues of the heart major Jay Gatsby for valor extraordinary that's right here's this guy kind of crazy car and mad new money and and kook and and strange and putting on these far-out decadent ridiculous parties part supercool and totally a joke you must know Gatsby Gatsby I'm certainly glad to see you again she wants to be protected and safe and it live a certain way but the same time she wants epic romance please you tells me that you're over in West heck throwing your lot in with those social-climbing primitive new-money types Gatsby's the guy you want to get the girl and you want Daisy to be happy and Tom really is there to stand in the way of that and to really show you a really kind of clear view of what the world really is like he bought that house to be near her she threw all those parties hoping she'd wander in one night Nick Carraway realizes just how morally bankrupt Daisy Tom these East Eggers are and how for all Gatsby's fault he had a cause he had a truth gotten all these things for her now she just he just wants to run away Gatsby will not let anyone rewrite the script he has written for his life it's a wonderful romance but it's a tragic romance can't repeat the past can't repeat the past no why of course you can gaming in again again again it's the way that he could both have the beauty of Gatsby but also the complicated in her life he's just the most committed actor in terms of looking after everyone else on set and making sure that you're giving the best thing is Gatsby is an incredible character play because I think everyone has their own interpretation of who Gatsby is and what his motivations are and a lot of what makes Jay Gatsby interesting is what is left unsaid in the novel and what is left unsaid about you gets yes go to town and tell that she never loved him hope you with me on this menu start to get up from there like oh that's I don't know if I'm gonna be here for that was great working with leo he's one of my longtime friends and so he also happens to be a great actor and I really appreciate working with him and just getting in the scenes and playing opposite him there was something about the friendship of Toby and Leonardo and the partnership of them in character as actors and his friends that made a special possibility she was able to encapsulate all those things that was Daisy Buckhannon she was able to portray all that sophistication and each one of the lines that she said Joan Boyce basted me to be cancer just as soon as I heard words come out of her mouth as Daisy I just felt that kind of warmth that her voice is supposed to elicit you know she drew me in just like Daisy isn't meant to draw you in hey where are we going I want you to meet my girl Oh God the character that Joel created for Tom Buchanan was as I'd imagined him you know he's playing him in a very kind of sexual animalistic way he takes what he wants Tom and he's quite aggressive and he's brought that whole you know the Polo side of Tom out which really helps Myrtle because then I can respond to that and I don't have to kind of reach in and pull that out of him I want to ask mr. Gatsby one more question please please go on mr. B Kevin go on I kind of around are you trying to cause in my house anyhow he isn't causing a row you're causing a row these actors who are in the absolute prime of their powers in an 11-page acting scene in one room the plaza going at each other bars put cameras outside all of the windows and so it was just us five actors in the set and it was closed off we couldn't see any one crew or lighting or anything you just shot into the room suddenly it really did feel that really your wife doesn't love you she never loved you you see she loves me you feel quite confronted when the actors are having an acted argument because you're like a fly on the wall it's like you're the other person sitting at the other end of the camera the heat in you and how close these people were in the room and the issue that needed to be brought up and Jay was trying to be a gentleman about the situation but the fire that was circled brewing beneath him such a visionary so singular in his vision really knows how to use that technology to bring you closer to suck you into this world I love working advise I love the pace of it the raconteur he's so imaginative and creative he's a brilliantly intelligent and he's such a specific director that every single note I felt was so accurate right on I just learned so much from him I used to think wonderful things were going to happen to me before I met me wonderful I knew it was a great mistake a man like me to follow me stating I knew he will always have a kind of visual philosophy that he wants to follow in order to help tell the story just after the first world war we see the abandonment of the kind of heavy Victorian undergarment we see short skirts coming in we see a kind of sexual liberation of women that allows them to be much more scantily clad Sam's costumes are so beautiful I've never worn such beautiful materials and the styles of the clothes are so flattering and I felt like Jordan when you come for the wardrobe fittings where you come to the suit you just want to see what she's done I just detailed him fascinating and realistic and authentic but then it's just gonna have that little bit of fairy dust on it somewhere you know Baz and Catherine as long as I've known them and I've known them 20-some odd years now have always been a partnership you know not just in life but creatively Baz bounces every single idea he has off of Catherine she's the second part of Baz's production in every aspect I've never worked on a film that's had such scale but also such intricate detail in the design of it the detail of that Gatsby's house is covered by a thin beard of new raw ivy is beautifully done just visually the amount of time that is spent on getting it absolutely right he is just a lovely experience for me from the set to the costumes to the props and all of those physical things that we see and then the behavior of etiquette and the dancing style Toby and I in the middle of this podium over this you know four meter Paul by the bus going oh my god you know we're gonna fall in there were scenes there where we were around Gatsby's pool he's throwing a big party the end of those kind of days everybody would would look around and go WOW you know that was that was cool that was something to be a part of that's not something you get to see every day I am the son of some very wealthy people but sadly they're all dead man Kings yeah give infusing hip-hop the ideas of giving the 1920s that sort of modernism that isn't gonna separate you from being within that time period but makes you understand the sort of cultural references and what it would be like if these people existed today songs that have as their refrain I can see the green light which is his refrain in the book the use of Lana Del Rey's version of young and beautiful as Daisy's theme with its refrain which is as incessant questioning will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful it was dangerous and toxic aiding him feeling sexy and it was jazz f scott Fitzgerald came up with his phrase the Jazz Age the American dream of imagining who you can become it holds a mirror up to society world is so lush and yet it's so intimate that you feel like you're eavesdropping on these people's lives one hand the movie is so massive and it's so colorful and loud and crazy but then in the close of the door the film can then exist in silence you must be crazy no you see if you never loved you it has complex rich characters deep emotion passion romance violence and love there is that green light that has now manifested itself into something physical he has her there but he's still staring out at the green light she learned to be the ultimate perception of what he thought she was in his own imagination it's perfect from your perfect irresistible imagination

Channel: LIGHTDARK FILMS

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Keywords: 47, films, The Great Gatsby, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire (TV Actor), Carey Mulligan, Baz Luhrmann, Joel Edgerton, catherine martin, Behind The Scenes, drama, action, feature

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Length: 11min 42sec (702 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 22 2013