The Great Gatsby Journal Film is a medium that rarely carries the full weight of a piece of literature when there is an attempt to transfer a piece of work between the two realms. ... The Great Gatsby is an example of the difficulty that exists when trying to move from literature to film. For one reason or another, director's interpretation, time constraints, appeal to a wider (occasionally less intelligent) audience, the film turns out with different elements than those in the book. ... Film, though a wonderful medium, is not always able to capture the classics of literature because ...

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is not just another stab at children's literature, but rather an introspective piece written by an avant garde trying to deal with all the issues he sees on his plate. ... Don Quixote, and even Shakespeare's Hamlet, have been labeled as containing elements of metafiction; and in this regard some critics claim that the definitions for metafiction, and their application, are too broad to be used with much precision. ... The gray area then becomes how to differentiate classical writing that contains elements of self-reflexivity from post-modernist contemporary writing which aims to resp...

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