The Great Gatsby film with its? Hollywood changes, detracts from Scott Fitzgerald's original message and theme. The director Jack Clayton correctly portrays the characters in some perspective, but in his way of delivering, he loses Fitzgerald's main objective in the novel The Great Gatsby. Scott Fitzgerald's message is to show how chasing one goal and only setting one priority above all else ruins one's life. In the film, Clayton puts too much emphasis on Hollywood romanticism and does not focus enough on the true message of Fitzgerald's work.
             The novel and film mirror each other except for some minor, yet noticeable details. The characters are somewhat portrayed as more romantic than in the novel. Clayton utilized the cast in the best way possible by casting Mia Farrow and Robert Redford as the lead characters of Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Mia Farrow does an excellent performance by portraying Daisy as the simple minded, one-dimensional character she is in the novel. The reason why Clayton fails to live up to the novels personification of Daisy is because he incorporates too much feeling and emotion into the characters personality. The problem with the relationships between both Daisy and Gatsby, and Tom Buchanan played by Bruce Dern, along with Myrtle Wilson played by Karen Black, is that the relationships are too romantic. In the novel, Tom does not really love Myrtle, nor does she love him. Tom simply wants an affair and Myrtle just wants to live the glamorous lifestyle, or at least pretend she is rich. In the film, Clayton portrays their relationship as one with deep, heart felt emotion, even after Tom hits Myrtle.
             In the film, Clayton portrays Daisy as the type of person who is not self centered and actually loving. For example, when Gatsby shows Daisy the photo album he makes of her, she acts very excited and flattered that he does this, when actually in the novel she just
             ...