These questions should be answered based on the movie The Great Gatsby.
What is the essence of the problem or conflict that lies at the heart of this movie?
How are the attitudes and perspectives on life from that era reflected in the film?
How is the story helped by camera angles? Provide several specific examples.
How is the story helped by music? Provide several specific examples.
How is the story helped by costumes? Provide several specific examples.
What is the overarching theme of the movie? Defend your choice.
How do these production choices (camera angles, music, costumes) contribute to the overarching feeling that the movie is existentialist, modernist, or postmodernist? Choose one of these three styles and show how production choices helped to illuminate the literary style of the film.
How is this like the poems, songs, or stories you have read in this unit? Make three specific connections.
How is this film different from everything else that you have read, heard, etc., in this unit? Make two specific connections.
Is this movie mostly existentialist in outlook or mostly modernist in outlook or mostly postmodernist in its style? Why do you think that?