[Dixielandjazz] Watching Gatsby

[JBruno868 at aol.com]

I heard that the director didn't want to put in any 20's music as he stated 
 it was out of style and the generations now, wouldn't be able to connect. 
Made  me not want to see the film at all. A good film from that decade, 
should have  music to go with it historically.
 
Jazz Hugs
 
Judie
 
 
In a message dated 5/22/2013 3:44:14 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
mister_bertje at hotmail.com writes:

I went  to see the movie,



Selena and I have seen the 3D  version.

The 3D effects are really stunning, but at a certain point you  get the 
feel that it is 

overdone a bit.



Music wise it  does play Louis Armstrong's opening of his record of Ain't 
Misbehavin for a  

while, and another Armstrong record is shortly done, but I forgot the  
title.



It proves how unique Armstrong was, since it is the  music that has most to 
tell in the 

entire movie.

It also does  part of Rhapsody in Blue, which sounds so perfect, that one 
gets the  

impression it is recorded with computer corrections on every part. Or  
maybe the musicians 

are all simply extremely gifted.....

But  Rhapsody remains a fantastic piece of music to my ears.



What is  really disturbing is that quite a lot of the music that should 
give a sort of  

1920's feeling is well, I have no others words for it, is being raped  by a 
kind of house 

beat, that is really totally out of context, ugly  and tasteless.

Another negative is that the musicians in the movie are  only actors, who 
really have no 

idea how to hold an  instrument.



So I would not say that you should not go, but to  me it has mixed feelings.

In a way they gave a lot of effort, like in  the 3D.



There are other points that could be improved. But at  least it does have 
Armstrong and it 

does have Gershwin, 2 very  important factors from those times....



Kind  regards,



Bert Brandsma



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