[Dixielandjazz] That Gatsby Movie

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

Had my first chance to watch that Gatsby movie last night, and now it is
obvious why it was a hip-hop electro-beat movie with only that one Louis
Armstrong track: the writer/producer and just about everything else was the
rap star Jay Z, husband of Beyonce if I'm not mistaken (she also performs
on the soundtrack) and a great deal of the music is by Bryan Ferry, ex of
the 70's pseudo-swank and spaced-out electro-pop group Roxy Music and who
now fancies himself as a "modern" big band jazz leader (look up Roxy Music
on youtube and you'll see that he's always had a fetish for the Andrews
Sisters, which is a shame because, in my opinion anyway, the Boswells were
far superior ;)

So it's not a movie about the 20's so much as it's probably a movie about
the Rich And Beautiful People Scene of the 2020's NYC, only mixed in with
disco-ized deco clothing (the co-producer is also the fashion director and
hence the sudden flood of Gatsby-inspired fashions last summer) and fantasy
Dusenberg cars as digital effects.  The party scenes especially come
straight out of just about any MTV/Beyonce video with a dash of 70's era
Roxy Music.

I'd say it was to F. Scott Fitzgerald what West Side Story was to
Shakespeare. It is really a testament to the power of the 20's era Louis
Armstrong that OKOM got into the movie at all!

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