Great Gatsby in 3D?!

Maybe I'm way behind on my current entertainment events, but in case you haven't been up on the up in recent months...Baz Lurhmann recently announced that The Great Gatsby in 3D will be coming out  and will be filmed in Australia!  Leo DiCaprio will play Jay Gatsby, Tobey Macguire is Nick Carraway and Carey Mulligan will play Daisy Buchanan. 

Jay Gatsby

Daisy Buchanan

Nick Carroway

Looks like an all star line up and I hope that it lives up to the three other productions of The Great Gatsby that are already in production!  More than the movie itself (which I will most definitely be seeing) I wanted to comment on the lavish movie set and the 3D format (among other things.)

With such modern day technology and an amazing amount of resources (special effects and so many different film techniques)  I cannot wait to see how extravagant Luhrmann makes Gatsby's house, Daisy's outfits, and his representation of East and West Egg in general.  I do find it a bit ironic that this book is a commentary on wealth and social class, yet the amount of money that will be spent to make this movie most definitely ranges somewhere in the millions. And then I couldn't help but think, how much has actually changed since Nick met Gatsby?  While there is still immeasurable amounts of suffering going on in the world, we are able to fall into the trap of conspicuous consumption and spend millions of dollars on entertainment (let's not get into how much the actors are going to get paid...)  I know it may seem silly, but after finding numerous articles on the actors and some of Lurhmann's plans for the movie, I felt a little bit nostalgic after everything that we've talked about in this class.  Although I cannot wait to see the movie, I can't help but feel like all the money and excessiveness put into the making The Great Gatsby 3D follows exactly what we've been talking about in class.  There is a sense of a leisure class and conspicuous consumption both within Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby as well as the actual production of the movie itself.