/lit/ - Literature

>>5112528
Someone posted something earlier today about our society moving from seeing the world through literature to seeing it via imagery.

Wish I saved it cause this post is a prime case in point.

You're disgusting, OP. Go back to /tv/ with the rest of the hoi polloi

>lack of imagination general

>>5112577
>the hoi polloi
>the hoi
>the

>>5112593

who here actually knows greek

>>5112568
I know this isn't /tv/, but that flick seriously had some of the best simulated sex I've ever seen.
Scorcese really is a great director. Despite being one of the more awkwardly winding comedies in recent memory with characters who were written as caricatures half the time and seriously the other half (yes, I get that that's the point), he really pulled some fantastic performances out of the actors, comedic, emotional, and sexual.

>>5112577
Blow me.

In the book, Gatsby seems like he's on valium the entire time, playing a game in which it doesn't matter whether he wins or loses.

Tom Buchanan seems like a moron.

Daisy seems like a flighty ass who doesn't care about anyone except herself.

None of the above happens in the movie, rather they all have actual emotions that simply don't come across in the book.,

>>5114068
>In the book, Gatsby seems like he's on valium the entire time, playing a game in which it doesn't matter whether he wins or loses.
No, it's more just that you're retarded

What is the point behind this bait? What pleasure do you derive from pointless anger-mongering? Is it because you are too insecure to make a sincere thread about literature? Why don't you actually read The Great Gatsby with a mature attitude, or read another book if you don't like it? Please just stop it for fuck's sake.

>>5114077
Dickhead, I liked the book. Thought it was very good.

My OP still stands.

If you /lit/ browsing fags want to debate it lets fucking do it.

You'll lose.

>>5114082
You have a broken brain which can only respond to immediate stimulation. It is telling that you cannot go beyond you 'liked' it. Let me guess, you 'liked' The Republic too? Retard, watch your shitty films and fuck off.

>>5114082
fight me IRL

>>5114088
Haven't read it.

Loved Brave New World
Liked 1984
Loves Les Mis
Liked Blood Meridian

Shall I go on? Nah I won't bother, because you'll probably type out some other witty banter with your tootsie roll stained fat little sausage fingers you fucking neckbearded beta minus.

>>5114099
I hope you're enjoying yourself, I really hope you are.

>>5114100
Still waiting for one post debating my original post.

Also my dubs confirm my previous post.

>>5114103
umm ur a faget m8, great gatsby is faggy and ur a fag wathc pulp fiction is way beta fucking fag check em

>>5114099
>Loved Brave New World
>Liked 1984
>Loves Les Mis
>Liked Blood Meridian
You seem tense.

>>5114099
>Loved Brave New World
>Liked 1984
>Loves Les Mis
>Liked Blood Meridian
Read fault in our stars, seems more your level m8.

>>5114107

>>5114114
>le sassy disagreement negro fayc
typical baz luhrman homo lmao

>>5114099
>hasnt read non fiction
>hasnt read anything older than 1900s other than les miserables which is popular as fuck
Jesus OP youre such a pleb now go back to /tv/ or actually read some pynchon or DFW, fag.

>>5114132
>or actually read some pynchon or DFW, fag.
Almost had me going there lmao.

>>5114132
I Like Biographies a lot. Just finished pic related. I stick to sports figures mostly. Ted Williams biography is fantastic.

>>5114138
I really wonder how many idiots see le epic pynchon meme and never read one of his books due to being idiots and thinking it's literally just a meme. I also wonder how many buy Gravity's Rainbow first and only read 10 pages.

>>5114141
>likes biographies
>sticks to sports figures mostly
stop digging

>>5114145
Still haven't heard one response to my OP other than "Go back to /tv/"

I win. /Lit/fags stay beta

>>5114150
Celebrate your victory in /tv/ by all means. They'll laugh at you too pleb.

>watching film adaptations

>>5114120
>He has never seen The Wire
Leave. For ever.
4chan doesn't need people like you.

>>5114198
>Proud of watching television and considering it a prerequisite of being a human

Please take your own advice.

that book sucked and I bet the movie is worse

>>5114245
Love this post.

>>5112528
>>5114068
>>5114082

The problem is that you're entirely missing the damn point. They're not SUPPOSED to be likable sympathetic, emotional human beings. They're SUPPOSED to be driveling bourgeoisie scum... Which, in the book, they are. UNLIKE the movie that paints them as more pitiably misunderstood.

>>5114245
my thoughts

>>5115243
Even Gatsby?

>>5115243
Gatsby for all his faults is romanticized, hence his parallel/personification of the American Dream.

Everyone else was just a catalyst or under his shadow.

reminder that gatsby is creole

>>5112593
>watching that moist eyed camera hogger

>>5114143
It was more about DFW

But really this movie is so incredibly fucking bad. Is there a single shot in the movie that lasts more than 3 seconds? I feel like Baz Luhrmann didn't give a single note to any of the actors, just said "stand right there and do whatever I don't give a shit I'm not fuckin kubrick"

>>5115481
It was visually disgusting, I agree

Was he using some kind of filter or lense that made everything lurid and false looking?

>>5115493
it was the 40s, everything was glowy back then

>>5115503
It was the 20s, m8

I mean everything in that movie has some kind of horrible gloss or some other effect that was just horrible to look at

>>5115493
Everything was green screen.

>>5115513
I'm jesting, m8.

>>5115514
Thats probably it, but usually that just looks campy or goofy, here it was almost insulting

>inb4 the jay-z and dubstep on the soundtrack was symbolic

>>5112593
>hoi polloi
"'Twould fill with joy,
And madness stark
The hoi polloi!"