{"id":130479,"date":"2016-04-23T00:05:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T06:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/23\/movie-review-the-great-gatsby-1974.html"},"modified":"2016-04-23T00:05:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T06:05:39","slug":"movie-review-the-great-gatsby-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/23\/movie-review-the-great-gatsby-1974.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &quot;The Great Gatsby&quot; (1974)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter just finished reading the book for Language Arts, which seemed a good opportunity to watch the movie &#8230; the &#39;74 Robert Redford \/ Mia Farrow version, that is.<\/p>\n<p>3 stars out of 5. It&#39;s a lavish production, with a remarkable cast, but an ultimately hollow feeling. Which is, in a sense, appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Full review: <a href=\"http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-great-gatsby\/\">http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-great-gatsby\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Personal note: I recall that, on release, my mom and dad saw this film, somehow as part of my dad&#39;s bank job. I think.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6276628870491937649\/6276628868131962930'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-Po4Z0f8HN1U\/VxsQs1f3wDI\/AAAAAAAD4T4\/9uyBlNLr6mYqRVlnggfdu3rTOvcZDLBHA\/mia-farrow-robert-redford-the-great-gatsby-cover%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/YkZgoUu1W7C'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter just finished reading the book for Language Arts, which seemed a good opportunity to watch the movie &#8230; the &#39;74 Robert Redford \/ Mia Farrow version, that is. 3 stars out of 5. It&#39;s a lavish production, with a remarkable cast, but an ultimately hollow feeling. Which is, in a sense, appropriate. Full &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/23\/movie-review-the-great-gatsby-1974.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Movie Review: &quot;The Great Gatsby&quot; (1974)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mia-farrow-robert-redford-the-great-gatsby-cover5B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130525,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/30\/movie-review-the-great-gatsby-2015.html","url_meta":{"origin":130479,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;The Great Gatsby&quot; (2015)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 30-Apr-16 11:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Baz Luhrmann edition of this book is dreamlike and unreal, and so is a perfect match for the world of Jay Gatsby. 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