The Great Gatsby Comparison Between Book and the Movie G

The Great Gatsby Comparison Paper

The similarities and the differences between the book The Great Gatsby and the

movie G are many in both accounts. The book The Great Gatsby was written and

set in the 1920's with all caucasion characters, and the proper talk and everyday life

of the 20's. The movie G is much different in this aspect because the writter's and

the director of the film decided to modernize the story and make it more catered to

the new african america lifestyle. Thus the setting was modern times and the whole

cast were african american. There were many very obvious differences between the

book and movie because of the different era's and cultures, such as the music, the

things they said, the way they dressed, the houses, their clothes and how socializing

had changed over the years.

Most of the characters that were in the book were in the movie, with only a few small

differences because of the time change. Gatsby, or G as the movie called him, was

in the music industry as some big hip-hop/rap artist, he still threw big parties with

lots of important people. Nick was a journalist in the movie and came to Gatsby's