#in this climate where people are just reusing everything remaking everything adapting everything

[more-than-tender-curiosity]

thoughts on the great gatsby musical (the one going to broadway next month) ?

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Words. Cannot express. My disdain. My disappointment. My general frustration with that production. I have the jeremy jordan tag blocked on tumblr now. Praying to god Miss Florence Welch pulls through with her musical. I bet SHE read the book.

#the great gatsby #jay gatsby #nick carraway #no but seriously the characterizations are horrible #putting a woman of color into a role defined by her white rich privilege is another can of worms #the songs are so mid I almost wish they were bad at least then I might listen to them as a form of self harm #and starting off with a fucking covid joke??? #are you kidding me?? #making nick this wide eyed I Wanna Be Rich Too :3c ass bitch??? #i swear to god #if I have to see that smarmy smirking bastard ass jay gatsby impostor ever again #it will be too soon #like I already have very very high standards for adaptations of anything #in this climate where people are just reusing everything remaking everything adapting everything #like mean girls the musical the movie for example. it’s a movie based off a musical based off a movie based off a book. #how many degrees of separation until we start bringing something new to the table? #I pray to god florence has an understanding of the characters and the themes and such of the novel that goes deeper than watching the #trailer for the 2000 Gatsby adaptation staring paul rudd. #now I will say a positive to be nice: pretty Nick.