Hair was bobbed, and cigarettes were the new diet fad. Gloria Swanson by Nickolas Muray, c. Similar to the way social media and the iPhone shape our culture now, the Twenties burst with the revolutionary impact of silent movies, radio and recordings. Celebrity culture was flourishing, and glamour was in. He was a self-made man his money came from bootlegging , and illusions were vital to his world view.
I ended up being Young Jazz Musician of the Year. So the jazz part of things was in my blood. So the 20s music was something that I had to go back and study really. Going to college in the late 70s, there weren't a lot of people listening to early 20s jazz music. So one of the first things with Gatsby was listening to a lot of that early music and studying it.
NEA: How do you think the orchestral score complements the rest of the soundtrack, which is more hip-hop and pop-driven? We started that in Romeo and Juliet , where there were elements of Radiohead that became part of the score. Then the actual orchestral arrangement of [the Nature Boy song] was used as part of the score. The same thing happened in Gatsby. I arranged the Lana Del Rey song and the xx, and then the orchestral arrangement would be used on its own in places.
There was probably an hour of original score and probably an hour or 40 minutes of the songs. NEA: Could you walk me through your creative process for Gatsby? He's quite unusual as a director because he gets you down onto the set while it's being filmed so you can actually get the atmosphere.
Baz would film during the day, and then at night we'd meet up and I would write music for rough scenes he'd done. I would say the Gatsby process was probably about two years long. The first visit to Australia was being on the set and talking to Baz about what he wanted, and then I did a lot of work here in Glasgow at my studio.
And then the next big period of work, which was over a few months, was in Sydney where we were going over concepts and what songs Baz wanted to use and how he wanted them to be part of the score. The final part was Baz came to Glasgow where we really focused very intricately on the score. Bit by bit, we would go over it with a fine-toothed comb. You can imagine as an example, if you take any of the scenes, there's probably about six versions of music for every single scene.
How do you view the intersection between film, literature, and music? But I think with Baz Luhrmann, his choices are incredibly brave. Very few people would have tackled Romeo and Juliet. It's an iconic piece, and I would say the same for The Great Gatsby. I think most people would steer clear of those. They are so loved by everybody, and they're so analyzed. Remember when alcohol was temporarily banned during the s? At the end of the novel, Gatsby is left alone, desperate, and forlorn, much like the majority of Americans felt when the Great Depression hit.
Soon after the publication of The Great Gatsby , the world that Fitzgerald painted crumbled. Unfortunately, the Jazz Age ended along with it as well. Toggle navigation. Search History Wikimedia Commons.
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