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     Teluguhero Comedian Username: Teluguhero Post Number: 1002 Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 24.129.105.123 Rating: N/A |
While DiCaprio has attracted intense paparazzi attention, the cast also includes an actor who once won a BBC online poll as the millennium's greatest star of stage or screen. The Bollywood veteran Amitabh Bachchan plays Gatsby's shadowy business partner Wolfsheim. Luhrmann described him as one of the world's great screen legends. ''Over the years, Amitabh's films have made a tremendous impression on my life and work,'' he said. ''His film Sholay was my introduction to Indian cinema.'' | ||
| Teluguhero Comedian Username: Teluguhero Post Number: 1001 Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 24.129.105.123 Rating: N/A |
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/luhrmanns-latest- gives-a-third-dimension-to-great-tale-of-long-island-decaden ce-20110902-1jq2h.html Luhrmann's latest gives a third dimension to great tale of Long Island decadence Garry Maddox September 3, 2011 . New direction ... Baz Luhrmann. WHILE the rising dollar has kept Hollywood away, Sydney filmmaking gets its buzz back next week. Baz Luhrmann starts shooting The Great Gatsby, the $120 million-plus drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and a strong Australian cast that includes Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Jack Thompson and Gemma Ward on Monday. The 3D movie breaks a three-year drought since Luhrmann's Australia and X-Men Origins: Wolverine finished at Fox Studios and recalls a time when the Matrix trilogy, Mission: Impossible II and two Star Wars episodes were filmed in the city. In the adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel, DiCaprio plays the golden hero Jay Gatsby, with Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan. Advertisement: Story continues below For art director Ian Gracie, who designed the hit film Red Dog, it's ''a huge buzz'' getting the team from Australia and Moulin Rouge together again. ''The best thing about it is when you work on a Baz Luhrmann-Catherine Martin film, the art department becomes paramount,'' he said. ''You become part of the inner family, the inner circle, and it's a very, very, very interesting ride.'' Gracie said it was a similar challenge recreating New York during the Jazz Age to Paris at the turn of the 20th century. ''Trying to recreate any period of time from any part of the world is always difficult,'' he said. ''But Baz has a very strong direction - he knows exactly what he wants - and that makes our life a lot easier.'' Inside the soundstages, the crew has been building Carraway's bungalow, Gatsby's ornate bedroom and a combined garden, terrace, ballroom, map room and hallway from his ''castle'' on Long Island. For Elizabeth Debicki, a 21-year-old who plays Jordan Baker despite graduating from drama school in Victoria only last year, pre-production has been fast-moving and fun. ''I think 'buzzing' is a good word,'' she said. ''There's a sense that everything is just coming together - all the departments - in the last week. It's just so exciting to see it building up. I can't wait to get on there and start actually making it now.'' Is it hard for a young actress to avoid being intimidated while working with some of Hollywood's biggest stars? ''Carey and Leo and Tobey are very involved in making it good - it's very easy to forget who they are and how famous they are because they just seem like other actors working really hard,'' she said. While DiCaprio has attracted intense paparazzi attention, the cast also includes an actor who once won a BBC online poll as the millennium's greatest star of stage or screen. The Bollywood veteran Amitabh Bachchan plays Gatsby's shadowy business partner Wolfsheim. Luhrmann described him as one of the world's great screen legends. ''Over the years, Amitabh's films have made a tremendous impression on my life and work,'' he said. ''His film Sholay was my introduction to Indian cinema.'' With filming running until Christmas, Gatsby is expected to be released in time for Oscars consideration late next year. There will be particular interest in how Luhrmann uses 3D. The director said he was interested in using it to express Fitzgerald's poetry in imagery. ''I have been mindful of the modernist approach Fitzgerald took to his writing, being influenced by the motor car, the new invention of flying, employing popular music in the very text of Gatsby … and the influences of modernists James Joyce and Joseph Conrad.'' |
