The two adaptations for the original novel The Great Gatsby, are Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris. Gatsby himself is an extremely wealthy man that started with nothing. Originally, Gatsby was born to a lower class family that barely scraped by working in the coal business. Growing up he practiced things like posture and poise, doing everything he could to prepare himself for his journey. Soon after Gatsby ran away to make a name for himself in the upper-class city. In both adaptations, Gatsby’s parallels resemble that of Fitzgerald’s novel. The films The Great Gatsby and Midnight in Paris both act as parallels to the original in their own ways.
One could argue that because the adaptation was made in modern