Nick X Gatsby, doomed to meet 

6:20 "Having a gay time now?" "No, no... No, just... two bros hanging around. No homo."

Okay how the filmmaker introduces Leo as Gatsby is soo much better. The suspense leads up to how the camera finally focuses on Gatsby face. I love it

Leo looks like he is actually the Gatsby or we are just so much obsessed with Leo

Leo’s was the best. Without a doubt.

Rudd's the perfect Nick Carraway, and Leo the perfect Gatsby. Shame they weren't opposite each other in the same film.

The 1926 and 2013 versions of the party actually look like something I would want to go to. The other ones look like elitist soirées that some Patrick Bateman would attend.

1974 and 2013 had the best Nick Carraways

Crazy that doing a movie about 1920s in 1970s was doing a movie about 70s today.

Laz did an outstanding job at conveying the rambunctious craziness of Gatsby’s parties. The other movies looked like they filmed at a country club lol.

Too bad the silent film went and got burnt up.

Ok, I like Paul Rudd as Nick Carraway. I understood that Nick was supossed to be somehow odd, Toby Maguire did a good job until I saw Rudd, then Maguire became too odd. Rudd gave that "odd" that was just right as how I imagined Nick Carraway in real life.

Baz Lurhman’s version has to be the best. The music, the pacing, the build-up to Gatsby’s reveal, the fireworks that worked wonderfully well,Leo’s charm, everything about it is just *chef’s kiss*

Im afraid this gatsby is not a very good host

Sorry, old sport. I thought you knew 🙂

F. Scott Fitzgerald hated the 1926 version; he and Zelda made a big show of walking out of the premiere.

Thanks for putting this together. Alan Ladd was an interesting Gatsby, and Robert Redford had great potential but I never liked the low-energy 1974 version, especially not Bruce Dern as Tom. I think the book deserves the high energy, big-budget, star power 2013 version. Decaprio is a great Gatsby.

Fantastic montage! Great work. When Leo at the end says, “You see, *I’m* Gatsby,” it’s like he’s dismissing all the Gatsbies who came before here! The true Jay Gatz. But Alan Ladd wasn’t bad! No offense, but Redford seems such a boring stiff. As for 2nd best Nick (after Tobey), I’d say Paul Rudd. I could see him giving a great performance with Leo in the 2013 one (he didn’t seem to have much to work with in 2000). Anyway, such a great job highlighting Gatsby over a century in art.

Was really cool to see all the various versions! Thanks for taking the time to put this together!

I don’t get why the 74 version just immediately reveals it’s Gatsby. Having Nick think he’s just speaking to an average guy instead of just another rich socialite is important. Only the 49 version seems to get this.

It’s so cool seeing Leo compared to the casuals. Older is not always better. And movies like this one got better over time. That intro is soooooo good in the 2013 version.

Just rewatched the movie for the first time since 2013 and man was it magical. It just gave me a certain feeling that even the booking couldn't give.

I think Leo was a good Gatsby, but Tobey was a bit creepy as Nick. Paul Rudd was better. Baz's version was I think just a little to over the top.

Wow. No love for Robert Redford in the Comments? He was Brilliant in the role. The 2000 Gatsby just seemed creepy and terrible, but I might watch it just to see Paul Rudd as Nick.😅

I like how much they progressed throughout. Paul Rudd seemed to be a good Carraway just as Tobey McGuire, and Leo DiCaprio was obviously the best Gatsby, without a doubt. Still can't believe that Paul Rudd played Nick Carraway lmao I never knew that

4:09 .... After his secret was revealed, he joined hydra

OMG Toby Stephens was a DISASTER as Gatsby - down to his red hair and eyebrows that they dyed dark brown, he doesn't fit the suave, charismatic character at all! It's such a great book, no movie has ever got the casting of Gatsby, Nick, Tom or Daisy right. Tom was never played by actors who were masculine enough to convince. The best cast character ever was the incredible Karen Black as Myrtle in the 1974 version.

Paul Rudd as Nick is brilliant.

Leo did a good job in being Gatsby and Toby maguire also did well, although Leo is the better Gatsby

Toby Stephens is my favorite! Love Robert and Leo too, but Toby just has that certain X factor.

There’s something about the 2013, its so unique idk how to describe it

2013: Most grand 🎉 2000: Most accurate to the book 📕

This is Brilliant! Love how you have put all versions together! Thank you. Will be re watching them all soon 🌸

I’m afraid I haven’t been a very good host old sport you see I’m gatsby

2013 = Cartoon Gatsby, and don't even try to compare Leo's smile to Bob Redford's. 2013 did get Tom and Catherine right.

Leo had a great introduction, but I just don’t see him a Gatsby. I personally preferred the way Robert played him, something about it felt better. Besides, I’m biased since I can’t stand how artsy the Leo one is.

Paul Rudd and Tobey Maguire both perfectly played Nick Carraway

The Alan Ladd version is the best of the bunch.

Leo and Robert really the only true gatsby

Baz Lurhmann's Gatsby wasn't the best. All of the productions were unique to their eras. Only those with intelligence and retrospect will understand that.

Robert RedFord and version 74 is the best, obvious.

it been 10 year and there is no new gatsby movie, why??

8:13 Tobey’s boutta act up

"Having a gay time?" 😂 They knew what they were doing

2000 version feels closer to Fitzgerald's vision.

So Gustaf Graves and Antman were once party people...

Baz Lurhman channeling Orson Welles here.

These other version's can't compete with Baz's. Jordan in the 2000 version seems especially comical.

Never knew that Paul Rudd played Nick Carraway whatttttt

Toby still did well in being nick carroway

Something tells me that one jazz musician loves fireworks

Just bought a copy of the 1949 version. Macdonald Carey reminds me too much of Nicholas Cage, lol. It's interesting to see the different spin some of the lines get. I'd say my chief complaint so far is that the pacing is off. Things move and escalate too quickly. There's no mystery to Gatsby's past or his relationship with Daisy. No big reveal. Even the meeting in the clip is undermined by the fact that it's how we're introduced to Nick, not Gatsby (we'd already met him and heard about his relationship with Daisy before he ever shows up). Interesting to see "The Maltese Falcon's" Wilmer Cook show up to play Klipspringer (a piano-playing gangster) in this one. Pretty big rewriting on some of the scenes, too.

Having studied literature and film and taught them for the past 25 years, I long ago came to the conclusion that "faithfulness to the book" is not the "plus" that people seem to think it is. You have to go with the strength of the medium you're using when you're making an adaptation of a preexisting work. A lot of what makes the book so special is the quality and character of Nick's narrative voice. That's unsuitable for film. Film is an inherently visual/auditory medium, so if you're making one, lean into that HARD, and make no apologies for it.

Leo the best gatsby

I prefer the Robert Redford version. Cool, handsome,mysterious.

2013 simply takes a crap on the rest, that simple lol

Leo as Gatsby Sam Waterson as Nick

2000 was the chad gatsby smfh

1:55 LMFAO

I love Robert Redford

Do side by side comparison with all 5 incarnations

The new one is the best not even close I like the one with Robert Redford in it also I think what there are 4

0:35

:D

You missed one

1974 has to be my favorite 🥰🥰

I like 1974 version a lot.

Leonardo Di Caprio as the Great Gatsby? OH NO! They sent a boy to do a man's job! And that overblown intro they gave him in 2013 with bells, whistles and fireworks - laughable! Almost as bad as that dreary little girl they cast as Daisy! Tobey McGuire was even drippier than Nick is in the book. I hope someday a movie will be made of GG that gets the casting right.

Leonardo DiCaprio is a hell of an actor, but that 2013 adaptation is a horrible display of cartoonish CGI and tasteless editing.

kinda wanna watch the 1949 version now tho idk