I really hate when someone does something great like writing, singing, dance, act, invent, anything like that and the great work isn't noticed till after they pass
Both of them had tragic lives though why wasn't F. Scott Fitzgerald's relationship with Ernest Hemingway mentioned. F. Scott Fitzgerald even worked on the move Gone with the Wind.
if using a couple of lines from her diaries and letters (and re-wording them) means that he stole her work. In actuality, they both drew heavily on their own experiences, and they both used each other's writings at some point for inspiration.
The failure to note who ran the literary world and hollywood is an insult to F Scott Fitzgerald fans. His work is enough. How many successful books have to be written to make a man a great writer? Hundreds? There is an unspoken rule that only members of a certain club are given the red carpet and Scott was not in that club. You are unworthy of being a critic of the greatest writer of all time.
I agree, it shouldn't be the quantity but the quality. My creative writing mentor always told me that it's better to publish one great masterpiece than wrote 100 trashy novels.
Well. “Z: The Beginning of Everything” tells a much happier and glamorous story...I wish they would stop fantasizing low lifestyles. It doesn’t bring happiness
Z was an absolutely accurate portrayal of how they met and their first year together, however since the show wasn't picked back up, it never had to chance to show the evolution of their relationship.
Something about Scott & Zelda matched the Jazz Age zeitgeist. They became symbols of the era, and they have endured as symbols, but it is not entirely clear to me why. There is probably an answer to this question, but I didn't find it in this video. They both seem like mainly tragic figures. Is the lesson here that the Jazz Age was not quite what it was cracked up to be?
I did to...daisy was based on Zelda and Nicole and Roseland his first unrequited love, Genevra...it's been awhile since I read Nancy mitfords book about Zelda but when I heard the commenter say that, it didn't sound right.
I felt Fitz drank to escape the prison of a marriage to Zelda. She was certified nuts and a Fatal attraction. She very much was like the nutty personality of Clara Bow.
Fitzgerald was a devoted alcoholic by the time he went to prep school. Fact. No biographer friend relative - or workplace associate would say any different. His editor at Scribner. Maxwell Perkins who knew him best, wrestled with this talented young man to produce what he was so very good at, but more often than not, the bottle stood between Fitzgerald and his career and Max Perkins. Zelda had nothing to do with his drinking. She was not much of a drinker. She loved parties and dancing but not alcohol. It was Scott's drinking that contributed to Zeldas anxiety. Medical records attest to this; she might want to see Scott , to have him visit her at the hospital, but she dreaded seeing him because he would drink and become nasty and hurtful- her anxiety was so intense she would erupt in a terrible outbreak of eczema that left her scratching her skin until it bled. After one particularly awful outbreak, her Dr told Scott he was forbidden to come to the hospital to see Zelda, or to see her outside the hospital. His drunken behavior seriously threatened her health. So you had it backwards. Scott was his own worst enemy, Zelda was one of his victims, not vice versa. Read: Some Sort of Epic Grandeur by Dr. Matthew Bruculi. And "The Crack Up " by F Scott Fitzgerald.
@@pbb8916 I appreciate your perspective. Unfortunately it remains so that you, I or anyone else shall ever know their deepest motivations. I have lived with family persons with mental health issues and Narcissistic demeanors. They cleverly feign being the victim. They manipulate with very, very little regard for others (ZElda). Growing up we walked on eggs shells, escaped through alcohol/ drugs ran away from home. The above-mentioned family members have not changed yet myself and brothers are now freed from their vices of manipulations. Imho, Zelda appeared spoiled, ungrateful and a master manipulator. Scott always seemed to yearn for being a genuine American Blueblood who had a Dad/Father in his immediate family.
Absolutely not, they were both very unstable and often encouraged each other's wild behaviour early on in the relationship. The marriage was traumatic but not just because of Zelda, that was a group effort. He came from a family of alcoholics, already suffered from reckless behaviour and was very insecure. He was an alcoholic way before he met her anyways.
@@robertgermainii7813 you heard of it that good. Decades ago they made us read it in Jr. High (now called middle school) or High school - I forget which. There was the original movie and a remake called Gatsby with Leonardo DiCaprio - I only recommend it if you are a big fan of is.
