The Great Gatsby Arrives in Australia...

Today brought me a few The Great Gatsby links to share via this wonderful Facebook group that you simply must join.

Courtesy of Lainey Gossip, this is what the car will look like in the new Gatsby film.  That's a pass, it looks legit, like a rich guy would own it.  It also looks like it could be used for vehicular manslaughter...
Car comparisons after the jump.

This link explains the issue I have with the whole Australian aspect of the film better than I could.  So, thank you for that.

This is linked within the above story, for those who didn't click on the above story or the link within the story.  This recently razed house is apparently rumored to be what Fitzgerald based Daisy's East Egg house off of, which begs the question, "WHY DID THEY TEAR IT DOWN????"  If you are a history, art,  architecture, or literary buff, let me just warn you that those pictures of it coming down are really, really sad.




Let's look at the qualities of the car as described by FSF in the novel:

• Rich cream color
• Bright with nickel
• Swollen with monstrous length, with hatboxes and tool-boxes and supper-boxes
• labyrinth of windshields
• Rolls-Royce
• Green leather upholstery

                                                               1949 Film Version Car

It appears to be a light color, let's assume cream, but you know, it's kind of hard to tell...

It's shiny, long, not really windshield-y, but does appear to be a Rolls.

1974 Film Version Car

The famous Robert Redford-Gatsby car.  Nice cream color, bright, definitely long enough to support the windshield quality.  It's not very boxy, but damn it looks good.  I think the upholstery was right too.

2000 Film Version Car

It's white, inside was white and grayish-blue, it's long but not swollen, but has a prominent windshield.  Other than that, this one differs than the book or its predecessors.

Future Film Version Car

It's red...with a little cream.  Interior looks cream-y, but the exterior features a lot of sun streaking nickel.  Tobey Maguire is in it.  Hey, but it's a Rolls!

This could just be the first draft of the car, since this was a test drive.  Or maybe Luhrmann is about to throw up a big middle finger and shoot the movie in black and white AND 3D.