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Now I don't think F. Scott Fitzgerald needs much of a set-up, him only
being one of the most important American writers of the 20th century, nor
does The Great Gatsby (1925), quite probably his most famous and
popular novel. Now where did Fitzgerald get the inspiration for his novel
from though? For years it was believed that Fitzgerald's time in Long
Island alone inspired the novel, what with it being set there - an
assumption readily supported by biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, for years the
authority on the writer. The problem with Bruccoli was though that he
never accepted dissent or quite simply new ideas, seeing his word and his
alone on Fitzgerald as gospel - which is the reason why he never even
wasted a thought on the summer in 1920 when F. Scott Fitzgerald and his
then new wife Zelda moved into a cottage in Westport, Connecticut, where
they lived next to the mansion of a millionaire who used to throw
extravagant parties. That and other things about Westport strike very
familiar to the happenings in The Great Gatsby, and this
documentary tries to take a stand for the Westport theory ... Now
one of the problems with that approach is that writers in general only
very rarely draw exclusively upon one source, and fiction in general might
be rooted in fact, but is never meant to be confused with fact -
and this documentary readily addresses this issue, too, and isn't really
that much about setting a few facts (arguably) right but painting a
picture about the Fitzgeralds early in Scott's career, peppered with
quotes not only from many of his novels and stories but also Zelda's one
novel Save Me the Last Waltz (1932) as well as excerpts from their
correspondence, and juxtaposing talking heads with film material from the
era as well as clips from several F. Scott Fitzgerald adaptations, and
this way the film makes not only the writings of the couple but the Jazz
Age as such really palpable, and even if you couldn't care less about
Westport, and (at least for the historically inclined) it's a joy to
watch.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
Out now from Amazon!!! |
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