"THINGS THAT YOU DO FOR..."

Its the summer of 1922, an era, known for unprecedented economic prosperity, bootlegging and other criminal activity. Nick Carraway,  a Yale University graduate and World War I veteran, moves from the U.S. Midwest to New York where he takes a job as a bond salesman after giving up on writing. He rents a small house on Long Island in the village of West Egg, next door to the lavish mansion of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious business magnate who holds extravagant parties.
Nick has a cousin, Daisy Buchanan, who lives across the bay with her husband Tom, a college acquaintance of Nick's. One day Nick decides to pay them a visit and is introduced to Jordan Baker, a cynical young golfer with whom Daisy wishes to match make with Nick.

During dinner at Daisy's home, Jordan reveals to Nick that Tom has a mistress who lives in the "valley of ashes," an industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, Nick finally meets Tom's secret lover, Myrtle, while traveling with Tom to the valley, where they stop by a garage owned by George Wilson, Myrtle's husband.

One day, Nick receives an invitation to one of Gatsby's parties. Upon arriving, he learns that none of the guests at the party have ever met Gatsby himself, and they have developed multiple theories as to who he is: A German spy, a prince, even an assassin. Nick encounters Jordan, and they meet Gatsby, who is surprisingly young and rather aloof, in person.

Gatsby seems to take a liking to Nick, inviting him out for numerous occasions. Through Jordan, Nick later learns that Gatsby had a relationship with Daisy in 1917, and is still madly in love with her, throwing his extravagant and wild parties in the hopes that she will one day appear at his doorstep. On most nights, he can be seen reaching out across the bay to the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He now wants Nick to arrange a reunion between him and Daisy. 

A nice build up from what will be presumed to be a gangsta film to an unsuspecting romantic story that sees main character Nick Carraway, played by Tobey Maquire, narrating his ordeal when arriving New York for the first time but finds himself in the center of what seems to be a love triangle, and the cupid that could reignite the romance between his cousin Daisy and his new found friend and neighbor Jay Gatsby, played by  Leonardo DiCaprio.

The movie attempted to bridge the current hip hop culture with jazz music (which is said to be the style of music that was highly appreciated in the 1920s) as popular songs like Kanye's and Jay-Z's "No church in the wild" were being fused with jazz, and one might try to question the relevance of this fusion in the first place which however stopped at the middle of the film to its end. In short, the hip hop experiment in the movie wasn't needed and even inappropriate at trying to drive home the main theme, which was basically the story of a young man torn between his desire, an unquenchable hunger to acquire wealth and his affection for beautiful Daisy whom he struggles to keep to himself, even though she is in a marriage.

But the movie is interesting with lots of twists, and the movie's display of New York's lively culture at this period in history is enough to entertain the audience who may not have an idea of what comes next.

The Great Gatsby is a 2013 Australian-American drama film. which originally is an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name, and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Elizabeth Debicki, Isla Fisher and Jason Clarke.

As of July 28, 2013, 'The Great Gatsby' earned $143,888,405 in North America, and $186,200,000 in other countries, for a worldwide total of $330,088,405.

Audiences polled by the market research firm CinemaScore gave The Great Gatsby a "B" grade on average.