This film is quite a modern take on the 1974 film “The Great Gatsby”.
The opening scene to this 2013 film, is quite repetitive. It starts of with the tittle sequence, which is shown within 1920s art and in black and white. It then fades into colour and then goes black. This implies that this is a re-make of an older film, by going from black and white to full colour.
It then cuts to long shot of a lake in the night with one green blinking light in the distance. This sets the atmosphere which is dark, mysterious and very gloomy. Then a narrative voice starts and its telling us of its past and how everyone those days just partied and got drunk.
This sets the location as no-one who was poor could party all the time, so it must be set in a rich part of the city/town.
We aren’t really introduced to any characters yet but we have been introduced to the voice, telling us of what the times are like. So we can only imagine that the voice is one of the main charactors.
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