OVERVIEW: Maneater follows the story of a woman embodying the femme fatale accordingly to Hall & Oates’ 1982 hit “Maneater.” PLOT: The woman’s night starts off at what can be considered a restaurant date. She continues getting ready in the car until she arrives at the restaurant. At this restaurant, her date leaves her alone …
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Maneater: Daisy Buchanan
Daryl Hall & John Oates’ “Maneater,” initially released in 1982, works lyrical wonders to correlate to the archetypical femme fatale, as further demonstrated by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Daisy Buchanan within his publication of The Great Gatsby. Through my analysis of these lyrics, the song could theoretically even be used to demonstrate Daisy Buchanan’s effect on …
PRELIM 7: Evolving Annotated Bibliography
Agacinski, Daniel. “West and the City.” South Atlantic Review, vol. 76, no. 2, 2011, pp. 19–28. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43050920. Accessed 9 Nov. 2023. [ARTICLE] Daniel Agacinski’s article deals with comparing the film genres of Westerns and Gangsters, while managing to align both simultaneously and paradoxically. He defines the films’ elements of power as derived from “the …
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DiCaprio: Evolution of the Gangster
The topic that I’m specifically interested in is Leonardo DiCaprio’s cinematic portrayal of the evolution of the American gangster. This topic relates to the course as per Unit 2’s “Gangster” topic and relation to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, all the while incorporating Leonardo DiCaprio’s portrayal of Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation …
The Traitors: Daisy and Kuzie
Recently, I started watching the show The Traitors: Canada, as it featured a few of my favorite Canadian competition reality television participates: Kevin Martin (Big Brother Canada 3 & 5), Kuzie Mujakachi (Big Brother Canada 11), and Erika Casupanan (Survivor 41). The Traitors: Canada follows a large group of people seemingly playing the traditional …
Isolation
In The Great Gatsby, the wealthy character Jay Gatsby becomes synonymous with the concepts of loneliness and isolation. He believed that his wealth would be directly proportional with social connection, specifically a romantic connection with former romance Daisy Buchanan; however, that couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, his wealth drew him further …
Brick vs. The Great Gatsby
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan embodies the villainous traits of femme fatale, with wealth and prosperity structuring her primary motives. Likewise, in Rian Johnson’s Brick, Laura Dannon embodies almost the same exact traits. After watching Brick, I realized that both of these women accentuate the ideals of Mo Money, [causing] Mo …
Beautiful Little Fool
Daisy Buchanan, a primary demonstration of the correlation between Mo Money, [causing] Mo Problems, is beautifully represented in Paper Mill Playhouse’s musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby by Eva Noblezada. As such, on September 28th of this year, the first press release of her solo song “Beautiful Little Fool” was released, showing …
Jay Gatsby & Abraham Shakespeare
Mo Money, Mo Problems is especially true in the case of lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, just as can be seen in The Great Gatsby’s story of Jay Gatsby. Both figures found themselves within a sudden abundance of “new money,” with Shakespeare’s being from the American lottery, and Gatsby’s being from illicit bootlegging. Both men arguably …
Jack & Eurydice v. Gatsby & Daisy
While the title of my blog is Mo Money, Mo Problems, this post might be stretching from the connotative topic. Since April 2021, the public has been aware of a work-in-progress Broadway adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. However, at the beginning of this month (September 2023), we officially received a cast list …