We’ve already established that we’re a little old-school with our love for physical books. While we learn to slowly embrace the digital reading revolution, we’ve overlooked another change. The influx of 3-D movies has been well-documented and discussed, but for the most part we haven’t worried about the reasoning behind the fad. If filmmakers want us to feel like those action-movie explosions are happening in our faces, so be it.
Someone has to draw a line on the films which warrant the treatment and those which don’t. Going back to our bibliophile backgrounds, we think it’s time to draw ours.
The forthcoming film adaption of “The Great Gatsby” will be popping off the screen at audiences. Sorry, but shoving popcorn down our gullets while watching the drunken adventures and lazy, yet sexually tense afternoons of 1920s well-to-dos doesn’t sound appealing.
Perhaps the director would argue the ability of the 3-D technology to lure younger viewers to the cinema. We would argue that putting an already slow-starting story in this format would help bore that demographic to tears.
For a tale that places the reader or viewer so thoroughly in a time and place, yet touches on themes everyone can understand, a gimmick seems to undersell the strength of the story itself.
We can see it now: “But Daisy is lounging right at me!”
