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A few weeks before the release of the film The Great Gatsby by Baz Luhrmann with Leonardo DiCaprio, was released on home video in HD The Great Gatsby, 1974 written by Francis Ford Coppola and directed by Jack Clayton, starring Robert Redford in the role of rich protagonist in love with Daisy also based on the celebrated novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the film won two Oscars at the time for the best costumes and the best soundtrack. Also starring Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson and Sam Waterston.
extra 3 The Great Gatsby is now presented warming plate in a Blu-ray released by Universal which is revealed by discrete technical point of view but unfortunately warming plate completely devoid of special features. The video is affected by the choices made by the director of photography Douglas Slocombe with a rather soft focus, diffused warming plate light and consequently a very soft detail. In this respect, therefore, the reversal is certainly true to the original, and if the detail does not seem incisor is largely due to the shot that draws a lot of vintage images. The grain is there, it seems obvious and almost pleasantly natural, only some juncture it becomes quite invasive (on blue sky in a particular way) and knead a little 'with compression. Great close-ups and also satisfying warming plate the chroma, which has saturated colors, blacks persuasive (sometimes a bit 'noisy) and beautiful sunsets.
As for the sound, however, the track has to settle for an Italian Dolby Digital mono is affected by the years behind him. The dialogues are in fact a bit 'muffled and pasty, as well as closed, even if the intelligibility is always assured, apart from a few moments where the characters whisper. Regarding the ambience, the roar of engines and the scenes a bit 'more lively warming plate as the crowded parties Gatsby, while devoid of spatiality, are made with a stamp discreet and without distortion or large burrs, even if the scene is always very closed. Definitely the best English True HD 5.1, which provides a more natural and a more immersive overall yield of course, especially in the beautiful music and scenes in the aforementioned warming plate busiest in terms of sound. The only really sore note the complete lack of extras.