Until half through the movie, I really thought Gastby was gay and in love with Nick. And Nick seemed to like him back too. So I sincerely thought this was gay romance. Was I the only it happened to ??
And what a sad ending to the movie :(( Daisy was really a b**ch
I can see your point. I thought the whole story had some subtle gay undertones in the beginning before the story unfolds. It's the same case as in 'The Picture of Dorian Grey', although here Dorian was actually a lot more bisexual than Nick or Gatsby.
shareI thought it when watching the film and I thought it while reading the book. When people go on about the epic love Gatsby had for Daisy I wonder if they read the same book because the chemistry between Jay and Nick was always there. I think it comes across a lot in this film because Leo and Toby are very good friends.
Dean and I do share a more profound bond. I wasn't going to mention it - Castiel
Nick is vaguely implied to have had some sort of liaison with Mr McKee after Myrtle's party. They leave together, step into the elevator, McKee invites him to lunch someday, then this happens;
"... I was standing beside his bed and he was sitting up between the sheets, clad in his underwear, with a great portfolio in his hands."
Do with that what you will.
I'm a huge fan of the book and this movie and, while I do believe the story is about the love between Gatsby and Daisy...I couldn't help but notice the chemistry and bond between Gatsby and Nick. I mean...Nick sticks with Gatsby for better or for worse...like true love couples do. It's a facinasting part of the story to me. Gatsby and Nick (in book and the movies) always have the most chemistry and loyalty to each other. I'm not saying they're gay or bi but I personally don't rule out any possibilities lol
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shareThere's a theory that Nick was Gay. or at least occasionally swung both ways (see the scene in the book where, after the drunken party in the apartment where Tom "keeps" Myrtle when they're in the city, Nick wakes up in the (male) neighbor's apartment, and the neighbor is in bed in his underwear.
shareThere may be more evidence in the book but I just got the impression that Gatsby was surrounded by vapid, hollow, selfish people (as we know none came to the funeral). It didn't seem like he had a friend in the world. He was obsessed with a woman he kept waiting for. I think he was a mess. He needed someone to tell his real story to. I suppose one's opinion depends on how close you believe two men can be before you begin to see gay overtones. Again, I don't know about a guy in underwear in the book.
share"Again, I don't know about a guy in underwear in the book." Someone else commented on these scene and he may have mentioned the name of the character. He's a neighbor of Myrtle Wilson in the apartment house where Tom is keeping her, and as I recall he's a photographer. Nick has too much to drink, and the next thing he knows he's in this guy's apartment, and the guy is now in his underwear.
shareI assume that you are getting that stuff from the book because I didn't see it. I admit I wasn't really clear on why that Myrtle woman was around all of the time. Once I found out that Nick cheated on his wife it made sense that she was always around, even in seemingly personal situations amongst other characters.
If having too much too drink and then waking to a guy in his underwear was some type of proof of being gay there are many more gay people than we could ever imagine.
What guy's apartment? I don't think anyone has named him. Why was Nick there in the 1st place? If I'm drunk and it's my place I may just get comfortable to go to sleep. I might sleep naked. It doesn't mean I had sex with anyone.
I think that Nick became absolutely fascinated with Gatsby's story. Nick was the only one who Gatsby truly let into his life story. Others were saying that they didn't even know if there was a really Gatsby. When Gatsby was in pain Nick was furious at the cause. Nick was the only who cared in the end.
When the topic was written I thought the question was rather Gatsby and Nick were lovers. Nick came along just when Gatsby was so lonely he needed someone to hang with and talk to. If it wasn't so tragic it would be a "bromance" as I understand that word.
I'm re-reading the book now, and in the book a person could interpret Nick's fascination with Gatsby as an unrequited crush. Luhrman played that up a bit for the movie, McGuire's Nick is openly mooning over Gatsby and ends up in a nuthouse when he loses him.
But there's no intimation of Gatsby bring gay in either book or film, or of Nick's fascination being returned - Gatsby just uses him to get close to Daisy. And Gatsby is a man who shapes his entire being around his feelings for a woman after all, not a lot of homoeroticism in that.
I frankly think Nick is just friends with Gatsby. I don't think he is gay. Plus most people in America weren't okay with homosexuality back in the 1920s.
shareI thought Nick was the only person from the group they mingled with that actually cared about Gatsby and not his fame or fortune. You could look at it been some attraction there, but i just think Nick just wanted to be a good friend to Gatsby as Gatsby was a sad lonely young man.
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