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His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked-and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts."

Chapter 1, page 4.

The Great Gatsby opens in ten days on May 10. I'll be posting a selected paragraph - or two or three - from each of the nine chapters of the novel and pairing it with an image from the film. This freeze frame occurs just after the text I've selected but I wanted to re-look at how Fitzgerald describes Tom Buchanan; Gatsby's rival. I would have preferred a picture that highlighted Tom's 'cruel body' more prominently for this selection but clearly Jordan Baker ( Elizabeth Debicki ) is the focus here; but check out Joel Edgerton's facial expression. He doesn't have the straw colored hair Fitzgerald gave Tom but Edgerton does have the arrogance and supercilious manner in spades. What do you think of Baz Lurhmann's casting of fellow Aussie Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan? Surely you don't care about his hair but does he capture Tom's air of entitlement, and all too transparent bravado?

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