The Great Gatsby was such an overblown hot mess that I often found myself drifting off into personal thoughts during the show.While Jay-Z blasted on the soundtrack and flappers danced hip-hop Charleston, I was all like did I leave the iron on? and his suit isn't really all that pink.
I also tend to play the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game when a movie starts to disappoint. I started with actor Tobey Maguire and branched on to the realization of something interesting.
It seems that after Ang Lee directed The Ice Storm, his key cast went on to star in at least one movie based on classic literature. Ok, work with me here.
I don't really have an elaborite key-party conspiracy theory, but it is cool that Ang Lee did Sense and Sensibility and then adapted Rick Moody's modern literacy classic The Ice Storm, whose cast went on to do the following adaptations...
