"The festival opened with The Great Gatsby ,
directed by Baz Luhrmann."
Midrash on an earlier film version (Mira Sorvino's, 2000):
"Daisy, when she comes to tea at Nick's house,
refers to the flowers brought by Gatsby as being
appropriate for a funeral and asks 'Where's the corpse?'
Gatsby enters immediately thereafter. This foreshadows
what will happen to Gatsby. The dialogue is not in the novel…."
— Learning Guide to The Great Gatsby
Correction to the midrash:
Sorvino actually says, when there is a knock at the door,
"That must be the corpse."
Update of Candlemas, 2014, in memory of Philip Seymour Hoffman—
