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The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein is a three-book novel that has been hitherto created into two separate movies. The director Peter Jackson simplifies the long, delineating story by cutting out unnecessary parts and adjoining the significant ones together. Jackson does a supreme job in making the movie flow, but the placid, primitive atmosphere that can be felt in the novel is inexistent in the movie. Like the Lord of the Rings, it is difficult to portray the exact story in a novel onto film, for there is time limit and a different audience to consider. Also, the director tends to take numerous liberties in changing the original story into his own. This is the same case for the movie The Great Gatsby. Instead of adhering to the author Fitzgerald’s perspective, the director of this movie takes freedom in describing a “Great Gatsby” story of his own. In the movie, Nick first meets Gatsby privately in Gatsby’s house during Gatsby’s party. He is lead by a bodyguard through the crowd of people into Gatsby’s private room. While Nick is lead through the stairs and hallways, he has no idea where he is lead. The bodyguard does not open his mouth even when they are left alone in the elevator. The director of the m