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The ending.? Spoilers ..

posted 10 years ago by evikeaz
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I just finished this and the newer version. I had seen this version when it first came out and don't remember much. In this version, I got the feeling tom did not know it was daisy who hit the girl. Did he know or not? If he knew it wasn't gatsby then how did he? Maybe I missed that part?

[–] kaskait 10 years ago

He knows and he doesn't care. They show Daisy and Tom talking at the end then holding hands. If I remember correctly.

Plus he owes Daisy. They had to leave Chicago because of some scandal Tom caused with another woman.

[–] Queenbee60 10 years ago

The scandal, wasn't going to come out, because Myrtle was dead (I got the feeling she was pregnant). I think Tom was fleeing with Daisy, because he was afraid someone would connect him to Gatsby's murder. And in doing so, he would lose Daisy.
For the life of me, Daisy, wasn't worth fighting over. Shallow and quite often hysterical, Mia Farrow, overplayed the role of Daisy, IMO.

[–] kaskait 10 years ago

think Tom was fleeing with Daisy, because he was afraid someone would connect him to Gatsby's murder.

He was worried that someone would connect Daisy with the car accident and the murder. That was why he was so eager to leave. And yes, he knew Daisy was behind the wheel of the car. She told him everything.

And we found out just how much Myrtle was to Tom. Next to nothing.

Farrow wasn't the best, but she is the best we have so far.

[–] boxerrebellion 10 years ago

Farrow wasn't the best, but she is the best we have so far

Spot on. I'm really sorry that the earlier version doesn't survive. I think one made closer to the source material might have understood it better.

[–] kaskait 10 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpRes7EqIYA

This link from youtube claims to be a record of the only surviving footage from the 1920's film of Gatsby.

Notice that Daisy is raven haired. As is Jordan.

I also noticed that the actress who plays Daisy kind of looks like Wallis Simpson. Check out Simpson's photos close to the time. Yeah, she is definitely a Daisy.

http://theredlist.com/media/database/muses/icon/iconic_women/1950/duchess-of-windsor/037-duchess-of-windsor-theredlist.jpeg

[–] SuCue 10 years ago

It's unclear whether Tom knew or not. In the book, in the final scene where Nick encounters Tom in a hotel lobby in Manhattan, Tom indignantly declared that Gatsby ran Myrtle down without a thought. And Nick thinks to himself that he wanted to cry out that it wasn't true, but he couldn't because he had promised Gatsby that he would not betray Daisy's secret.

IMHO, they got out of town because the police were investigating Gatsby's connection to the mob, and it would have ruined Daisy's social standing if she was revealed as a "confidante" of a mobster.