Patridam wrote:Frenequesta wrote:You mean the music? Maybe. It was one of those things that was supposed to make the story more relevant to our time. Didn't quite work for me. I prefer real 20's music over today's remixes of them.
Well if that's what it was trying to do, it certainly failed. However, the music wasn't the only thing, the cars were even worse. The novel itself was set in 1922 but I can see the story taking place really anytime up to 1928. However, in the movie, pretty much all of the cars were from 1930 or newer. The Buchanan's Auburn was a 1933, and Jay's Dusenburg SJ was a 35'. That's pretty flagrant considering how important his car (in the book a 1921 Rolls-Royce) is, and automobiles in general are, to the plot. They got Nick's car right, if it's any consolation.
I suppose only a car person would really notice that stuff though, but it bothered me because it destroyed what little of the Roaring Twenties aesthetic the modernized music didn't.
I assume this is pony related?