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'The Great Gatsby' film receives world premiere in New York; Baz Luhrmann interview SOT - Beginning of 20s began with a terrorist act on Wall Street.. following day the stock market soared and that was the beginning of the 20s / In the 20s everything was going up, women's skirts, buildings, money ..seems like this orgy of money will never stop, and it all ends in a terrible crash / Fitzgerald predicts that in that book which he published in 25 - in 2008 I finally got the rights and knew I had to make it - the Great Gatsby is always relevant but particularly relevant and reflective now - (on how much he relates to character Jay Gatsby) don' t know if I've changed my appearance, just made my hair greyer earlier - called getting ahead of the game / I also see myself a bit as Nick Carraway character - I relate to the idea of this kid having a sort of vision of his life and pursuing it relentlessly / I suppose at 50 I can worry less about what people think about what I say - by the way Jay-Z who I collaborated with relates to that character / he summed it brilliantly, he said its not about how Jay Gatsby made his money really, its, is Jay Gatsby a good person or not - does he have a moral compass - character Nick Carraway inspired by that and walks away from Wall Street to write a book