10 Reasons We Can't Wait For The Great Gatsby To Hit Theaters

7. New York City

The Great Gatsby is the authentic New York City tale that we will spend most our twenties in NYC trying to recreate. It is set in the romanticized New York, where Harlem was forbidden, Jazz was alluring, Zelda Fitzgerald couldn't be torn off The Biltmore dance floor, and ladies waited for cabs outside The Plaza flaunting their colored shoes. No matter how many speakeasies open in 2013, we cannot recreate the prohibition magic that inspired 32,000 Manhattan speakeasies to open in the 1920s. Penthouse pregames live on but without the danger of sneaking upstairs for an illegal Mint Julep (well, not since high school anyways) and an extramarital affair. We can feel progressive by partying with the controversial crowd, but the novelty is gone. The Great Gatsby may have a tragic ending, but while the party was going, it was the party every Guest of a Guest reader would have wanted to be at. “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby "In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby [Photos via]