Monday 29 February 2016

The Green Light No Longer Eludes Gatsby

Platform: 'Climate change is real,' said DiCaprio as he used his acceptance speech to deliver a lecture on the environment

I never doubted you for one time! I never could but its about damn time! Well done, Gatsby ! We've been rooting for you since '94 because we saw that you were destined for greatness. 


Greatness is not measured by a number of trophies, someone wins but the heart, someone possesses. Your heart was an authentic one. Your acceptance speech was even greater. You didn't boast about all the other golden men that you've missed because this one was the highest of them all. 

The Odeon Cinema next to workplace renamed itself "London" in support of you. My friends and I debated, we reblogged on Tumblr about how this was to be your last night without your 'green light'. 



In the last paragraph of 'The Great Gatsby', Fitzgerald focuses on the struggle of human being in attaining their goals by transcending and re-creating the past. However, you never fell into the trap, you proved yourself to be able to move beyond the past. You never lost your optimism. I guess you finally achieved the American Dream, old sport. 

" Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther..."

Winning combination: Leo's turn as a frontiersman in The Revenant has seen him sweep the awards season

Congratulations on a well-delivered speech - 'Making The Revenant was about man's relationship to the natural world...climate change is real. It is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating. Let us not take our planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted.'

I do predict more Oscars in your future, Mr. DiCaprio.  


The Revenant Trailer 

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