F. Scott Fitzgerald's struggles in screenland would have been greatly eased had he not missed, by several decades, the savvy advice of the theorist and director Jean-Luc Godard, who posited that "all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun." Clearly the author of "The Great Gatsby" came to Hollywood with too much ammo of the literary and intellectual sort. Or a sword. A sword would also work. But it must be very, very sharp. Fitzgerald as Scribe Among the Glitterati | 
