My my, look at what's been going on lately:
Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan is making his Hollywood debut in a new film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, according to the producer Warner Brothers.
Now take a look at the pics they've chosen for these articles. Notice his hands in particular:
A bit about this Meyer Wolfsheim character:
http://www.gradesaver.com/the-great-gatsby/study-guide/section4/ wrote:It is important to note that Wolfsheim, the novel's symbolic representative of the "criminal element," is obviously Jewish: Fitzgerald gives the character a number of stereotypical physical features (a large nose, a diminutive stature) that were a staple of racist caricature in the 1920s. During this period, anti-Semitism in America was at an all-time high: Jews, as a result of their "characteristic greed," were held responsible for the corruption of the nation as a whole. Fitzgerald seems to uncritically draw on this racist ideology in his presentation of Wolfsheim; the character is nothing more than a grotesque stereotype.
Here's some more description of this Wolfsheim Character:
http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question51084.html wrote:What is the significance of Meyer Wolfsheim's teeth cufflinks in "The Great Gatsby"?
Question #51084. Asked by eytank. (Sep 19 04 2:35 PM)
The use of human teeth as cufflinks tends to emphasise the mixture of civilised sophistication (the cufflinks) and barbarism (teeth) that makes up the character of Wolfsheim. His name, Wolfsheim, suggests something primal.
So, what is the media trying to tell us?
Bollywood's Bachchan to play Jewish crook in Great Gatsby filmBy Jennifer Lipman, September 7, 2011
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Howard da Silva as Meyer Wolfsheim
A top Bollywood star is to take on the role of a Jewish gambler in Baz Luhrmann's £78 million film adaptation of The Great Gatsby.
Amitabh Bachchan will appear as Meyer Wolfsheim, a shadowy and untrustworthy figure said to have fixed the baseball World Series.
Author F Scott Fitzgerald allegedly based this "small, flatnosed Jew" on New York crime kingpin Arnold Rothstein, the younger brother of a rabbi.
Rothstein was said to be behind the scandal of match-fixing at the 1919 World Series.
The character was previously brought to life by Jewish Broadway star Howard da Silva in Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 version.