<p>“When I went to do <em>Gatsby, </em>Fitzgerald wrote African-American street music, jazz numbers, into the novel,” the director explains. “He coined the term Jazz Age. Jay-Z and I realized that the translation of jazz must be hip-hop. We were translating not only what it was, but what it felt like.”</p>
<p>“How do you get people to feel what it felt like at that time, rather than just creating a carbon copy?” asks Butler. “How are young people going to understand what it felt like when Elvis was first performing? A lot of people don’t understand the punk Elvis, the vibrant youth rebel he was in the ’50s. People hadn’t seen something like this on stage, especially on television. It started to tear off the chains of society at that time. We wanted to have the audience feel that.”</p>
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