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| Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker Photo:Warner Bros Pictures |
Name: Jordan Baker
Age: 23
Hometown: Louisville, KY
Occupation: Professional Golfer
Body-type: Slim, Athletic
Pet Peeve: Carelessness
Controversy: Accused of moving her ball from a bad lie to win her first tournament
Quote: “It takes two to make an accident”
When The Great Gatsby opens later this week it'll undoubtedly influence fashion and decor trends... and will inspire themed parties, weddings and events... across the globe. The jazz age excesses portrayed in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel... and made larger-than-,life in the most recent film version... will always be tantalizing. The story features excessive wealth and reckless abandonment and the allure of that combination transcends generations and jumps national borders.
The fact that Jordan Baker... a significant secondary character in Fitzgerald's literary classic... is a professional golfer probably means there'll be numerous Great Gatsby Golf Tournaments this season as well.
At first glance, Ms Baker is not a particularly appealing personage. Beautiful... but haughty and cold... she drifts through the narrative, tainted by rumors a cheating scandal, never fully explored. In retrospect however, she's seen as something of a trailblazer; an independent woman in the 1920's, when that concept was relatively rare.
I think it's safe to say that she's the preferred female character for the majority of contemporary women who read the novel.
It'll be interesting to see how this golden age golf girl is presented in the new film. Early reviews of the Baz Luhrmann's version of The Great Gatsby, hint at a dazzling production that's a bit short on substance, but from what I've seen of the trailers, I'm guessing that when it comes to Jordan Baker, it'll be hard not to be "halfway in love with her" by the movie's end.
For a bit more on Jordan Baker's magnetism check out Matt Cooper's piece at Back9Network.com
