West Side Story: A classic musical where love blossoms between two rival gangs in New York City, leading to impressive dance-offs and melodramatic singing instead of just settling things with a friendly game of rock-paper-scissors.
Courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. Fun facts: The 2021 film version of the original Broadway musical play of the same name released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures under 20th Century Studios, and Amblin Partners through Amblin Entertainment, instead of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (the current owner of the original 1961 film version, in which also marks as celebrates it's 60th anniversary of the original 1961 film version).
My fave musical! Perfect songs and choreography and also perfect casting, except for the Maria and Tony roles. Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer acted as if they weren't into their roles. Beymer was especially bad. Elvis or James Darren or Ricky Nelson would have been much better. Still, it's amazing how good the others in the cast are that they saved the whole movie. 👏👏👏👏👏
@Chiara yes it's normal, it happens that way on the DVD too. That dates back to the convention of when these movies were screened in cinemas, they had Overtures, or walk-in music, for the audience to find their seats before the movie itself started. Same with the Entr'acte, or Intermission, that gave the audience time for a bathroom break, though the RU-vid staff felt that a small reference to that tradition was enough. 🙂
you should go see it, its amazing! and its not a remake of the movie, its an adaptation of the broadway musical, since the source material is the musical and not the 1961 movie.
Actually, in many ways the 2021 movie is able to add more nuance in dialogue scenes, particularly the moments before the fights, to what would be considered rather broad strokes by today's social standards from the 1961 film... and importantly, every Puerto Rican actor cast for the 2021 film didn't have the wear that awful makeup Rita Moreno describes in interviews as "looking and feeling like mud" in order to make themselves appear darker, which you can sometimes see when the Sharks actors are sweating, particularly Bernardo. Stephen Spielberg emphasised the importance of authenticity in having them show up with their own authentic skin shades, not some weird form of blackface makeup.
Хотелось бы посмотреть на русском языке эту историю. Я знаю, что московские театры ставили спектакль, или. мюзикл этот где-то в в 1980-м году. Пока не могу найти его на Гугле или Ютубе. Вещь нашумевшая, но я в это время была вне времени и не очень следила за всем модным и нашумевшем. А сейчас просмотр этой пьесы может привести к третьей мировой, или убийству моей дочери, так что не хочу дразнить тёмные силы, хотя, если пойти у них на поводу - можно всё время пребывать в страхе за детей, за мир во всём мире. Что лучше, идти и отстаивать свободу слова и действий, или закрыть рот и покорно выполнять указания свыше и радоваться похлёбка, которую тебе будут давать вместо борща, или супчика с потолками, или любимых щей и чая с пирогами ? Как думаете, друзья?
zdravím Vás. Ja chcem kúpiť filmy za hotovosti, nakoľko žiadnu kartu nemam. prosím informujte ma ako môžem pristúpiť ktomu. Ďakujem dopredu za informáciu Rohacova
Renata Rohacova writes : Greetings to you. I want to buy movies, however I do not have any card. Please inform me how to get the movie in this case. Thanks in advance for the information. Rohacova.
