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The only way an updated version works is if it pits Golden Agers vs. Silver Age score gangs !
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Bring it on!
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Why remake perfection??
I would agree if I thought the Wise film was perfection. There are many great things about it, but it also seems incredibly sanitized now, with gangs dancing in colorful windbreakers while spray-painting “Sharks Stink!” on brick walls (how rude!).
If the source material is strong, why shouldn’t there be a new "West Side Story," just as there should be a new "Hamlet" or "A Star is Born"?
Totally agree, Schiffy speaks the truth!
And how many Titanics ???
20? I think I’m close.
I think Spielberg is truly serious about West Side Story..so much Spielberg and Kushner go to Puerto Rico to discuss the Issues...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-spielberg-met-puerto-rican-activists-west-side-story-concerns-1176285
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So will it be set in the same time period as the original?
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So will it be set in the same time period as the original?
Well it truly would work today...there is a Racist who lives at 1600 Penn. Ave.
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How long before the SJW-VS brigands complain about a rich, white, Jewish male directing a film about poor people of color?
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How long before the SJW-VS brigands complain about a rich, white, Jewish male directing a film about poor people of color?
The composer himself was Jewish.
No kidding!
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David Newman is hot or cold with me. Sometimes he hits it out of the ballpark, other times I find his work underwhelming.
As far as a remake of WSS? No, don't need it. The original is a classic and its perfect. Yes it's squeaky clean, so what? It's gangs singing songs and dancing in the streets. It's a musical fantasy.
How can anyone think a remake in this day and age will be good? They're gonna pick some of the popular pretty faces in pop and rap who can't sing worth shit, auto-tuned to death, and its just going to be a dated mess.
I call it now. Selena Gomez as Maria!
What i love about Sol is his eternal optimism!
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The composer himself was Jewish.
As was Stephen Sondheim, the lyricist, and Arthur Laurents, who wrote the book. Shakespeare, not so much.
And Natalie Wood.
And Jerome Robbins the choreographer.
And David Newman.
Jews rule!
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They're gonna pick some of the popular pretty faces in pop and rap who can't sing worth shit, auto-tuned to death, and its just going to be a dated mess.
Good point, except for the fact that they're not doing any of this.
Shhhhh!
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Why remake perfection??
I'm sure that the film will be fine musically. What I'm worried about is how the dancing will be handled. Jerome Robbins' choreography is an essential plot element in the show. I hope Spielberg doesn't go for the "music video" style where the "dancers" are mostly seen from the waist up and waving their arms around. I hated the film version of CHICAGO because the director chose stars who couldn't dance, and Bob Fosse's choreography had to be scrapped.
Gee i really liked CHICAGO.
One of the best musical films of the last twenty years!
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