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Bailey, Jason. " 'West Side Story' Review: Steven Spielberg's Musical Dazzles Despite A Key Casting Fumble". The Playlist. Archived from the original on December 5, 2021 . Retrieved December 6, 2021. Walsh, Savannah (April 25, 2021). "Oscars 2021: Nomadland Wins Best Picture With a Howl". Vanity Fair. New York City, New York: Condé Nast. Archived from the original on April 27, 2021 . Retrieved May 1, 2021. Some scenes are played out in Spanish or a mix of Spanish and English with no subtitles providing translation. [144] Spielberg further explained that the decision to not subtitle the Spanish dialogue was done "out of respect for the inclusivity of our intentions to hire a totally Latinx cast to play the Sharks' boys and girls. ... If I subtitled the Spanish I'd simply be doubling down on the English and giving English the power over the Spanish. This was not going to happen in this film, I needed to respect the language enough not to subtitle it". [145]During the 93rd Academy Awards telecast in April 2021, DeBose introduced the film's teaser trailer, [86] and Moreno later presented the Academy Award for Best Picture, commemorating the 1961 film's release and awards wins. [87] The film's official trailer premiered on September 15 on ABC's Good Morning America. [88] An exclusive look at the film, featuring extended sneak peeks at the "Dance at the Gym" and "America" scenes, was presented at the 49th Annual American Music Awards on November 22, introduced by Elgort and Zegler. [89] Velez, Mandy (December 6, 2021). "Why Can't 'West Side Story' Just Cast a Puerto Rican Maria?". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on January 11, 2022 . Retrieved January 11, 2022. Stewart, Zachary (November 15, 2019). "Broadway Revival of West Side Story Cuts "I Feel Pretty" and the "Somewhere" Ballet". www.theatermania.com . Retrieved December 14, 2022. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Lenker, Maureen Lee (May 4, 2021). "Original West Side Story stars Russ Tamblyn and George Chakiris react to Spielberg remake trailer". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on May 5, 2021 . Retrieved May 6, 2021.

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Rubins, Dan (December 2, 2021). "Review: Steven Spielberg's West Side Story Is a Whirring Rush of Euphoric Energy". Slant Magazine. Archived from the original on December 4, 2021 . Retrieved December 3, 2021. As Zegler tells me later: “Tony’s script brings out the realities of what it was like for those communities. Lieutenant Schrank says it in the first scene, ‘You’re in the way.’” Several dance numbers now take place among torn metal and piles of rubble, or on splintered piers. “The Jets climb to the top of a rubbish heap,” Spielberg says. “It’s like, ‘ That’s what they’re fighting for?’” Domestic 2022 Weekend 1". Box Office Mojo. January 10, 2022. Archived from the original on January 9, 2022 . Retrieved January 10, 2022. It is widely known that West Side Story (WSS) is based directly on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet(R&J).Jerome Robbins had at first envisioned Juliet as a Jewish girl and Romeo as an Italian Catholic. The action, set during the Easter-Passover season, was to have occurred on the Lower East Side of New York City. Hence the title might have been EAST Side Story. (Another working title was Gangway!) That was in 1949. Six years later, Laurents and Leonard Bernstein were working (independently) in Hollywood, where they conferred on the aborted project. The newspapers were filled with reports of street riots by Chicano Americans in Los Angeles. It was Jerome Robbins who had the idea of transposing Romeo and Juliet to New York’s Upper West Side. Leonard Bernstein provided the score, Arthur Laurents the script and a young greenhorn named Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics. Tony and Maria, played in Spielberg’s version by Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler, were the star-cross’d lovers, while two warring gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, stood in for the Montagues and Capulets. Which gang did the young film-maker run with during his adolescence in Arizona and California? “Me in a gang?” he splutters. “Yeah, right! No, I was in the Boy Scouts of America. And a movie club. My friends and I made movies on 8mm when we were 12 or 13 so I was just part of that nerdy, geeky little club.” Me in a street gang? No, I was in the Boy Scouts of America – and a movie club

Bonus Features

I Feel Pretty - Screenwriter Tony Kushner sheds new light on "I Feel Pretty." We see how, in Spielberg's film, the beloved song by lyricist Stephen Sondheim is given new vision, as it is set and performed within Gimbel's department store. There is also a new weight and dignity afforded West Side Story’s Latinx characters, whose culture – and the racism they face – is more sharply drawn. When I speak to Ariana DeBose, who plays Maria’s friend Anita, she confesses to mixed feelings about the 1961 film. “It’s a product of its time,” she says. “You realise, ‘Oh, they’re in brown-face.’ That is not my favourite thing about the film. But I do still think it’s a classic.” Cristi, A.A. "Steven Spielberg Wanted to Cut 'I Feel Pretty' from WEST SIDE STORY". BroadwayWorld . Retrieved March 5, 2022. Gee, Officer Krupke - Spielberg and the Jets make "Gee, Officer Krupke" their own through a new setting, vocal direction and choreography, while they explore the meaning of Stephen Sondheim's lyrics. Get to know Iris Menas (Anybodys) and the significance of their role.