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re: Did you know that Steven Spielberg is currently filming a remake of West Side Story?
Posted on 6/18/19 at 2:09 pm to LouisianaLonghorn
Posted on 6/18/19 at 2:09 pm to LouisianaLonghorn
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It could be really good, provided they don't try to put a SJW spin on the story.
You must not remember much about the movie.
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Posted on 6/18/19 at 2:45 pm to Dr RC
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You must not remember much about the movie.
I remember the movie just fine. Maria and her friends were happy to get out of Puerto Rico. It was the Sharks that gave them grief. What I meant is that I hope they stuck with the plot and not try to "modernize" anything.
Posted on 6/18/19 at 2:51 pm to GetCocky11
Yes.
Posted on 6/18/19 at 3:05 pm to GetCocky11
I wish he'd direct a low budget porno
This post was edited on 6/18/19 at 3:06 pm
Posted on 6/18/19 at 3:30 pm to SEClint
Need some butthole tracking shots.
Posted on 6/18/19 at 5:33 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
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West Side Story is itself a remake of Romeo and Juliet
Yeah but we're talking about a remake of the Musical West Side Story...
Not the remake of a basic plot line that loosely inspired the plot in West Side Story.
West Side Story is the music and lyrics and choreography.
What they're doing now is purely a remake of West Side Story which stands alone and far apart from Romeo and Juliet.
Posted on 6/18/19 at 6:36 pm to GetCocky11
Did you know that every living director in the world is filming a prequel/sequel/reboot/spinoff/live-action-remake of _____ [Enter any movie in history]?
Posted on 6/19/19 at 1:34 am to Patrick_Bateman
Who's playing Natalie Wood?
Because she damn well better be Natalie Wood.
I mean, where's the audience? Why am I watching this? There's a perfectly good adaption from the stage with iconic actors that we already love.
Why remake it if making it better is a false propisition? People like Coke, we didn't need New Coke. Spielberg would have to make the movie 10X better and it still would fail with people who have seen it. It would only appeal to people who haven't seen the original.
Such a dumb project, he could be doing other things you would hope.
Not really interested also in watching Streetcar Named Desire starring Jonah Hill...because Brando is so passe for this new generation...gotta update everything for people who can't watch "old movies" - like 50's and 60's - yuck.
I hate this project because it's blatant pandering to a generation that is just all about who's the youngest new Twilight-ey Hunger Games thing and put them in a musical because Hansel, so hot right now and Musicals have definitely had a resurgence.
If the original was so bad, why didn't they remake it before now.
Back to the question, the only audience is kids and teenagers now...the only audience Hollywood cares about now.
This is simply, kids won't watch the classic, lets make a High School musical and call it West Side Story.
Because she damn well better be Natalie Wood.
I mean, where's the audience? Why am I watching this? There's a perfectly good adaption from the stage with iconic actors that we already love.
Why remake it if making it better is a false propisition? People like Coke, we didn't need New Coke. Spielberg would have to make the movie 10X better and it still would fail with people who have seen it. It would only appeal to people who haven't seen the original.
Such a dumb project, he could be doing other things you would hope.
Not really interested also in watching Streetcar Named Desire starring Jonah Hill...because Brando is so passe for this new generation...gotta update everything for people who can't watch "old movies" - like 50's and 60's - yuck.
I hate this project because it's blatant pandering to a generation that is just all about who's the youngest new Twilight-ey Hunger Games thing and put them in a musical because Hansel, so hot right now and Musicals have definitely had a resurgence.
If the original was so bad, why didn't they remake it before now.
Back to the question, the only audience is kids and teenagers now...the only audience Hollywood cares about now.
This is simply, kids won't watch the classic, lets make a High School musical and call it West Side Story.
This post was edited on 6/19/19 at 1:37 am
Posted on 6/19/19 at 2:39 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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If the original was so bad, why didn't they remake it before now.
So they should only remake movies that were bad originally?
I get that the glut of remakes has been ridiculous for a long time now, but that argument is kinda dumb.
Posted on 6/19/19 at 5:16 am to LouisianaLonghorn
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It could be really good, provided they don't try to put a SJW spin on the story. It already has star-crossed lovers of different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds.
Meh,90% of the cast was obviously gay and I'm assuming it'll be close to the same in the remake (not that there's anything wrong with that)
Posted on 6/19/19 at 10:41 am to RD Dawg
quote:Supposedly during filming one of the Jets was shacking up w/one of the Sharks
90% of the cast was obviously gay
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I'm assuming it'll be close to the same in the remake
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Tony Kushner penning the script
Posted on 6/19/19 at 10:54 am to Dr RC
quote:These lyrics were written for the film. In the Broadway original "America" was sung by the girls only, as they tell of how much they disliked Puerto Rico and love being in the US of A.quote:You must not remember much about the movie
It could be really good, provided they don't try to put a SJW spin on the story
PR bitches bitched about this, so in the film the guys were added to insult America for "equal time".
Curiously enough, adding the guys would inspire Jerome Robbins to create one of the greatest sequences in movie history.
Posted on 6/19/19 at 11:06 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Natalie Wood was beautiful, but she had no business being in that movie. She couldn’t sing, so she was dubbed, and she couldn’t dance, so most of Maria’s dance sequences from the play were cut. She was also heavily made up to appear Puerto Rican, which would be a huge no no today. Rachel Zegler, who is playing Maria in the remake, is of Colombian descent and she can sing.
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