Doc admonishes the boys and tells them, “You make the world lousy.”Ī lot more compelling than blaming a construction project, no? There is a gorgeous line in the 1957 show that’s naturally been cut. There’s no ironclad equation for why we fall in love or why we hate. Getting uber-specific and justifying every single choice that dumb teens make saps the story of its magic and universality. Steven Spielberg honors Stephen Sondheim at ‘West Side Story’ premiere Ariana DeBose (center) plays Anita in “West Side Story.” JB NICHOLAS / There’s a gentrification subplot about how the neighborhood is about to be demolished to build Lincoln Center and the streets are covered in rubble. Maria’s (Rachel Zegler) parents are dead (clearly to avoid any implication that they’re absent). The “Angels in America” scribe has never met a plot he couldn’t stretch out like a medieval torture victim. Where this “Story” occasionally walks into West Side Highway traffic is screenwriter Tony Kushner’s many needless additions to the script. Still, it’s not gonna become a classic in the way the 1961 original movie adaptation did. ![]() ![]() It’s the “ET” director’s most visually exciting film in a zillion years. ![]() Those shifts in locale, subtly updating the tunes’ drives and motivation, are what make Spielberg’s very good adaptation of Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents’ musical memorable. Spielberg transplants the sparky scene to a decrepit dock by the river - it has the bleak look of the final scene of “On the Waterfront” - and choreographer Justin Peck has Tony (Ansel Elgort) and Riff (Mike Faist) fight in glorious dance over a loaded gun. Rated PG-13 (some strong violence, strong language, thematic content, suggestive material and brief smoking).
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