I just returned from viewing the movie. There aren't really adequate words. It's simply fantastic, This movie will br getting a lot of Oscar nominations.
I felt the exact same way coming out of my first viewing (seen it three times as I type this), kinda floating and wanting to stay in the feeling forever. I fell in love with this version.
This is the best cast interview compilation I've watched. I've seen the film twice now (going again tomorrow). I recommend seeing it in the best theater that you can. Seeing it in IMAX gave me a sense of what it was like seeing the 1961 for my dad. The first time was a bit jarring because I walked in with my expectations from 1961, high school stage productions, playing the symphonic dances on bass, and even the Kiri te Kanawa and José Carreras masterpiece. I think I have three different vinyls I inherited from my dad. The instrumental pieces are included and allowed to breath in this film. No one has talked about that much. The singing in the 1961 film was pretty terrible overall. No wonder Somdheim was so glad that Elgort could actually sing. I can't believe there was so much live singing. I'll look for that tomorrow. For me, the music had become it's own thing, separate from the story. It was wonderful to feel so uncomfortable by the end of the overture. This version has a real sense of peril and violence. I keep going back to the theater, partly because there are people who clearly don't know the story. The first time someone yelled out, "Oh, sh*T" when Riff is stabbed. The second time were audible gasps. I can't wait to see my niece's reaction next week. This telling also has extra weight for me because of a series of teen gang and gun violence at a high school and park here in Colorado, all in a radius around the site of the Aurora Theater Shooting. All the same themes are there: Kids in over their heads, bringing guns because someone else will have guns, with a gun an idiot adult thought was somehow okay to let them have, and without a clue of what a bullet does to a body (I'm an EMT). Myself and other audience members were squirming watching these characters throw a loaded gun around. Perhaps this will become a classic movie that teachers will use for class discussion, in the same way that The Outsiders has become. I'm baffled by the criticisms of casting Latinx actors as Latinx characters. But I stop listening once someone starts using the word 'woke.' It simply means awareness of racial prejudice, which is a bad thing? I'm so confused. But I do know I love this film and the cast album. Rachel Zegler. Wow.
A lot of people stop listening when people use the word "Latinx." Latinos hate the term. 95% of all Americans don't use the term according to Gallup and all major polls. As soon as someone uses it, they identify themselves as someone programmed by woke, leftist politics who doesn't actually understand the communities they like to claim they're trying to help.
I know this comment was a year ago but can i just say as a teen right now you sound like a wonderful, thoughtful and kind person! I watched the original wss as a child and also found myself in love with the new film. In addition, i’ve had the honour to play the symphonic danses on the harp (what a coincidence!) and what a truly beautiful experience it was. I can’t fully relate to the whole gun violence and teen gang themes being a brit from a very safe area, however the themes of racism, conflict and the well rounded characters really allow me to connect to the film. Also, i’m so jealous that you inherited the vinyl, thats so cool!!!
13:33 comparative complexity between this current generation vs the generation for which the original was made. I don't think this film was necessarily made to be an immediate success. So impressed with that. Wondering how else to achieve profitability or if the idea's best practical application is through accumulating previous commercial success (In SS2's case, quality commercial success).
I understand what Steven Spielberg was trying to do but he had to know he was going to take a loss on this movie and just made it for his own nostalgic reasons. This generation has the attention span of a field mouse. I wish I could reach this man and read him my script. For one it's different because it's not safe. For two it's going to shake some shit up which is something that hasn't been done in a very long time due to remakes and Marvel. And three, in some scenes it's going to have the audience bouncing in their seats and that's something that has been lost in this generation's movie experience. With the right director I will deliver this generations first cult classic with my movie I took over 5 years writing. It's going to have the whole world talking and I already know how I'm going to bring it in. Bingo Long .... Kick that mule style but with a more up to date spin. .............GRIM
@@LizaDavid yep ! Exactly ! It’s not easy to create something this strong after so many iterations of the same piece of art, including the ‘61 version.
The originality of a movie is defined by its execution, not its story. This one is a brand new movie that feels fresher than most of the sequels being put out on the market today.
New West Side Story: 1. Good idea to have Rita Marino inserted into the Steven Spielberg script of *West Side Story* 2. Best Actress role for Oscar nomination for Spielberg's version will be Maria (Rachel Zegler) and then Anita (Ariana DeBose) for supporting Oscar nomination. I think Rachel Zegler's acting for Maria, was better than Natalie Wood in Robert's Wise production. 3. Second choice for best supporting actress: Rita Marino. (yes again) 4. I did not like any of the character actors choice for either the Jets or Sharks in this Spielberg version. 5. I did not like the first act of the Spielberg version as much as the Robert Wise version, but the second act of Spielberg's version made up for the 1st act's shortcomings. Spielberg's first act of his movie was too, too, dark. 6. My choice for which movie was better would be the flawless *1st* West Side Story. Robert Wise was the better Director in this for the 1st Movie version of the play. However the second act of Spielberg's version made tears come from my eyes, but don't tell anybody as I don't want my manhood questioned. 7. In the first movie the Jet gang gave respect for the little girl playing on the ground and walked around her play area. In the Spielberg version the Jets ripped up the little girls artwork on the ground. I could not get behind the Jets after that. 8. The dance scenes in both versions were good however what wins me over is Jerome Robbins dance production of "America" nothing comes close to that with the young Rita Moreno. 9. Spielberg claimed he did not want to copy the first, Robert Wise version, however he did in the opening. In the first, Wise version, we have an aerial shot flying over Manhattan, in Spielberg's version we have an aerial shot flying over the demolished section of the gang area with same intro music. 10. Spielberg's version of West Side Story, should be nominated for *Best Picture* Oscar this year, however from the *WOKE* Hollywood, they might choose another low budget foreign movie made with no whites in it, that nobody will see, for diversity's sake. Then that will remind me of Marxist Korean movie (looked like a college student made film) winning Best Picture over "1917" a real professional movie. And like Spielberg's movie, "Saving Private Ryan" that didn't win Best Picture, which it should have, over that terrible love movie, again, that nobody saw. 11. Why couldn't Spielberg use any other race besides Puerto Rican? That was a racist decision on WOKE Spielberg. High class acting is art, that a great actor could pull it off. Spielberg now denies race to play any role unless they are the same race of the character portrayed? This is a slam in the face of all actors. Example, he could have used actors from any South American country as long as they looked Puerto Rican. Come on man! Spielberg trying to be WOKE is a racist to all other promising actors. 13. What was this freak dark character tranny character that used to be a tom boy girl in the Robert Wise motive? We could see in the Robert Wise movie that this was a tom boy girl. However in this movie, we don't know who this scary creature from hell was in Spielberg's version. Spielberg was again trying to be WOKE by picking a tranny freak character from this years 2021 to by making the LGBTQ people happy. That demonic freak character was a bust.
Excellent treatise, although you lost me for awhile with WOKE. A crutch word that someone articulate like you clearly doesn't need. I'm glad someone else remembers how awful The English Patient was. I hate that movie with a fiery passion. 1917 was utter genius. I'm so glad Roger Deakins finally got the Oscar he's deserved for so long.
The actress who played Anybodys here is 31 years old. Way too old to be portraying a little girl trying to tag along with the local street gang. Maria is not played by a Puerto Rican, so you're wrong about that. Spielberg said he was casting only Latinos, but not just PRs. Why do you think you're supposed to like the Jets? I don't think we're supposed to like either gang. They are the ones driving a wedge in their communities. You're crazy if you didn't like Mike Faist as Riff. I think he was the best casting in the whole movie, although, admittedly, he's not as good a singer as the other major characters.
Why does everyone except Spielberg seem so disingenuously affected, susperficially sycophantic and garishly glib? It curdles my stomach to watch them exist.
Firstly it hits different for young people to see old people die than older people Also Steven got really attached as he worked closely, the others connected less with him I know where you're coming from but I honestly think you're overreacting
@@ModulerDrone I'm just talking in general how they all seem like lizards pretending to be human beings based exclusively on having obverved Nickelodeon from their space ship before landing on earth, lol. Like... What are these vapid things who can only speak in exaggersted tones and platituded adorations about superluous subjects? 😆
I just returned from viewing the movie. There aren't really adequate words. It's simply fantastic, This movie will br getting a lot of Oscar nominations.
I really wanna see this! Hopefully I can go next week!
I felt the exact same way coming out of my first viewing (seen it three times as I type this), kinda floating and wanting to stay in the feeling forever. I fell in love with this version.
You can see how intensively Mike listens to everything and everyone and how he plays with his face when he speaks, he's adorable I love him 💝💝💝💝
This is the best cast interview compilation I've watched.
I've seen the film twice now (going again tomorrow). I recommend seeing it in the best theater that you can. Seeing it in IMAX gave me a sense of what it was like seeing the 1961 for my dad.
The first time was a bit jarring because I walked in with my expectations from 1961, high school stage productions, playing the symphonic dances on bass, and even the Kiri te Kanawa and José Carreras masterpiece. I think I have three different vinyls I inherited from my dad.
The instrumental pieces are included and allowed to breath in this film. No one has talked about that much. The singing in the 1961 film was pretty terrible overall. No wonder Somdheim was so glad that Elgort could actually sing. I can't believe there was so much live singing. I'll look for that tomorrow.
For me, the music had become it's own thing, separate from the story.
It was wonderful to feel so uncomfortable by the end of the overture. This version has a real sense of peril and violence.
I keep going back to the theater, partly because there are people who clearly don't know the story. The first time someone yelled out, "Oh, sh*T" when Riff is stabbed. The second time were audible gasps. I can't wait to see my niece's reaction next week.
This telling also has extra weight for me because of a series of teen gang and gun violence at a high school and park here in Colorado, all in a radius around the site of the Aurora Theater Shooting.
All the same themes are there: Kids in over their heads, bringing guns because someone else will have guns, with a gun an idiot adult thought was somehow okay to let them have, and without a clue of what a bullet does to a body (I'm an EMT).
Myself and other audience members were squirming watching these characters throw a loaded gun around.
Perhaps this will become a classic movie that teachers will use for class discussion, in the same way that The Outsiders has become.
I'm baffled by the criticisms of casting Latinx actors as Latinx characters. But I stop listening once someone starts using the word 'woke.' It simply means awareness of racial prejudice, which is a bad thing? I'm so confused.
But I do know I love this film and the cast album. Rachel Zegler. Wow.
A lot of people stop listening when people use the word "Latinx." Latinos hate the term. 95% of all Americans don't use the term according to Gallup and all major polls. As soon as someone uses it, they identify themselves as someone programmed by woke, leftist politics who doesn't actually understand the communities they like to claim they're trying to help.
I know this comment was a year ago but can i just say as a teen right now you sound like a wonderful, thoughtful and kind person! I watched the original wss as a child and also found myself in love with the new film. In addition, i’ve had the honour to play the symphonic danses on the harp (what a coincidence!) and what a truly beautiful experience it was. I can’t fully relate to the whole gun violence and teen gang themes being a brit from a very safe area, however the themes of racism, conflict and the well rounded characters really allow me to connect to the film. Also, i’m so jealous that you inherited the vinyl, thats so cool!!!
Mike faist is an actual angel
I cried so much in this film
So nice to hear and see Steven Spielberg.
incredible cast
Loved this movie !!!
13:33 comparative complexity between this current generation vs the generation for which the original was made. I don't think this film was necessarily made to be an immediate success. So impressed with that. Wondering how else to achieve profitability or if the idea's best practical application is through accumulating previous commercial success (In SS2's case, quality commercial success).
I cried all night when I finished watching the movie 😭😭😭
Много качества .Великолепно !
I understand what Steven Spielberg was trying to do but he had to know he was going to take a loss on this movie and just made it for his own nostalgic reasons. This generation has the attention span of a field mouse. I wish I could reach this man and read him my script. For one it's different because it's not safe. For two it's going to shake some shit up which is something that hasn't been done in a very long time due to remakes and Marvel. And three, in some scenes it's going to have the audience bouncing in their seats and that's something that has been lost in this generation's movie experience. With the right director I will deliver this generations first cult classic with my movie I took over 5 years writing. It's going to have the whole world talking and I already know how I'm going to bring it in.
Bingo Long .... Kick that mule style but with a more up to date spin. .............GRIM
❤️
Sadly the audience said no to one of the best movies and musicals ever and a big yes to another shittycrappy super hero crap
People have seen this movie
It was interesting but not as perfect as the the Original!
Even the once great Steven Spielberg can't make anything original any more.
To me, he built on a classic and even improved it.
@@LizaDavid yep ! Exactly ! It’s not easy to create something this strong after so many iterations of the same piece of art, including the ‘61 version.
The originality of a movie is defined by its execution, not its story. This one is a brand new movie that feels fresher than most of the sequels being put out on the market today.
@@jedijones I disagree
@@theeverydayprepper7673 Well, no accounting for taste
It will only be A crime if anyone is nominated. Watered down Disney story.
You clearly haven’t seen it 😂
Fail 👎🏻
New West Side Story:
1. Good idea to have Rita Marino inserted into the Steven Spielberg script of *West Side Story*
2. Best Actress role for Oscar nomination for Spielberg's version will be Maria (Rachel Zegler) and then Anita (Ariana DeBose) for supporting Oscar nomination. I think Rachel Zegler's acting for Maria, was better than Natalie Wood in Robert's Wise production.
3. Second choice for best supporting actress: Rita Marino. (yes again)
4. I did not like any of the character actors choice for either the Jets or Sharks in this Spielberg version.
5. I did not like the first act of the Spielberg version as much as the Robert Wise version, but the second act of Spielberg's version made up for the 1st act's shortcomings. Spielberg's first act of his movie was too, too, dark.
6. My choice for which movie was better would be the flawless *1st* West Side Story. Robert Wise was the better Director in this for the 1st Movie version of the play. However the second act of Spielberg's version made tears come from my eyes, but don't tell anybody as I don't want my manhood questioned.
7. In the first movie the Jet gang gave respect for the little girl playing on the ground and walked around her play area. In the Spielberg version the Jets ripped up the little girls artwork on the ground. I could not get behind the Jets after that.
8. The dance scenes in both versions were good however what wins me over is Jerome Robbins dance production of "America" nothing comes close to that with the young Rita Moreno.
9. Spielberg claimed he did not want to copy the first, Robert Wise version, however he did in the opening. In the first, Wise version, we have an aerial shot flying over Manhattan, in Spielberg's version we have an aerial shot flying over the demolished section of the gang area with same intro music.
10. Spielberg's version of West Side Story, should be nominated for *Best Picture* Oscar this year, however from the *WOKE* Hollywood, they might choose another low budget foreign movie made with no whites in it, that nobody will see, for diversity's sake. Then that will remind me of Marxist Korean movie (looked like a college student made film) winning Best Picture over "1917" a real professional movie. And like Spielberg's movie, "Saving Private Ryan" that didn't win Best Picture, which it should have, over that terrible love movie, again, that nobody saw.
11. Why couldn't Spielberg use any other race besides Puerto Rican? That was a racist decision on WOKE Spielberg. High class acting is art, that a great actor could pull it off. Spielberg now denies race to play any role unless they are the same race of the character portrayed? This is a slam in the face of all actors. Example, he could have used actors from any South American country as long as they looked Puerto Rican. Come on man! Spielberg trying to be WOKE is a racist to all other promising actors.
13. What was this freak dark character tranny character that used to be a tom boy girl in the Robert Wise motive? We could see in the Robert Wise movie that this was a tom boy girl. However in this movie, we don't know who this scary creature from hell was in Spielberg's version. Spielberg was again trying to be WOKE by picking a tranny freak character from this years 2021 to by making the LGBTQ people happy. That demonic freak character was a bust.
Excellent treatise, although you lost me for awhile with WOKE. A crutch word that someone articulate like you clearly doesn't need.
I'm glad someone else remembers how awful The English Patient was. I hate that movie with a fiery passion.
1917 was utter genius. I'm so glad Roger Deakins finally got the Oscar he's deserved for so long.
The actress who played Anybodys here is 31 years old. Way too old to be portraying a little girl trying to tag along with the local street gang. Maria is not played by a Puerto Rican, so you're wrong about that. Spielberg said he was casting only Latinos, but not just PRs. Why do you think you're supposed to like the Jets? I don't think we're supposed to like either gang. They are the ones driving a wedge in their communities. You're crazy if you didn't like Mike Faist as Riff. I think he was the best casting in the whole movie, although, admittedly, he's not as good a singer as the other major characters.
@@jedijones
Good take on my takes.
@@GretchenVaughn
Good take on all my takes, but what was the English Patient all about, I don't think I saw that movie.
Wow. Honestly just wow. So much to unpack there but I am genuinely speechless.
A lot of cringe going on here observing these creatures.
you have a frog as your profile picture.
@@olihhayes
You're very perceptive.
@dlnnyc64
Well, the world I don't invite into my life, yeah.
@dlnnyc64
Because Spielberg is the greatest filmmaker who has ever lived. Duh.
Why does everyone except Spielberg seem so disingenuously affected, susperficially sycophantic and garishly glib? It curdles my stomach to watch them exist.
Firstly it hits different for young people to see old people die than older people
Also Steven got really attached as he worked closely, the others connected less with him
I know where you're coming from but I honestly think you're overreacting
@@ModulerDrone
I'm just talking in general how they all seem like lizards pretending to be human beings based exclusively on having obverved Nickelodeon from their space ship before landing on earth, lol.
Like... What are these vapid things who can only speak in exaggersted tones and platituded adorations about superluous subjects? 😆