Tragedy "Shakespearean" to urban rhythms Figure
few years ago in the list of movies with more Oscars in the history of cinema
, namely ten, just behind "
Ben Hur," "Titanic
"and" Return of the King
. " "West Side Story
," the musical was an adaptation of the work of urban
Willliam Shakespeare "Romeo and Juliet
" and was told this time between New York street gangs of the 60 had no certainly many points in its favor, but I firmly believe this rain of awards was extremely exaggerated. True
many of its musical numbers (of impeccable staging) magnified a film
born to take the baton from the hit Broadway musical to carry the same name, I get many of them not only to the history of
film but also the collective subconscious of millions of people. All this is true, but so is that if we ignore their musical numbers (and speaking of "West Side Story
" This company seems the least complicated) what is left of it hardly deserves wider recognition.
The credibility of the story itself is hardly defensible same. Consider for
as just one example: "West Side Story
" unfolds in a single day, ie 24 hours over which
Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer
meet and fall in love . So far so may be "normal", but how is it possible that the passion between them reach such heights in such a short space of time to make the player forget that a few hours before escaping with her lover, he just killed his own brother? ... I sincerely believe that other proposals for the period as "Splendor in the Grass
" or "
Rebel Without a Cause " getting more excited in a somewhat more credible.
I still maintain that this
film had many points in its favor. His acting work just
reveal cracks as well as certain moments of the film shone with light. Worth of such a scene in which both players were known. I think few "arrows" have been so well brought to the film
as when Natalie Wood Richard Beymer and
were first in that mythical dance sequence.
Ultimately, a good but uneven
tape (who once refused to star in Elvis Presley
) with some immortal numbers music capable of being slightly overrated ... at least from my "most humble opinion," of course. Mystical
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