I finally had the time to watch a movie last night; kind of made the time because I did not want to return yet another movie to the library that I haven't watched. So, this week's movie was West Side Story which is a musical.
It is a brilliant movie, put together by creative and ingenious minds. For those of you who do not know West Side Story, it is a classical American musical based on the plot of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. However, it is set to be in the 1950's in Manhattan, New York and instead of having the Montagues and Capulets, the feud is between two street gangs, the Sharks who are Puerto Rican and the Jets who are American. Below are 2 of my favorite numbers from the musical I thought of sharing :)
The first song is of the Sharks and their Puerto Rican girls, they have just come back from the dance and Maria (Juliet) a Puerto Rican has danced with Tony (Romeo) an American. The main male character here, Bernando is Maria's brother and gets furious about that. Anita, his girlfriend is arguing with him here about giving Maria some freedom.
This one here is about Officer Krupke, who keeps an eye on the two street gangs as they make trouble. In that scene the Jets are waiting for the Sharks to have a war council, i.e. meeting so after the officer leaves they sing about what they would say shall the officer show up again.
1 comment:
Interesting Seriously!
Giving us the introduction, you made the movie seem really interesting, its good to see where the movie industry was back then!
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