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Analysis of the script west side story
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Significance of the music in west side story
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The West Side Story is 1960s romantic musical tragedy film by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The film is an adaptation of the 1950s Broadway musical of the same name, which was inspired by William Shakespeare’s stage act, Romeo and Juliet. It includes Broadway professionals like Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, and George Chakiris, and was pictured by Daniel L. Fapp and the A.S.C. It was released on October 18, 1961. The musical received very high praise from critics and viewers, and was placed second highest grossing film of the year in the US. The film was nominated for 11 Academy awards and got 10, including Best Picture, getting known for the record holder for the most wins for movie musical.
The characters played a very good role in acting and the set was a very well place to have this kind of musical. The film starred 24 characters and it was taken place in the west side of New York City in 1950s. The characters were very athletic with all the dancing and because they had to dance a lot in this film. I say that the set is really good where it has taken place because they do have a lot of gangs in the west side part of New York and its dangerous there.
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The soundtrack to west side story released in 1961. It took 54 weeks at number 1 on Billboards album charts, giving it the longest run at No. 1 of any album in history, although some lists instead credit Michael Jackson’s Thriller, on the grounds that West Side Story was listed on a chart for stereo albums only at a time when many albums were recorded in mono. It won the Grammy award for “Best SoundTrack Album and Original Cast” and Johnny Richards orchestrations of the movie score also winning a Grammy in 1962 for “Best Large Ensemble Jazz Album” further bolstering the popularity of the movie and soundtrack. In the US, it was the best-selling album of the 1960s, certifying three times platinum by the RIAA on November 21,
The choreography kept things interesting and the dances in a musical can make or break the performance. Overall, Cherie and Abby did an amazing job directing each person to have a place among a crowded stage. Last but not least, the costumes! This play was set in the 1890s, meaning it is very important to have correlating costumes so the audience can be aware of what time period they are in.
It was good setting to get the attention from the audience and also a way to move around or change settings of the play. Although I love this play my small critic for this play was the players. Some others actors had understandable accents but others didn’t. For example, the brother of the servant his accent was confusing because he kept switching his accent from different country languages. This play was really nice it had a little of bit of everything drama, comedy, romance, betrayal. What like about this play it was how they used the dramatic structure the inciting incident and the climax. The inciting incident for this play of musical comedy murders of 1940 was guessing who the killer of the play was because there was tension building up not knowing who the murder was. The climax for this play would be for me finding out who was the murder and just being in shock how everything had change into a new scenario. Overall it was amazing show how it developed and how well an organized transition the play
The production had many elements which for the most part formed a coalition to further the plot. The characters, the three part scenery and costumes represented well the period of time these people were going through. As far as the performers entering and exiting the stage, it could have been more organized. There were a few times when the performers exited at the wrong times or it seemed so due to the echo of the music. At certain moments the music was slightly loud and drowned the performers. Many of the songs dragged on, so the pacing could have been more effectively executed. Though the music was off at times, the director's decision to have most of the songs performed center sage was a wise one. Also the implementation of actual white characters that were competent in their roles came as a great surprise to the audience and heightened the realism.
The archetypal tragedy of two star-crossed lovers, separated by familial hate, is a recurring theme, which never fails to capture the minds of the audience. It is only at great cost, through the death of the central characters that these feuding families finally find peace. This is an intriguing idea, one antithetical. I have chosen to analyze both Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet and Laurent 's West Side Story. The purpose of this essay is showing how the spoken language is utilized in these different plays to meet differing objectives. The chosen scenes to further aid comparison and contrast are the balcony scenes.
Relationships are complicated, not every relationship will last, and this seems to be the most apparent with romantic relationships, as these types of relationships two partners will often come together and open up to each other and become very close. Every relationship needs effective communication, and this is evident in the film, The Breakup; starring Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn. This film ties in with Interpersonal Communications very well as it portrays its message of poor communication very well. Models of Relational Dynamics, couples conflict styles, crazymakers, and conflict in relational systems are some of the topics that the film perfectly depicts.
‘Our interest in the parallels between the adaptation inter-texts is further enhanced by consideration of their marked differences in textual form,’
This musical takes place in a neighborhood called Washington Heights in New York. We get to see how the characters live in the span of three days. The audience experience: love, happiness, heart breaks, and the struggles of everyday life for these characters. Most of the characters are not finacially stable. They all came to NewYork to find a job and achieve a brighter future for their families.
For this assignment, I decided to do my film review on To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan, R., & Pakula, A. (Directors). (1962). To Kill a Mockingbird[Motion picture on VHS]. United States of America.) I have a personal connection to this film because it is one of my most beloved novels by Harper Lee. I have never watched the film so it was a nice experience to see the characters I have loved for years come to life just before my eyes. The film particularly focuses on a white family living in the South of the United States in the 1930s. The two siblings, Jem and Scout Finch, undergo major changes while experiencing evil and injustice in their small town of Maycomb. Jem and Scout’s father is named Atticus and he is a well-respected man in the town as well as being a lawyer.
West Side Story came out in 1961 as a melodramatic musical that took place in New York. It takes the same theme as Shakespeare's, Romeo and Juliet, in that it is about two lovers whose relationship is not accepted by others because of conflicting backgrounds.
This movie starts off as Jordan Belfort, the main character in the movie, losing his job as a stockbroker in Wall Street. After losing his job, he goes and gets a job in a Long Island brokerage room. In the brokerage room, he sells penny stocks. Thanks to him being aggressive in his selling skills, he was able to make a profit. With the new income, he gives his wife a bracelet and she asked him why doesn’t he go after the people that can afford to lose money, not the middle-class people or lower income people. That is when he gets the idea to get a lot of young people and train them to become the best stock brokers.
Musical theatre is a type of theatrical performance combining music, dance, acting and spoken dialogue. Written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, ‘West Side Story’ is a classic American musical based on William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. The through-composed score and lyrics are used to portray different characters and their cultures, the rivalry between the Jets and Sharks, and the emotions felt as the story progresses. This essay will be exploring the music and how effective the score is in realising the world and characters of the musical. Furthermore, it will discuss how Bernstein and Sondheim relate characters’ diverse ethnicities to particular musical ideas and motifs.
As The movie “The Way, Way Back” is an excellent coming-of-age movie about a young boy, Duncan, who goes on a family vacation with his mother and his mom’s boyfriend, Trent. From the start of the movie, you see that Duncan has such low self-confidence because Trent severely belittles Duncan. As the film progresses, we see Duncan grow more confident, mature and social through his summer job at a waterpark. He meets many individuals throughout the movie who motivate him to open up and be himself, and tell him that Trent was wrong about him. I chose to read Matt a Seitz’s review on rogerebert.com, a very reputable movie critique website.
The movie ‘Get Out’ is in the genres, comedy, horror, mystery and thriller. The director of the movie is Jordan Peele, it came out in 2017, and is one of the top movies at the box office. A New York Times critic by the name of Manohla Dargis, wrote an article about the movie which had the title “Review: In ‘Get Out,’ Guess Who’s coming to dinner? (Bad Idea!),” Who talked about the creativity and ambition behind the movie and its critical parts. Another critic by the name of Brian Tallerico, who wrote an article about the movie whose title is “Get Out movie review and movie summary (2017),” Who talked about the major parts of the movie and how they talk about how some parts relate to real life.
The highly-acclaimed film West Side Story (Wise & Robbins dir.1961; henceforth WSS) is perhaps most strongly associated with the musical genre—not unreasonably. Based on its theatrical predecessor with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents, WSS won ten Academy Awards including Best Picture, and ranks second on the American Film Institute’s list of Greatest Movie Musicals. However, the film is also a strong example of the teen genre, as it subscribes to the form of ‘symbolic action’ (Frow, 2005: 2), the cinematic elements that are common to numerous teen films. WSS is a teen film because of its focus on adolescents and their relationships, with each other and with
Dana Sheets-Nichols Wells 7 December 31, 2014 Essay #3: Film Analysis The film "American Beauty" is more than a biting satire on suburban life, it is a somewhat contrived story is meant to be an allegory that begs the question: what is beauty? American Beauty presents a cast of peculiar, almost cartoon-like characters and feels more like an assemblage of metaphors rather than the stories of real-life people, that the audience can actually relate to.