Steven Spielberg's WEST SIDE STORY - News & Discussion Thread- Page 30

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 1:39pm

...and now once again twitter is losing it's collective sh*t and coming for Ansel Elgort.

Dude wasn't even found guilty of anything and people are tweeting that he's a sexual assailant. WTF?!

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 1:44pm

People are getting an awful lot of praise for a performance no one has seen yet. It’s interesting to me: then again, I’m not the biggest WSS fan.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 1:44pm

Twitter is a toxic cesspool of garbage people. Just ignore them and keep that negative energy off this thread. They don't matter and they won't see it anyways.

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 1:45pm

CarlosAlberto said: "December 10th get here already. This looks MAJOR! Willlightning strike twice for this property? Will it once again be showered with Oscars?"


 

I think it’s WAY too early to be saying this will be a front runner. 

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 1:47pm

Sutton Ross said: "Twitter is a toxic cesspool of garbage people. Just ignore them and keep that negative energy off this thread. They don't matter and they won't see it anyways. "

Duly noted...I am sorry I even brought it up...

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 1:48pm

Interesting that the Jets get such short shrift in the trailer.  Am I the only one getting a bit of a gay vibe off of Riff (or at least the character I'm assuming is Riff)?

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 1:48pm

hearthemsing22 said: "CarlosAlberto said: "December 10th get here already. This looks MAJOR! Willlightning strike twice for this property? Will it once again be showered with Oscars?"




I think it’s WAY too early to be saying this will be a front runner."

 

I didn't say it was a front runner. I just posed questions (hence the question marks at the very end).

 

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 1:49pm

CarlosAlberto said: "hearthemsing22 said: "CarlosAlberto said: "December 10th get here already. This looks MAJOR! Willlightning strike twice for this property? Will it once again be showered with Oscars?"




I think it’s WAY too early to be saying this will be a front runner."



I didn't say it was a front runner. I just posed a question (hence the question mark at the very end).

"

Ah. I’m sorry!! 

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 1:50pm

hearthemsing22 said: "CarlosAlberto said: "hearthemsing22 said: "CarlosAlberto said: "December 10th get here already. This looks MAJOR! Willlightning strike twice for this property? Will it once again be showered with Oscars?"




I think it’s WAY too early to be saying this will be a front runner."



I didn't say it was a front runner. I just posed a question (hence the question mark at the very end).

"

Ah. I’m sorry!!"

It's okay....

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 2:01pm

Carlos, that person loves to COMMAND and DEMAND things on this board. Just ignore them, those middle school years are tough on some people

And no worries bb, that whole thing with Ansel was resolved so long ago I just wanted to keep it positive on here with the excitement about this film. 

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 2:11pm

I gotta admit, it looks good, although Elgort's woodenness comes through in the trailer.  

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 2:25pm

What a great trailer! I can't wait to hear get the soundtrack.  Gustavo Dudamel (Los Angeles Philharmonic) is conducting the score and what we hear of it in this trailer goes right to the heart.

I cannot wait for this!

[Blue_Lotus]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 2:26pm

Sutton Ross said: "Carlos, that person loves to COMMAND and DEMAND things on this board. Just ignore them, those middle school years are tough on some people

And no worries bb, that whole thing with Ansel wasresolved so long ago I just wanted to keep it positive on here with the excitement about this film."

Okay! Gracias! 

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 2:30pm

De nada! 

[degrassifan]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 2:43pm

On some of the foreign 20th Century Studios IG accounts (i.e. 20th UK, Italy, etc.), there's a slightly different 60 second trailer. It ends with Tony on the balcony telling Maria, "Run away with me." 

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 2:45pm

degrassifan said: "On some of the foreign 20th Century Studios IG accounts (i.e. 20th UK, Italy, etc.), there's a slightly different 60 second trailer. It ends with Tony on the balcony telling Maria, "Run away with me.""

Do you have a way of providing links to those. I would love to see them.

[degrassifan]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 2:49pm

CarlosAlberto said: "degrassifan said: "On some of the foreign 20th Century Studios IG accounts (i.e. 20th UK, Italy, etc.), there's a slightly different 60 second trailer. It ends with Tony on the balcony telling Maria, "Run away with me.""

Do you have a way of providing links to those. I would love to see them."

Sure! See below. It's only about 5% different than the official trailer, but still worth a look. 

West Side Story Foreign Trailer Cut

 

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 2:50pm

MichelleCraig said: "What a great trailer! I can't wait to hear get the soundtrack. Gustavo Dudamel (Los Angeles Philharmonic) is conducting the score and what we hear of it in this trailer goes right to the heart.

I cannot wait for this!"

I had forgotten that Dudamel was hired to conduct the score. I love his work with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra - - - especially in conducting "The Dance at the Gym"!!!

This soundtrack is gonna sound EPIC!!!

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 2:51pm

degrassifan said: "CarlosAlberto said: "degrassifan said: "On some of the foreign 20th Century Studios IG accounts (i.e. 20th UK, Italy, etc.), there's a slightly different 60 second trailer. It ends with Tony on the balcony telling Maria, "Run away with me.""

Do you have a way of providing links to those. I would love to see them."

Sure! See below. It's only about 5% different than the official trailer, but still worth a look.

West Side Story Foreign Trailer Cut

YOU are the BEST!!!

"

 

[degrassifan]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 3:17pm

CarlosAlberto said: "

YOU are the BEST!!!"


No problem!!  
 

 

[A Director]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 3:28pm

dramamama611 said: "While I had the same thought, LOTS of young peeps do not know this show - even theater kids. As I have said to my of my students, this is the Rent of the older generation."

WRONG! I am a member of the older generation. West Side Story, onstage, was NOT Rent.  It ran 732 performances. It got 6 Tony nominations and won 2. The tour did okay. The movie version was a huge success. It made the show.

 

[jpbran]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 3:38pm

Dang… no need to scorch the earth with that response. 

[dramamama611]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 4:33pm

Dude...I meant in emotional connection. As a theater kid we lived and breathed waiting for a high school or community group to put this show up. Was more of this because of the film? Certainly. Does that make it ant less personal? Not even close.

Sheesh.

 

And arent we talking about films here?

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 4:52pm

I was very surprised to learn in my research of WSS, that although it was considered a groundbreaking show it was not a huge hit when it premiered in 1957. That may be attributed to it's subject matter, which is way darker than anything that was running at the time. Sondheim has even commented on this in numerous interviews. The Best Musical Tony went to THE MUSIC MAN, that down-home, feel good, slice of American apple pie. 

It was only after the film adaptation was released in 1961 that the general public embraced it. It was a phenomenon. The soundtrack alone would go on to be THE best selling record album of the 1960s and some even consider the soundtrack THE best selling album OF ALL TIME, 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.

I would compare the success of the WEST SIDE STORY film to that of James Cameron's TITANIC (1998). 

This new version of WEST SIDE STORY has HUGE shoes to fill.

[Musical Master]

Posted: 9/15/21 at 5:26pm

CarlosAlberto said: "I had forgotten that Dudamel was hired to conduct the score. I love his work with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra - - - especially in conducting "The Dance at the Gym"!!!

This soundtrack is gonna sound EPIC!!!"

With Dudamel conducting alongside David Newman's music arrangements and supervision, I have no doubt that the soundtrack will be incredible. Plus I adore the fact that "One Hand, One Heart" is now located in a church with stain-glass windows, it was so stunning that I thought Robert Wise came back from the dead to direct the scene.

Speaking of, I think I maybe in the minority here; but if I had to choose between the two movie musicals that Robert Wise directed (in the case of WSS 61' he co-directed) I would choose The Sound of Music. For I think that he took what he learned from before and applied it to a more magnificent, polished film that I consider it my favorite movie of all time.