"West Side Story" Critique.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 03:12:21
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 3 pages (861 words)
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 3 pages (861 words)
Synopsis: Maria is a newly-arrived Puerto Rican girl whose brother heads a gang called The Sharks against the Caucasian gang called The Jets. The rivalry between the gangs is in place from the beginning, but it reaches a fever pitch when Maria falls for Tony, the founder of the Jets, at a local dance. West Side Story is the classic tragedy of Romeo & Juliet set in a modern setting. The setting is the …
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…expressive dialogue. For example, when Maria asks Anita: "What happens when you look at Bernard?" Anita replies: "It's when I don't look that it happens." And in the lyrics of America like when Anita says: "Life is alright in America" and Bernardo answers back with: "If you're all White in America"
The message: Doc, the little Jewish candy store owner, expresses the movie's message lucidly: "You kids make this world lousy! When will you stop?"
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