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The dialogues and the music are fantastic! The dance scenes are breathtaking!

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The dialogues and the music are fantastic! The dance scenes are breathtaking!

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The director is Steven Spielberg. Arthur Laurents and Tony Kushner wrote the movie. Leonard Bernstein wrote the music. It is a musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.
The main characters are Maria and Tony.

Two gangs of young people (the Jets and the Sharks) fight each other to control the neighborhood. Tony is the best friend of the leader of the Jets. He goes to a dance and falls in love with Maria who is the sister of the leader of the Sharks.
Their love is impossible because of the hatred between the two gangs.

We loved the story, we found the concept very interesting.
The film is very exciting because there is a lot of action.
In this story there are many hidden messages about racism.
We loved the characters' feelings. We also loved the two main characters. Mike Faist plays Riff, the leader of the Jets and David Alvarez plays Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks. They both play these parts very well.
The dialogues and the music are fantastic!
In the different songs, we can find several musical motifs such as jazzy rythms and other elements that build up suspense.
There are also different musical genres: for example jazz and mambo. We loved this musical mix.
We found the scene at the party very colourful and well shot. The dance scenes were breathtaking!

Go see this film if you like musicals . We also recommend this film to people who love tragedies and are interested in the history of immigration in the United States.

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Wonderful, well shot and emotional but also autotuned and scary! 

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Wonderful, well shot and emotional but also autotuned and scary! 

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On Tuesday, December 14th, we went to the cinema to see West Side Story. The film director is Steven Spielberg while Leonard Berstein wrote the music and Arthur Laurents wrote the movie. It is a drama, more precisely a romantic musical. The main actors are Ansel Elgort as Tony and Rachel Zegler as Maria. The movie is based on the 1961 film which is based on a Broadway show from 1957. It dates back to 2021. The movie tells the story of a forbidden love between two people (Maria and Tony) who are separated by the fact that they are from two rival communities and two rival gangs. It is inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Now I am going to give the different opinions of each member of the group. First, A thinks that even if love stories are not her cup of tea, she found the movie enjoyable and well-shot. She prefers the actors in the original version, they play and sing better. Indeed, she was disappointed by the fact that they used autotune. Because of that, she could not fully appreciate the movie as she thinks autotune is like cheating, it is not natural to her ears and it is disrespectful to the audience.

Concerning the cinematography - and more particularly the colours - she found them dark and sad. She found it had a link to the atmosphere of the story but it did not help her focus on the movie.

B quite liked the film. She found the plot wonderful and emotional. At the end, she found the moment when Tony dies and Maria cries sad. She almost cried. She enjoyed the romantic scene at the balcony and the music at the beginning with the finger snaps. Yet, she did not like the fight scene between the two gangs because in her opinion, it was shocking and violent. However, she thinks it was well-shot and she had the impression that they fought for real. She hated the moment when Chino shot Tony. She can’t stand when Tony dies at the end and the fact that Maria is alone without her lover. She disliked the insults that the character used.

To finish, C liked the plot but the movie scared her. This is the reason why she only recommends this film to people who are above 12 years of age. If you are very sensitive, don’t go see this movie! She thinks that the film is well-shot and well-written but also scary.

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The music is amazing, the song lyrics are funny but the cinematography isn't great!

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The music is amazing, the song lyrics are funny but the cinematography isn't great!

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We went to the movies and saw "West Side Story" by Steven Spielberg. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner. Leonard Bernstein wrote the music.

It is a drama, a romantic film and a musical.

It is not based on a book but on a Broadway show. There is another adaptation which dates back to 1961.

It is about the forbidden relationship between Tony and Maria. Their relationship is impossible because they belong to two communities in conflict.

The plot revolves around their love relationship and we liked it. The characters are good because they are all different from each other. As for the dialogues, they are incredible!

The music is amazing. We liked the song lyrics. They are sometimes very funny.

But the cinematography is not great.

Go see this movie if you like romantic relationships and if you are into drama.

We give it five stars because it is a well-written and well-shot movie. It is romantic. It is for moviegoers of all ages.

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A great plot that denounces racism in the 1950's and today!

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A great plot that denounces racism in the 1950's and today!

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The film’s director is Steven Spielberg and the film was written by Tony Kushner. The music was written by Leonard Bernstein and David Newman. It is a musical based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It was first a Broadway show (in 1957) which was later adapted into a famous movie in 1961. But Steven Spielberg’s adaptation dates back to 2021.

The main actors are Rachel Zegler, Ansel Elgort, Ariana DeBose and Rita Moreno.

In New York in the 1950’s, Maria and Tony meet each other and fall in love at first sight. But their love is a big problem because they do not belong to the same ethnic group. Indeed Maria is a Puerto Rican immigrant while Tony is from a more established Polish immigrant background. Moreover, Maria is Bernardo’s sister and Bernardo is the leader of the Puerto Rican gang called The Sharks. Tony is best friend with Riff who is the leader of a White/Polish gang called the Jets. These two gangs hate each other because they do not belong to the same ethnic groups.

What we like about this film is the plot because it denounces American racism in the 1950’s (this racism still exists in American society today). In this film, non-Hispanic people discriminate against Puerto Ricans. We think this movie shows this very well.

We enjoy the music because we are huge music fans. As for the shots, they are amazing. The characters are not very well developed but you feel compassion for them. We don’t really have an opinion on the dialogues but we appreciate the fact that the characters spend most of their time singing. This movie is surprising and has a sad ending.

Go watch this movie if you enjoy the story of Romeo and Juliet. We recommend this movie to people who want to know more about racism and the context of American society in the 1950’s and in 2021. You should also see this movie if you like musicals which convey messages. You’ll definitely love it!

4.5/5

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Boring dialogues but well-written music!

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Boring dialogues but well-written music!

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This remake of West Side Story is an adaptation of the 1961 movie which is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. It is a drama but it is alo a romance and a musical.

This new adaptation was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg but the original film was created by Robert Wise and Ernest Lehman. The music was written by Leonard Bernstein. Both films date back to the post WWII era.

The main actors are Mike Faist (who plays Riff) and Arianna DeBose (who plays the part of Anita). Bernardo is played by David Alvarez, Tony is played by Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler plays Maria.

The movie is about racial discrimination. It is an impossible love story between Maria and Tony (Anton) because Maria’s brother is the leader of the Sharks and Tony’s best friend is the leader of the Jets. These are foes (= enemies).

In the Jets, there is Riff who is the founder and Tony’s close friend. In the Sharks, there is Bernardo, the brother of Maria and Anita’s boyfriend. Anita is Maria’s best friend.

In our opinion, the dialogues are so boring in both versions of the story (1961 and 2021) because they are so obvious!

But the music and the shots are well-written and well-done and it’s very rare to see such an amazing quality!

As a conclusion, we recommend this movie if you prefer to watch love stories and if you love music and gang rivalries.