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Next Hollywood will just say screw it, and do a woke version of "The Godfather." It will be multi-cultural Corleone family, with Vito and his wife being gay parents. No killings, just hurt feelings and people staring at each other. When Carlo beats Connie, he doesn't get a beating from Sonny, he gets a time out. It will suck too.
1 posted on 12/12/2021 9:13:06 PM PST by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

I wish Rita Moreno the best. She is 90 years old, and still very active, but in my opinion, Rita did not need to be in this and her inclusion may have dampened a greater sense of ‘newness’ about this version. Over the summer, I heard more about Rita having a part in this than learning about some of the newer actors.


2 posted on 12/12/2021 9:22:09 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Beave Meister

The television marketing has been terrible. The :30 spots have a “Made for Television Event!” vibe, like other Broadway shows that have been revived for TV, and you can’t tell it’s big-screen until you see the “Only in Theaters” text at the end. The spots give very little idea of the story, and while they use the familiar, iconic title design, there are whole generations who do not recognize it.


3 posted on 12/12/2021 9:24:11 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: Beave Meister
“West Side Story” was one of the year’s most eagerly awaited titles.

Uh, clearly not.

God I hate mainstream "journalists" and their formulaic propaganda.

4 posted on 12/12/2021 9:29:08 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Beave Meister

Spielberg is a great director. Despite his social liberalism, his work has demonstrated a respect for middle class Americans, the core decency, valor, sacrifices and accomplishments of the American military and nation to confront and destroy evil. However he must be bored. There was no need to remake or reinterpret “West Side Story”. It was a masterpiece of its time. A musical with beautiful, evocative music inspired by the perennial themes mastered by Shakespeare in “Romeo and Juliet” adapted to a then contemporary 1950’s New York setting. However that New York setting is long gone. What was Spielberg hoping to show or accomplish? Some things should be left alone and not be subjected to cultural revisionism.


5 posted on 12/12/2021 9:29:55 PM PST by allendale
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To: Beave Meister

They did it in the sopranos with a whole season was about someone being a homo. The most ffwd season ever!


6 posted on 12/12/2021 9:31:15 PM PST by Trillian
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To: Beave Meister

I just assumed that the only reason to re-make this classic to overlay it with all kinds of woke-ism. Don’t need that. Spielberg’s involvement is a meh.


7 posted on 12/12/2021 9:32:08 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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There’s a trannie character...no such thing in the original and not needed in any movie ever.


8 posted on 12/12/2021 9:46:35 PM PST by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 )
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To: Beave Meister

When they sing:

“I like to be in A-mer-i-ca
Everything free in A-mer-i-ca”

the audience no longer finds it amusing.


9 posted on 12/12/2021 9:49:47 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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In my city, we would keep the traffic in the BIPOC - the people of colot. They’re oppressed anyway, so let them lose their chains.


12 posted on 12/12/2021 10:00:10 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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The original, although dated and with an overly liberal message, nevertheless conveyed a contemporary mindset. The edgy music & choreography (by Jerome Robbins) reflected the angst of that era. While the late 1950s-early 1960s (MADMEN era) was outwardly white and elegant, it had the rumblings of racial tension and juvenile delinquency, all of which erupted in the 1960s.

The Spielberg remake, though apparently well received by the critics, seems to lack that spirit and power. I haven’t seen it yet, but I am very ambivalent. It just sounds too much like a period piece, with the liberal message carried to woke extreme.


14 posted on 12/12/2021 10:31:11 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: Beave Meister

No killings, just hurt feelings and people staring at each other.

They’ll block each other on social media.


15 posted on 12/12/2021 10:36:47 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Beave Meister

This version wasn’t woke.


19 posted on 12/12/2021 11:27:38 PM PST by Borges
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You can’t sell a traditional musical to a younger audience raised on rap.


22 posted on 12/12/2021 11:52:03 PM PST by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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To: Beave Meister

All I want to know is, does some Jet or Shark still say, “Ooobly-oo, daddy-o”?


24 posted on 12/13/2021 1:05:49 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Are the Jets and the Sharks being replaced by the Crips and the Bloods?


28 posted on 12/13/2021 2:43:01 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (My favorite word is Tweezer)
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To: Beave Meister
At a family meal we were all laughing about SPs idiot comments on not including subtitles because he “Didn’t want to give the English power over the Spanish”.

It was hard to stop laughing for about 30 minutes given our family’s heritage which is similar to perhaps millions of American households where conservatives have been integrated from many cultures.

The sheer stupidity and ignorance of the left is on full display as they continue to cast and segregate individuals based on skin color and language. As conservatives, a fantastic heritage, multi lingual capabilities and appearance do not equate to an affinity to leftist racist tyranny. It is particularly intolerable to those who the left target and single out, then designate as incapable due to the nature of their ethnic background.

The endless gift of cringeworthy, ignoramus WTF mouth-frothing social justice commentary spewed from questionable cavities of the left only serve to bring more of those seeking true freedom and recognition for the content of their character to our cause.

29 posted on 12/13/2021 3:30:57 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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