West Side Story
Synopsis: It’s the story of Tony and Maria, two teenagers in New York, who fall in love despite their differing backgrounds. Their friends and family are allied to two different gangs, who hate each other with a passion. It’s basically Romeo and Juliet modernised and set to music.
I love this movie, always have done. Rita Moreno is fantastic as Anita, providing a fiery and vivid contrast with Natalie Wood’s softer and rather naive Maria. The songs are wonderful too, particularly ‘America’ delivered by Moreno and the other Puerto Rican characters, about moving to New York, with the female characters expressing all the positive things about the move, while the male characters talk about the negative things.
The dancing was spectacular, particularly in the ‘America’ sequence, and the scene when the Jets (white gang) are coming down the street, performing a ballet with seemingly effortless elegance.
I just like the whole spirit of the film. There’s not one thing that I could say was really that bad within it. It’s clear that other people feel the same way as I do, given how many tv programmes have referenced the film within episodes, ones like Friends, Glee and even Tom and Jerry.
West Side Story is available at Amazon
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I'm a thirty something woman who lives in the north of England. I have been a writer for as long as I can remember, creating stories both written and verbal since childhood. While studying at Edge Hill College, I got several poems published by a small publisher in the USA, and in Europe. I have been part of several writing groups, and done quite a few courses in a attempt to hone my writing skills further. I love reading different genres of fiction, knowing that the best way to develop my own writing, and my vocabulary is by exposing myself to the different ways that other people choose to describe things.
The most recent writing course that I've been part of, run by a published author, included a exercise in which we were challenged to read things that we would never usually even look at.
It inspired me to take up a challenge. Namely to attempt to read at least one book by every author which is stocked in my local library. I soon realised that I was being far too ambitious, especially given the fact that every library rotates their stock too often for me to keep track.
I've decided to instead attempt to read a book every day, starting with a author whose surname begins with A, and ending with a author whose surname begins with Z. It doesn't matter what the topic of the book is, or if it's fiction or non fiction, everything is useful for me at the minute.
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