The color and social structure in the film west side story supports the plot and story of the film in a variety of ways. West side story is a film that incorporates music, dancing and singing as well as the movie 's status as a musical making it primarily formalistic, with a great focus on the artistic aspects of the film. Coupled with the technical aspects in this film that do a brilliant job of portraying a sad story as fun and enjoyable movie. However, it still manages to demonstrate a variety
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Arthur Laurent’s West Side Story were both tragic, romantic, works. West Side Story was a close variation of the play Romeo and Juliet, but the author of West Side Story changed characteristics of Tony to differ from his Romeo and Juliet equivalent, Romeo. Tony became more of an introverted, optimistic, and innocent character. On the other hand, Romeo was outgoing, seemingly bipolar, and violent. These changes in character between Tony and Romeo altered
Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story William Shakespeare can be considered as one of the greatest play writer in history. Out of the several plays he wrote, a timeless drama is that of Romeo and Juliet. Thereafter, play writers, authors and directors have enacted his play and even re-written it into their own style. Reviewers of literature say West side story by Leonard Bernstein, the musical, is an allegorical representation on Romeo and Juliet (Levine 630). The plot in West Side Story is similar to that
West Side Story is one of the darkest musical dramas of its time. It changed the face of musicals forever with its dark themes and social commentary. Opening in 1957, on September the 26th at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York, no one in the audience could have predicted the heartache and social cognizance they would be taking away from this modern day musical. Set in an ethnic, working class neighbourhood of New York in the 1950’s, West Side Story elaborates on issues such as racism, sexism
Joslyn Arteaga Gana April 06, 2016 Visual Analysis Paper: West Side Story Upside Down, Backwards, Sideways and Out of Focus Aldo Maldonado, a Nuyorican conceptual artist has focused on issues of identity. He was born in Utuado, Puerto Rico and moved to New York City at the age of seventeen. Aldo’s, West Side Story Upside Down, Backwards, Sideways and Out of Focus, communicates the idea of identity and how it has changed in circumstances. His identity has always been the Puerto Rican culture which
Scratchy. Seemingly for the first time, he saw the drooping, drowning woman at the other man’s side. […] “Well,” said Wilson at last, slowly, “I s’pose it’s all off now.” […] He picked up his starboard revolver, and, placing both weapons in their holsters, he went away.” This extract from Stephen Crane’s short story “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” clarifies quiet well what one main theme of the story is about. It shows that the Bride, even at that time when women clearly had not as much rights
phenomenon Cuba, a country that can in some points be seen as rather isolated from general world trends in terms of geography and its socialist political system, has always been very popular and influential in another area: music. With influences from West African and Spanish music, traditional Cuban music has outlived various political and economic crises and has established a priceless part of Cuban identity. Due to enhanced technology and accelerating globalization, the “intensified compression and
MAJOR ESSAY The West Side Story is popular for adapting the classic romantic tragedy, "Romeo and Juliet" (Anonymous). On the other hand, Porgy and Bess is an opera with regard black residents in South Carolina. Basically, this film is based on the history of race in America. Since these two films involve different plot, this paper will discuss how these stories differ or what they have in common. Aside from that, the setting of each film will be provided, as well as the characters, its synopsis
Source Analysis Part1 ARTICLE 1 (TO PLEASANTNESS BIAS IN FLASHBULB MEMORIES: POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE FLASHBULB MEMORIES OF THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL AMONG EAST AND WEST GERMANS) • Context and Purpose – The purpose of this source is to describe the day that the Berlin wall fell. It described the manner in which the announcement was made as well as what followed. It also summarizes the opinions of people who were involved in the event and the reactions to the announcement . By including the public’s
During the Cold War, conflict between the USSR and the West was at an all time high as they fought for world domination.The overwhelming desire for power created a dangerous and closed minded sense of patriotism.The film, The Bridge of Spies by Steven Spielberg, is structured to explore historical events of the Cold War period in order to emphasize how the theme of patriotism blinds what it means to be human. The film comments on the treatment of James B. Donovan and Rudolf Abel and how they were