CNNW The Movies August 12, 2019
The cinematic musical if you look at the dna, theres always a kind of code or a language thats specific to the time theyre in. When youre a jet, youre a jet all the way from your first cigarette to your last dying day west side story is shakespeare in the streets of new york. It has a code that was both old and completely new. With west side story, the music has this kind of jazz influence, discordant aspect. You can feel it. Its like sparking in the air. And the moves are very angular and sort of almost architectural. West side story was a big broadway hit created by Arthur Lawrence and Steph...
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