West Side Storyis famously a riff on Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”, the story of forbidden love between warring houses. It is made relevant for the modern age by rooting it in a specific time, place and culture, and makes for one of the darkest and most violent song and dance sho...
Somehow this scene seems out of context, since most of the buildings in the movie are 5-story walk-up tenements. But modern architecture shows up throughout the movie in the background, and as this arrow (below) shows, this was part of the urban renewal of the area, and soon this nei...
A. The ending of the story B. The music incorporated C. The conflict presented D. The cultural context 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 D。“Romeo and Juliet”反映的是文艺复兴时期的文化背景,“West Side Story”则具有现代美国的文化特色,文化背景差异显著。反馈...
its elegant surrounding area, displacing some 800 businesses and thousands of families in the process. and it’s about what’s left of the turf that the sharks and the jets, two sparring manhattan gangs, are struggling to control. that context underscores the frantic futility of this story: ...
The spontaneous cheering and applause that burst from audiences as they watched the recent production of West Side Story told its own story. Wellington has a long tradition of producing high-quality musicals each year, from Calamity Jane to Showc...
摘要: Directions: Using the material in Chapter 2" Culture" of your textbook, answer the following questions about the cultures portrayed in West Side Story. You may discuss this with others, but you must indicate that you did your own work. Use the back of this sheet or another收藏...
He's not bad. He's aggressively fine. He's just not spectacular. Elgort can make theSpielberg Face,but there's something missing in his eyes. Instead of sincerely awe-struck, he seems like he's posing. His casting feels like a misplayed note. Otherwise, though,West Side Storyis ...
Paul R. Laird's book, "West Side Story, Gypsy, and the Art of Broadway Orchestration," sheds light on the often overlooked field of orchestrators and orchestration in musical theatre. Laird's volume focuses on the orchestration of two iconic musicals, West Side Story and ...
Another night when we was up at the head of the island, just before daylight, here comes a frame-house down, on the west side. She was a two-story, and tilted over considerable. View in context The salmon on the west side of the Rocky Mountains are, like the buffalo on the eastern...
In his B+ review of “West Side Story,” IndieWire’s senior film critic David Ehrlich called Spielberg’s decision to omit subtitles a “genius” move that “offers [this take on the material] a richer sense of context than any previous version of the show has been allowed before.” Ehr...