I love the 1961 West Side soo much I hesitated to go to the new one, but I loved it mostly because they seemed to take a page out of Jerrome Robbins choreographic book. What did you think? I went to the recent movie with Jesse and he thought that it did not ring true that the gangs would be such good dancers. I remember saying exactly what you wrote here, "it a musical!"
I feel like if the choreographer goes too far away from dancey bits and into realism, that’s when the suspension of disbelief can be disrupted. I’m much more likely to be immersed in the 1961 sequence because it’s consistent in its style. I know what world I’m in when it’s pirouettes and hitch kicks instead of violence. But if there’s gritty violence that’s beautifully choreographed and realistic, and then right out of that, they start unison snapping their fingers, that isn’t the same world and so it’ll bring me as a viewer out of the action and remove me from the world of the play. Does that make sense?
Yeah it does make sense. In a gang movie that’s not a musical realistic fight scenes would be the only ones that make sense even though the fights are choreographed. Can you tell that West Side is my favorite musical
I love the 1961 West Side soo much I hesitated to go to the new one, but I loved it mostly because they seemed to take a page out of Jerrome Robbins choreographic book. What did you think? I went to the recent movie with Jesse and he thought that it did not ring true that the gangs would be such good dancers. I remember saying exactly what you wrote here, "it a musical!"
I feel like if the choreographer goes too far away from dancey bits and into realism, that’s when the suspension of disbelief can be disrupted. I’m much more likely to be immersed in the 1961 sequence because it’s consistent in its style. I know what world I’m in when it’s pirouettes and hitch kicks instead of violence. But if there’s gritty violence that’s beautifully choreographed and realistic, and then right out of that, they start unison snapping their fingers, that isn’t the same world and so it’ll bring me as a viewer out of the action and remove me from the world of the play. Does that make sense?
Yeah it does make sense. In a gang movie that’s not a musical realistic fight scenes would be the only ones that make sense even though the fights are choreographed. Can you tell that West Side is my favorite musical