West Side Story Riview

West Side Story (1961)

23.12.1961(japan)

152min- Crime, Drama, Musical

Directors: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise

Writers: Ernest Lehman (screenplay), Arthur Laurents (book),

Stars: Natalie Wood (Maria), George Charkiris (Bernardo), Richard Beymer (Tony)

  West Side Story (1961) is based on a William Shakespeare’s play which is called Romeo and Juliet.

It is a story about an American boy, Tony, falls in love with a Puerto Rican girl, Maria. They have a conflict to have the power in the West Side in New York.

  I love to watch the film in ways of directors screen methods. In the first of scene, he uses the red colour and only music with flat image to increase viewers interest into the film. And the technique of singing makes me as if I were in the theatre. My favourite scene is the wedding part of Tony and Maria. They look bright and lovely, and I feel I want to marry ,too. This film is difficult for me to understand how the director uses screen tools ,but it is deserve to watch and enjoy the whole time of the film.