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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 dieing 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, discord ant 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 Stephen Sondheim and leonard bernstein, who were some of the greatest musical geniuses working at the time. They actually enlisted jerome robbins, who created the choreography and directed the original broadway production to direct this film along with robert wise. Everybody was transported by west side story. It was wildly romantic. It was the romeo and juliet story, but told with such urgency. Come

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