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West Side Story Romeo And Juliet
1,677 wordsAndy Warhol once said, "They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself. " Two hundred fifty years passed between the original Romeo and Juliet and the premiere of West Side Story on Broadway in 1957. However, time did not change the message of the story, simply the creators unique visions evolved. Shakespeare's delivery of the timeless tale of desperate love in his classic Romeo and Juliet proves to only intensify through retelling and modern interpretation. Aud...
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West Side Story Romeo And Juliet
1,468 wordsAs a contemporary musical, West Side Story differs from Romeo and Juliet in form and detail, but stays true to the tragedy of innocent love caught in a complex social web that predestines its demise. In West Side Story, love at first sight between Tony and Maria set off a tragic chain of events which bring the story to its heartbreaking conclusion. Maria is Puerto Rican, Tony, Polish-American; they are young, innocent, rebellious-indifferent to the societal boundaries which they are trespassing....
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Romeo And Juliet Vs West Side Story
570 wordsWest Side Story and Romeo and Juliet are two dramas that will always live. Both of these stories have similarities, but there are also differences. These differences include the differences in speech, that Maria doesn't die, we never see Tony or Maria's parents, the issues of marriage, the importance of gangs and families to each story. Above, I named a few of the many differences between William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Ernest Learn's movie, West Side Story. One of the main difference...
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Romeo And Juliet West Side Story
1,435 wordsThe play West Side Story, by Arthur Laurent's, is based upon the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. Despite a few differences, both works, in essence, have the same plot. The source of violence in Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story is the ever-present hatred between families and between gangs, although, because of the star-cross lovers motif in Romeo and Juliet, the hatred plays a larger role in producing the ending of West Side Story than it does the ending of Romeo and Juliet. Th...
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West Side Story Romeo And Juliet
410 wordsRomeo and Juliet and West Side Story are alike in many ways, they were both very successful in their day. Like Romeo and Juliet, Tony and Maria are of opposite "families", They fall in love and their love is forbidden. Maria is Puerto Rican and Tony is Irish. In West Side Story they don't get married but they do have a torrid love affair. The hate between the two groups was modernized to racism and not as many of the main characters die in West Side Story. One of the major differences is that Ma...
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West Side Story Romeo And Juliet
1,482 wordsThe play West Side Story, by Arthur Laurent's, is based upon the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. Despite a few differences, both works, in essence, have the same plot. The source of violence in Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story is the ever-present hatred between families and between gangs, although, because of the " star-cross? d lovers" motif in Romeo and Juliet, the hatred plays a larger role in producing the ending of West Side Story than it does the ending of Rome...
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West Side Story Romeo And Juliet
1,734 wordsThree Hundred Fifty Years of Blind Love: A Contraposition of Shakespeare and Robbins? Romeo and Juliet Andy Warhol once said, They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself. Two hundred fifty years passed between the original Romeo and Juliet and the premiere of West Side Story on Broadway in 1957. However, time did not change the message of the story, simply the creators? unique visions evolved. Shakespeare? s delivery of the timeless tale of desperate love in ...
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West Side Story Tony And Maria
721 wordsWest Side Story Prejudices Vs. Gentleman's Agreement West Side Story Prejudices Vs. Gentleman's Agreement Prejudices West Side Story and Gentleman s Agreement are two very different movies, yet with one basic underlying theme: prejudice. Prejudice has been present in our world since the dawn of civilization. Greeks and Turks, Whites and Blacks, Hitler and Jews, those hateful feelings between these, and many other, groups are unfortunately still present in today s society. Until people get a clea...
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Romeo And Juliet Tony And Maria
694 wordsSimilarities of Two Famous Tales of Love In one of the most famous love stories of this century, many elements from another famous tale of love were borrowed. In many instances, Westside Story mirrored ShakespearesRomeo And Juliet. Many similarities were noted from the characterization to the plot structure. However, they differed as well. In Westside Story, some characters shared personalities with those of Romeo And Juliet. The families of the Capulets and Montague's were well represented by t...
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West Side Story Romeo And Juliet
781 wordsMovie Review West Side Story West Side Story, a 1961 production starring Rita Moreno and Natalie Wood, is an adaptation of William Shakespeare s play Romeo and Juliet. West Side Story is a flashy production filled with music, dance and light. It presents Shakespeare s play from a 1960 s inner city perspective. In the movie two rival gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, demonstrate cultural prejudices between Puerto Rican and American inner city dwellers. The hatred between the two groups is evident f...
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