Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story has acquired largely constructive early evaluations. In a current dialog with filmmaker Shoojit Sircar, who has delivered practical slice-of-life Bollywood motion pictures, Spielberg talked in regards to the expertise of creating West Side Story, in addition to his inspiration behind it.
Sircar talked about how the movie was a nostalgic journey for him, as he had carried out this play throughout his theatre days. He then requested Spielberg, “Have you come full circle as a filmmaker touching upon musicals, a genre that you have not touched before?” Spielberg responded, “This genre has been close to my life all my life. It just took West Side Story to do a musical.” He was stuffed with admiration for the unique composers of the 1957 musical.
Shoojit Sircar then requested about mixing theatre and cinema in a full-scale manufacturing. Sircar additionally talked about that he was attempting to make a musical however ‘didn’t have the braveness’, and known as Steven Spielberg fearless. Spielberg mentioned, “I think as we get older, everyone gets more fearless. I needed to be fearless to take this on, and this was based on the Broadway musical. It will be liberally compared to the 1961 film. I didn’t feel like I was violating anything because I don’t really necessarily love remakes. I consider this an authentic and re-imagined version of the musical. I didn’t feel like I was violating the classic by telling this 2021 story.”
Sircar additionally mentioned that West Side Story was a dialog, and a dialogue with the youth, because the movie addressed a number of essential points on this planet, together with xenophobia. He additionally talked about that the film can also be an try and rediscover empathy.
West Side Story stars Ansel Engort, Rachel Zegler, Maddie Zegler, Ariana DeBose and Rita Moreno amongst others. The movie will hit screens on December 10.
