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SIM Ep 788 Flicking #31: West Side Story (1961)

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Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

SIM Ep 788 Flicking #31: West Side Story (1961) Our Yosra Osman isn’t alone in loving 1961’s cinematic musical West Side Story, in which love-at-first-sighters Maria and Tony find themselves entangled in a bitter battle between rival gangs The Jets and The Sharks amid music from Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. 60+ years on, with a recent Steven Spielberg revival in the bag, is it a cinematic gem packed with bangers or a problematic white vision of racial unrest? Can a film be both? Will Hannah ever stop hanging out in underground car parks, making shapes and saying “cool!”? And why are she and Mick looking nervous?  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were three ordinary women on what seemed like a simple mission to find a

0:06.6

film they liked. One where women got something to do and not just look pretty or

0:12.4

be murdered. Which to be totally honest has complicated matters, Abit. Welcome

0:19.4

to Flicking. Yes it sounds a bit rude. That's the joke. Hello and welcome to

0:26.9

November's Flicking. How is it November? Let's start with that question with

0:32.7

Yosra Ozzman. I really don't know. To me it should just be June. It should be summer.

0:37.7

I'm not liking these darker days. No. I mean in fairness, Yosra, to me it should be

0:41.6

1998. I'm very confused by the passage of time. That's Mickey Noon. Hello. Now we are

0:47.8

here to discuss as ever. One of our favourite films. Sometimes it's a film

0:52.6

that all of us have seen already but this time it was a film that Yosra picked

0:56.5

and neither Mick or I had seen. No. So bringing new experiences to old

1:05.1

dogs. Where should you bring your new dogs to old dogs earlier? So I'll forgive

1:10.2

her that way. Yosra, what did you pick this month and why do you love it? Right I

1:16.3

would never call either of you to old dogs. It is my pick this month and it's

1:22.6

actually a really interesting choice for me because I chose 1961's cinematic

1:27.9

musical West Side Story which growing up was easily one of my favourite films

1:32.9

of all time. I absolutely love the musical and West Side Story is quite the

1:38.9

musical. It's adapted from the 1957 Broadway show with music by Leonard Burns,

1:43.8

Dean lyrics by Stephen Sonheim and it's directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins.

1:49.3

West Side Story is the Romeo and Julietesque tragic love story set in 1950's New York

1:55.6

where two lovers from rival gangs are gang of white youths the jets versus a gang of

1:59.8

Puerto Rican youths the sharks fall in love amidst tension drama and wonderful

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