Spielberg’s Politically Correct “West
Side Story” Flops With Audiences
The New American,
by
Selwyn Duke
Original Article
Posted By: Rand Al'Thor,
12/20/2021 5:13:24 AM
Call it Woke Side Story. Because there’s woke, really woke, über woke, and then there’s this: not including subtitles for a movie’s Spanish dialogue because you don’t want to give “English the power over the Spanish.”
That’s exactly what director Steven Spielberg did, and why, in his recently released West Side Story (WSS), a “remake” of the iconic 1961 film of the same name. Spielberg says, however, that it’s not a remake but a “reimagining.” But no matter one’s imagination, it’s hard to conceive of the flick’s debut this past weekend as anything but a flop — and expensive one, too.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rather Read 12/20/2021 5:41:34 AM (No. 1012767)
Looks like the big hit will be the new Spiderman movie which I hear is not woke.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
5 handicap 12/20/2021 6:08:44 AM (No. 1012782)
I'm sure it will play well in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico! It might make enough to pay for the film canisters, maybe not.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
5 handicap 12/20/2021 6:10:37 AM (No. 1012784)
It'll probably play well in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. It might even make enough to pay for the film canisters, maybe not.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Highlander 12/20/2021 6:12:13 AM (No. 1012785)
It’ll end up in Netflix by January, no later than February. It should have been a straight-to-video movie. Afterwards, it goes to our government schools for anti-white CRT classes.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 12/20/2021 6:33:05 AM (No. 1012794)
Just what America was dying to see...a woke remake.
Not!
Bwahahahahaaaaa.
15 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 12/20/2021 6:36:17 AM (No. 1012798)
Movies? They are still making those? Why?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
laurenc 12/20/2021 6:42:09 AM (No. 1012803)
Up next - a remake of Gone With the Wind with Scarlette as a bull whip wielding dominatrix, and Mammy a Rhoades Scholar.
21 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 12/20/2021 7:16:09 AM (No. 1012838)
I’m looking forward to a remake, excuse me, reimagining of “Dirty Harry,” titled of course “Woke Harriet” in which transgender Inspector Harriet Callahan (pronouns Fu, Fu, Fu), played by Alec Baldwin in his first career-reclamation film, fights racism starting in the very first scene by drawing Fu .44magnum “the most powerful handgun in the world” and blowing the “head clean off” Fu white partner and then over the course of the movie, shoots all the white and Asian police, and in the big production number in the end, Fu is pursued by a gang of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC Antifa in a Bullitt-like chase through the streets of San Francisco in a self-driving electric vehicle Fu has to stop twice to recharge, slips on a pile of feces on the sidewalk in the Tenderloin and is taken to SF General where they refuse to give Fu medical care because Fu is unvaccinated and Fu dies of COVID; the dialogue will be completely in Cambodian and Sanskrit.
29 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
skacmar 12/20/2021 7:30:17 AM (No. 1012851)
If Spielberg truly wanted to learn about Hispanic gang conflict with white or any other gangs, why didn't he talk to: gang members? There are plenty of Hispanic (Latinjx) gang members in Los Angeles and New York he could have spoken to. To be full woke, MS-13 could have been hired as consultants.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
5 handicap 12/20/2021 7:36:20 AM (No. 1012863)
I gotta ask: How is allowing 80% of Americans who don't speak Spanish to enjoy the movie giving "Power" to English over Spanish? What a Moron! to Maroon as Bugs would say.
24 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/20/2021 7:38:32 AM (No. 1012868)
Fools and their movies.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
chumley 12/20/2021 8:22:32 AM (No. 1012920)
Neither will I watch a black Wizard of Oz, a black Alexander Hamilton, a black Little Orphan Annie or gay super heroes, or super heroes who's race mysteriously changed. Liberals destroy everything they touch.
33 people like this.
Rule of Thumb: If it's Woke, it's Whacked.
20 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/20/2021 8:52:14 AM (No. 1012975)
Dog Stuff on Toast, No thanks Morons!
10 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 12/20/2021 9:06:42 AM (No. 1013007)
The hubris is strong with this one. Glad it failed.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
red1066 12/20/2021 9:50:58 AM (No. 1013055)
I guess the Spanish speaking population isn't enough to make the film profitable, or maybe Spielberg made this movie to reduce his taxes. His tax burden may be higher than the amount of money it took to make this film. So, by making a film that loses money, he can write off his losses and pay fewer taxes.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
westsnoop 12/20/2021 10:06:26 AM (No. 1013076)
I really didn't find it woke. Audiences just don't want musicals.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
kennedylaw 12/20/2021 10:29:07 AM (No. 1013114)
When they show this movie in Spanish speaking countries, do they (1) dub the English dialogue with Spanish actors, (2) use Spanish subtitles, or (3) show the same version without dubbing or subtitles so that they do not give Spanish the power over the English? I am willing to bet that it is not #3.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
westsnoop 12/20/2021 10:40:42 AM (No. 1013135)
Seriously,this Karen complaining is nonsensical. How many WWII movies have you seen where the Nazis would speak German to each other without subtitles? The moments in Spielberg's West Side Story of the Puerto Rican's speaking Spanish to each other are brief, and if you have an IQ over room temperature you get the gist of what they are saying. One character even says "speak Engluish! We have to practice!"
Good grief this is an artistic choice that works.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
msjena 12/20/2021 10:46:19 AM (No. 1013143)
It's already scheduled to be on HBO Max in about a month. What was Spielberg thinking in not including subtitles for Spanish? The vast majority of Americans do not speak Spanish. Will he include English subtitles when it is released in Puerto Rico?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
msjena 12/20/2021 10:50:54 AM (No. 1013149)
#20, Spielberg said he didn't include subtitles because this is supposedly a bilingual country. He didn't say it was an "aristic choice." And for the record, I can't remember any movie I have seen where the foreign language part isn't subtitled. The Italian parts were subtitled in The Godfather. I doubt if the new West Side Story is more "artistic" than Coppola's masterpiece.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
TXknitter 12/20/2021 11:31:23 AM (No. 1013201)
I think MSM trying to make the excuse Americans just won’t go see a musical are wrong. Audiences absolutely would still go to a musical with the production quality, casting magic and gorgeous melodies of say, The Sound of Music. One retired Broadway producer was quoted on FNC saying the problem they way overestimated the popularity of West Side Story. I agree with him. He said sixty years later, families still watch The Sound of Music, The King and I, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma and a few others as a holiday tradition. He said he has never heard WSS put in that category with audiences.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Omen55 12/20/2021 4:00:34 PM (No. 1013506)
When you sacrifice creativity for woke you are gonna flop.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Goose 12/20/2021 9:48:38 PM (No. 1013755)
Subtitles? In Daryl Zanuck's "The Longest Day," the Germans spoke German with English subtitles; the French spoke French with Enlish subtitles. And it worked.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Faithfully 12/21/2021 8:58:16 PM (No. 1015008)
Just like Hollywood spoiled Lois Lane in Superman. Liberals destroy everything they touch.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Faithfully 12/21/2021 9:01:26 PM (No. 1015011)
Just like they ruined the character of Lois Lane. Liberals destroy every thing they touch.
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