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I was first introduced to the 음악 of West Side Story while attending 일 camp back in the summer of 1962, when I was entering the sixth grade. Another girl in the group that I was with had just received a copy of the LP soundtrack of the original Broadway musical stage production of West Side Story for her birthday and brought it in to play for us. West Side Story mania was in the air that summer, as the kids at camp went around 노래 all the songs in camp, on the buses to and from camp, and even walked around snapping their fingers in the hallways. I fell in 사랑 with the 음악 to WSS immediately.

Although West Side Story's popularity was at its height and it was still new and fresh through most of the 1960's, I did not get to see the movie West Side Story until around Christmastime of 1968, as a high school senior, at a now-defunct movie theatre roughly an 시간 north of the city that I reside in. I fell in 사랑 with it immediately. Since I was still a high school teenager when I first saw it, I was able to identify with the kids in the film being kids, but when I got older, although I still 사랑 this great classic, I looked at it differently. I now appreciate WSS even 더 많이 for its artistic beauty, the music, the very story behind it, and how much proof West Side Story is of how various emotions can be beautifully epressed in the form of dance.

Afew years later, I was in an evening jewelry-making course, when somebody who'd brought in a small black and white TV because West Side Story was on that night to watch it, managed to encourage the other class members to watch it also, which we all did. That summer, when I went on a six-week trip, someone in the group I was with had brought along a cassette tape of the soundtrack to the film version of West Side Story, which was played almost every evening, during free hours. My 사랑 for West Side Story, which I'd put on the back burner for afew years, had been re-ignited.

I longed for WSS to come back, and it came back on TV a couple of months later, just before Thanksgiving. Need I add that I've been in 사랑 with this great, golden oldie-but-goody keeper of a movie classic since?

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First read the following letter:

"I 게시됨 this on David Winters site.Scary is'nt it.
" Tom Ferrini
The film "WEST SIDE STORY" is in danger.

Posted on June 11, 2010 at 09:06:20 PM 의해 tcaesar

"I found out that film restorer Robert Harris has asked United Artists to restore "West Side Story".
The prints have deteriorated so much that we might not have any decent 70mm. prints left in a few years.
Harris who restored "Lawerence of Arabia,Spartacus and "My Fair Lady" and many others is worried about "West Side Story".
These 70 mm. films are in extreme danger because the negatives were not properly stored...
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This is a post that has been percolating in my mind for awhile, and, having experienced a certain amount of derision on some other boards for talking about West Side Story, because many people consider this movie mainly for adolescents. This could be because most people, when they pick a 가장 좋아하는 film 또는 films, tend to pick films that they directly identify with in some way 또는 other, and West Side Story is supposedly a movie that teens identify with. Having first seen the film West Side Story when I was still in high school, I can see why many people feel that way.

However, over the years,...
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Hey, folks:

Although I'm new on this forum, and am still testing the waters, I finally decided to answer this 질문 after checking it out afew times. Although this is kind of long, I decided that posting about why I 사랑 this great movie-musical classic so much was in order. Here goes:

West Side Story not only has a wonderful story behind it, but the cinematic technology, the dancing, the brilliant Bernstein musical score, and the talent that was brought to the film(except Richard Beymer, of course), all helped make West Side Story the wonderfully dynamic and great package that it really...
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West Side Story, for a number of reasons, is in a special class all 의해 itself, and those who said and who say that there'll never be another movie like WSS are right on their money.

A) The dancing, which was beautifully choreographed 의해 Jerome Robbins was absolutely magnificent, and expressed the various emotions in West Side Story fantastically. Some of it made me smile, some if it made me laugh out loud, some of WSS put me on the edge of my seat, and other parts made me tear up.

B) The intensely brilliant Leonard Bernstein musical score, as well as the richly-colored costumes and photography,...
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this is in my opinion is the best musicle of all time,i have seen it many times. i was a teenager when i first saw it in 1963.after leaving school in 1965 this film influnced my first employment,i stared work in the largest cinema in leeds (yorkshire uk) the majestic,now a night club.i became a trainee projectionist.at the time we were showing the sound of music,the director,robert wise also did west side story. i am going to see it 다음 월 at the bradford film fesival,it will be shown in it's original large sceen format with full stereo soundtack.i will be taking my gandaugter now 12 who will see it for the first time,i cant wait.
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