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I'll also add that films these days don't stay in the theatres for more than 6 months or so at the most. They end up on DVD and/or Blu-Ray.

Here's another thing, as well, Jake Lipson: Many, if not most of today's young actors and actresses, regardless of who they are (i. e. race, ethnicity, etc.) have not been unionized, are not well paid, and have had little, if any chance or time to really hone their craft. Much of what passes...

I never saw "Citizen Kane". I did, however, see Gone with the Wind on TV, 41 years ago, when my brother had to watch it on TV as a history assignment. Frankly, I found Gone with the Wind rather boring.

I might as well get used to it, eh? I've got news for you, Jake Lipson: If I don't like or approve of something, I've got every right to say so.

Bear in mind that there are white Latinos, as well.

I'll also add that I'm totally against a re-make of the 1961 film version of West Side Story....period, whether it's by Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, Joel Schumacher, or anybody else...period, which is what I've been trying to point out all along! What's there not to get?

The original 1961 film version of West Side Story will more than likely not be available to be shown in movie theatres at all, ever again, and I do not wish to be put in a position where I'll be forced to make a choice between watching my all time favorite film on DVD, Blue-Ray, or on TV at...

I had seen a number of stage productions of the original Broadway stage version of West Side Story that I liked a great deal (although not the Broadway stage production with Larry Kart and Carol Lawrence in it.), before the more up-to-date Broadway stage revival of West Side Story came out...

Tony Kushner's writing a new script for the upcoming West Side Story re-make. That fact, alone, indicates that the re-make of the 1961 film West Side Story is going to be rendered into something much more up to date.

Pretty much every time they've made, or re-made movies whose stories are set during a much, much earlier period, it hasn't worked out, really. Ever heard of the movie "Billy Jack"? It was set during the late-1960's, during the hippie-flower-child era, and it really didn't work out that great.

So what if Natalie Wood was a white woman? That, to me, doesn't matter.

I hear what's being said...perfectly, but I just don't agree, that's all.

I feel that I'm just as entitled to express my own opinion as anybody else on this forum, despite the fact that I have a different viewpoint. That's all I'm saying.

I hear everything else that's being said on here, but I'm much more pessimistic, and have more doubt that a re-make of the film West Side Story, by anyone, including Spielberg, would really work. Look how the re-makes of Psycho and Planet of the Apes turned out, for example. Not well, and they...

Who's to say that there'd be only a mere six people in the audience if any movie theatre(s) showed a really pristine restoration of the original 1961 film West Side Story?

I meant that good, decently made Blu-Ray DVD players are often prohibitively expensive, cheaper ones are more likely to break down, and Blu-Ray DVD's don't work if one attempts to play them on regular DVD players.

What I don't like is the possibility of the original 1961 film West Side Story never being available for showing again, except on TV, or on Blu-RAy DVD, or anything like that. A good, decent Blu-Ray DVD can be extremely expensive, and Blu-Ray DVD's themselves don't work if one attempts to play...

Another thing that bothers me is the fact that I'm clearly not open-minded enough for you guys, just simply because I've got my own opinion and didn't hesitate to disclose it.

Rudy Del Campo, who also starred as the Shark gang member, Del Campo, was also of Latin heritage.

I just look for screenings of the film West Side Story that are either being screened in a movie theater in a neighboring state, or even at the opposite end of the state in which I reside.

Here's another point, Worth: It would be way too much to ask of today's Hollywood, or anybody affiliated with Hollywood these days to re-make a film that came out so long ago and still set the story back in that particular time, if one gets the drift. It would come off as much more...

I'll also add this, Jake Lipson: I've even made special road trips to the opposite end of the Bay State, as well as to neighboring states specially to view screenings of the original 1961 film West Side Story. As long as they're within reasonable driving distance from where I live, it's okay...

To each their own, but I personally do not see anything so great about subverting the integrity of the original film, especially if it's something like West Side Story. That is another thing that really bothers me no end about doing a re-make of such a great, golden oldie-but-keeper of a...

Film and live theatre on stage are very different mediums. If I'm a significant minority around here due to my not being into home theatres/ and Blue-Ray, etc., it doesn't bother me. To be truthful, I'm I have a different approach/opinion on this matter. I'm used to sticking out like a...

The thing that I worry about is the possibility that the original 1961 film version of West Side Story will go down into the dustbin of history, never to be available to be shown in movie theatres again, and that would bother me a great deal. I'm just being honest, here. I have resisted...

Anybody who wishes to have a home theatre system has the right to do so. Because I reside in a city that's rather close to the movie theatres that I like to patronize on a fairly regular basis, it's a lot easier for me to go to a movie theatre. If I lived out in the suburbs or the boonies...

My options are not against Steven Spielberg per se, especially since he's done some really awesome films. I'm strongly against a re-make of the film West Side Story....period, regardless of who's at the helm..

Part of real story of West Side Story is that Maria, the sister of the Shark gang leader, Bernardo, and Tony, a white ex-Jet gang leader of Polish heritage, met and fell in love at a big dance that was held at a local gym, while Anita, who was Bernardo's girlfriend and Maria's closest friend...

I agree with you 100%, PMF. I'd also prefer to see the original 1961 film version of West Side Story undergo a real primo restoration, and to get a huge national re-release of this restored, remastered version of the original 1961 film version of West Side Story into movie theatres, both big...

As I did point out earlier, quite afew of the people who played the Sharks did have Spanish last names.