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Watched it last night and the sound improvement is the biggest uptick to me- the Newman orchestra sounds fantastic . The visuals look very good too but so did the DVD for it’s limited rez and the gain in more due to blue-ray’s resolution gain. Much better then the gain I viewed for 1776 that I...

This looks great and really adds to the viewing experience with all these beautiful costumes and sets and of course the watercolors used for the opening credits. So fine.

My favorite is Juanita Hall singing Chop Suey especially when the kids do the Cha-Cha-Cha and then the whole ensemble does a Hoe-Down!

Amazawn says tomorrow :(

No they just remake classic movies cause Natalie Wood and George Chakiris had them appalled for years with their casting in West Side Story. I personally have no problem w Marlon Brando or Mickey Rooney as Japanese no more than British actors playing MLK and Harriet Tubman or Jonathan Price and...

She is a gift sent from heaven.

I detest the new WSS wholeheartedly and would have preferred the ballet added than any of the new character expositions added which would have netted no time added. Especially the Jets buying the gun in the bar scene.

Correct- it refers to her appropriating Chinese manners and talking in Charlie Chan style dialect. But yes her makeup is giving me a “look” a la Rex Harrison in Anna and the King. But basically I was simply asking the reviewer who mentioned that there are Asians of non-Chinese decent whether...

She’s not Asian.

Sorry I meant of Asian decent. Per Wiki JS is American of Japanese decent . Do the special features mention Juanita Hall is a black American wearing yellow face appropriating Chinese?.

Marilyn Horne The greatest mezzo-soprano in my lifetime IMO Yes. She also did Carmen Jones. Did she dub for Porgy and Bess ?

I haven’t seen FDS in a while but is Juanita Hall the only non-Asian actor in the entire movie?

I love the Carousel ballet but find it jarring when it obviously switches to a naturalistic set that should be more abstract like Oklahoma’s or FDS’s rather than trying to look real . I wish it would have been filmed either on location like the rest of the movie or on a more dream-like set.

I love the ballets and feel they add to the story and give a much needed break to much of the corniness. The same reason I felt the original Somewhere stage ballet should have been added back to the recent remake of West Side Story that was supposedly trying to be more faithful to its source. It...