Steven Spielberg has been itching to make a musical for pretty much his entire career. It was (mostly) worth the wait. Read BilgeEbiri's review of WestSideStory
Ariana DeBose in West Side Story. Photo: 20th Century Studios You don’t need to know before going into West Side Story that Steven Spielberg has been itching to make a musical for pretty much his entire career. You can feel it in the film’s opening sequence, in the glee with which he follows the white gang of the Jets as its members emerge from beneath a pile of rubble and snap and strut their way down a bustling 1950s Upper West Side street.
Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner are also unafraid to tamper with the narrative, in ways that might at first seem subtle but turn out to be profound. Don’t worry , this is still West Side Story: The tale of star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria , he formerly of the Jets and she the sister of Bernardo , leader of the Sharks, the local Puerto Rican gang.
All that new context is important, but what really makes the movie is the exuberant kineticism of its musical set pieces, particularly the big, crowded ones. The dance-off at the gym, in which the Jets and the Sharks and their respective dates face off against one another, is a kaleidoscope of movement, contrasting the sensuous moves of the Sharks against the more aggressive, athletic Jets, the camera spinning and careening among them.
Such changes also feel necessary for another reason. Because just as we’ve always suspected that Spielberg would be in his element helming a proper musical, it’s also been clear over the years that he’s all thumbs when it comes to romance. So, he and Kushner judiciously shift focus away from the young lovers to the ruins among which their love blossoms. It would not be fair, however, to say that they don’t even try for romance; this is, after all, still a riff on Romeo and Juliet.
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