Everything Wrong With West Side Story (1961) In 20 Minutes Or Less

[@CinemaSins]

Outtakes are here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hH3QhoSBd9udf7s

[@jade2708]

Sin the movie guns Akimbo pplllzzz

[@anthonyramos588]

please do everything wrong with F9: The Fast Saga!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@air03man]

Brought to you by "west side story 2021" in theaters this Friday

[@trailertrailerswithchuckan9021]

@@jade2708 great movie

[@nomdeplume7537]

In his mind, and at the speed of light ... He's pronoun and name swapping. Gay men get pathologically good at this before we come out. Mario ... becomes Maria. Without the slightest whiff of hesitation, and be convincing. I could do that shit on the fly, and not miss a beat.

[@brentage5000]

In fairness to the film, if a dozen guys came up to me and didn't speak but only snapped their fingers in unison, I would be kinda freaked out before sinning them for exhibiting cult-like behavior

[@sloth4you]

Agreed!!!

[@coralrose5754]

I’d be terrified by the in synch snapping 💀

[@dierdreturner7423]

I actually choked on my drink I laughed so hard at this...bwhaaaaa

[@pookiebear4444]

Now they use jazz hands because other comrades might have sensory sensitivity or other WOKE nPC problems.

[@pookiebear4444]

"Point of personal privilege, please don't use ughck..ugh gendered language" (Followed by labored breathing)

[@warriorpoet8086]

Tony runs through Spanish Harlem yelling "Maria" and ONE girl comes to the window? Add 30 sins for all the Maria's that didn't hear her name being called...

[@75aces97]

I think you win this discussion.

[@BTScriviner]

"That's racist" 😉🤣

[@Ellerwind]

@@BTScriviner 👍🏻 and 😂

[@madisongaliardo5747]

they made a little joke about this in the new one that just came out, a young girl and an older woman look out the windows first lol

[@dilcampos9700]

🤣🤣

[@lilhammer3991]

"Sometimes sins just literally write themselves." Yes. Yes they do

[@CosmicCreeper99]

WHY IS YOUR COMMENT EDITED FROM 13 HOURS AGO WHEN THE VIDEO JUST CAME OUT?!?!?!?!

[@zundersaftdgp433]

The video is out for 19 seconds for me and I see a 13 hour old comment....what the actual fuck

[@dopesmoke777]

@@CosmicCreeper99 i think that's their user lmaoo

[@dopesmoke777]

Wait what i dont think it is help

[@Jeppelelle]

@@CosmicCreeper99 Your mom just came out

[@valmarsiglia]

Rita Moreno has an anecdote about the brown makeup for the "Puerto Ricans": one day, as the makeup artist was browning her up for the day's shoot, she tried to explain to him that Puerto Ricans could be any color, just like Americans, and he said "What are you, a racist?" She said she was too flabbergasted to be able to answer. Ironically, moreno in Spanish means "dark" and is a common slang term for black people.

[@lexmc8419]

I was shocked when my mother was living in Spain and they couldn’t understand that my mother is bi-racial looks like a fair Latina but me and my kids are black so they asked her in Spanish ‘your daughter is negro?’ I nearly kicked off til my mum said no he means black, that’s the Spanish for black.

[@valmarsiglia]

@@lexmc8419 Yeah, plus there's really no equivalent of PC culture in the Spanish-speaking world, so in Spain you'll still hear some people refer to black people as "moros" (Moors). Plus, the traditional name for white rice and black beans is "moros y cristianos" (Moors and Christians). Literally medieval, lol.

[@13wilsonh]

My coworker was born and raised in Puerto Rico and is paler than me. The makeup is ridiculous 🙄

[@sukiosartchannel3689]

Moreno means tanned, as in a tanned male, morena would be a tanned female, it doesn’t mean dark at all.

[@valmarsiglia]

@@sukiosartchannel3689 Bronceado/a means tanned. ¿O piensa que "azúcar moreno" quiere decir "tanned sugar"? Yo toda la vida (53 años) he oído la palabra moreno/a usada para referirse a gente negra, por lo menos en Centroamérica.

[@jongon0848]

Biggest sin of this film. Making Rita Moreno, an ACTUAL Puerto Rican woman wear brown makeup to make her "look Puerto Rican"

[@Gl-my8fw]

Not that it matters

[@GeorgiaDLee]

@@Gl-my8fw It matters

[@Gl-my8fw]

@@GeorgiaDLee nope.....especially at the time

[@jongon0848]

@@Gl-my8fw u sound like the make up department who applied the brown face

[@Gl-my8fw]

@@jongon0848 keep pretending it is a real problem. You are probably the type of idiot that had a problem with Scarlett Johansson doing ghost in the shell but is fine with white characters being race swapped.

[@thedeepfriar745]

Oh Stephen Sondheim, Rest In Peace, you wrote some of the most difficult music ever produced on Broadway and these lyrics are no exception.

[@sdfkjgh]

"Where did you write the pauses for us singers to take a breath?" "Oh, sorry, I didn't."

[@thedeepfriar745]

@@sdfkjgh look I never said his songs weren’t a complete bitch to sing but damn if they aren’t amazing

[@holly9096]

"git gud" - Stephen Sondheim, his last words before he died 2021

[@roguishpaladin]

@@holly9096 I know your comment was a joke, but have you seen this (in regards to Sondheim and the difficulty in leaning it)? kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4ObYaSfjcyAq7M

[@sarafstop32]

Except that they changed some of Sondheim's lyrics to make it past the censors. And it wasn't for the better!

[@Harv72b]

8:15 The Possums had convinced both the Jets and the Sharks that they were already dead.

[@isabellascott2512]

Underrated comment. 😂

[@phredphlintstone6455]

Omni flunkus moratati

[@melissaj1927]

Well done, sir.

[@Greentrees60]

Brilliant

[@Maestrohbill]

The possums were known both for playing dead at home but getting killed on the road.

[@nslouka90]

Not sure why having an Intermission was a sin, it was really common back then for a movie to pause halfway through so people could take a break, go to the bathroom and get more snacks. Something that should really be brought back, probably help save theaters.

[@martinsorenson1055]

Because they're desperate.

[@surfingbrrrd]

More like it was there so they could get more alcohol and have a smoke break since it was the 50's/60's lmao

[@martinsorenson1055]

@@surfingbrrrd I meant that CinemaSins was desperate for a sin...LOL

[@not-so-happypappypatton]

honestly! I missed “America” in the 2021 version because I had to use the bathroom and I was at the last door in the theater 😭

[@Greentealiesel]

Its especially ironic because I just saw the new movie and it had an intermission too 😭

[@priscillajimenez27]

As a Hispanic I found it amusing and interesting how they got actors to play PR characters aside from Rita and a few others. It was a small step to more main characters of other ethnic groups with more character dimension that opened for more ethnic talent to come to the floor later on, especially with more films having characters of those groups.

[@motherplayer]

Indeed. People want to give that crap understandably, but I respect that trying to put a little more character to it was already showing the future for better representation in time in a small way. And now here we are in 2021 with a take that's gonna have more of an appropriately casted take. Best wishes on it too, it seems like the most passionate thing Spielberg has wanted to work on in awhile.

[@jamesinzeo7726]

I’m a Puerto Rican from a largely Puerto Rican family. I don’t know anyone in my Puerto Rican family who doesn’t respect this movie as a classic. 🇵🇷❤️

[@katemaloney4296]

Actually, Puerto Ricans are considered white.

[@jamesinzeo7726]

@@katemaloney4296 Except when we're not. Some of us are blonde and some of us are Black but, how others see us and how we see ourselves is not without its complexities. I am lighter than my grandmother but darker than my father but we've all been identified as "other" by people who call themselves"White." But I'm more interested in who my father and grandmother are than whether I count as White.

[@jamesinzeo7726]

@Room 315 I don’t disagree with you. I wish I could but recognize the internal problem within the Latino community.

[@pookabunny2051]

How were there zero sins removed for the effortlessness of the guy at 3:48 grabbing that bar lifting his entire body weight, holding it up for a pause WHILE SINGING then swinging both legs together over a narrow bar to sit and balance. Chef's kiss.

[@TheBlueArmageddon]

"Everything Wrong With West Side Story (1961) In..." Ok then, keep your secrets

[@samslasher9927]

@MAVONA$💋 what the fuck

[@LucyAdroit]

LOL, I was so confused there

[@Yuna-sz3cl]

Best-PartnerⓈⒺⓍⓈ🔞------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------💜 Aishite.Tokyo/Tatsuhisha?Heavy-Sex 💋 I will accompany, and make you happy💋🥰 #ライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！#この日のライブ配信は、#かならりやばかったですね！１#万人を超える人が見ていたもんね（笑）#やっぱり人参最高！#まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした！#今後は気を付けないとね5). . !💖🖤❤#今後は気をライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！#この日のライブ配信は、#１万人を超える人が見ていたも ん（#笑）#やっぱり人参最高！#まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした #今後は気をライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！（ #笑）#垃圾

[@samslasher9927]

@@Yuna-sz3cl No

[@IamaPERSON]

@@samslasher9927 it's a bot, report it's profile pic

[@trinaq]

Growing up watching this movie, I always wanted to be Anita, the Sassy, no nonsense girlfriend of Bernardo. Rita Moreno is an absolute legend, and is one of the only people to have an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony to her name!

[@Kentrc11]

So, you're over 50 years old. Interesting.

[@Yuna-sz3cl]

Best-PartnerⓈⒺⓍⓈ🔞------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------💜 Aishite.Tokyo/Tatsuhisha?Heavy-Sex 💋 I will accompany, and make you happy💋🥰 #ライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！#この日のライブ配信は、#かならりやばかったですね！１#万人を超える人が見ていたもんね（笑）#やっぱり人参最高！#まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした！#今後は気を付けないとね5). . !💖🖤❤#今後は気をライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！#この日のライブ配信は、#１万人を超える人が見ていたも ん（#笑）#やっぱり人参最高！#まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした #今後は気をライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！（ #笑）#垃圾

[@CosmicCreeper99]

@@Kentrc11 *And the news are in, apparently some idiot on KZbin believes that people who weren’t born in the generation a movie came out in can watch that at a young age. It’s not as if you could just watch old movies at home using, say, DVD’s or tapes, you always had to watch it in the cinema, when it came out! Because that’s how life works!* And even if she is 50 years old, so what?

[@Kentrc11]

@@CosmicCreeper99 lol Where in my reply did I say there's a problem with being over 50? Tell everyone I triggered you without saying I triggered you.

[@sonoisrael4660]

@@Kentrc11 Very Triggered lol

[@stefansamoyloff3866]

"double negatives can lead to confusion and the leader of a gang should know better" Been watching you for like 1000 years at this point, easily the most brilliant and subtle topical sin yet. Hats off to you my man.

[@Ashtar94]

I'm surprised that nobody has pointed out that it was technically a TRIPLE negative.

[@TheShoe1990]

'Tony carrying coke' was literally the plot of Scarface.

[@quoteonquoteclub9711]

Holy shit you’re right

[@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460]

👀 I see what you did there! 🤣😂🤣

[@alexanderthegreat5649]

@Mario Well both

[@MyFairOne]

oh my gosh! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@chartreux1532]

When i was in High School here in Southern Bavaria, Germany (don't sin that, you'd be surprised how many people online don't know where Bavaria is) we watched this Movie (This was in the late 1990s) and we had to learn singing all the Songs (each Group had to sing one Song) in order to learn english And as much as i hate this Movie because we watched it often & learned the Songs, i'm still glad we did because this helped our english 10x more than normal english class would This is also why i always tell people who want to learn german or french etc. to not just use Duolingo & Textbooks but to spend most of their time watching German or French Movies/TV Series with english subtitles. This is pretty much how the majority of us over here learned most of our english: The Internet/Talking to People + watching english language Movies and TV Series with subtitles & after a while watching it with english subtitles. TL;DR: If you want to learn a language with more fun and easier, watch TV-Series and Movies from that Language & have fun while doing so Prost & Cheers from the Berchtesgadener Land in the Bavarian Alps

[@reginab.a6318]

small detail but i love how you capitalized every noun. geman through and through indeed

[@chartreux1532]

@@reginab.a6318 Haha, that is very true. It's hard to get rid off for me and it feels wrong whenever i try to write a noun starting with a small letter

[@kieranhair7892]

My high school German class had us watch musicals and Die Prinzen videos. So I guess this is an internationally appreciated teaching method.

[@jamesbednar8625]

spent 3 years in Bavaria (Nurnberg area) during 1980s. Beautiful!!! Miss it greatly.

[@atlasking6110]

I have a friend born and raised in Berlin, came to the USA for college and never left, became a citizen. He speaks absolutely flawless English. Ask him how and he says "I learned English from movies, like everybody in Germany. We take it in school but we really learn it properly from the movies."

[@RaphaST]

No, but, believe me, Romeo killing Tybalt in the play also doesn't make sense, knowing that 2 minutes prior, he's literally calling Tybalt his kin in all but blood. ALSO, in the play, Romeo is waaaaay more guilty of Mercutio dying than Tony here - literally, Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo's arm, because that dumbass steps in between them and keeps Mercutio from evading and Tybalt from aiming right - because actually, neither Tybalt nor Mercutio wanted to really kill each other, just have a brawl as usual, and god damn f*cking imbecile Romeo had to get involved and ruin everything for everyone. Ahem. Sorry. What were we talking about ?

[@patriciomejia1114]

Teenage hormones and stupidity at their finest, am I right?

[@theenchantedceiling]

THANK YOU! friggin Romeo...

[@deborahblackvideoediting8697]

Loved your comment. Very true and very funny!

[@Luanna801]

I think in both cases, it's not exactly a surprise that a teenage boy watching his best friend get stabbed to death right in front of him would (a) not be making very rational decisions in the immediate aftermath, and (b) be in a radically different mental and emotional place than he was BEFORE that happened. It's kind of hard to understate what a game-changer that would be. "Neither Tybalt nor Mercutio really wanted to kill each other" also very much depends on the choices a particular production makes. I have certainly seen it played that way, and I do think it's an interpretation that works, but nothing in the original text makes that clear, especially for Tybalt who goes around talking about how much he wants to kill Montagues and anyone Montague-adjacent basically the entire play. it could be a bunch of talk he doesn't actually mean, but it's also a fully possible interpretation that he means it 100%. We know that plenty of people have killed each other in the feud before, after all.

[@karolinakuc4783]

​@@Luanna801 Tybalr is rather a serious man. He is basicly antithesis of Mercutio. It could be as well that he meant it all the time

[@sabrinaschell4938]

I'm disappointed in you for missing the sin that everyone has been laughing at for 50 years: Tony runs down the street in a Puerto Rican neighborhood screaming "Maria!" and only one woman comes to the window.

[@tskmaster3837]

RIP Mr. Sondheim, you were a legend among legends.

[@trinaq]

Indeed, he'll be forever missed. 😇

[@MaCabaret]

“This is just like Romeo and Juliet” yes it is that’s literally what it is. A then-modern musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.

[@LadyGreenleaf888]

lol, was about to comment that. glad you did.

[@itsMrNoble]

You’re a then-modern musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, mate, if anyone is…

[@cicalinarrot]

...and that's why he said “This is, just like Romeo and Juliet, ....” and not “This is just like Romeo and Juliet”. How do I know that? There's freakin' subtitles in the video. If you take the commas out and don't complete the sentence, it has a completely different meaning. He just wanted to say that this movie, just like the masterpiece that obviously inspired it which is maybe the best known love-story ever, is based on this hormones-driven teenage crush which can hardly be called "love". It's pretty ridicuolous to believe that someone who watched the movie didn't know it was inspired by Romeo and Juliet, it's even more ridicuolous to think that of a team of cinephiles who made a 20 minutes video about the movie.

[@JoeOvercoat]

@@cicalinarrot Spoiler: it’s old news that this movie is a modern adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.

[@cicalinarrot]

@@JoeOvercoat yup, that’s what I meant.

[@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460]

One of the greatest jokes I ever heard about this beloved movie was said by some comedian almost 40 years ago when I was in high school. He looked like a skinny Cedric the Entertainer 😂. Anyhoo, the comedian said his problem with West Side Story wasn't the dancing, singing or anything like that. It was that it was *unrealistic. "They want me to believe that a dude walked through Spanish Harlem at NIGHT and yelled out 'MARIA!!' but only ONE girl answered?!!!"* 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 I never forgot that. It still cracks me up!

[@brinstarmedia1411]

See a heavily armed gang walking up the sidewalk: Turn and walk away See a gang dancing and singing in the streets: Freaking run away quickly!!

[@Yuna-sz3cl]

Best-PartnerⓈⒺⓍⓈ🔞------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------💜 Aishite.Tokyo/Tatsuhisha?Heavy-Sex 💋 I will accompany, and make you happy💋🥰 #ライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！#この日のライブ配信は、#かならりやばかったですね！１#万人を超える人が見ていたもんね（笑）#やっぱり人参最高！#まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした！#今後は気を付けないとね5). . !💖🖤❤#今後は気をライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！#この日のライブ配信は、#１万人を超える人が見ていたも ん（#笑）#やっぱり人参最高！#まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした #今後は気をライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！（ #笑）#垃圾

[@alm2187]

Served! Served! Served! 🤣

[@mechanicaldavid4827]

What if they're a Mime gang and you don't hear them until it's too late?

[@93ericvon]

I feel compelled to sin this video for saying that "Cool" is the worst number in the film by far. The instrumental dance break freaking slaps and makes it easily one of the best.

[@martinsorenson1055]

I haven't watched the video yet - but now I am wondering if I should even bother. I thought it might be amusing... but I am getting the feeling it's just lame.

[@drakashrakenburgproduction5369]

@maxwesty Nah it's cringe.

[@HarleyWithJoker]

Bro don’t lie to yourself, the song is not the good 😑

[@HarleyWithJoker]

Compared to everything else

[@jayhayessoundfellas6536]

Cool is so good! A boy like that is the weakest one

[@kadentamblyn7879]

Fun fact: I’m related to the actor who plays Riff, Russ Tamblyn. He’s my great uncle.

[@TheTrueDuchess]

Oh, that's so cool!! I loved him in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers!

[@maggiea8488]

That's awesome, I love him!

[@phredphlintstone6455]

Great uncle or great, uncle?

[@kadentamblyn7879]

@@phredphlintstone6455 my dad’s uncle. So, he’s my gruncle.

[@johnharris6655]

So is Amber your Cousin?

[@shelbymclendon4009]

I’ve been waiting for this one. Jeremy did it justice, especially with the dark makeup sin. Chef’s kiss.

[@NthDoctorWho]

"You didn't see Vito Corleone or Tony Soprano busting out into a dance number when they were about to meet with the other four families did you?" Well no, but now I WANT to see that, dammit.

[@mtoni93]

Lmao yes!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂

[@Yuna-sz3cl]

Best-PartnerⓈⒺⓍⓈ🔞------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------💜 Aishite.Tokyo/Tatsuhisha?Heavy-Sex 💋 I will accompany, and make you happy💋🥰 #ライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！#この日のライブ配信は、#かならりやばかったですね！１#万人を超える人が見ていたもんね（笑）#やっぱり人参最高！#まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした！#今後は気を付けないとね5). . !💖🖤❤#今後は気をライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！#この日のライブ配信は、#１万人を超える人が見ていたも ん（#笑）#やっぱり人参最高！#まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした #今後は気をライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！（ #笑）#垃圾

[@WillWilsonII]

then Clemenza could do a Rerun dance

[@RonnieBarzel]

"How do you solve a problem like Solazzo? / How do you take a mobster and put him down?"

[@JohnGalt916]

I am firm in the belief that Romeo and Juliette isn't a love story but a satire on how stupid young love is.

[@MisaelMatute76]

To be fair it was a story that took place when people would die young, hense they would get married as teenagers...

[@RescueGoat]

Well, it starts out with Romeo pining for Rosalind and moping around until he meets Juliet. At least that part reads like a clear jab at teenage drama already.

[@MisaelMatute76]

@@RescueGoat Well he was a teenager... I think like 13 or 14 🤔

[@Tolivian]

@@MisaelMatute76 Romeo was 16, Juliet was 13/14.

[@zarquondam]

No reason it can't be both. Shakespeare is capable of operating at more than one level.

[@Shemps1007]

I freaking love that they mentioned the fact that Bernardo was the middle guy in white Christmas

[@FuzzyStripetail]

Sure, Tony might have popped off his one soda crate carrying down at a time soda pop when he first saw Maria, but I think the suddenly superimposed upon the movie "Commercial Sins" logo had a better shot at stopping those rival gangs from constantly fighting than the recently shot Tony.

[@quiedajoseph6270]

A moment of silence for every single person who has ever been in a production of West Side Story. From having to learn ALL those dance moves, asking yourself if you'll be a Jet or Shark, the crazy lingo and lyrics, the death, racism, sexism. Even if you were just in the booth or pit hats off to you too. This is NOT an easy musical to pull off especially if you're not a professional. I'm looking at you high schoolers.

[@JaYxNuT]

"Spent less time together than Padme and her twins." I can just now breathe again after 20mins of laughing!

[@eddthehead123]

"1960s movie doesn't hold up to 2020s cultural standards" Well.....yea. 1100s medical practice doesn't hold up either. That is why we stop doing it.

[@Helloworld-ss5uv]

Snapping fingers has nothing on the best gang intimidation tactic in movie history; which is the glass bottles on fingers clinking from 1979’s “The Warriors”. Oh, and one simply cannot forget to creepily/maniacally say “WARRIORS, COME OUT TO PLAYYYYYYYYY!” while clinking said bottles. (Though I have to say, the first time I saw the glass bottles scene in “The Warriors”, instead of being scared for the protagonists and worried which side would win, I laughed my butt off instead)

[@FrenchToastedSouls]

whats even better is the glass bottle clinking was ad libbed by the actor. his script just said call out to Warriors. that delivery is all him and god i love how god damn unhinged it is

[@kieranhair7892]

I don't know why you're comparing these two scenes when you could be out there writing a Warriors musical and giving us both at the same time.

[@Helloworld-ss5uv]

@@kieranhair7892 I’d pay good money to see “Warriors” turned into a musical, just one that doesn’t have flashy show tunes. I feel like the general musical feel would ruin the overall rough and gritty nature of the movie

[@kalinodaquiri]

I was hoping to see this comment LMFAO.

[@roguishpaladin]

@@Helloworld-ss5uv Don't let flashy show tunes distract you from the grittiness of some shows. Cabaret is an excellent example of this (and, importantly, allowing the follies to distract oneself from the rise of evil is a main theme of the show).

[@stephaniehudson7370]

“Cool” is one of the best numbers in musical theater (movie) history! How dare you sin this number, Sir, how dare you?!

[@ilikecurry2345]

People have opinions.

[@jlev1028]

@@ilikecurry2345 Yeah, stupid ones. Jeremy's often has terrible takes when it comes to musical numbers.

[@karengodbold3620]

Yes I agree and my Opinion - Cool was one of the Best songs and Dancing screens in the 1961 movie version.

[@greenmovie13]

I think the only reason he said it is solely that it lasted so long. The song didn’t have to last that long just to have em lay off the juice and keep it cool, even though it’s a great song

[@lindabell8222]

I remember when this movie first came out. My cousins and I went to see it. We sat through it for 4 times. Good movie I had to be 11yrs old good movie

[@apollolux]

"Why did they paint this wrought iron?" They do it regardless of which side of a building the rails and steps are on, and regardless of whether they're wrought iron or some other metal. Source: I live in NYC and my building's wrought iron fire escape rails and stairs are painted with almost that same mid-light brown.

[@foreverinafantasy]

Isn't that to prevent rust?

[@apollolux]

@@foreverinafantasy Preventing rust is one of the reasons they do it, yes.

[@ayabeth5176]

Me "How dare you make a sin video of the best musical ever!!!!" Also me "He's soooo right and funny🤣🤣🤣"

[@Yuna-sz3cl]

Best-PartnerⓈⒺⓍⓈ🔞------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------💜 Aishite.Tokyo/Tatsuhisha?Heavy-Sex 💋 I will accompany, and make you happy💋🥰 #ライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！#この日のライブ配信は、#かならりやばかったですね！１#万人を超える人が見ていたもんね（笑）#やっぱり人参最高！#まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした！#今後は気を付けないとね5). . !💖🖤❤#今後は気をライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！#この日のライブ配信は、#１万人を超える人が見ていたも ん（#笑）#やっぱり人参最高！#まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした #今後は気をライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！（ #笑）#垃圾

[@notusingmyname4791]

no movie is without sin... it's cinemasins version of rule 42... no exceptions!

[@fairyhaven13]

Not to start a fight but... have you seen many musicals?

[@ayabeth5176]

@@fairyhaven13 not a lot, just the major ones. Any recommendations?

[@fairyhaven13]

@@ayabeth5176 The Music Man is cute and catchy. Six is more concert-y but still good. Beetlejuice is much better as a musical than the movie. Seven Wives For Seven Sons is hilarious.

[@JoshuaDHSW]

I forgot that part in this movie, where Tony convinces the gangs to lessen the rumble to a one on one fist brawl. I love that, because then Maria’s naïveté is what ends up killing Riff and her brother, wanting to stop the fight entirely instead of being happy that it’s only a small brawl and going from there. It makes it more tragic that their naïveté and compassion is what dooms them

[@AlexSeverinski]

3:11 You're right. It doesn't settle who's the champion. It settles who faces the champion at WrestleMania...except the two times it actually did settle who the champion was...and the time where there was a controversy who won and it turned into a fatal four way.

[@Yuna-sz3cl]

Best-PartnerⓈⒺⓍⓈ🔞------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------💜 Aishite.Tokyo/Tatsuhisha?Heavy-Sex 💋 I will accompany, and make you happy💋🥰 #ライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！#この日のライブ配信は、#かならりやばかったですね！１#万人を超える人が見ていたもんね（笑）#やっぱり人参最高！#まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした！#今後は気を付けないとね5). . !💖🖤❤#今後は気をライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！#この日のライブ配信は、#１万人を超える人が見ていたも ん（#笑）#やっぱり人参最高！#まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした #今後は気をライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！（ #笑）#垃圾

[@gentblue]

NERD!!!!!

[@Glicksman1]

You guys and gals have big balls to sin West Side Story, perhaps the greatest musical in history. But you are, however, correct. One major problem, worth 20 sins or more is that no one at any time tells/reminds the enraged, bereaved Anita that, 1. Bernado was the leader of a violent street gang that likes to rumble, 2. that he agreed to a rumble with the Jets, 3. that he went to the rumble which was agreed to be an unarmed fight, 4. that he went to the rumble with his switchblade in his pocket (reasonable contingency, sure, but not an innocent, blameless thing), 5. that when he got punched in the nose by Riff, not an unfair or unexpected thing at a rumble, he didn't punch Riff back but instead unhesitatingly and immediately pulled his knife and brandished it, staring the knife fight with Riff, 6. killed Riff with the knife and was then and only then killed by Tony in a rage.

[@pamelamays4186]

How about ten sins off for the EGOT legend Rita Moreno, one of the few cast members who's actually Puerto Rican?

[@heitzd1]

Making a pool joke when the woman's death was a mysterious drowning **DING**

[@johnharris6655]

When my daughter's student theater company did this, all of the parents laughed about the Sharks being the whitest Puerto Ricans ever.

[@trinaq]

It took me WAY too long to figure out that this was a modern retelling of "Romeo and Juliet." Jets =Montagues, Sharks = Capulets

[@brentage5000]

See also: Warm Bodies. Zombies are Montagues, R is Romeo, Julie is Juliet, and so on. There's even a balcony scene

[@SmokeyRoseWolf]

That’s how it’s always been advertised lol “A modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet in New York City.”

[@notusingmyname4791]

@@brentage5000 Underworld (the first one) is also a Romeo and Juliet

[@Yuna-sz3cl]

Best-PartnerⓈⒺⓍⓈ🔞------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------💜 Aishite.Tokyo/Tatsuhisha?Heavy-Sex 💋 I will accompany, and make you happy💋🥰 #ライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！#この日のライブ配信は、#かならりやばかったですね！１#万人を超える人が見ていたもんね（笑）#やっぱり人参最高！#まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした！#今後は気を付けないとね5). . !💖🖤❤#今後は気をライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！#この日のライブ配信は、#１万人を超える人が見ていたも ん（#笑）#やっぱり人参最高！#まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした #今後は気をライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！（ #笑）#垃圾

[@priscillajimenez27]

Bruh

[@carlrood4457]

It's interesting that in the original play, the Jets sing "Cool" BEFORE the meeting with the Sharks, not "Officer Krupke". It actually WAS about preparing for the meeting. Riff was admonishing them to be cool and don't screw up the meeting.

[@johnwatson3948]

Just keeps reminding me of the 2013 SNL skit that made fun of West Side Story: “Cobras & Panthers” - where some of the gang burst into song and the leader is like “what the hell was that?”.

[@LeahBouley]

As one one who loves west side story but acknowledges how predatory it is against those who aren’t white Americans is a bit much but it does give us a good eye on how things used to be and still are sadly in some places, love that you covered this movie..wish cancel culture wasn’t so terrible sometimes this movie has so many learning points about how people used to think and a good way to tell people why prejudice against those of a different ethnic background and race is bad for everyone

[@monmothma3358]

Yeah, I mean.. The movie is literally about racism, about how wrong it is, and although the actors' ethnicity was often wrong, at least they put spotlight on an ethnic minority and portrayed the members as real people, instead of exotic stereotypes, which wasn't common in 1961 at all. In no way should it be cancelled, and I don't agree that it's predatory.

[@georgeorbinks8320]

How is the musical predatory, it doesn't actually demonize anyone except for the cops.

[@CrowTRobot-ni7zu]

I rewatched this last week, and had the same thought you did, how the HELL did Chino get Tony with ONE SHOT and not also hit Maria?!

[@gentblue]

Chino used Dum-Dum bullets? Chino was like Deadshot!

[@consubandon]

I can wish for Stephen Sondheim to rest in peace as much as the next fanboy, but let's not forget that Sondheim wasn't eager to do this project (because it meant using somebody else's music) and, in retrospect, he famously shit on a number of his own lyrical choices in this musical. For me, the takeaway from West Side Story isn't that Sondheim was infallible; it's that even in a project like this, which he judged as "meh" compared to the work he was more proud of, he's STILL effing amazing! If this is all you've heard of Sondheim, think how much you're missing!

[@martinsorenson1055]

When they "updated" some of the lyrics for the recent Broadway version, Sondheim told them to have at it. I think he mentioned some of the lyrics in "I Feel Pretty" were not his best. I can't help but think it had to be "Keep away from her/ Send for Chino/ This is not the Ma/Ria we know.

[@RetroBuck]

Dude, 'Cool' may have some very odd lyrics, but the choreography in that number is pretty amazing.

[@sophieviseholman1999]

"They have spent less time together than Padme and her twins" 💀

[@robbruce2128]

Can we assume that the gangs' dubbed rhythmic snaps were performed by an uncredited Marni Nixon?

[@davidjcheney]

Only true fans understand this reference...

[@gloriadiaz6400]

HAHA! I see what you did!!!

[@nighteyes5683]

Cinemasins: "I don't want to be an asshole, but..." Me: I don't believe you.

[@johnharris6655]

"Hey I just want to beat up some Puerto Ricans." "Not without 2 years of tap and 3 years of Jazz." Family Guy when Peter joins the Jets.

[@eph2vv89only1way]

“I never got nothin’ from nobody” is actually a triple negative. I sin you for calling it a double negative

[@majdaccount4536]

The best videos to fall asleep to, then rewatch when you're up. Jeez I love your channels

[@spaceman081447]

When the actors were rehearsing the almost-rape scene in the candy store, their feeling was, "Oh, no! The audience is gonna hate us now!"

[@ayrtonferrufino2870]

I want to show my film study teacher every cinemasins vid covering the movies we’ve watched in class

[@chalkboy8]

I know a boy, boy crazy boy that learned to fight watching West Side Story. He got beaten up a lot.

[@alm2187]

Yea? I'd think it'd be a little risky to attempt, say, dropkicking someone who's doing all those leg lifts.

[@aedwardsss]

“No movie is without sin.” Is now something I say often. I blame you.

[@WakenerOne]

Tony killing Bernardo would not be considered first degree murder. That would require premeditation or being in the midst of a premeditated felony while killing the victim.

[@Tkieron]

They were rumbling, the fight was planned. He then pulls out a knife. I'll give you second degree murder or 1st degree manslaughter.

[@johnwisniewski8712]

“When you come, use the back door!” - Maria

[@Tkieron]

That's what she said.

[@Chrisyt272]

This was hilarious! On a side note, RIP Stephen Sondheim! Even he was not above making fun of some of the lyrics he wrote for this. I bet he would have loved this.

[@tiedyedowl8367]

This was the first musical I ever saw. I was way too young, it was the first story I heard that didn’t end in “happily ever after”. My mom had to take me out of the theater because I was crying so hard. She said she’d forgotten how it ended.

[@elliesaint1984]

That MGM lion sin had me cracking up 😂

[@mackielunkey2205]

Even Jeremy admits Rita Moreno’s awesome in this movie.

[@psifla99]

She’s awesome in both versions - she’s the bridge between the hopeless yearning in the ‘61 version and the devastating wisdom of the ‘21 version.

[@alm2187]

13:57 And I'm not a tactician, but if you're at war, I'd think you kinda gotta think about what you'll do if the other side breaks the ceasefire. Both gangs here think they're the honorable ones prepping for the dishonorable potential of the other side. The song explains it!

[@axesoccer7887]

We need Everything Wrong With A Christmas Story this Christmas and Jeremy knows he can’t ignore it!!!!!

[@tomshea8382]

CinemaSins honestly can't tell if West Side Story is a musical? Because it has expository dialogue after a (revolutionary, at least on stage) musical opening that is almost all dance?

[@belle-ashton2167]

Your video just proved the pertinence of the new adaptation.

[@l0s_]

yes! and some people say nobody asked for it...lmao

[@l0s_]

yes! and some people say nobody asked for it...lmao

[@eatveggies8058]

I love that they made the tomboy a trans male in the new movie- it made me feel represented and I lost it when the jet at the end said, “you did good, buddy boy”

[@psifla99]

Rewatched the film the other day. iris menas was truly fantastic.

[@LilTurtleBug]

When you come, use the back door 🤣🤣🤣 I will never not burst into hysterics when watching that scene ever again

[@riley8704]

This has got to be one of the best CinemaSins videos of all time.

[@joels5150]

“This goes on for all of the some time”. Sin, thy name is Musicals.

[@kourttsmason8187]

I think Tony and Maria meeting at the dance is one of the best depictions of love at first sight, it's so sweet

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

I pity the people who never experienced it. I'll never forget mine, and cherish it til I die.

[@missrhib]

Great harmony Jeremy on that little snippet. Haha

[@drbob9611]

"When you come, use the back door." I can't believe you missed the opportunity to just sin: "Catholics."

[@brentreid267]

damn you, Cool is one of the best songs in the movie

[@chiwhiner]

The dance scenes are long, but they still always left me wanting more.

[@PerfectlyImperfect93]

I remember trying to not to cry at the end when Tony died when I watched this my freshmen year in High School.

[@alexandraelizabeth8522]

Black liquorice is my favorite candy, so at least someone other than me has to like it for it to still be around

[@jmh27]

I love it too! :)

[@rooksilver]

this guy should do a vid on the 2021 adaptation of west side story and compare the two….a lot of the sins mentioned in the vid actually get fixed!

[@psifla99]

They do get fixed.

[@taylorcooper5070]

Jeremy doesn’t get crimes of passion when your friends are murder in front of you. I could be chanting “non-violent, non-violent” like I’m MLK but if I saw my homie go down in front of me, i think I ‘d see red, too

[@RetroGirl1967]

In 1961, companies did not pay for product placement. That started in the 1980s. When this movie was made, the movie studios has to pay the companies. In other words, MGM paid Coke-Cola money to use thier logo on the box. I have an idea/theory why the split in the song "America" is men vs. women. The men are out in the city beyond the ethnic enclave and experiencing more prejudice. Also, because they are more focused on jobs than the women, they see the limits (in dialogue one of the Sharks complains about someone white/of European ancenstry getting a promotion that he will not get). This makes them more attuned and aware of the prejudice against. Because the women are spending far more time in the ethnic enclave and are spending less time out in the city, they are experiencing less prejudice. The men and the women are both experiencing prejudice, but the men are experiencing more of it. (This explanation could be totally and completely wrong.)

[@AHBelt]

I wonder if the product placement thing had to do with "E.T.", where M&M refused to let them use M&Ms and Reese's Pieces ended up benefitting.

[@Alix27516]

Your explanation of America kind of makes sense as in 1960s, men had works mostly "out" and women would stay "in"

[@RetroGirl1967]

@@AHBelt I have no idea if the two events are related. I know that the product placement as we know it today (the company pays for thier brand/product to be in the movie) started in the 1980s sometime after "E.T."

[@anthonysimpsonanygoround8749]

And the interesting thing ironically is that in the original 1957 stage show the entire number was sung and danced only by the women, without the men, so was not gender-based. But the 1961 and 2021 film versions with both sexes are definitely more interesting by having the two genders present and on opposing sides, plus the obvious releases of sexual tension even after all that libido activity at the gym dance! It definitely is a much more heated and lively number when done by both genders, as I’m sure most of the stage productions have adapted it by now.

[@baguettegott3409]

I think you are correct about your interpretation of "America". And I think it's also relevant that later, during Anita's assault in the drug store, a distorted version of "America" plays in the background. Because the women don't actually experience less racist aggression, just usually in different forms. And I guess she happened to not have experienced much of it before, but the second there's actual contact to groups outside of their enclave - look what happened.

[@dulcimerrafi]

If you want to see a classic musical that features blatant product placement for Pepsi, you should watch The Pajama Game. Also, if you think the gaps between musical numbers in this movie are too long, wait until you see South Pacific or 1776, the latter of which notoriously holds the record. I think it may be at least half an hour.

[@SaltySeaWitch3]

This musical is responsible for teaching vocalists how to hear a tritone. Every vocalist with a degree in music that I know learned to recognize the #5th interval

[@alg11297]

Having grown up with the movie album, I never realized how strange and odd the lyrics are. "It may come cannonballin down from the sky, gleam in it's eye bright as a rose." Or, from the same song, "With a click, with a shock, phone'll jingle, door'll knock, open the latch....catch the moon, one handed catch."

[@DakMT]

"Cool" is the best song in the movie to me

[@lisajenkins4416]

I was originally going to write there is nothing wrong with this movie, but you proved me wrong. Well played

[@coryspang7548]

Watched this film in high school band class. I love this film.

[@Splackavellie85]

This would have made such a good ten minute video. It's almost ironic hearing Jeremy say that things go on for some time over and over again.

[@goldilox369]

Fun fact: you quote "Sound of Music" at 5:40. Marnie Nixon (voice dub for Maria) sang that song as a nun in SoM movie.

[@karengodbold3620]

My Opinion This 1961 version which is all we had to look at during that time was TOTALLY AWESOME!. Every song all the dance scenes- Beautiful!

[@tj921able]

This was hilarious, I couldn't stop laughing! The way you broke it down was really clever.

[@alm2187]

14:57 re: "more time practicing..." You've touched on a real-world gang problem, here. Don't know if it's as big a deal with knives, but I once heard a speaker address gun access without mandatory range time. Real gang-members aren't required to practice with their weapons, therefore too many don't, therefore they'll tend to miss one another and hit innocents.

[@mr.j7444]

Gang members don’t buy firearms legally so there’s no way for them to be required to practice with fire arms. And even if they where they are still subhuman scum who view other human lives as less than worthless they wouldn’t kill less just because they learn to shoot better.

[@aarongranda7825]

Love this picture.

[@sdfkjgh]

15:08 Also, if you look closely, you'll see the point of initial contact is about 2-3" below where Bernardo's hand eventually ends up, and since I see no jagged, sucking chest wound of a cut, that means that his hand was empty, and they couldn't even be bothered to use retractable blade! **DING!**

[@melteague117]

You clearly have seen and love the very old SNL Norm Macdonald skit about how weird it is to break out into song and dance when you are about to fight!

[@pixelbomb97]

Literally half of the sins here are OH MY GOD!?!?!? The musical things that happen in this musical wouldn't happen in real life.

[@GJohnson1981]

When you come use the back door.... I've seen this movie dozens of times and that's the first time I've ever heard that line....