Random observations while watching a film classic:
During the opening aerial shots of the movie, I was amazed at how little traffic there was on the streets of New York City over forty-five years ago.
It’s been a while since I saw the movie, so I don’t know if I forgot or never noticed that the Sharks all wear black shoes and the Jets all wear white. On the streets, they wear sneakers. During the dance, the Sharks wear black dress shoes, the Jets two-toned blue shoes with white tops. It’s a nice little touch, unsurprising given the overall brilliance of the production design.
It’s sad that a free showing of West Side Story at an independent cinema in a college town (said college town being the alma mater of one of the creators of the work in question) and sponsored by the college drew such a miniscule crowd. If I say there were twenty people in the audience, I’d be exaggerating by a good fifteen to twenty percent.
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