Thanks so much for watching my interviews with the cast of West Side Story. It is a STUNNING film and if there's an Oscar for 'best use of fabric in a movie', THIS one has it hands down (those skirts!!!!!) SIDENOTE: I was NOT scheduled to talk to Steven Spielberg OR Rachel Zegler (crazy, I know...but their schedule was packed)...I kept pushing a little, especially since Steven and I share an Arizona connection (he grew up here). The stars aligned and I was given one question! Fortunately - Mr. Spielberg helped make it TWO - you'll see... Feel free to SUBSCRIBE and I'll keep the content coming..some other 'biggies' in the works!
I cried when Riff died. He was such a villainous character, but Mike Faist played him with such emotional depth. He and Ariana DeBose were revelations to me. She broke my heart singing A Boy Like That after having to identify Bernardo's body. What a gut punch. Those two were the standouts of the whole movie for me. I loved all the characters though. The re-imagining of Cool was perfect. It's exactly as Ansel describes it. Just wonderful!
Luv this movie so much (OBSESSED truthfully!) esp Ansel as Tony and the rest of the amazingly talented cast!!! Been watching all the different interviews, and I must say…Tara, yours is one of the best! Thank you for sharing this…🤗
@@crowkid5553 David Winters wore his around Christopher Walken and Walken stole it from him. Walken's known to steal memorabilia from other actors. He also played Riff in an off-Broadway production of WSS and it was one of his favorite roles during his pre-movie screen days as an actor.
I loved this rendition of Cool. I wish they hadn’t taken away the real brotherhood of Riff and Tony. He said sperm to worm to someone else like it didn’t really matter.
New West Side Story: 1. Good idea to have Rita Marino inserted into the Steven Spielberg script of *West Side Story* 2. Best Actress role for Oscar nomination for Spielberg's version will be Maria (Rachel Zegler) and then Anita (Ariana DeBose) for supporting Oscar nomination. I think Rachel Zegler's acting for Maria, was better than Natalie Wood in Robert's Wise production. 3. Second choice for best supporting actress: Rita Marino. (yes again) 4. I did not like any of the character actors choice for either the Jets or Sharks in this Spielberg version. 5. I did not like the first act of the Spielberg version as much as the Robert Wise version, but the second act of Spielberg's version made up for the 1st act's shortcomings. Spielberg's first act of his movie was too, too, dark. 6. My choice for which movie was better would be the flawless *1st* West Side Story. Robert Wise was the better Director in this for the 1st Movie version of the play. However the second act of Spielberg's version made tears come from my eyes, but don't tell anybody as I don't want my manhood questioned. 7. In the first movie the Jet gang gave respect for the little girl playing on the ground and walked around her play area. In the Spielberg version the Jets ripped up the little girls artwork on the ground. I could not get behind the Jets after that. 8. The dance scenes in both versions were equally good. 9. Spielberg claimed he did not want to copy the first, Robert Wise version, however he did in the opening. In the first, Wise version, we have an aerial shot flying over Manhattan, in Spielberg's version we have an aerial shot flying over the demolished section of the gang area with same intro music. 10. Spielberg's version of West Side Story, should be nominated for *Best Picture* Oscar this year, however from the *WOKE* Hollywood, they might choose another low budget foreign movie made with no whites in it, that nobody will see, for diversity's sake. Then that will remind me of Marxist Korean movie (looked like a college student made film) winning Best Picture over "1917" a real professional movie. And like Spielberg's movie, "Saving Private Ryan" that didn't win Best Picture, which it should have, over that terrible love movie, again, that nobody saw. 11. Why couldn't Spielberg use any other race besides Puerto Rican? That was a racist decision on WOKE Spielberg. High class acting is art, that a great actor could pull it off. Spielberg now denies race to play any role unless they are the same race of the character portrayed? This is a slam in the face of all actors. Example, he could have used actors from any South American country as long as they looked Puerto Rican. Come on man! Spielberg trying to be WOKE is a racist to all other promising actors. 13. What was this freak dark character tranny character that used to be a tom boy girl in the Robert Wise motive? We could see in the Robert Wise movie that this was a tom boy girl. However in this movie, we don't know who this scary creature from hell was in Spielberg's version. Spielberg was again trying to be WOKE by picking a tranny freak character from this years 2021 to by making the LGBTQ people happy. That demonic freak character was a bust. 14. There will be other Oscar nominations beside best picture for this one. 15. From Breitbart: Estimated production budget of West Side Story: 7 Biggest Woke Box Office Busts of 2021: ‘West Side Story,’ ‘Eternals,’ and More. $100 million - Worldwide gross so far: $36.6 million. Steven Spielberg went full woke by not including English subtitles in Spanish-language scene, saying he did not want to give “English the power over the Spanish.” If Spielberg is going that far then what the hell is this white Jew doing directing Latinos? Actress Rachel Zegler further alienated audiences by shaming Americans who don’t speak Spanish. The mainstream media pushed this one hard, but moviegoers everywhere refused to fall for it. “Everything woke turns to shit,” former President Donald Trump said this year. Nowhere is this truer than in Hollywood, where the public’s rejection of woke movies can be measured in the tens of millions of dollars that studios are losing at the box office. No matter how hard left-wing Hollywood pushes woke-ism - and their allies in the entertainment media insist we like it - the American public isn’t having it anymore, sending a clear and unambiguous message with their wallets. Will Hollywood learn its lesson? Of course not, but that’s their problem and it’s part of the fun. This year, woke Hollywood movies tanked left and right as audiences wary of paying for a social justice lecture decided to stay away.
@@bobbyrobby3600 …what makes you assume I’m a liberal? I also believe in freedom of speech and my freedom to call you a hurtful idiot. I’m just as free to call you an idiot as you are to call me a “freedom-hating liberal”.
@@ursamajor8051 OK Jezabell, what is a wicked name for an idiot, that name, Jezebel is fitting. The name Jezabell and what the Bible has to say about that name: “But I have a few things against you: You permit that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat food sacrificed to idols” (Rev. 2:20). Jezebel’s ultimate goal is always control. The Jezebel spirit is always motivated by its own agenda, which it relentlessly pursues. The Jezebel spirit attacks, dominates or manipulates, especially male authority. Queen Jezebel usurped political authority of the kingdom. This spirit’s ultimate goal is to conquer or neutralize the prophet because a discerning leader is its greatest enemy. Jezebel causes fear, flight and discouragement. This spirit often causes a spiritual leader to flee from his appointed place by character assassination and ruining his reputation. People under Jezebel’s influence are natural leaders, although often covertly. The Jezebel spirit attempt to seek out people of influence to win their ear, gain credibility and win endorsement for their toxic cause. People under Jezebel’s influence are often insecure and wounded, with pronounced egocentric needs. They are often trying to fill a love deficit. People under Jezebel’s control always have deep, unhealed wounds from sources such as rejection, resistance, fear, insecurity, self-preservation and bitterness, which in turn, spreads its defilement to many. The Jezebel spirit functions subtlety and deceptively. People controlled by Jezebel use flattery to win you over to their domination. Jezebel spirits are masters of manipulation by guilt and undermining or discrediting another’s influence. Those under Jezebel’s control use flirtation and are extremely jealous of anyone they perceive to be a threat. Ultimately, people under Jezebel’s influence are proud, independent and rebellious. Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft (1 Sam. 15:23) and will attempt to control others through any means other than the Holy Spirit. It takes an Ahab to let a Jezebel spirit operate unchallenged. Those under Jezebel’s influence do not operate without someone under an Ahab spirit’s influence enabling them to function. A Jezebel spirit is always in alignment with a religious spirit. Both Jezebel in the Old Testament and Revelation in the New Testament operated under the cover of religion. Its religious deeds are done for all to see. True and pure spiritual gifts attract people to Jesus, not to the people who exercise the gifts. The families of people under Jezebel’s influence are often out of order. Those under Jezebel’s influence control their partners and cause their children to take sides, grow up insecure, disrespect their fathers, feel manipulated and become distrustful toward true authority.
@@bobbyrobby3600 Bud, It’s spelled “Jezebel”. My screen name is “Jezabell”. It’s an old family name. I’m impressed you wrote out that whole thing just for me. I’m flattered in fact.
Thanks so much for watching my interviews with the cast of West Side Story. It is a STUNNING film and if there's an Oscar for 'best use of fabric in a movie', THIS one has it hands down (those skirts!!!!!) SIDENOTE: I was NOT scheduled to talk to Steven Spielberg OR Rachel Zegler (crazy, I know...but their schedule was packed)...I kept pushing a little, especially since Steven and I share an Arizona connection (he grew up here). The stars aligned and I was given one question! Fortunately - Mr. Spielberg helped make it TWO - you'll see... Feel free to SUBSCRIBE and I'll keep the content coming..some other 'biggies' in the works!
Agreed Tara . Great job. Great interview. Love both movie's the original and this version too
I cried when Riff died. He was such a villainous character, but Mike Faist played him with such emotional depth. He and Ariana DeBose were revelations to me. She broke my heart singing A Boy Like That after having to identify Bernardo's body. What a gut punch. Those two were the standouts of the whole movie for me. I loved all the characters though. The re-imagining of Cool was perfect. It's exactly as Ansel describes it. Just wonderful!
Yes! Riff’s death killed me. The character is normally so bad but Mike Faist created a character so broken you couldn’t help but feel for him
In the original he wasn’t as villainous. There was more depth to the friendship, so I bawl when the OG Riff died. I did like Mike’s version as well.
The opening with Mike and Ansel throwing paper planes is really cute! Gives me hope that their brotherly bond will shine on screen as Tony and Riff.
All the actors and the movies deserve an award. Youth at it's very best.
David Alveras YOU WERE BRILLIANT!
God mike faist is adorable
Riffs death hits me the hardest ever time...this time depressed me for days.
Thank you mike faist
Mike’s jawline could cut rock
The dress question was so good. It wasn’t dumb because I was also very curious about that. Thank you for asking it!
Luv this movie so much (OBSESSED truthfully!) esp Ansel as Tony and the rest of the amazingly talented cast!!! Been watching all the different interviews, and I must say…Tara, yours is one of the best! Thank you for sharing this…🤗
Thank you SO MUCH!
Such a great interview with brilliant questions I had myself!
Questions so good Spielberg says ""go one more", wonderful.
Cool is dance of the year, as well as the movie.
Theresa Watson TOTALLY agree!!
Thank you for this really enjoy it. Looking forward to see this movie 🎬 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
tara you always deliver
thank yoU!
Advice to Ansel and Mike, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT wear those Jets jackets around Christopher Walken.
Why's that
@@crowkid5553 David Winters wore his around Christopher Walken and Walken stole it from him. Walken's known to steal memorabilia from other actors. He also played Riff in an off-Broadway production of WSS and it was one of his favorite roles during his pre-movie screen days as an actor.
I loved this rendition of Cool. I wish they hadn’t taken away the real brotherhood of Riff and Tony. He said sperm to worm to someone else like it didn’t really matter.
Spielburger says that couldn't find genuine Puerto Rican women who know how to dance and sing to play neither Maria nor Anita? Really? Hypocrite!
New West Side Story:
1. Good idea to have Rita Marino inserted into the Steven Spielberg script of *West Side Story*
2. Best Actress role for Oscar nomination for Spielberg's version will be Maria (Rachel Zegler) and then Anita (Ariana DeBose) for supporting Oscar nomination. I think Rachel Zegler's acting for Maria, was better than Natalie Wood in Robert's Wise production.
3. Second choice for best supporting actress: Rita Marino. (yes again)
4. I did not like any of the character actors choice for either the Jets or Sharks in this Spielberg version.
5. I did not like the first act of the Spielberg version as much as the Robert Wise version, but the second act of Spielberg's version made up for the 1st act's shortcomings. Spielberg's first act of his movie was too, too, dark.
6. My choice for which movie was better would be the flawless *1st* West Side Story. Robert Wise was the better Director in this for the 1st Movie version of the play. However the second act of Spielberg's version made tears come from my eyes, but don't tell anybody as I don't want my manhood questioned.
7. In the first movie the Jet gang gave respect for the little girl playing on the ground and walked around her play area. In the Spielberg version the Jets ripped up the little girls artwork on the ground. I could not get behind the Jets after that.
8. The dance scenes in both versions were equally good.
9. Spielberg claimed he did not want to copy the first, Robert Wise version, however he did in the opening. In the first, Wise version, we have an aerial shot flying over Manhattan, in Spielberg's version we have an aerial shot flying over the demolished section of the gang area with same intro music.
10. Spielberg's version of West Side Story, should be nominated for *Best Picture* Oscar this year, however from the *WOKE* Hollywood, they might choose another low budget foreign movie made with no whites in it, that nobody will see, for diversity's sake. Then that will remind me of Marxist Korean movie (looked like a college student made film) winning Best Picture over "1917" a real professional movie. And like Spielberg's movie, "Saving Private Ryan" that didn't win Best Picture, which it should have, over that terrible love movie, again, that nobody saw.
11. Why couldn't Spielberg use any other race besides Puerto Rican? That was a racist decision on WOKE Spielberg. High class acting is art, that a great actor could pull it off. Spielberg now denies race to play any role unless they are the same race of the character portrayed? This is a slam in the face of all actors. Example, he could have used actors from any South American country as long as they looked Puerto Rican. Come on man! Spielberg trying to be WOKE is a racist to all other promising actors.
13. What was this freak dark character tranny character that used to be a tom boy girl in the Robert Wise motive? We could see in the Robert Wise movie that this was a tom boy girl. However in this movie, we don't know who this scary creature from hell was in Spielberg's version. Spielberg was again trying to be WOKE by picking a tranny freak character from this years 2021 to by making the LGBTQ people happy. That demonic freak character was a bust.
14. There will be other Oscar nominations beside best
picture for this one.
15. From Breitbart: Estimated production budget of West Side Story: 7 Biggest Woke Box Office Busts of 2021: ‘West Side Story,’ ‘Eternals,’ and More. $100 million - Worldwide gross so far: $36.6 million. Steven Spielberg went full woke by not including English subtitles in Spanish-language scene, saying he did not want to give “English the power over the Spanish.” If Spielberg is going that far then what the hell is this white Jew doing directing Latinos? Actress Rachel Zegler further alienated audiences by shaming Americans who don’t speak Spanish. The mainstream media pushed this one hard, but moviegoers everywhere refused to fall for it. “Everything woke turns to shit,” former President Donald Trump said this year. Nowhere is this truer than in Hollywood, where the public’s rejection of woke movies can be measured in the tens of millions of dollars that studios are losing at the box office. No matter how hard left-wing Hollywood pushes woke-ism - and their allies in the entertainment media insist we like it - the American public isn’t having it anymore, sending a clear and unambiguous message with their wallets. Will Hollywood learn its lesson? Of course not, but that’s their problem and it’s part of the fun. This year, woke Hollywood movies tanked left and right as audiences wary of paying for a social justice lecture decided to stay away.
Lol wtf is wrong with you?
@@ursamajor8051
I am enjoy my freedom of speech which most of you liberals hate conservatives to have freedom of speech.
@@bobbyrobby3600 …what makes you assume I’m a liberal? I also believe in freedom of speech and my freedom to call you a hurtful idiot. I’m just as free to call you an idiot as you are to call me a “freedom-hating liberal”.
@@ursamajor8051
OK Jezabell, what is a wicked name for an idiot, that name, Jezebel is fitting.
The name Jezabell and what the Bible has to say about that name:
“But I have a few things against you: You permit that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat food sacrificed to idols” (Rev. 2:20).
Jezebel’s ultimate goal is always control.
The Jezebel spirit is always motivated by its own agenda, which it relentlessly pursues.
The Jezebel spirit attacks, dominates or manipulates, especially male authority.
Queen Jezebel usurped political authority of the kingdom. This spirit’s ultimate goal is to conquer or neutralize the prophet because a discerning leader is its greatest enemy.
Jezebel causes fear, flight and discouragement.
This spirit often causes a spiritual leader to flee from his appointed place by character assassination and ruining his reputation.
People under Jezebel’s influence are natural leaders, although often covertly.
The Jezebel spirit attempt to seek out people of influence to win their ear, gain credibility and win endorsement for their toxic cause.
People under Jezebel’s influence are often insecure and wounded, with pronounced egocentric needs.
They are often trying to fill a love deficit. People under Jezebel’s control always have deep, unhealed wounds from sources such as rejection, resistance, fear, insecurity, self-preservation and bitterness, which in turn, spreads its defilement to many.
The Jezebel spirit functions subtlety and deceptively.
People controlled by Jezebel use flattery to win you over to their domination. Jezebel spirits are masters of manipulation by guilt and undermining or discrediting another’s influence. Those under Jezebel’s control use flirtation and are extremely jealous of anyone they perceive to be a threat.
Ultimately, people under Jezebel’s influence are proud, independent and rebellious.
Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft (1 Sam. 15:23) and will attempt to control others through any means other than the Holy Spirit.
It takes an Ahab to let a Jezebel spirit operate unchallenged.
Those under Jezebel’s influence do not operate without someone under an Ahab spirit’s influence enabling them to function.
A Jezebel spirit is always in alignment with a religious spirit.
Both Jezebel in the Old Testament and Revelation in the New Testament operated under the cover of religion. Its religious deeds are done for all to see. True and pure spiritual gifts attract people to Jesus, not to the people who exercise the gifts.
The families of people under Jezebel’s influence are often out of order.
Those under Jezebel’s influence control their partners and cause their children to take sides, grow up insecure, disrespect their fathers, feel manipulated and become distrustful toward true authority.
@@bobbyrobby3600 Bud, It’s spelled “Jezebel”. My screen name is “Jezabell”. It’s an old family name. I’m impressed you wrote out that whole thing just for me. I’m flattered in fact.