Listening report 5

West side story

  1. 2 hours and 33 minutes
  2. DVD
  3. Drama and crime film

 

Summary:

The film is based on Romeo and Juliet. Romeo is Tony and Juliet is Maria in the film. There are two gangs in the New York streets, the White Jets and the Rican Sharks. The White Jets is a gang led by a white guy named Riff and the Rican Sharks is a gang full of immigrants with a Puerto Rican background. Both gangs have two persons who will fall in love with each other, Maria from the Rican sharks and Tony from the White Jets. The two will meet each other at a dance and they just knew that they were perfect for each other and nothing could ever stop them not even the gangs they are in even though they saw the gangs as a family. The two are beginning to meet each other in secret. They are obliviously are planning to tell the gangs so that the two gangs will maybe have peace with each other, because love rules above everything.

Later in the movie Tony and Maria find out that the Rican Sharks and the White Jets will have a street fight under a highway to finally decide who will control the streets of New York. Maria sends Tony to the fight to stop them and make them realize that they are being very stupid, and they should just talk to each other and make it right with each other.

But when Tony tries to stop the fight it goes terribly wrong, Tony killed Maria’s brother. When Maria finally sees Tony, she is of course angry at him but quickly she forgives him, because love. Tony and Maria are sleeping together in her flat and decided that they will run away together when they will meet each other at Doc’s place.

Anita the sister of law from Maria goes to the Doc to get some medicine for het headache, but the Jets assault her, for some reason she said in het angry mood that Maria died, she was ‘shot’ by Chino for loving Tony. The Jets tell Tony about it and of course he is very angry but most importantly he is devastated; he lost the love of his life.

Later Tony is wandering around in the city and sees Maria at the playground they run to each other, unfortunately Tony is shot by Chino.

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