When he met Maria on his way, Chino shot him. After Tony was dead, Maria got angry to all of Sharks and Jets. It represents their pure love because they still love each other until the death came between them. Second, the similarities and differences between West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet are on their setting of time and place. Although Romeo and Juliet movie uses old English, but from the way they style, it shows that Romeo and Juliet took time at 90s. The similarities in setting of time and place are happened when the dance scenes.
Both of the dance scenes happened in a big hall. It represents their brave to fight for love. Another similarities and differences between West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet are on their characters. Both of the movies have two lovers. The story is set in the mid s in the Upper West Side of New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood. Hearing from his servant that Juliet is dead, Romeo buys poison from an Apothecary in Mantua.
He returns to Verona and goes to the tomb where he surprises and kills the mourning Paris. Romeo takes his poison and dies, while Juliet awakens from her drugged coma.
It turns out that the dress is for the dance, which Maria is attending with Chino, whom she is expected to marry, despite the fact that she does not have any feelings for him. At the dance in the local gym, the group is divided: Jets and their girls on one side and Sharks and their girls on the othe. Although Robbins pushed for year-old Carol Lawrence, the first Maria, to be cast in the same role in the film, after seeing her screen test the producers agreed she was too old to play the part.
A number of other cast members from the Broadway and West End productions were cast in the film. I just watched West Side Story, and it was really good. Table of Contents. We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. For example, the actual rivalry is between opposing gangs in West Side Story, not families. The Montagues and Capulets of Romeo and Juliet have been fighting for so many generations that it becomes natural for them to want to fight each other.
They have no purpose behind their feud besides family hate. Another big difference between the two films is the fight scenes. Tony simply impales Bernardo with the knife and runs off. One of the most critical pieces to the storyline between the two films is that Romeo gets banished, whereas in West Side Story, Tony gets no immediate repercussions for his actions.
He is not banished and does not go to jail, ultimately nothing happened to Tony. Without any harsh punishment, Maria does not become quite as depressed and expresses a will to live. Another significant difference is in the death scenes in each film. Since he is shot he does end up dying, yet this does not lead Maria to take her own life. Maria ends up forgiving the two gangs and moving on with her life.
That is ultimately the biggest difference between the two films. In addition, Paris also dies along with Romeo and Juliet. Also, modern-choreographed dances shown in West Side Story are more common than big formal balls as shown in Romeo and Juliet. In West Side Story the author only tells about the Sharks dwelling. The Sharks live in an apartment which shows that the Sharks are not wealthy.
The Sharks and the Jets are very poor compared to the Capulets'' and the Montagues' The reason guns were used in West Side Story was to make the story more modern.
Swords were really used in the time of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story , two timeless dramas that will live forever. One main difference is that in Romeo and Juliet the sililoquy is spoken while in West Side Story there is sililoquy, but it is in song. Another major difference between these two stories is that in Romeo and Juliet, Juliet sees Romeo dead and decides to kill herself. While, in West Side Story, Tony the Romeo of the play does die - shot by Chino- Maria is not so stricken and overshelmed that she decides to kill herself.
This is very important because in Romeo and Juliet, neither Romeo or Juliet is allowed to move on with their lives. My theory on why the above is true, is that Romeo and Juliet are kept apart by family ties or blood; Juliet a Capulet and Romeo a Montague.
Blood ties are what family is all about and tend to be very strong bonds. In West Side Story the only thing holding each other back from one another are their ties to gangs; Maria, the Sharks and Tony,the Jets. This, in my eyes, makes Romeo and Juliet's love for one another stronger than Maria and Tony's.
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