*West Side Story on TCM @ 10 tonight!

[elleng]

[UTUSN]

1. Now I'm getting a clue as to why I first liked you. n/t

[elleng]

4. Thanks, UTU, I needed that!

[Archae]

2. I tried watching it years ago.

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I just didn't like it.

Too dated I guess.

[elleng]

3. Right, dated, Romeo and Juliet,

Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, and Stephen Sondheim!

[Grantuspeace]

5. Natalie Wood. mmmmm.....lol

[Archae]

6. I don't like that 50's and early 60's "horn crash" music.

Saw a good sci-fi movie ruined with that crap on the soundtrack.
"The 4-D Man."

[Manifestor_of_Light]

7. word to the wise: The original cast album with Carol Lawrence is much better.

Natalie Wood singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, who also dubbed for other actresses that could not sing. She dubbed Deborah Kerr in "The King and I", and Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady".

Trivia: Marni Nixon was married to Ernest Gold (composer of music for the movie "Exodus&quot and the mother of Andrew Gold who did "Oh What a Lonely Boy".

[TrogL]

8. Bernstein shouldn't have resolved the last chord

An ambiguous conclusion would have been much more interesting.

[elleng]

9. ???

[TrogL]

10. Explanation

At the very end of the movie, Bernstein is riffing on "Tonight", eventually settling in C-major. The last 6 bars are a c-major suspended 2nd resolving to the third, followed by an F# (tritone) bass, this is repeated, the third time, the bass enters on a low C, making a "pretty" ending. I'd have preferred another F#, leaving the chord unresolved.

Personally, for me, the movie is not resolved in the end. Yes, the boy gets the girl, the two gangs have kissed and made up but I don't see this lasting.

[elleng]

11. Thanks, Trogl; now I know what I should listen for.

And clearly the movie is not 'resolved' in the end because, as ever, the Montagues and the Capulets will be at odds forever! And priests will interfere!!!