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  1. The original 1961 film won 10 Oscars, including Best Picture. But for decades this retelling of “Romeo and Juliet” through the lens of White and Puerto Rican gangs in New York has been panned by Puerto Ricans who felt insulted by the way characters from the island were portrayed.

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    Is 'West Side Story' racial stereotyping?The very question of what does or does not seem appropriate for Maria and the other Puerto Rican characters is itself a matter of controversy. “West Side Story,” a 1957 Broadway classic created by four white Jewish men who were artistic trailblazers, has been criticized for racial stereotyping.

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    What is the story behind West Side Story?The story of the original “West Side Story” is that of white Jewish artists (Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, and Jerome Robbins, later joined by Stephen Sondheim) who planned to make a musical play about Jewish and Irish gangs and then, worrying that they were heading for cliché, shifted their focus to people they knew nothing about.

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    Is West Side Story a tragedy?At least West Side Story is a tragedy—that is to say, more realistic! While West Side Story may not “die” anytime soon, we can at least “euthanize” film criticism that would have us believe the ascribed identities of actors, writers, and directors—or a film’s “cultural competence”—are our best criteria for judgment.

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    Is West Side Story a good movie?The most surprising thing about West Side Story, Spielberg’s most dynamic movie in years, is how at home the director seems in a genre he has never before worked in. The balance between realism and stylization necessitated by the show is so confidently handled you wonder why he waited until age 74 to start making musicals.

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