PLEASE HELP 80 POINTS

WEST SIDE STORY MOVIE

1. Why do you think this story with extreme racial content was placed in the medium of a musical??

2. Why does most of the music sound like things one would say to themselves?

3. How are you able to sympathize with both the Jets and the Sharks?

4. How does the music convey the resentment and the stereotype of the Puerto Rican?

5. How are the stereotypes portrayed in west side story? Do you find them shocking or realistic?

6. Do the stereotypes change as the story unfolds? Are they resolved?

7. In the song “Officer Krupe” there is definite irony. What is it?

WEST SIDE STORY MOVIE