[lbo-talk] Birgit Nilsson, RIP

[andie nachgeborenen]

Well, there's West Side Story, which got Bernstein and
Sondheim . . . The movie's not Kurosawa, though it's
quite good, but Jerome Robbins's choreography's great
and the music and lyrics are magnificent. Btw, the
opposing gangs in WSS were originally conceived to be
Irish and Jewish rather than Polish and Puerto Rican,
don't recall exactly why the change.

--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:


> Justin wrote:
> 
> > Well, in Throne of Blood Kurosawa did MacBeth with
> Shakespeare's  
> > words, and it's the best MacBeth ever filmed by a
> long mile.  He  
> > also did King Lear (Ran), probably the best Lear
> filmed.
> 
> But isn't it revealing that it was Macbeth and King
> Lear that  
> intrigued Kurosawa?  Romeo and Juliet would have
> stumped even the  
> great director.  R&J got only Franco Zeffirelli, Baz
> Luhrmann, and  
> the like, failing to inspire the greatest.  The only
> way that you can  
> do R&J today and still make some kind of sense would
> be to set it in  
> the West Bank, Kashmir, or some other divided
> territory.  Then, "'Tis  
> but thy name that is my enemy" might still resonate
> (it would be  
> still corny but at least plausible).
> 
> Yoshie Furuhashi
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> 
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