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Social Justice--my ass! You're entitled to think what you want, Dalton, but to say that when the new SJW-approved Spielberg version of West Side Story is out, all copies of the old, original 1961 film version of West Side Story should be burned in a large bonfire is going way too far. It's clear that if you had your way, you'd force them to watch Spielberg's version of the film West Side Story or nothing at all. Dalton--your attitude s**ks, if you want to know the truth.

Reboots/remakes of older classic films, in general, do not come out very well, nor do they do very well in the box office. I don't see the re-boot-remake of the film West Side Story by anybody, including Spielberg, being any good. Natalie Wood did not have dark make-up on, either.

I'll also add this, Dalton: People like YOU are the ones who angered Boston's white working-class ethnic people enough so that they kept on electing politically expedient, opportunistic, patronage-ridden and racist politicians such as the late Boston School Committeewoman/CityCouncilwoman, Louise Day Hicks into office time and time again, thus finally ushering in a disastrous Federal Court-mandated large-scale, cross-city school busing edict with very serious flaws in it, that made many people more angry, fearful and suspicious of each other.

I'm no goody-two-shoes, and the 1961 film version of West Side Story was anything but racist. Unlike you and your pals, I plan on voting my pocketbook and not going to see Spielberg's film version of West Side Story when it comes out at Christmastime of 2020.

Unlike you, I've never been involved in heavy political and social causes, and never hope to be.

K.

Frankly, I think that, given the fact that tons of other movies, especially those made during that general period, and before then, had white actors playing people of color, make-up or no make-up, both the emerged new discussion and these new attitudes are extremely hypocritical, and unnecessary, to boot, especially when it's applied to a film such as West Side Story. Why people are making such a thing of it, and why Spielberg decided to do his reboot/remake of the film version of West Side Story is rather mind-boggling--and revolting, to boot.

It's going to be pro illegal immigration propaganda. There might even be brown children in cages.

The music and dancing is so iconic in the original. It's disgraceful that they are re-making it. Will they be using the original music and choreography or will it be some modern Latin hip hop version?

You're rather hard to please, Dalton. The very day you posted this, you also posted on the board for The Mountain, complaining about "an almost entirely American cast portraying rural Frenchmen talking English in an American accent," and about Spencer Tracy in particular, wishing instead for "someone slightly younger and much more fit to play this older brother."

Are you arguing in favor of authenticity or against it? Difficult to tell with two so apparently opposing viewpoints.

With such a contradiction on display, the reason for invoking "social justice" in this context is unclear, unless your point is that authenticity in casting should apply only to Aryan characters and performers. It's otherwise a mystery to me.

Oh, f**k social justice! I'm sick of all this political and social correctness that's been going on lately. It's been taken too damned far.

What's it about? Is it about a rich, Jewish, homosexual man and a poor, Christian, heterosexual woman?

Because that was my idea - and Spielberg stole it!