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re: "Chatty" West Side Story
Posted by: AnObserver 11:02 pm EST 12/25/21
In reply to: re: "Chatty" West Side Story - Chazwaza 10:26 pm EST 12/25/21

The lieutenant tells them they're from those oppressed groups, and that most of the people in those groups worked hard and got out of the ghetto. The parents of these guys are bums or unlucky and their kids are "white trash."

That's part of the verbosity of the film, but in a film, that's okay, I think, because a film is less a "fantasia" than a stage show with a "dream ballet." Of course there are some films that are fantasias, but I wouldn't call this one or the 1961 film fantasias.
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re: "Chatty" West Side Story
Posted by: Chromolume 11:39 pm EST 12/25/21
In reply to: re: "Chatty" West Side Story - AnObserver 11:02 pm EST 12/25/21

The parents of these guys are bums or unlucky and their kids are "white trash."

In the stage play, this is alluded to in dialogue too, but differently, with Shrank insulting the parents right to the Jets' faces. It's not spelled out the same way as in the new film, but I think it's implied that these aren't happy families in general at all. And of course in "Krupke" there are similar allusions.
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