Spielberg’s Politically Correct “West
Side Story” Flops With Audiences
Posted By: Rand Al'Thor, 12/20/2021 5:13:24 AM
Call it Woke Side Story. Because there’s woke, really woke, über woke, and then there’s this: not including subtitles for a movie’s Spanish dialogue because you don’t want to give “English the power over the Spanish.” That’s exactly what director Steven Spielberg did, and why, in his recently released West Side Story (WSS), a “remake” of the iconic 1961 film of the same name. Spielberg says, however, that it’s not a remake but a “reimagining.” But no matter one’s imagination, it’s hard to conceive of the flick’s debut this past weekend as anything but a flop — and expensive one, too.
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Another story on West Side remake bombing. Maybe we're finally moving on from woke.