From our special correspondent in New York
Shoot the legendary
West Side Story
prologue
in the same location as it was in 1961?
Quite simply impossible!
Robert Wise had indeed filmed the opening scene of his adaptation of the musical in the condemned buildings and the rubble of San Juan Hill, a neighborhood of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, predominantly African-American and Puerto Rican, razed by urban planner Robert Moses for a vast real estate project including Lincoln Center.
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West Side Story
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“A single wrecking ball pulverized the territory of each of the factions. Entire neighborhoods were demolished and populations displaced. All of these young people, Jets and Sharks alike, have faced this upheaval. They are fighting for a territory that disappears before their eyes,
analyzes Steven Spielberg
.
And I knew that if I had to tell this story again, it had to be as much as possible on the real streets of New York, with real characters,
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