In his B+ review of “West Side Story,” IndieWire’s senior film critic David Ehrlich called Spielberg’s decision to omit subtitles a “genius” move that “offers a richer sense of context than any previous version of the show has been allowed before.” Ehrlich added of the movie, “It’s a wonderful musical, and an unabashed Steven Spielberg movie. This was not going to happen in this film, I needed to respect the language enough not to subtitle it.”

“If I subtitled the Spanish I’d simply be doubling down on the English and giving English the power over the Spanish. “That was very important and that goes hand-in-hand with my reasoning for not subtitling the Spanish,” Spielberg continued. 'Loki': Everything You Need to Know About Marvel's Disney+ Series 'The Last of Us': Everything You Need to Know About HBO's Adaptation 'Spider-Man' Opens to $260 Million This Weekend, Changes the Movie Business “Especially Puerto Rico, we looked a lot in Puerto Rico, we have 20 performers in our film from Puerto Rico or they’re Nuyorican.Īs the 2021 Box Office Ends on a High, the Future of Theatrical Releasing Remains Unclear “That was a mandate that I put down to Cindy Tolan who cast the movie, that I wasn’t going to entertain any auditions that aren’t parents or grandparents or themselves from Latinx countries,” Spielberg said.

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