West side Story is a 1950 rewrite of Romeo and Juliet
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Claim:West Side story was the most effective rewrite of Romeo & Juliet
It is the most realistic
It take place in new york
It is 1950
The background and clothing matches the era
They don't introduce the "main" character until at least ten minutes into the movie
There are no gimmicks to rope in the audience like magic or super science.
It contains an actual brutal death
There is no sugar coating for anything
The cops aren't complete dunces
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The story is straightforward but not in a childish way
Everything is right to the point
There is no forshadowing
Although there are only about two deaths in the movie (the main character and his best friend, they are greatly exaggeratted and made to feel sad, and we all know that children don't like sad
Right as Tony's friend dies, he wants to go out respected so he hands one of the jets' knife back to him before dying.
When Tony dies, he just dies, but the characters that feel his death give the audience a feeling just as bad
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Simba's Pride's story was more obvious and easier to understand
Almost everything is already known by the audience
includes "Dramatic Irony" which is when the audience knows something big but the charactors don't, resulting in lots of anxiousness from the audience thus increasing the rating of the play
It is literally a kids movie so of course the story must be understandable to children
There isn't realy much to cover on why Simba's Pride isn't an effective rewrite of romeo and juliet.
The story is slightly altered making it hard to tell which characters are meant a counterpart of one of the original characters
I originally believed that Kiara was meant to be Romeo and Kovu was Juliet in the beggining
The roles of most charcters were hard to make out.
Overall the story was simplified to make kids enjoy it
The devs of disney usually use jokes with meanings that children aren't meant to understand to make it look like the adults are enjoying the movie with their children so they are not bored
Watch almost any disney movie and there is some sort of joke that only an older audience woild understand
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