Guillermo del Toro explains why he thinks the gym scene in Steven Spielberg's WestSideStory is genius.
Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro has praised the direction of Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, breaking down the gym dance scene. The 2021 remake of the classic 1961 musical was directed and co-produced by the famed E.T director. Del Toro won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director for The Shape of Water in 2018.
— Guillermo del Toro February 26, 2022 If you attempt to really breaking down the tools and how he uses them- you have to do it in a second or third viewing. You feel like Salieri getting the Requiem dictation from Mozart: "Wait- wait- you're going too fast!" — Guillermo del Toro February 26, 2022 This is the reason why cinema is written not in theme, story or character but in painterly, symphonic terms. Discussing a film purely on its dramaturgy is like describing a Van Gogh as "A painting with a bunch of flowers"
— Guillermo del Toro February 26, 2022 When you dissect a Sirk move or a Hitchcock or an Ophüls or a beautiful Kalatozov or- you name it- you come closer to listening to the movie in its own voice- not the voice inherited from theatrical or literary tradition. WSS is intoxicating, Heisenberg-level pure, uncut Cinema.
— Guillermo del Toro February 26, 2022 Allow me to say this: celebrate the language. Speak of that language, or it will become Esperanto. And it starts with keeping the concern in the foreground- So... to those in charge: screw the ratings and embrace the craft.
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