Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story' reimagined a key character as transgender

Why would it not fit? Transgendered people were not unknown back then.

"Nothing wrong with actual Spanish language and casting actual Puetro Ricans, it fits the story. blah blah blah"

Why would there be anything wrong with that... if it fits the story (and if the actors are up to it, of course)? In what context does the foreign language appear in West Side Story Redux and could there perhaps be some artistic reason for not supplying a translation? If Spielberg went out of his way to make the film incompressible by not translating something then that would be woke. If the actors were chosen solely for their ethnicity and were shitty actors that would possibly qualify as woke.

Question: Have you seen the film to know whether if fits the story or not or if the acting was incompetent? Although Spielberg is far from my favorite director, he is technically a skilled and savvy film-maker who generally gets good performances from his actors, so I find these claims dubious without proof. There were was at least one scenes in Schindler's List were the German language was not translated. It may have been manipulative and inconsistent to do so (one of the reasons I'm wary of Spielberg) but it was done for a reason and was quite effective and heightening intensity of the Warsaw Uprising sequence. I suspect he had a reason for leaving the Spanish untranslated here.

Problem: I can think of numerous films, some of them quite famous, which didn't provide translation from a foreign language to English in some scenes. This approach has worked dramatically in some films but not others. You have to judge them on a case by case basis... but this requires actually viewing the film.

Yes, but they should have made a more unlikely character transgender.

This is not a good message to tell girls that merely because they don't match the gender stereotype for females, that they are automatically transgender.

What's wrong with a "tomboy" who knows she's a girl, is disgusted by genital mutilation, but just prefers to be butch and aggressive, not like a girly girl?

The liberal establishment is confusing the hell out of kids. Why can't a tomboy say "I am who I am, and I don't want some mad doctor messing with my body and my genitals! F**k off. I'm a tomboy! I'm a girl!"

I hated the film.

I watched the original a few months ago and when it got to the character of Anybodys (actually, until now I didn't realize that was the character's name), I remarked at the time "This character will probably be transgender in the new one." I suppose that might have been what was presented in Spielberg's film,but it's not like any great statement is being made on the subject. Tony Kushner didn't give her some speech to say defending transgendered people. Some people might actually be confused and think Anybodys is male the Jets didn't want around because he was too girlie. People are making a mountain out of a molehill here.

For the record, transgender people did exist back in the 1950s.

There is no rational arguing against the fact that the movie is woke. Those who embrace wokeness will like it, others will give it a pass. I'm in the latter category. It's okay, though; I'm perfectly happy with the 1961 version, and Spielberg doesn't need my money. Neither of us loses anything.

Non-binary are not Trans. They are just entitled narcissist who want to be edgy. It’s a new emo phase among the kids, yesterday’s emos are today’s non-binaries and neopronouns attention seekers (like demonself, bunnyself, etc).

Teenagers can be forgiven for it as they are young and stupid. The worst offenders are celebrities who want to be relevant like Demi Lovato or wannabe celebrities who want to get noticed and be praised like the actress playing Anybody in WSS. And it is mostly women.

Non-binaries are doing my head in. I have low tolerance for them. Also they take away from real trans people who are not that common as it seems these days. Today anyone can claim that they are trans for various reasons (like avoiding to go to male prison) and they are taken seriously, and crazy trans activists support them. By “trans activists” I don’t necessarily mean all trans people but some of them and more their loud allies.

But there are some common sense unwoke trans people who shed light on those issues while being called transphobic by activists and woke mob.
Make it make sense! Like Blaire White would say.

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