#west side story Maria

[yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere]

I LOVE THEM BOTH SO MUCH ♥ ♥

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♥. https://twitter.com/ThisIsGSage23/status/1733084743330058734

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[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would Maria…

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[nylatrashcan]

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[zeglyth]

WEST SIDE STORY dir. steven spielberg

[doctorsiren]

A bunch of doodles to help calm my anxious mind today

[laurapetrie]

NATALIE WOOD in WEST SIDE STORY (1961) I never like anybody disparaging anything Natalie did because | think she’s so wonderful in the role and the fact that it ended up not being her [singing] voice, to me made absolutely no difference. - GEORGE CHAKIRIS

[metallicmikus]

cinematic parallels anyone?

[tomkeirblyth]

MARIA VASQUEZ West Side Story (2021)

[princesssarisa]

Rachel Zegler's casting as Maria in West Side Story, Disney's Snow White, and now Shakespeare's Juliet onstage is very interesting, because of the way all three characters are connected.

Maria, of course, is directly based on Juliet, since West Side Story is a Romeo and Juliet retelling.

But Disney's Snow White (the animated version) has a fair amount of Juliet-inspired imagery about her too. I've posted about this before. Like Juliet, Snow White is 14 years old, which I've always suspected is no coincidence. The imagery in "One Song," with Snow White standing on a balcony as the Prince woos her from below, is obviously Romeo and Juliet-like. Later, from the poisoned apple, Snow White falls into a state that looks like death, but isn't really death; unlike in the Grimm's tale, where she really dies but removing the piece of apple from her mouth brings her back to life, in the Disney film the victim of "sleeping death" is explicitly still alive all along. ("Buried alive!" as the Queen gloats.) In short, the apple is like Juliet's potion, except it doesn't wear off. And when the Prince approaches Snow White's coffin and kisses her lips, he looks like the classic image of Romeo approaching Juliet's bier and kissing her lips before his suicide. When Snow White was in production, the 1936 film version of Romeo and Juliet starring Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer had just been released, and Walt Disney had his animators watch the balcony and tomb scenes as a reference for Snow White and the Prince's two love scenes. Even Snow White's hairstyle looks like a slightly shorter version of Norma Shearer's hairstyle as Juliet. And in 1939, on the heels of Snow White's great success, her voice actress Adriana Caselotti spoke the line "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" during the Tin Man's song in The Wizard of Oz.

How strangely fitting that the current decade should see Juliet, Maria, and Snow White all played by the same actress!

(For that matter, Rachel Zegler isn't the only West Side Story Maria with a Disney Princess connection. Natalie Wood, who played Maria in the original 1961 film, was one of the actresses used by Disney animators as a model for Belle in Beauty and the Beast – allegedly they had photos of her in the studio to literally draw inspiration from – and the 1961 film's camera angles as Tony dies in her arms are recreated fairly closely for the Beast's "death" in Belle's arms. But that's another story.)

[tonymarias]

tag yourself

[brat-pack-it-up-boys]

The outsiders west side story au

[yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere]

she's just so cool!!

[princesscomplexed]

i will not lie, i was more invested in them than the main couple ♡ not to mention ariana debose stealing the movie (imo).

[m00nchi16]

I’m taking requests!

I’m gonna start posting fics/one shots/smuts on here for yall so if you have any requests I’ll take em!

Fandoms I write for: X-men (2000s & prequels), criminal minds, smosh, challengers, west side story, hunger games, some celebs

(The main) People I’ll write for: Spencer Reid, Matthew gray gubler, Emily prentiss, Aaron hotchner, Jennifer jareau, Elle greenway, Art Donaldson, Rogue, Bobby Drake, Logan Howlett, Raven darkholme, Hank McCoy, Ian hecox, Courtney miller, Rachel zegler, Mike Faist, Maria (WSS), Riff (WSS), Lucy gray Baird, Peeta melark, Katniss Everdeen

This list is mainly full of people I personally love or know well personality wise but I’m open to doing others 🙏

Disclaimers: I will not be doing any cnc or anything like that due to my own trauma and will not write any rough smut or anything to do with children obviously, if you do put in a request just wait plz don’t continue to ask when it’ll be out that’s just kinda annoying (if it’s been like a month obviously you can ask about it but don’t do it like the day after or anything like that)

[femmehysteria]

I'm doing a series of "Best Character Named X" polls where all the characters have the same first name but are from completely different media, feel free to send in name/charcacter suggestions, I'm posting one poll a day, check my pinned post for active polls

[zeglyth]

New lore just dropped