West Side Story: Difference between revisions

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* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Chino

* [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience]]: Purple and red for the Sharks, Yellow and blue for the Jets. Most obvious at the dance, but still subtly present in other scenes.

* [[Combat By Champion]]: How the climactic rumble at the end of Act I was "supposed" to go.

* [[Combat by Champion]]: How the climactic rumble at the end of Act I was "supposed" to go.

* [[Crapsack World]]:

{{quote| '''Doc:''' When do you kids stop?! You make this world lousy!<br />

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* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Tony, after killing Bernardo.

* [[My Sister Is Off-Limits]]

* [[Never Bring a Knife To A Fist Fight]]: Averted. They do. And two main characters get killed off.

* [[Never Bring a Knife to A Fist Fight]]: Averted. They do. And two main characters get killed off.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Tony successfully stops an all-out war with knives and guns, by suggesting that they merely have the strongest of the two sides fistfight. It seems like nothing worse could happen than a broken nose or two. But then ''Maria'' objects even to this, saying that ''any'' fighting is bad, and although Tony can see it leading nowhere nice to stop them, he does it because he loves her. Fast-forward. Rather than a simple fistfight, three people are dead, one is arrested and will most likely be hanged for murder, the two gangs hate each other even more (until they reconcile) and ''Maria'' survives the movie.

* [[One of the Boys]]: Anybodys tries to be this, with limited success.

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* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Boy did it ever here.

* [[The Power of Hate]]: Anita, after her near-gang rape.

{{quote| "Bernardo was right. If one of you was lying in the street bleeding, [[Kick the Son of A Bitch|I'd walk by and spit on you]]."}}

{{quote| "Bernardo was right. If one of you was lying in the street bleeding, [[Kick the Son of a Bitch|I'd walk by and spit on you]]."}}

** Maria reveals she finally understands this when she raises her gun.

* [[Rabid Cop]]: Shrank can run into this trope at times, especially when he shows himself willing to beat up the kids.

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* [[Setting Update]]: ''Romeo And Juliet'' {{smallcaps|IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY NEW YORK CITY! AS A MUSICAL!}}

* [[Sexy Discretion Shot]]: At the end of "Somewhere", Tony and Maria embrace passionately and sink from view. By the time the scene fades back in, it's pretty obvious what's happened.

* [[Shave and A Haircut]]: "Gee Of-fi-cer Krup-ke, ''[[Parenthetical Swearing|Krup You!]]''"

* [[Shave and a Haircut]]: "Gee Of-fi-cer Krup-ke, ''[[Parenthetical Swearing|Krup You!]]''"

* [[Society Is to Blame]]: "Gee, Officer Krupke"

* [[Spicy Latina]]: Anita

* [[Take It to ~~The~~ Bridge]]: The rumble at the underpass.

* [[Take It to the Bridge]]: The rumble at the underpass.

* [[The Team Wannabe]]: Anybodys

* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: When Anita arrives at the drugstore, the jukebox is playing the "Mambo" music. Also, as Doc comes downstairs, Tony whistles "Maria" to himself.

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'''Action''': When you was my age; when my old man was my age; when my brother was my age! ''You was never my age, none of you!'' The sooner you creeps get hip to that, the sooner you'll dig us. }}

* [[White Gang-Bangers]]

* [[Wide Eyed Idealist]]: Glad Hand, who tries and fails to get the gangs to befriend each other.

* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]: Glad Hand, who tries and fails to get the gangs to befriend each other.