Spielberg: “Tony felt very liberal and wanted to include a lot of Spanish in…
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Spielberg: “Tony felt very liberal and wanted to include a lot of Spanish in the movie. Our decision was that we would not #subtitle it out of respect for the language.
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#WestSideStory #L3AVT #subtitlingheadlines #directorsandsubtitles
It’s our second language in this nation, and why should our language provide a crutch for the second language, which is Spanish.”
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I wanted to let the people who see the movie laugh in places no one else will get. But none of the language is so foreign in terms of how the performers are enacting the words. You know what they are saying. You can feel what they are saying;
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you don’t have to understand the words to understand the intentions and the drama or comedy that’s talked about in Spanish. So we felt it was an absolute necessity not to subtitle.”
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