Now, I'll stipulate that I haven't seen it or ever intend to see it, but yeah, not including English subtitles during the Spanish speaking scenes because it gives “English the power over the Spanish" is straight up retarded, hollywood leftist nonsense.

Spielberg, seriously, you suck.

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Nolte: Lack of Subtitles in Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ Is Exclusion, Not Inclusion

“Director Steven Spielberg said he refused to use subtitles for the Spanish-speaking scenes in his epic West Side Story remake for the purposes of ‘inclusivity,’” Breitbart News reported this week.

He added that he wanted to “respect the language” and not give “English the power over the Spanish.”

In other words, anyone stupid enough to waste their money on a woke remake of an enduring Best Picture winner will have no idea what’s going on unless they’re bilingual.

That’s not an act of “inclusion.” It’s an act of exclusion.

In an English-language country, there’s nothing sensitive or appropriate or correct about excluding people who cannot speak or understand Spanish. Besides signaling his own virtue, all he’s doing is further dividing us and further “othering” his own Hispanic characters and actors.

The whole idea of it is just stupid, is an act of racial pandering that makes Spielberg look ridiculous.

What kind of sissy-neurotic is going to be offended over subtitles?

And this is not an artistic decision. This is not I Love Lucy, where subtitles would have undermined the joke of Ricky Ricardo becoming so exasperated he reverts to his first language. Instead, Spielberg’s decision is a political one, and one so stupid, he’s undermining his own art.

On top of telling anyone who’s not bilingual they are not entirely welcome, he’s violating the number one rule of filmmaking—which is clean dialogue. Audiences can deal with a picture that’s out of focus or poorly lit, or whatever. But your dialogue must be clear. People need to know what’s going on. Moviegoers understand the importance of dialogue and get frustrated if they miss something. Let me put it this way: if you make a movie and find yourself without the post-production funds to do both color timing and ADR, you always choose ADR. You always choose additional dialogue recording because that’s a priority over a pretty picture.

Not to belabor the point, but my wife and I are currently re-watching The Sopranos. There are scenes with subtitles, and not only when a foreign language is spoken, but when an actor speaking English cannot be understood due to a heavy accent.

This whole thing is Orwellian. Is there anyone reading this who would oppose Mexico or Spain or Italy or Portugal or France using subtitles when actors spoke English? Would you be in some way offended by this? The whole idea of it is ridiculous. Where did this controversy even come from?

Well, there is no controversy. Spielberg invented it. What we have here is just another attempt by the extreme left, and Spielberg is an extremist, to keep us divided, to create and incite racial resentment.

You’re not allowed to know what they’re saying. You’re not good enough. They’re better than you. You’re out. You’re excluded.

Trust me, Spielberg knows there is no better way to bring people together than through a common language.

But Spielberg doesn’t want that.

He wants us at each other’s throats. He wants to put us in separate piles. He’s opposed to the idea of the melting pot, which can only come about through communication.

West Side Story is supposed to be about overcoming our racial grievances and finding common ground through our shared humanity. Spielberg is deliberately defiling that, not for artistic reasons, but for political reasons.

If we can’t talk to one another, if we can’t understand one another, we will always be alien to one another.

That’s Spielberg’s goal here. He is a man of the left and the left wants us resenting one another.

https://www.breitbart.com/ente...usion-not-inclusion/

And some commentary from my man Jeremy at The Quartering.

Of course it is

I'll pass

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What a surprise....

Spielberg needed to 'out-woke' everyone and manufactured his own creative protest. No subtitles, I want to respect the language...brilliant.

Did Spielberg make this because it was a chance to virtue signal about English language power or because he could do a better job than the original, for a public clamoring for a movie about New York street gangs? I can't imagine anyone thinking this is a good idea.

Basically, Spielberg didn't make any money of the first one, so clearly a remake was necessary.

I won't be seeing it. Spielberg has done some good flicks. Obviously, this won't be one of them.

flashguy

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
“Director Steven Spielberg said he refused to use subtitles for the Spanish-speaking scenes in his epic West Side Story remake for the purposes of ‘inclusivity,’” Breitbart News reported this week.

He added that he wanted to “respect the language” and not give “English the power over the Spanish.”

That's just plain stupid

So when I view an Italian, French, Russian, Norwegian, Spanish film, there are to be not subtitles so I can decipher? He’s really being an idiot. English films have subtitles for China, Korea, etc. Nothing surprises me anymore.

Somethings are best left to the original. Would you repaint the Mona Lisa? Rewrite Henry V? Remake or position the pyramids? Only Spielberg would think he could do better. What an ego & lil shit.

Makes you wonder if he also stipulated that in Spanish speaking countries the English dialogue is not to be dubbed or subtitled....

I also wonder what the reception will be in Canada or the UK...

Soooooooooo…

Will the close captioning be in English and Spanish?

So the deaf people can be pissed off too?

If he's concerned about some kind of twisted equality, then surely he should have English subtitles over the Spanish and Spanish subtitles over the English.

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Originally posted by Patriot:
Soooooooooo…

Will the close captioning be in English and Spanish?

So the deaf people can be pissed off too?

It'll just be no caption for those lines, so even deaf oppressors can experience how it feels not to understand. They will be brought down a peg or two, just like the hearing oppressors.

I was made to see the original. Expecting gang fights not singing and dancing.
I do remember when Johnny Carson showed clips of Bonanza in Japanese. Maybe that is what Steven was doing.

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Now, I'll stipulate that I haven't seen it or ever intend to see it, but yeah, not including English subtitles during the Spanish speaking scenes because it gives “English the power over the Spanish" is straight up retarded, hollywood leftist nonsense.

For fuck’s sake. The way these people try to outdo each other is literally laughable. I can almost picture Spielberg and crew in a room laughing about how ridiculous it will be to do this, but knowing that it will get them lot’s of love from the right groups.

Hey, Steve? Besame el culo.

didn't exactly open to massive $$$ results

https://www.hollywoodreporter....me-debut-1235061313/


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And they intentionally spent $100 million to make a film that looks so bad?

I will not give hollyweird any of my money anymore. Fuck those commie turds!

It's tanking at the box office, oops.

I think movie theaters are dead men walking and never coming back.

Was at the movies for the first time in a long while for The Chosen Christmas Special and it just felt shabby and rundown and sad in there. Two employees working in the whole place that I could see and when the movie let out, the lobby was dark and deserted as if the employees had just left us there to lock up.