{"id":1231,"date":"2021-12-11T10:09:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T09:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2021-12-11T10:12:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T09:12:02","slug":"lof-voor-west-side-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/2021\/12\/11\/lof-voor-west-side-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Lof voor West Side Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steven Spielbergs <em><a href=\"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/ontdek-het-werk\/#westside-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">West Side Story<\/a><\/em> beleeft nu zijn Nederlandse openingsweekend tegen de achtergrond van Sondheims recente overlijden en op een golf van lovende recensies. Spielberg maakte de film met scenarioschrijver Tony Kushner (o.a. <em>Angels in America<\/em>) met wie hij eerder ook al <em>Munich<\/em> and <em>Lincoln<\/em> maakte. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Op de populaire recensiewebsites <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/west_side_story_2021\" target=\"_blank\">Rottentomatoes<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/movie\/west-side-story-2020\" target=\"_blank\">Metacritic<\/a> behaalt de film scores van respectievelijk 93\/100 en 86\/100. Ook in Nederland zijn de recensies positief. NRC noemt het een &#8220;fantastische opfrisbeurt voor een tijdloze klassieker&#8221; en &#8220;in bijna alle opzichten een verbetering&#8221; ten opzichte van de verfilming van 1961 (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/meer-sondheim-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> te vinden). Volgens de Volkskrant balanceert de film &#8220;prachtig tussen het oude en het nieuwe&#8221;. Het AD spreekt van een &#8220;respectvol eerbetoon&#8221; en de Telegraaf vat samen dat Spielberg bewijst dat je &#8220;staande op de schouders van reuzen heel hoog kunt reiken&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dat Sondheim enthousiast was over de verfilming weten we uit een van zijn laatste interviews: &#8220;It&#8217;s terrific. Spielberg and Kushner really nailed it.&#8221; Bekijk hieronder het hele fragment uit het interview met Stephen Colbert. In <a href=\"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/meer-sondheim-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More Sondheim<\/a> vind je o.a. links naar de film van 1961 en het album van 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fyXRnmxfTXA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=498&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Spielbergs West Side Story beleeft nu zijn Nederlandse openingsweekend tegen de achtergrond van Sondheims recente overlijden en op een golf van lovende recensies. Spielberg maakte de film met scenarioschrijver Tony Kushner (o.a. Angels in America) met wie hij eerder ook al Munich en Lincoln maakte. Op de populaire recensiewebsites Rottentomatoes en Metacritic behaalt de<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/2021\/12\/11\/lof-voor-west-side-story\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Lof voor West Side Story&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":203202171,"featured_media":1235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10964,42703],"tags":[250202,2159327,236492],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nieuws","category-producten","tag-steven-spielberg","tag-tony-kushner","tag-west-side-story","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sondheimnederland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/a26f46c4-bb24-4073-8571-339228b0aa3f.jpeg?fit=836%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcTMFP-jR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203202171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}