{"id":1075227,"date":"2021-12-02T03:28:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T08:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1075227"},"modified":"2021-12-02T03:28:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T08:28:58","slug":"steven-spielberg-omits-spanish-subtitles-in-west-side-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/steven-spielberg-omits-spanish-subtitles-in-west-side-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Spielberg Omits Spanish Subtitles in &#039;West Side Story&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsteven-spielberg-omits-spanish-subtitles-in-west-side-story%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1075227&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WestSideStorysubtitles1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Steven Spielberg\u2019s long-awaited remake of Stephen Sondheim\u2019s hit musical, <i>West Side Story<\/i>, is raising eyebrows after the director decided to release the film without subtitles to help English-speaking audiences follow along with the Spanish dialog.<\/p>\n<p>Spielberg and writer Tony Kushner decided to hew toward authenticity for the scenes involving the Puerto Rican characters and have them speak in Spanish in many of their scenes. However, Spielberg also <a href=\"https:\/\/theblast.com\/134515\/steven-spielberg-omits-subtitles-from-west-side-story\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decided<\/a> to forego subtitles to help strictly English-speaking audiences understand what the characters are saying in the Spanish-only and mixed Spanish-English scenes, The Blast reported.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Some Spanish-speaking commenters on Twitter were thrilled that Spielberg was excluding English-speakers from understanding the Spanish scenes.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch below:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steven Spielberg&#039;s &quot;West Side Story&quot; | Legendary Audience | 20th Century Studios\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/moWEqQ_8Ato?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Journalist Yolanda Machado, for one, was amazed at the director\u2019s decision to dump the subtitles for the Spanish scenes. Machado saw the issue as a strike against white racism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWest Side Story is fantastic. White people gonna be big mad tho and good. Bless you Steven Spielberg for not subtitling when our people use our language. In a country where nearly 20 percent of the population speaks Spanish, the subtitles just further keep us othered,\u201d she tweeted. Later, though, she deleted the divisive tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Others also loved Spielberg\u2019s decision. <i>Globe and Mail<\/i> film editor Barry Hertz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HertzBarry\/status\/1465515933804503045\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praised<\/a> the lack of subtitles, calling the decision and \u201cinvigorating choice.\u201d Film critic Jeff Nelson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SirJeffNelson\/status\/1465851763538358273\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insisted<\/a> that the lack of subtitles \u201cdidn\u2019t upset\u201d him at all. And <i>Forbes<\/i> film writer Scott Mendelson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottMendelson\/status\/1465840232385835008\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exclaimed<\/a> that audiences would \u201cbarely give it a second thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But for others, the dearth of subtitles caused disappointment among those who have hearing problems or who don\u2019t speak Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Deaf community already struggles to have equal access to entertainment in the film industry. American Sign Language (ASL) is a language with a completely different grammatical structure from English or Spanish,\u201d The Blast reported, \u201chowever, there are Deaf individuals that are able to read and write in both English and Spanish. Removing subtitles from the film completely alienates them from understanding anything at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Several Twitter users echoed that sentiment and wondered why Spielberg would exclude fans who have hearing issues.<\/p>\n<p>One disappointed fan <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimRuocco\/status\/1466036014573670408\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cWhat about the people who don\u2019t understand Spanish or are deaf or hard of hearing? Shame on you, Steven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another, who wrote that he is a third generation American of Mexican descent, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hellbentfilms\/status\/1465859718560112642\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a> that his Spanish is limited, so he won\u2019t bother seeing the film if he can\u2019t understand half of what is being said.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Spielberg has made no public comment about the decision to eschew subtitles.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Spielberg\u2019s long-awaited remake of Stephen Sondheim\u2019s hit musical, West Side Story, is raising eyebrows after the director decided to release the film without subtitles to help English-speaking audiences follow &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}