{"id":1103103,"date":"2021-12-09T15:58:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T20:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1103103"},"modified":"2021-12-09T15:58:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T20:58:32","slug":"nolte-lack-of-subtitles-in-spielbergs-west-side-story-is-exclusion-not-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-lack-of-subtitles-in-spielbergs-west-side-story-is-exclusion-not-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolte: Lack of Subtitles in Spielberg&#039;s &#039;West Side Story&#039; Is Exclusion, Not Inclusion"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fnolte-lack-of-subtitles-in-spielbergs-west-side-story-is-exclusion-not-inclusion%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=1103103&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\/spielbergwestsidestory2-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">\u201cDirector Steven Spielberg said he refused to use subtitles for the Spanish-speaking scenes in his epic&nbsp;<em>West Side Story<\/em>&nbsp;remake for the purposes of \u2018inclusivity,\u2019\u201d Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/12\/08\/spielberg-refused-subtitles-for-spanish-in-west-side-story-remake\/\">reported<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he wanted to \u201crespect the language\u201d and not give \u201cEnglish the power over the Spanish.\u201d<\/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>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\u2019s going on unless they\u2019re bilingual.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not an act of \u201cinclusion.\u201d It\u2019s an act of <em>exclusion. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>In an English-language country, there\u2019s nothing sensitive or appropriate or correct about excluding people who cannot speak or understand Spanish. Besides signaling his own virtue, all he\u2019s doing is further dividing us and further \u201cothering\u201d his own Hispanic characters and actors.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The whole idea of it is just stupid, is an act of racial pandering that makes Spielberg look ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>What kind of sissy-neurotic is going to be offended over subtitles?<\/p>\n<p>And this is not an artistic decision. This is not <em>I Love Lucy, <\/em>where subtitles would have undermined the joke of Ricky Ricardo becoming so exasperated he reverts to his first language. Instead, Spielberg\u2019s decision is a political one, and one so stupid, he\u2019s undermining his own art.<\/p>\n<p>On top of telling anyone who\u2019s not bilingual they are not entirely welcome, he\u2019s violating the number one rule of filmmaking\u2014which is clean dialogue. Audiences can deal with a picture that\u2019s out of focus or poorly lit, or whatever. But your dialogue must be clear. People need to know what\u2019s 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 <em>and<\/em> ADR, you always choose ADR. You always choose additional dialogue recording because that\u2019s a priority over a pretty picture.<\/p>\n<p>Not to belabor the point, but my wife and I are currently re-watching <em>The&nbsp;Sopranos. <\/em>There&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>You\u2019re not allowed to know what they\u2019re saying. You\u2019re not good enough. They\u2019re better than you. You\u2019re out. You\u2019re excluded. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trust me, Spielberg knows there is no better way to bring people together than through a common language.<\/p>\n<p>But Spielberg doesn\u2019t want that.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>He wants us at each other\u2019s throats. He wants to put us in separate piles. He\u2019s opposed to the idea of the melting pot, which can only come about through communication.<\/p>\n<p><em>West Side Story<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p>If we can\u2019t talk to one another, if we can\u2019t understand one another, we will always be alien to one another.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s Spielberg\u2019s goal here. He is a man of the left and the left wants us resenting one another.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDirector Steven Spielberg said he refused to use subtitles for the Spanish-speaking scenes in his epic\u00a0West Side Story\u00a0remake for the purposes of \u2018inclusivity,\u2019\u201d Breitbart News reported this week. He added &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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-1103103","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\/1103103","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103103\/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=1103103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}