So, what do you think happens to Maria?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — West Side Story
kmc-4 — 13 years ago(March 02, 2013 09:02 PM)
I mean, she's just lost her love and her brother. Do you think she stays in New York or goes back to Puerto Rico? Do you think she eventually marries and has children? (I can't imagine she settles for Chino, though.) Anyone have any thoughts?
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StrongRex — 13 years ago(March 03, 2013 08:25 PM)
Remember when we cut to the scene where she and Tony were sleeping in bed together? I always thought that she carried his child and gave birth after the story was over.
Also, Officer Krupke walked off with Chino at the end. I think that can only mean one thing. -
friendoffilm — 12 years ago(March 30, 2014 07:23 AM)
I'm not sure about what happens to Maria, but I do think that when Officer Krupke walked off with Chino in the end, escorting him to a waiting police car with its beacon flashing, that Chino was probably arrested for the shooting death of Tony, i. e. first-degree murder, tried, charged, and sent to prison.
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jschillig — 11 years ago(June 08, 2014 01:10 PM)
As a side note to thisI once saw a production of this (one of the best I've ever seenby a small youth theater company) with a friend who'd been a lawyer before a change of career.
She pointed out that (at least in the production we were seeing), the killings increased in seriousness as the show progressedfrom manslaughter (Riff) to murder two (Bernardo) to murder one (Tony). -
friendoffilm — 11 years ago(June 08, 2014 06:19 PM)
Wow!!
This:
She pointed out that (at least in the production we were seeing), the killings increased in seriousness as the show progressedfrom manslaughter (Riff) to murder two (Bernardo) to murder one (Tony).
is a very interesting point, which has admittedly never crossed my mind, but now that it's been mentioned, the same kind of pattern of the killings increasing in seriousness as pointed out by your friend who you saw this special stage production of
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mark.waltz — 9 years ago(November 28, 2016 11:53 AM)
There was the unfilmed sequel, "Whatever Happened to Baby John?" which shows the side story of what was going on while Tony and Maria were secretly meeting, Baby John was meeting with Chino and smoking on his pipe and putting that in. The sequel would have shown Baby John sitting in the back of the court every day, and after Chino was sent to prison, visiting him with chocolates, cookies and candy. Both actors in the movie weren't the most masculine of gang members, sort of hangers on and in need of protection, and Chino looked up to Bernardo as a big brother/protector, possibly more. Baby John, well, need I say more?
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leader-7 — 13 years ago(March 04, 2013 04:38 PM)
it took a while, but she recovered from her "first love" and ended up marrying someone her family would ultimately have approved of who had a job, was likely from their OWN KIND, and she ended up having a few children and moving to The Bronx.
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leader-7 — 13 years ago(March 09, 2013 08:13 AM)
When you're as young as they, no one could live up to your first love. I don't know how old you are, or what your sexual proclivity is but I remember being 15, 16, and having my first boyfriend a guy I had a huge crush on, and in the language of the day, "finally landed." he was a couple of years older than I and I was head over heels IN LOVE with him. No boy would suffice after our crippling collapse. Until I got over it, and there were a number of replacements. All better than he.
The point is, Maria got over it too. Gratefully, this did not have the ending on which it is modeled that of the all too tragic Romeo and Juliet, where of course, they both die.
So, I'm sure she suffered, mourned, and moved on. She's probably a grandmother in the Bronx, and one of her children is a doctor; and the other is a teacher, and her 3rd, probably heads up the Diversity Division in HR at a large multinational corporation on Park Avenue. -
leader-7 — 13 years ago(March 09, 2013 08:30 AM)
I hope she's retired by now. she probably put all three kids through college on her earnings in the bridal shop she and Anita owned.
No, we never completely forget your first love. Nor should we! I remember all of mine. Some fondly, some not so much! Some I regret ever having given the time of day to; and a couple I wish I could see again and kiss; or kill! -