Did anyone else notice this ?

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preppy-3 — 10 years ago(July 31, 2015 05:46 AM)

Well Jerome Robbins was gay and he did direct the dance numbers so you might have something there

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oprlvr33 — 10 years ago(July 31, 2015 08:48 AM)

I am no homophobeseveral good old friends in the LGBT community.
But if I were one of those Jets and realized where the camera was pointed, I would have been creeped out. And I'm sure those actors were awarethey were doing their job for the scene. But I still would have been creeped out.
Peanutlee33
Nah - he got the upsideI got the downside. See, there's two sides to every schwartz

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preppy-3 — 10 years ago(July 31, 2015 08:56 AM)

Well some of the actors playing the Sharks and Jets were gay so it probably wasn't a big deal. Also they all had dancing belts under their clothes so they were "protected"

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oprlvr33 — 10 years ago(July 31, 2015 09:15 AM)

Love dem male 'chastity belts' :))
Peanutlee33

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preppy-3 — 10 years ago(July 31, 2015 10:13 AM)

Oh me too

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Sox575 — 10 years ago(February 07, 2016 08:04 PM)

I'm going to have to watch it this again and look for these shots!
But'Cha Are, Blanche! Ya'Are In That Chair!

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friendoffilm — 10 years ago(February 08, 2016 03:22 PM)

What's funny is that I've always failed to notice the crotch shots, even though I've seen the film
West Side Story
many times!

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winy68 — 10 years ago(November 27, 2015 04:07 AM)

You watched this and this is your take away?! Really
May I suggest that you. Ah never mind

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winy68 — 10 years ago(November 27, 2015 04:45 AM)

I've always heard the stupid question is that which wasn't asked
Until I heard yours
Yours is a truly stupid question

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federovsky — 9 years ago(November 15, 2016 07:33 AM)

There was a whole gay undercurrent going on. All the action in the film were basically filtered through a gay lens. Of course, lyricist Stephen Sondheim was gay, as was choreographer Jerome Robbins, as someone pointed out above.
There are other clues - check out the introduction to the song "America" - Rita Moreno says archly: "smoke on your pipe and put THAT IN!" As she says points a finger, then twists backwards so the finger points upwards - a taunt about gay sex, oral and anal - it's pure genius and the best moment of the film, to my mind.