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  • A boy who kills can not love.

    But Bernardo killed Riff...?

  • this song makes me cry every.single.time.

  • Anita is not a bitch. Her love was killed. She's so upset and devastated, and worst, the man who killed him is with her "sister". I think Anita is one of the bravest character, because after all this, she still tries to help Maria be with with Tony, even after Tony killed Bernardo.

  • I was raised on this musical (literally).

  • God Maria is the worst fictional character in the entire world I despise her so much.

  • Glee did a version of West Side Story? O.o

  • I love Glee and I love Eest Side Story..

    problem?

  • I'm so grateful to Glee for covering this and a bunch of my other favorite pieces of music/ artists. Spread the music, spread the love! :D

  • ohmygod!! i feel so bad for anita!!!!!!:'(

  • Maria is a selfish little Bi*ch

  • This has nothing to do with Glee. I don't understand why people come to watch this stuff and then complain about how bad this generation is and how bad Glee is. What does that have to do with the song or the musical? Nothing, so just enjoy it. It pisses me off when all I want to do is listen to a nice song, and I see those comments. Your just looking for something to complain about. Can't we forget about glee and just agree that the singers are talented and the play is wonderful?

  • It kind of disappoints me that so many people came here because of Glee. West Side Story is a classic, what's happening? :l

  • first off 25 people are smokin' crack if they dont like West Side Story, its a damn classic for Christ's sake. And NOT down playing Glee BUT THIS is WEST SIDE STORY. This classic legend was here WAY longer before Glee came about and there should be no reason to "bring" anyone to this, but I guess for the younger generation I suppose Glee stands as a catalyst, which leaves me to the question why is my generation or older generations, not turning our younger gen to the classics? Step it up guys!

  • @paul18williams1 exactly!

  • Amazing ! Anita is really scary here !

  • Anita is amazing figur in this movis. Is adatation by the nurs i thing.... Srry my english is very bad

  • Oh yea, glee sucks! Hahaha

  • My mom took me to this movie when it first came out, I was 5 years old, it stuck with me for my next 50 years, I dont know what it was about it, but it was like a peak experience that forever is burned deeply within my soul. I never would ever watch it again, so I wouldn't spoil that forever moment.... and believe me in the 70's it was rock & roll, drugs, jails, prison and the madness of addictions that still haunts me now. But I still got that movie, just me and my mom.

  • Maria's voice is so amazing!

  • "A boy like dat, who keell your braaather."

  • Anyone else find it a bit insensitive that, when Anita's boyfriend has just been killed, Maria is singing "I have a love!" loudly in her face?

  • Although I know the vocal is technically better with a pro singer, I feel really bad that Rita didn't get to use HER voice for the song. It seems like the emotion she would've put into it would've been more real.

  • @transitive1 yeah I feel like there could have been so much more emotion in this song too if she would have sang it herself. But I also get that they would choose for a professional.

  • "you should know better" phhh look who talking

  • I love this song<3

  • Watch this movie everyday,I love it!nothing compares team sharks!

  • Glee could never compare to West Side Story. This is one of the best films of all time. OF ALL TIME!

  • My favorite West Side Story song, and one of my favorite scenes from the movie!

  • I love Glee, but the original has so much more intensity that that one.

    Rita is awesome!

  • I love Naya Rivera, but her version lacks emotion. Rita Moreno leaves me in tears every time.

  • I prefer the Glee version, but this is really good.

  • my friend sings this to me in the hallway, just to make me all emotional .

  • Anitas singing and all, and all Maria has to say is, "No, Maria!" and she shuts the hell up!

  • Wow, why every video of a musical, song or clip we've seen (and heard) in Glee always lead to that kinda argument ? I would have been really pissed if Glee had made disappear the original songs because people would prefer an easier access to them, through the show, like for "Harry Potter", I would hate the movies if people who have seen them doesn't read the book because they "already know the story" , but if Glee makes discover all these amazing songs to people, I think it's pretty amazing !

  • It's pretty pathetic that people who like glee are supposedly huge lovers of musicals. If that's the case, how could you possibly have skipped over one of the greatest musicals of all time? Glee did not bring me here, my love of real film did.

  • @TangerineTrees24 Gleeks just like glee. Some of them knows about musical, some of them not. I watched this movie because of Glee. Glee did bring me here.

  • As much as I love Glee, it didn't bring me here, I knew about West Side Story about 8 years ago. I LOVE MUSICALS!

  • Still gives me chills...

    And all versions, (Glee, Live, Film) are amazing in their own right, in their own ways.

  • Glee did not bring me here. It was SELENA QUINTANILLA Cover who brought me here! =D

  • This version is better in my opinion because Rita Moreno has more emotion in her vocals and Marni Nixon's vocals are astounding even though Lea Michele is amazing aswell

  • I'm a gleek, and I think that both versions are good, but this one is way more emotional ;D

  • Oh c'mon Gleeks stop this boring discussion, I'm a Gleek too but the original song will ALLWAYS be the original song, YEAH IT'S BETTER :)

  • glee vocals are NOT autotuned its there real voice stupids -.-t

    if not they wouldnt choose them :D

    #_justsayin (:

    west side story has good voices too :b

  • @embracexthexstars1 thank you!! I love glee but it just doesn't compare to a broadway classic!!

  • glee is not and never will be better

  • @embracexthexstars1 Glee's vocals are BETTER.

  • @RoseMckenzieKimball1 Glee's vocals are AUTOTUNED.

  • @embracexthexstars1 They're not. Anyway, this vocals sucks. I like the movie, but the vocals are so bad. There's even people who is not really singing. Thank god for the dancing.

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  • @RoseMckenzieKimball Are you aware that

    1 Glee is auto-tuned

    2 The Glee version is transposed down a key

    3 In the Glee track Lea audibly struggles to hit one of the final notes in their version even though it had already been transposed down. Finally on Glee they decided to sacrifice diction for the sake of better singing and the film version focuses more on the diction. You can think Glee's vocals are better but it's not a fair comparison.

  • dang natilie is dead 2

  • Don't compare the GLEE Version to this Version. The two versions are very good in their own different ways!

  • Great but I like the glee version a little better

  • oh no Anita no!

  • @eltesto Epic.

  • I seriously didn't get this movie. I fell in love with Tony really hard, I was like 'Wow, you're flawless'. Then he killed Bernardo. And Maria is so stupid. He killed you're freaking brother. I would kill anyone who dare to touch my sister. Obviously, it seem Maria didn't care about his brother enough. Such a frustrating and unrealistic film.

  • @RoseMckenzieKimball1 This isn't supposed to be the most realistic thing in the world. West Side Story shows people that true love can conquer all, and i'm not sure if you've watched all of it, but Tony didn't mean to kill Bernardo and doesn't understand why Maria still loves him. Maria loves him after that because she knows that he truly didn't he isn't a murderer at heart and that if her brother was alive he would want her to be happy and not give up her life for the dead.

  • @Brittana623 i suppose so yea but in reality this wouldnt happen cause if i was anitaa i would actually murder her...she really loved bernardo as she says at the end,He bought maria to america to marry Chino so he was only thinking of her and chino really loved maria as you can see in his eyes when he looks at her...i wanted Annitaa to hit her cause she really annoyed me when she attacked him and then hugged him :L make up your mind...:) x

  • @RoseMckenzieKimball1 Shut...your....face.

  • @rosalierox247 What.the.actual.fuck?

  • @RoseMckenzieKimball1 You probably didn't get it because you probably don't know its a modern version of Romeo and Juliet. If you did, you probably would not look for strict reality within the story. Of course its frustrating, it's not like everything is nice and easy for the characters. And as far as unrealistic goes...have you read any Shakespeare at all? Realism does not determine the beauty of something. West Side Story (as well as Romeo and Juliet) are beautiful classics.

  • @TangerineTrees24 Uh, I do know, about how this is a modern version of Romeo and Juliet. Yep, Hamlet. But it was just for school. And whatever, this is definetely a classic, I'm not arguing that. Gee, mine was just an opinion.

  • Ive known you a whole day...im tottally in love with you already...so in love even if you kill my brother who i have known all my life i will still have an undieng love for you cause i have known you for a whole day and have fell inlove.

    Yeah as if what a load of crap, if he had killed my brother i would kill him more painfully!

    still love west side story though and i loved bernanrdo :( x

  • @TheBethandAnnie My feeling exactly, I was writing my rant, then I saw yours and wow, we're soulmates. No. Not really.

  • Thumbs up if you were a fan of West Side Story and this song before Glee

  • I love GLEE... but you cant beat the original...it makes sense you wouldnt have the glee version if it wasnt for this version and i dont like santana as anitaa so :L

  • @TheBethandAnnie Tha vocals are better in Glee, though.

  • @RoseMckenzieKimball1 yes i tottaly agree.But i love west side story sooo much that the vocals dont matter to me :D

  • I dont like what the jets did to anita when she went to the store. I was team jets all the way but then they pulled that move and i got mad.

  • God, I love West Side Story, but I just can't watch it. Maria is the biggest bitch ever! The dude just killed you brother and you still think he's the perfect guy. If I were Anita i'd be kicking the crap out of her for being a selfish brat -_-

  • This is what glee is good for, discovering/rediscovering fantastic music. :-)

  • Anita's eyes are so beautiful.

  • Anita is amazing but her voice sounds very...idk really i guess flat. she is still beautiful though!

  • @Bonanza827 actually... natalie wood (the actress playing anita here) wasn't singing. she was dubbed over :(

  • oops!! confused myself :) you're totally right! got anita & maria mix up. sorry!

  • tumbs up if glee bring you here

  • @holacami1 I'm sorry, but that's not a true thespian or actor move...

    I love glee, but this is one of the most well-known musicals. You should come here because your knoweldgeable of the musical theatre community.

  • @holacami1 wow glee really?

  • @snoopysofr3sh Im not saing that glee is better I onestly think that west side story is better by far, but I simply say that by glee I started to get interesed by it. Sorry if my inglish is not good, I speek spanish :S

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  • i like it when anita sings not maria

  • Didn't Selena sing this?

  • Anita's lack of vocal range makes me love her character even more :D

    Maria sings good but her character's too dumb XD

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  • i have the movie 

  • ok so Anita says a boy who kills has no love a boy who kills has no heart but Nardo killed riff soo ya..

  • Im so thankful to Glee, if it werent fot them i would never know about west side story!

  • according to imdb three of the main characters were lipsyncing

  • Are you blind or deaf whatwhat17 Rita Moreno has the intensity to sing this song, Also Rita won an Oscar for the Anita

  • the glee versin is beter

  • Brilliance...

  • You can so tell that Natalie is miming lol But Marnie Nixon has a heavenly voice.

  • stick toy your own kind <3 ... in one side ill understand maria... but they killed Anita loves... u.u" ...Oh very smart Maria very smart

  • I think here is more spoken and in Glee is like sang...I hate that Rachel didn't put an effort making the accent -.-

  • For all you people saying the glee version is better Rita is way better look at the expression on her face. The glee version still good though but no intensity

  • did Maria seriously face the wall at 0:53?

    such a wonderful way of avoiding confrontation. -__-

  • @TheConcreteBone Very smart, Maria, very smart! :)

  • maybe cause its cause i heard the glee version first but i feel like naya rivera blows this anita waaaaay out of the water.

  • @haleybailey19 Naya Rivera does an amazing version... but still... Rita Moreno's voice is way better than Naya's here :) She's simple awesomely strong.... both here and in America :) still... Naya did extremely well.

    And I'm a Glee fan :D and actually Listened Glee Version first :) but I still luke this version better...

  • @Doriard1989 *like

  • Nothing is better than the original. Nothing. I love that last note, it gives me goosebumps every time!

  • @BrownEyedGirl5643 The original was the Broadway production 4 years before this movie though.

  • No, the glee version is much better.

  • Maria made me so angry....c'mon, at least in the actual Romeo and Juliet Romeo only killed her cousin, not her brother. I think brother makes it a little more serious, you can't just decide it doesn't matter cuz you love him..

  • Rita Moreno and Natali Wood are wonderful:)))

  • R.I.P Natalie! 30 years

  • I think the Glee version is better i'm so sorry.

  • @xDropje1 You're tripping. 

  • you cant do it better than the original or else your doing it wrong

  • I like Anita <3<3

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  • Marni Nixon is a GODDESS. Natalie's acting is wonderful, as well.

  • <3

  • to this day it still surprises me how ok maria was at the death of bernardo just because she got some action

    yet when tony, a guy she has known for 2 days, dies she threatens to shoot everyone up and then kill herself

    don't get me wrong i love west side story, i'm juuuust saying...

  • rita moreno is perfect. there isn't a better anita

    debbie allen is a close second though

    rita moreno just embodies her for me

    perfect

  • It's me or Santana does it better?

  • he killed her brother...wow hes a jerk

  • I'll never understand why Betty Wand had to sing for Rita Moreno. Rita was a triple threat; she could act, dance, AND sing magnificently.

  • @TangerineTrees24 I think it's because some of the notes were to low for Rita's range. I'm pretty sure this is the only song that Betty Wand sang for her.

  • West Side Story=A Classic Forever <3

  • Anita looks like Naya Rivera...haha!

  • 2:08 how ironic. Maria wears the exact same cross as Quinn Fabray. Just had to point that out. Glee and West Side Story are both awesome, though the latter is a bit more awesome than the former. End of story.

  • Holy crap, I just realized that Natalie Wood was the little girl in Miracle on 31st Street!!! That's why she looks so familiar. hehe

  • Poor Anita.No boyfriend anymore and an idiot friend

  • @ravenclawwithatardis i disagree its love get used 2 it

  • @allie23f wait no offense but what does that have to do with my comment. I mean maria doesnt even seem to care this dude just KILLED HER BROTHER.

  • @ravenclawwithatardis O im sorry i was replying to a different comment and clicked urs on accident sry bout that and yes i agree with u. she does have an idiot friend. Sry bout the mix up. :)

  • This is a powerful, but very stupid song.

    "A boy who kills cannot love...a boy who kills has no heart."

    Bernardo did kind of kill Riff....

  • yeah but riff did run at him with a knife...i would have stabbed him too (self defence) its insgtinct i suppose and if you look at his face its like :0 OMG what the hell have i done but before he can say anything toni stabs hi :( i was totally team sharks all the way just because of bernado and anitaa <3 they are my favourite characters...i hate what happens to anita in the store! she was only trying to help Maria

  • Rita Moreno and Natalie Wood were both soooo pretty!

  • Saw this film as a child, this entire story takes place in 2 days. They meet at the Gym the first day, the rumble is the second night.

  • "it's true for you, not for me..."

    oy. if i had a nickel everytime i heard that one...

  • to me theyre not amazing singers, but it must the expression in the voice and how they sing it? am i right

  • @xxibeckyxx Well, Marni Nixon, who is heard here singing for Natalie Wood, is quite a well known and very accomplished Operatic Soprano so I'm not sure quite what you mean by "they're not amazing singers" and Betty Wand, who sang here for Rita Moreno, is also known for singing for many movies, radio and television.

    Marni Nixon has perfect pitch, and has performed on stage, opera houses, countless recordings and of course sang for Natalie Wood, Audrey Hepburn and Deborah Kerr. Amazing she is.

  • Yes Glee brought me here but I like this one as well

  • Sometimes I wonder, it's been said many times that NATALIE WOOD wanted very much to do her own singing in this film. However, Natalie's singing voice was not up to the vocal demands of this score - and in this number particularly, I wonder if Natalie truly thought she could handle it vocally - was she not aware of her own vocal limitations?

  • @JohnnyGNV

    As far as I know, it was agreed right from the start that she was unable to sing this piece, and so Natalie Wood filmed this song to Marni Nixon's voice. But she shot "I Feel Pretty" and "Tonight" to her own voice and was dubbed afterwards. Natalie Wood always knew that she would be dubbed for high notes and operatic moments - but little did she know that they would throw everything she had recorded out of the window.

  • @RobinGoodFellovv Yes, what you say makes sense although there are conflicting stories. Russ Tamblin who played Riff claims that Natalie recorded "all the songs" and that she might have gotten away with it (I doubt that) - and Rita Moreno claims that Natalie did the filming to her own singing. I think the most Natalie could have sung would have been the low note portions of the simplier tunes, such as "I feel Pretty", and even that was a stretch. Robert Wise claims that Natalie understood.

  • @JohnnyGNV: There's a very interesting interview of Moreno & Nixon in the Puerto Rico Herald:

    Ms. NIXON: You know, I have no recollection except it might have been one of the duets--and maybe Rita would know--that was planned for me to do all along. So maybe she was singing to my voice during the filming. I've forgotten that completely.

    Ms. MORENO: You know what, Marni? I think your voice was on that one...

    Ms. NIXON: Yeah, I think it was all me.

  • bernardo killed riff tonys best friend tony kills bernardo in a fit of rage

  • So, he murdered her brother . But she's like . Naaah, it's ok, I love him .

    WTF?! xD Maria truly is . The dumbest mu... Ok forget about that, Christine Daae just came to my mind .

  • @BrunoRivas2007 so true...

  • lol, you guys talking about not liking Maria. You must not like Juliet either since its the same exact story. good riddance. The music is the only thing that makes this a step better than the horrible story of Romeo & Juliet.

  • @Lilixaudre The story line is, but not the character. Juliet and Maria are 2 different people, people don't have to like her

  • I seriously love Naya Rivera, Lea Michele and all the wonderful Glee Cast, but this version is so much better than the cover.

  • @MattiBros I agree, and I just love the accent...

  • idk i prefer the glee version :P

  • @etredelicieux youre joking right?

  • @missbarauda What, people can't have their own personal preferences? I like both.

  • He was your brother Maria!!

  • Maria is one of the dumbest people. It's like "Maria I NEED YOU!!" and then Maria's just like "...Tony's Hot!! xD"

    Anita: ....he killed your brother.

    Maria: Well at least I have someone & mine's not DEAD.

    Anita: ......

    Maria: heheh u mad girl?

  • @IamSuperMooMoo LOL ikr

  • @IamSuperMooMoo hahahaha youre totally right but i mean ,even when the arguments are not good enough theyre totally lovely toghether

  • I love Maria and everything but I kinda hate it when she's singing about her and her love when Anita's love just died. It just makes me mad, sad, annoyed...

  • The "Very smart, Maria" part gives me chills. I can actually feel Anita's sorrow for Bernardo when she sings to Maria.

  • Thumbs up if you always wanted Maria's bedroom door.

  • YOU'LL MEET ANOTHER BOY TOMATO. 

  • Amazing

  • i love west side story... just love it, i remember the 1st time i saw it on stage, i was sooo young and i loved it!! love musicals!! <3

  • ya I think I like Anita better than Maria too lol.

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  • am i like the only thing whos seeing something wrong here? O.o i mean, the Tony characted KILLED HER BROTHER O.o that's insaaaane, buddy! >:I just defending him makes you conceited and self-centered...

  • its the story or Romeo and Juliet. Romeo killed Juliet's brother its just a recreation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet