12/17/2023 0 Comments West side story intermission screenMaria waits for Tony on the rooftop of her apartment building when Chino arrives and tells her what happened. Police sirens blare and everyone flees, leaving behind the dead bodies. Tony kills Bernardo with Riff's knife in retaliation and a melee ensues. Tony tries to intervene, which leads to Bernardo killing Riff. Unwilling to watch Tony be humiliated, Riff initiates a knife fight. Tony arrives to stop it, but Bernardo antagonizes him. The following night, the Jets and Sharks meet under the highway and the fight begins as planned. Tony and Maria fantasize about their wedding ceremony. Maria has Tony promise to prevent the rumble. Tony arrives to see Maria, revealing their romance to Anita who initially objects and warns them that Bernardo would never approve, but later agrees to keep it secret. The next day at the bridal shop Anita accidentally tells Maria about the rumble. Schrank forces the Sharks out and unsuccessfully tries to discover information about the fight. When Schrank arrives, the gangs feign friendship. At Doc's store, both gangs agree on a one-on-one fist fight rumble the following night under a highway. Tony quietly meets Maria on her fire escape, where they reaffirm their love. They and their friends debate the advantages and disadvantages of America. Riff confronts Bernardo about meeting to arrange the fight.Īt home, Bernardo admonishes Maria for being naïve, and he and Anita argue that he is being overprotective. Bernardo angrily demands Tony stay away from Maria and sends her home. Tony arrives and he and Maria fall in love at first sight. At the dance, the gangs and girls refuse to intermingle. She also complains that she has no interest in Chino, the young Puerto Rican man Bernardo brought to the U.S. He tells Riff that he senses something important will happen in his life, which Riff suggests could be related to the dance.īernardo's younger sister, Maria, tells her best friend and Bernardo's girlfriend, Anita Palacio, with whom she works at a bridal shop, how excited she is about the dance as they work on altering Maria's dress. Riff invites Tony to the dance, and Tony is uninterested, but eventually agrees to come. Riff decides that his best friend Tony Wyzek, the co-founder of the Jets who left the gang, should join them for the rumble. The Jets decide to challenge the Sharks to a rumble at an upcoming dance for neighborhood control. After a brawl erupts, Lieutenant Schrank and Officer Krupke arrive and break it up. In the late summer of 1957, in the West Side's Lincoln Square neighborhood in Manhattan, there is tension between a white American gang, the Jets, led by Riff Lorton, and a Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks, led by Bernardo Nunez. 3.3 United States of America ending of war.
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