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the-racer · 2 months

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the scene in west side story where the jets try to gang rape anita is so hard to watch for multiple reasons.

1) its so real. like women go through that for real. and anita screaming and trying to defend herself is so real. it just hurts, as a woman, to watch that and watch them make fun of her and rip her dress and everything.

2) the jets literally rip her dress and force her to the ground and they're like laughing and excited meanwhile one of their own- their leader- just died. in the place of a woman who hates them buy is sheltering them from the cops out of respect for tony and riff. like the jets just seem so evil in that scene. it makes my skin crawl.

3) grazie. i could write a full essay on grazie on that scene. but like. fuck she makes it so much more emotional. the jets men are taunting her and making fun of anita and grazie just wants her to leave them to grieve. she just tells her to leave. and then the men start taunting anita and grazie literally grabs balkan and forces him away from anita. she tells them to let her go, to leave her alone, to stop it. and then they all start making anita dance with them and they pull off her shawl and grazie starts yelling. she fights with them to the point that the men pick her up and have to force her out. and even then she tries to grab onto anita and stay with her and pull her away from the jets. because she's a woman and gets it and gets the fear. because she like does not care about the whole racist feud, she cares about the sisterhood and making sure other women are safe. and then they lock her out and she screams and cries and pounds on the door and begs them to not hurt anita. she stays there, doesn't run or hide so she doesn't have to watch. she stays and screams at them. and waits, even when valentina saves anita. she stands out there, waits for anita. only after anita is out and already heading home does grazie move. and even then she stands on the steps and watches anita's back. i wish they'd shown grazie try and like check on anita once she finally escapes the store. grazie is just the best example of women protecting women.

like the scene just hurts to watch. all of it. like it actually hurts. but anita and grazie grabbing each other's wrists to hold on to each other and anita screaming at grazie to help her will always be the saddest and most painful part for me.

#grazie just makes me feel things in that scene #like shes screaming and crying too because shes trying to protect anits #and anita makes me so sad the way she screams at them and is crying afterward #like it makes me tear up #west side story #anita west side story #anita wss #wss 2021 #graziella west side story #graziella wss #theyre the best example of the sisterhood ive ever seen

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riffheartsgraziella · 2 months

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#riff x graziella #riff west side story #graziella west side story #mike faist #paloma garcia-lee #west side story #west side story 2021

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jilllovesmike · 10 months

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More Mike Faist love from his Graziella.

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a-way-of-forgiving · 4 months

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i haven’t posted in over a year lol but my wss fixation is lowkey coming back??? anyways graziella and velma are so special to me. i love them so much. my favorite besties. they’re always there for each other and i love when that is represented in fics.

#west side story 2021 #wss #graziella west side story #velma west side story #graziella x velma #graziella and velma #the jets #the jet girls #paloma garcia lee #maddie ziegler #gina trikonis #carole d’andrea #west side story #west side story 1961

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behold-the-brave-battalion-17 · 1 year

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Valentina: How would you like your coffee?

Graziella: As sweet as my boyfriend.

Valentina: I don’t have that much salt.

#valentina west side story #graziella west side story #graziella wss #riff west side story #riff wss #west side story #west side story 2021 #wss #west side story incorrect quotes

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my-monologues-to-my-brain · 2 years

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If there's something i remember about the first time i ever watched West Side Story, it's just how much the scene of Anita in Doc's store hit me. It was the 1961 movie, with Rita Moreno as Anita, and part of the heaviness i remember feeling is tied to her performance though i know it's about more than that. In a story with 3 main character deaths, 3 violent deaths, it's not the violence in those deaths what hit me the most. I didn't cry watching the rumble. I didn't cry watching Tony die, nor Maria's breakdown afterwards. I cried watching Anita's pain while she spit out the words.

"You tell that murderer that Maria's never going to meet him. You tell him that Chino found out about them and shot her. She's dead".

It's been years in between then, watching the story unfold for the first time, and now, watching Spielberg's adaptation. I still find myself caught in Anita's pain. She loves Maria to the point of agreeing to help the man that killed Bernardo, she loves Maria so much that she decides to help the man who she would rather see dead, all while deep in mourning. No time to ease the pain. She decides to help anyway, for love. And her love is met with violence. So much violent cruelty that we watch her break, right there, in front of us.

"She's dead".

The 2021 film is different in many places, including Anita's scene at Doc's, but i loved it. This scene in particular is a good example of how i feel many of those differences complement the original point and add to my love for the story. Like by having the girls from the Jets there. It hit me like hell, watching it. Not because this scene is better than it's former version, not because it one ups it. It hit me like hell because that pain, that visceral fear that struck me watching Anita walk in the store in the 1961 version -the first time that i watched it and every single time i've watched it since-, that feeling struck me all over again, and i got to see it reflected in the faces of the other girls too. In their faces, in their panic. And in their cries. I felt the air choking me, that fear, that god damned fear cause you know. Fucking hell you know. And i knew they felt it too.

It ocurred to me that perhaps that's the thing that separates hate from violence. It's empathy that stops hate from turning violent.

The girls are no exception from the hatred that stains the story. They yell at Anita for speaking spanish, they throw insults just like the Jets. How dare you be here. You don't belong here. I do. And i will tell you just how much you don't have a right to even look me in the eye right now. The divide is there, the hate is there, just the same. They don't second guess any of it until they see it in the boys faces, until they hear the change in their voices and their words. They know what comes next the same way that i know it. And the fear is no longer in just my lungs, no longer in just my throat. It's then that it's not just my fear. It's ours. When the camera frame catches them, i see my fear in their eyes and i know. I just know.

And it would be naive to think that this moment will change everything. That's not how people work. The girls won't change their minds right then and there, and the hatred that has stained them and everything around them their whole lifes won't disappear just like that. That hatred we inherit, and feed into, and make our own either actively or passively, it must be unlearned. But this is how change starts. It starts with empathy.

Empathy is what stops hate from turning violent. So many have asked if it was really necessary to have another West Side Story, but watching it i do think it makes sense to retell the stories, to bring front and center the tales we have already told. And with them, the empathy we find in them. And we hope if we can't heal this hate right now, we can at least stop it's violence until we do.

#west side story #west side story 1961 #west side story 2021 #wss #wss 1961 #wss 2021 #anita west side story #graziella west side story #the jets west side story #the sharks west side story #steven spielberg #rita moreno #adriana debose

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outerbanksoftargtower · 2 years

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if your just going off of this part it looks as if Riff said something he thought was funny / or something stupid and Grazi isn’t having any of it and is pushing him away .

#mike faist #paloma garcia lee #west side story 2021 #riff west side story #graziella west side story #riff and grazi dance at the gym 2021 #wss riff and graziella 2021 #my gif

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this-hattan-newsie · 2 years

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Art and the Jets:

* Riff's favourite type of art is music. It's not too deep, there is no need to overthink or even understand something in it, you just feel and it's enough. Dancing around or just sit and listen i think he likes it either way.

* Graz's favourite type of art is obviously dancing. It's just so much passion and energy in it. It's even better when you grab everyone's attention.

* Balkan is a theatre fan. He loved to pretend since childhood and playing with neighborhood boys, but he just really enjoy the idea of lying to everybody and no-one knows about it

* Tony is this strange poetry guy. He sees the sence in every tiny detail and think about it all day. Oh, and he write this cringey romantic letters to Maria.

And for all the Jets art is probably the opportunity to escape the reality that they don't like .

#west side story 2021 #riff west side story #graziella west side story #the jets west side story

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jomarchswritingjacket · 2 years

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not me watching west side story 2021 for the first time (fucking finally) and shouting DAYUM the very second riff and graziella appear

#west side story #riff lorton #graziella west side story #good god i am BI

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westsideblog · 2 years

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A/N: I said I want to make one of this for each couple and I have some ideas but I don't know how many parts it will have bc I only want the three main couples with their own post and then make like larger parts for the rest anyways here's Riff & Grazi

Riff is a dog person, Graziella is a cat person

Graziella have always loved cats but her mother didn't allow her to have one. Riff on the other preferred to play with the dogs of the neighborhood as a kid those moments are some of his fondest memories.

Riff always thought it was really sweet whenever he saw Garzi interact with a cat and since he never really had pets he wouldn't know if cats were good or bad so he surprised Grazi with one.

Grazi is the happiest cat mom ever and Riff thinks the cat is really sweet and friendly.

#west side story #west side story 2021 #riff west side story #graziella west side story #wss hc

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the-realest-spot-conlon · 12 days

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I love those wss tumblr Rp's so in tribute of that I'm sharing my headcanons for the wss characters

Riff: despite Riff being a part of the jets and being in a gang and shit, he knows how to treat women. Like when he's with a girl (or guy, lookin at you Tony) he will go all out to surprise her and treat her like the absolute queen she (or king, looking at you tony) is. He also is the kind of person who is scared to love at first because of all he's lost, but once he falls in love he falls down like 85 flights of stairs metaphorically for them. I also think he like just really likes donuts. No explanation for that. He just gives me a donut-lover kind of vibe.

Tony: Tony is a hopeless romantic. He lies awake at night wondering what it's like to fall in love until he does. He has all these little fantasies planned out, he dreams about his wedding, etc. He sees an old couple walking together on the street and pictures them as him and his future spouse.

Graziella: Graziella is the kind of person who's nice until she's not. She'll be the sweetest girl ever one minute, offering you a drink, giving up her seat on the train for an old lady, but the minute you mess with her loved ones, she'll fuck you up. She will literslly not hold back like your ass will be cooked and locked in a basement or some shit (you best know she knows how to hide a dead body) and then she'll help the authorities look for your body. She is also the kind of person who has a major rbf but is actually nice when you meet them.

Baby John: baby John may seem more innocent and like a kid on the outside, but in the reality he's just as valuable to the gang as anyone else. He can fit in small spaces, he's sneaky, etc. So the jets use him to pull pranks on the Sharks and shit. He also likes to steal small thinks like candy bars off those street stands.

Balkan: alright so yall know how when Gee Officer Krupke starts and Balkan is like "I want no part in this," but eventually gives in? He's an ambivert. He'll go out with his friends if they invite him, but his ideal Friday night might vary between partying hard with strangers or just sitting alone but not lonely at home maybe with a newspaper to read. Also hwar me out Balkan has an astigmatism but is insecure about wearing the glasses, but at night when he can barely see because of the street lights, he'll take out the old pair he got from Valentina.

who's headcanon do yall want next?

#West side story #Graziella #Riff #Tony #Balkan #Baby John #newsies

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riffheartsgraziella · 2 years

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