8 Best Reimagined Shakespeare Movies
3. West Side Story
With a remake coming later this year, West Side Story took the warring families of the Montagues and the Capulets and changed things up by making them street wise gangs known as the Jets and the Sharks.
With one group being Caucasian and the other being Puerto Rican, West Side Story imbues a strong social commentary about the American Dream into the famed romantic tragedy.
Winning 10 Oscars including Best Picture in the year of its release, the film is considered a classic and is adored from all aspects of the production from the performances to the dialogue. Most notably, West Side Story is known for its iconic musical numbers and the impressive choreography that features within them.
The transition from Shakespeare's words to the dangerous streets is seamless and West Side Story is worthy of the praise it has accumulated over the last 60 years. Whether the remake stands a chance of repeating the success of the original remains to be seen.