An analysis of the song america in the movie the west side story

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My only friend, the end With those repeated lyrics, we are back to our departure point. End of the trip. Those verses probably come from the first version, the good-bye love song.

As we saw, The End does not tell a proper story: Genres Though a long song — Still, those words involve at least 4 different genres, which makes a rather high ratio and ensures a thrilling density of meaning to the song.

The use of such a universal theme guarantees a good reception from the audience.

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Another element, yet in the instrumental and not in the lyrics, belongs to the genre of the love story: For so few words, that makes really much movement.

Archeology The song is no archaeological study, but it refers to archeology through various elements: Culturally, it also bring a strong aspect of exoticism because this geographical area was the birth place of many religions: Egyptian, Hebrew, Pagan, Christian, Muslim, and else.

We can not assert for sure what or where is this desert supposed to be. The Roman Empire extended over a wide area. In prehistoric and proto-historic times, lakes were privileged locations for human populations because it guaranteed them some resources they needed: Morrison was fascinated by this concept.

Another possible intellectual source for this beautiful image is the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. He wrote a series of books studying the deep psychology of earth, air, fire and water. He compares the daydreams about water to mystic trips back to the original roots.

It probably refers to the famous era of the Gold Rush, from around to in the U. This mention belongs to the mythology of the Far West. Here again, the snake appears as a mythical animal, venerated and feared in many early pagan religions of the world.

The possible sources for this theme are innumerable.

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The ancient gallery and the oedipal killer. It obviously refers to the Greeks. Tragedy The mini-plot telling about the oedipal killer who wants to kill his father and fuck his mother, clearly relates to the Greek dramatist of the Vth Century before Christ, Sophocles, in his famous tragic play Oedipus King.

The play tells how Oedipus was abandoned by his royal parents because of a prophecy that said he would kill his father and marry his mother.

To avoid that, the parents give him away to a servant in charge of killing him, but instead the servant give the baby to childless peasants. Oedipus grows anonymous and forgotten.Gypsy is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.

Gypsy is loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous striptease artist, and focuses on her mother, Rose, whose name has become synonymous with "the ultimate show business mother."It follows the dreams and efforts of Rose to raise two daughters to perform onstage .

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For millions of moviegoers unable to see the original stage version of West Side Story, director Robert Wise's adaptation was a cinematic gift that brought a Broadway hit to a mass audience. Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz argues that Wise's film was not only hugely popular, but that it was also an artistic triumph that marked an important departure in the history of American movie making.

Comments and Observations Can't Get It Out Of My Head was originally recorded at De Lane Lea Studios in London, UK between February 11 and February 15, , although this was only the basic backing track.

Additional material and orchestra sessions may have beem in . Analysis of the lyrics of The End by Jim Morrison Stories, characters, themes, genres The End‘s lyrics shows great ways to tell stories through suggestion, association and poetry, playing on contrasts and echoes between alternate themes and situations..

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