Sixty years later, director Steven Spielberg filmed an adaptation of the original 1957 Broadway musical production (it was his first musical) asWest Side Story (2021), starring Ansel Elgort (as Tony) and Rachel Zegler (as Maria).He is infuriated and enraged - with an accompanying snare drum beat, he follows her back to the house and cocks his fist to hit her, but hen hesitates - he cannot quite bring himself to strike her.There, a woman holding a smoking pistol in her hand calculatedly follows her victim and shoots him a second time.They charged that the main murderess suspect in the film was a denegrating portrayal since she was a mentally-unstable, psychotic lesbian and bi-sexual.