I knew Maestro ignores Leonard Bernstein‘s West Side Story score as well as the famous Tom Wolfe “Radical Chic” episode. Today I learned that it also ignores his On The Waterfront score…terrific!
Friendo: “Yes, it leaves out On The Waterfront and 100 other important things in Leonard Bernstein’s career. If you don’t accept the film on its own terms — as a highly idiosyncratic and selective but emotionally intimate portrait of him — then it will, almost by definition, not be fulfilling for you.
“Clearly Bradley Cooper wanted to go his own way, to subvert (or completely sidestep) the standard biopic diagram.”