After Chino shoots Tony to death with Riff's fun, Maria takes the gun and threatens to kill Chino, the Jets, the Sharks and herself with the weapon but can't bring herself to shoot it. The movie ends with Maria embracing Tony's dead body as the police arrive to arrest Chino.
How does Maria react when she finds out Tony killed Bernardo?
Angered, Chino tells Maria that Tony killed her brother, then leaves. Tony arrives as Maria prays that Bernardo is not dead; realizing that it's true, Maria lashes out at Tony, who can only tell her what happened, and asks her to forgive him before he goes to the police.
What happens to Maria at the end of West Side Story?
At the end of the film, Maria was likely spared to act as a substitute for the role of Prince Escalus, the prince of Verona who encourages the Montagues and Capulets to end their feud after it caused the pointless deaths of their progeny.
Instead of choosing to hate Tony, she understands that there was always going to be a death, and what happened to Bernardo was a tragic result of a deathly feud. Maria forgives Tony in West Side Story so as not to continue the cycle of pain.
Maria is pregnant from sleeping with Tony before his death. A month or two afterwards, she'll realize she's late and give birth to a son, who she'll name Anton Bernardo. Raising him as a single mother, the Jets and the Sharks will help, and move toward reconciliation.
Adriana and Tony never technically hook up, which is the only reason she doesn't rank higher among Tony's romantic interests. However, unlike some other women who reject Tony's advances (such as Dr. Melfi), Adriana and Tony absolutely would have become entangled with one another except they were interrupted — twice.
Tony sees Maria at a playground, and he realizes that she has not been killed. As he rushes to her, Chino arrives and shoots him. Tony dies in Maria's arms, surrounded by members of both street gangs.
tony killed her brother and she still wanted to be with him despite that and she didn't even grieve his death. she slept with him LITERALLY after he killed her brother. she loves the man who killed her brother and her best friends boyfriend.
Riff punches Bernardo and the fight escalates quickly until Riff and Bernardo pull out knives. Bernardo kills Riff and, in response, Tony kills Bernardo, instantly horrified by what he's done. The police arrive as everyone scatters; Anybodys pulls Tony away just in time.
She's ready for revenge, but Maria's pleas move her to sympathy. She agrees to deliver a message to Tony that Maria will meet him later at Doc's. But that sympathy evaporates when the try to rape her as she tries to deliver her message. Furious, she tells them instead to tell Tony that Maria is dead.
Rachel Anne Zegler (/ˈzɛɡlər/; born May 3, 2001) is an American actress and singer. She came to prominence with her film debut playing María in Steven Spielberg's musical adaptation West Side Story (2021), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.
MARIA-‐ A hopeless romantic and innocent young girl. She falls in love with Tony and finds herself at the center of the violent conflict between the two gangs. Bernardo's younger sister.
Goals. Assist Bernardo in his aim to rout the Jets and claim ownership over the Upper West Side (failed). Kill Tony both to avenge Bernardo's death and to get back at him for falling for Maria (succeeded).
Why doesn't Tony want to marry Maria anymore? He killed her brother. Why does Maria say that Tony should not die even though Riff and Bernardo did? Where was Maria supposed to meet Tony if she wanted to go away with him?
Tony and Maria never get married, but there's a scene in the film where both do a representation of their wedding in the bridal shop where Maria works expressing their desire, but without the real need of it.
West Side Story (one of many movies based on Shakespeare plays) is incredibly sad but everything that happens, including Tony's death, serves to prove the real meaning of the movie's end. The story shows that racial prejudice is senseless and leads to unwarranted violence that hurts everyone.
Riff is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Bernardo) of the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story, as well as its film adaptations. He is the leader of a gang known as the Jets and is infamous for leading the Jets' turfs against a rival gangs known as the Sharks (led by Bernardo).
In her room, Maria is gaily preparing for her meeting with Tony (I Feel Pretty). She is unaware of what has happened, until Chino bursts into her room and tells her that her brother has been killed by her lover.
How old were Maria and Tony? Both Natalie Wood (who played Maria) and Richard Beymer (who played Tony) were 23 at the time of the filming. In Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the young couple were around 14, but the ages of Maria and Tony are never referenced. They are presumably in their mid-to-late teens.
As Brian Eugenio Herrera noted, since 1957, many Latinx view the problem with West Side Story and its adaptations as one of systemic racism at the level of text (stereotyping and story) and context (cultural appropriation and inability to access self-representation).
He reveals he was imprisoned for a year after he nearly beat a rival gang member to death, which scared him into reforming. Maria makes Tony promise to stop the rumble, and they pledge their love to one another.
Their love story unleashed a series of tragic events brought about solely by racism and discrimination. The movie's tragic ending reveals the devastating consequences that racism can have in the lives of people. West Side Story shows the hardships of the American dream.
As it turns out, several of Tony's closest allies betrayed him. However, the most consequential might be Carlo Gervasi. Carlo was a capo and top earner for Tony. In the series finale "Made In America," Tony discovers that Carlo became an informant and posed the greatest threat to Tony going to prison.
After Adriana confesses all to Christopher, he betrays Adriana by informing Tony about her conversations with the FBI, effectively leading to the Sopranos Adriana death.
