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When James Dean James Dean (1931-1955) appeared in East of Eden/Dreaming east of Eden (1955) with a look of intransigence, the Beat finally found its own screen hero. With his fluffy hair, he smoked cigarettes and defied middle-class values in his white T-shirt, jeans and leather. However, an unexpected car accident quickly froze his neurotic handsomeness at the eternal youth of 24 years old. His wandering image of a boy and a man has also appeared in Marlon Brando's (1924-2004) films, notably the black leather jacket, big cap, and 20 years of riding across the Triumph motorcycle.
In the film East of Eden (1955), James Dean James Dean stands at the door of a cold storehouse
The 1955 film East of Eden, based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner john Steinbeck (1902-1968) by the nobel laureate and american writer John Steinbeck ( 1902–1968 ) , was a deep and powerful family ethics film that won an award at the Cannes Film Festival in France that same year. James Dean played Carl in the play, his first lead role, and he did a great job of portraying the teenager's desire for fatherly love. In the climactic scene of his father refusing to accept a birthday gift, James Dean came on the spot, forcing Raymond Massey (1896-1983), who played the father, to make a realistic and excited reaction, which is considered a classic case of "method" acting.
In the film East of Eden /Dream of Eden (1955), James Dean forces Raymond Massey to perform a sudden reaction
East of Eden is an extremely nuanced exploration of the complex relationships between father and son, the pace is too slow, but the plot is abundant, and james Dean, Julie Harris (1925-2013), Joe Van Fleet (1914-1996) and Richard Davalos (1935-2016) excel in this film. The film was also a blockbuster for James Dean, whose sentimental rebellious youth style swept the world in the 1950s and is still powerful today.
Poster for the Japanese version of the film East of Eden/ Dream of Heavenly Dreams East of Eden (1955).
It has been commented that James Dean "is both a boy and a man; he is gentle and violent; both slender and tenacious; arrogant and weak, and he creates a new sexy model that teases the camera with a sinister look that seduces the world." James Dean in the film does have this charm, tight frowns, pale and beautiful faces, slightly weak teenager's body, sometimes obedient and sometimes pure eyes, the hard and soft sweetness overflowing from the corners of the mouth, people can't help but feel pain.
Audition for the film East of Eden/Dreaming of Eden (1955), when James Dean and Paul Newman paul Newman auditioned for a role in Warner, when Paul Newman and Marlon Brando were involved; and after filming began filming, Marlon Brando met James Dean at the request of director Elia Kazan In the 1950s, three of Hollywood's four young children began to interlace their love relationships
In East of Eden, Carl, played by James Dean, has a deviant mother (played by Joe Van Fleet) who runs away from home as a bustard, a father who "lives in the Bible" (played by Raymond Messi), the brother of a father who is a good son in the eyes of a father, Alan (richard Davalos), and he himself is a lonely, obedient, and bad son who is not recognized by his father. When Karl learns from a stranger in the bar that his mother is still alive, he follows his mother, whom he has never met, eager to talk to her. "Will she talk to me?" "I just wanted to talk to her", the sadness in his eyes was nowhere to be seen, what a humble desire to speak, when he was misunderstood and rudely obstructed.
Location of the film East of Eden /Dreaming of Eden (1955), three young casts, front row from left to right: Richard Devolos Richard Davalos Julie Harris James Dean
"Anyone can be vicious, as long as you've tried what it means to be jealous." Carl's jealousy of his father's favored brother, Ellen, did not make him vicious, only made him more heartbroken, and made him have to push ice blocks downstairs to vent his depression after seeing Alan and his girlfriend Abra (Julie Harris) together. The father has indisputable feelings for Carl, he let him read the Bible, repent, and this caused Carl's disgust, a seemingly communication and warm dialogue finally ended with Carl's slamming the door, the relationship between father and son is still estranged, can not get rid of the strict father and son mode.
Stills from the film East of Eden (1955), James Dean and Joe Van Van Fleet, who plays his mother
Carl had been seeking his father's love all along, and in order to make up for the loss of his father's lettuce business, he asked his mother to borrow money and partner with someone to start a soybean business. This time, he followed the woman without causing a scream of consternation, and the mother and son had a formal conversation, and Karl listened quietly to his mother's story of the past, sometimes showing a charming and embarrassing look, and when the mother said that his father was "live in Bible", he gently smiled too cutely. The mother said, "You are a likable child," and it was.
The next scene is interesting, Karl is lying in the bean sprout field, urging the beans to grow up quickly, dancing around in the field, cute to the extreme.
A word that Abela said to Carl on the Ferris wheel of the playground touched the hidden disease in Carl's heart, longing for love and not being able to do so, so he hated it.
A scene from the film East of Eden/ Dreaming of Eden (1955).
Carl had a birthday party for his father with great hope, giving the money he had earned as a gift to his father, and at the same time Alan unexpectedly announced his engagement to Abela as a birthday present for his father, who said there was no better gift than this, and Carl's expression was a little disappointed and jealous. At this time, Abela, who knew Carl's heart, urged his father to open the gift, but did not expect that his father categorically refused to accept it, and also taught Carl that "if you give me a gift like your brother, I will be happy, more kind and human...", Karl bent down in pain, he turned around, like a child, fragile hands around his father's shoulders and hugged his father, crying, the father did not comfort him at this time, but screamed", "Carl, Carl!" "I hate you!" Karl turned desperately and staggered out the door, hiding in the shadows of a tree. At this time, James Dean was heartbreaking to the extreme.
The devastated Carl takes Ellen, who has always thought that his mother is dead, to meet his mother, and Alan is so stimulated that he gets drunk and resolutely goes to participate in the war that he has always opposed. Father rushed to the train station, suffered a stroke, and fell into the arms of Karl, who had arrived later. When Karl came back from locking his brother and mother in his room, he said to his father in front of the porch, "I've been jealous all my life, so jealous that I can't stand it myself, and tonight I even want to buy back your love, but now I don't want it anymore, I don't need any kind of love anymore, it's not worth it." Heartbroken and desperate to the point of vicious Karl.
After his father's stroke, Carl was full of bitter remorse, but he was afraid of being rejected by his father again. Abela looked into her eyes, full of pity and love for Carl, and she told the bedridden old man about Carl's pain: "It's really painful not to be loved, that's the worst thing in the world, that will make you bad and cruel, and that's how Carl feels." "You never loved him, you didn't want his love, you never asked him to do anything."
With Abela's encouragement, Karl went into the room and whispered in his father's ear the lessons he had taught, and yes, he remembered it, but he didn't want to do that when he didn't feel loved.
Elia Kazan (crouching with a viewfinder) and James Dean (right-to-back) set on location in the film East of Eden/Dream east of Eden (1955).
The father moved his mouth and said softly, "Do something for me, woman, I can't stand her, change nurses for me." "I can't stand her either," Karl leaned over to his father's lips, and when he heard his whispers, he smiled so relievedly that he got up and excitedly said to Abra, "He said, 'Don't want anyone else, you stay with me, you take care of me.'" At this point, all the feelings came to a happy end, and Carl finally got the fatherly love he wanted, and also got the love of Abela.
Suddenly, I felt that "love" was really a heavy word. The feeling of being needed and loved is so important to Karl, why not for any of us?
Stills from the movie East of Eden (1955), Julie Harris Julie Harris Richard Davalos James Dean Dean
People who obviously love each other always hurt each other, and the deeper they love, the deeper they hurt. Many times, what people lack is not love, but do not know how to love, how to express love. Didn't Karl's father love Karl's mother, didn't he love Carl? He was hurt so much by his wife, but he was full of praise for her in front of his son; Karl did something wrong, he did not admit his mistake, he only used the Bible to impress him, and he felt guilty when he lost his temper a little. What was wrong with him? He was too ignorant to express his love; he was too ignorant of how important it was to express love to his son; too much to understand how much his son needed to know his love.
In this world, it is not enough to have love in the heart, otherwise there would not be so many misunderstandings, there will be so many tragedies that make people strangle. Many times, it may be more important to communicate, to express, to try to understand others, and to let others understand you.
Just like Abela, who was afraid of Karl at first, but ended up falling in love with him, afraid because she didn't understand him, loved because she finally understood him.
Director Ilya Kazan Elia Kazan (1909-2003) is so powerful, John Steinbeck's ambitious masterpiece, he changed it to a melodrama of less than 2 hours, starting directly from Karl's search for his mother, brothers, fathers and sons, mother and son, the emotional entanglement between men and women, all-encompassing. James Dean was also aptly suited to Carl, a child with evil nature and angel face, and his characters in Rebel Without a Cause/ Adopted Son Don't Teach Anyone's Fault (1955) and Giant/Giant Giant (1956) are similar to Carl's characters.
During the filming of the film East of Eden/Dreaming east of Eden (1955), Marlon Brando (second from left) was called to the set by director Ilya Kazan (first from left) to visit the filming site, and there was the first meeting between Marlon Brando and James Dean James Dean (first from right), when James Dean was still nervous and unnatural, in contrast to julie Harris Julie, the heroine of the play Harris (second from right) was happy
When Ilya Kazan first met James Dean, Ilya Kazan soon learned that the little-known actor was born with the same annoyances as Carl in East of Eden. James Dean's tense, realistic relationship with his father creates his match for the character. While Ilya Kazan still thinks James Dean is doing a great job within his capabilities, he doesn't have the far-reaching potential to be an actor like Marlon Brando.
In East of Eden (1955), Karl, a loveless loner, is both touching, but also irritable, heartless, and self-destructive. Ilya Kazan not only captures the marginal feeling of living in America, but also understands how that feeling tears the soul apart.
The movie East of Eden /Heavenly Dreams East of Eden (1955) was at the cinema door on the day of its premiere
In the filming of "East of Eden", Ilya Kazan took the spirit of method acting to the extreme, in reality, James Dean and Raymond Messay, who played his father, got along very badly, but Ilya Kazan not only did not try to eliminate the contradiction, but deliberately encouraged it, so that when filming the father-son conflict in "East of Eden", the acting skills of both sides had a shocking special effect.
Before the release of "East of Eden", James Dean and director Ilya Kazan went to invite Dad to the premiere, but was politely rejected. He wanted to talk to Dad, and his stepmother said he wasn't home, but James Dean knew that Dad was in the room. He has made so many efforts, perhaps because he wants to make the people closest to him proud, helpless to capture thousands of favors, but still not one of them.
James Dean james Dean with his father as a child
Why is Dad so cold to himself? This is a mystery that James Dean has always had difficult to solve. He longed for his father to love him, even a greeting. This may explain why James Dean was able to interpret the father-son relationship in East of Eden so shockingly.
James Dean always aroused extreme feelings: those with whom he had been associated were either fanatically infatuated and adored him, or strongly hated and cursed him. Julie Harris, the heroine of East of Eden, said he was as naughty and cute as Tom Sawyer; Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) had great admiration for him, "he was 20 years ahead of that era"; and in the eyes of director Nicholas Rey Nicholas Ray (1911-1979), his abilities "could not be compared to any actor in the past or present".
Promotional photo for the film East of Eden /Dreaming of Eden (1955), Julie Harris and James Dean
But for Ilya Kazan and George Stevens (1904-1975), the experience of filming with him was a nightmare, and George Stevens even gritted his teeth and vowed never to let James Dean play the films he directed again. Ever since he was still a nameless dragon suit actor, the accusations of his rudeness and eccentricity have not stopped.
And these evaluations, whether cold or hot, are actually not important to him. James Dean lives in his own world, he doesn't care what other people think of him, and he doesn't care about anyone around him. From the day his mother died, he became alone.
He is not good at socializing with people, afraid of being hurt, always very alert to protect himself, and finally completely retreats into his own world. When he first came to Hollywood to shoot East of Eden, he carried a gun with him, didn't talk to people when he wasn't filming, and often stayed alone in the makeup room. And when it came to his last film, "Giants", he would still quietly avoid the crowd and drive a jeep alone in the middle of the night to catch hares.
Hollywood's glitzy Vanity Fair is so far away from him that there has never been a place where he feels a sense of belonging, and no one can maintain a long-term intimate relationship with him. People say he is bisexual, wandering through gay bars and indulging himself in sexual and alcohol revelry. But even so, his eyes still show loneliness, and he often suddenly falls into contemplation, and no one is around to meditate.
Stills from the film East of Eden/ Dream of Eden (1955).
Perhaps only acting is his only way to vent, he completely integrates the deep sadness of his heart into the role, so his lonely eyes on the screen are heartbreaking, like a homeless child.
Many people say that James Dean is famous for imitating Marlon Brando, and although James Dean does not openly admit it, he does privately admire Marlon Brando. During the filming of East of Eden, Ilya Kazan introduced James Dean to Marlon Brando, who was trying to copy his acting style and even his life style. Marlon Brando recalls that meeting, and he clearly feels that James Dean is experiencing the trepidation he has experienced,—— standing on the threshold of Hollywood's flowery world.
Poster for the French version of the film East of Eden / Dream of Heavenly Dreams East of Eden (1955).