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Temporally, Rebel Without a Cause/ Adopted Sons Don't Teach Whose Faults / Rebel without a Cause (1955) is the most recent film to The Catcher in the Rye (1951), four years before its birth.
James Dean James Dean (1931-1955) portrays Jimmy Stark as similar to Holden Calfield, driving a designer sports car and living in a high-end home, but with a flame in his heart that wants to destroy these gorgeous and beautiful things.
Squeezed by his boring and authoritarian parents, Jimmy Stark, who was on trial for drunken trouble, finally cried out in court, "You're going to drive me crazy!" ”
Filming began in March 1955, and director Nicholas Rey Nicholas Ray (1911-1979) was already accomplished, having filmed "In a Lonely Place" (1950) for Hollywood's number one cool man, Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957).
During the filming of rebels without a cause (1955), James Dean dean and director Nicholas Recholas Ray (right)
Of course, that wasn't enough to make him an icon for generations of film apostates such as Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard, Wim Wenders, and Jim Jarmusch.
Before the film began, Nicholas Ray had only this title and several juvenile delinquency cases, and in order to achieve the effect of "Greek tragedy with a sense of space", he fired two screenwriters in three months, and finally reluctantly passed the script due to time pressure.
Rebel Without a Cause is Hollywood's first film to confront the problems of teenagers. It reflects the confusion and pain of young Americans after World War II.
James Dean was the representative of rebellious youth; Natalie Wood (1938–1981) had both the paradoxical qualities of youthful desire, both wild and gentle; and Sal Mineo Sal Mineo (1939–1976), symbolizing the danger and unpredictability of desire.
James Dean Natalie Wood Sal Mineo Sal Mineo in The State of rebellion without a cause/Adopted Sons Don't Teach Anyone's Fault/Rebel without a Cause (1955).
Director Nicholas Ray's "Rebel without a Cause" has allowed generation after generation to find their true feelings, memories of adolescence, and those inexplicable senses of loss.
Rebel Without a Cause is a refuge in the "Trinity" of traditional drama, and the story takes place within 24 hours, starting from one night to ending another. Due to an accident, Jimmy Stark (James Dean), Judy (Natalie Wood), and Plato (Sal Mineo) leave their disappointed home, and a famous youth escape begins.
James Dean plays Jimmy Stark, the only son from a middle-class family, and like many troubled teenagers, he can't fit into the world around him, and he despises his mother-in-law's mother-in-law's father and nagging mother.
"A boy wants to become a man as soon as possible," is a note Nicholas Ray wrote while writing the script. Later, after watching "Rebellion without a Cause", a small-town youth decided to leave his hometown to go for a walk, and he wrote in his song "How many roads must be walked to become a real man" .
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On the cover of the record, he wore the same jeans and jacket as James Dean, and he changed his name to Bob Dylan.
God and James Dean made this film full of youthful firepower and rebellion, and it is difficult for a film of its kind to live up to that standard.
"Rebellion without Cause" brilliantly shows the confusion of american youth and devotes a lot of space to the internal contradictions of a wealthy family in the United States.
Through the image played by James Dean, parents and children are shown trying to build a platform for communication, and James Dean uses the image in the film to create a typical character of an unsurpassed "wild generation", whose clothing (red jacket and blue cargo pants) has become the ideal uniform for young people in many countries.
If you only look at "Rebel without Cause" as a collection of symbols, it will inevitably weaken the immortal vitality of this film. 50 years after the death of James Dean, Lawrence Flassera and Al Wesser co-authored a book exploring the madness of Rebel Without a Cause, titled Live Fast-Die Young.
Cover of Live Fast-Die Young
To borrow the words from lawrence Flassera and Al Wiesel's book The Untimely Death, Rebellion without Cause is a film that is interpreted through movement and posture.
A group of rebellious teenagers driving a car off a cliff race that ends with the accidental death of one of the contestants, james Dean's Jimmy Stark dragging his tired body home, his panic and uneasiness trumping physical fatigue, when the first thing he does when he walks into the house is to open the refrigerator and take out the milk to drink.
He first pressed the milk bottle to his forehead and then moved it to his cheek, an action so simple and one-size-fits-all that it was easy to overlook its importance.
But Lawrence Flasera and Al Wessell noticed this, starting with the small details of james Dean's improvisational performance to explore how director Nicholas Ray freed his hands and feet to allow the young actor the freedom to capture the essence of the picture.
"This little gesture is amazing, but it's absolutely natural." The book reads, "It has enough power to pound the core of the film, showing the embarrassment and wandering of an entire generation of 'milk-drinking' American youth at this delicate stage of life between maturity and naivety." ”
Reading the book "Untimely Death", Lawrence Flassera and Al Wiesel watched the film carefully, and they simply proposed "how" and "why".
It is precisely because of this that we can understand the deep meaning of the story of the "milk bottle". Another example is the impressive red jacket that James Dean wears in the film.
The jacket is said to have been purchased cheaply at a Hollywood menswear store, but the film's costume designer, Moss Marbury, said the three jackets used in the film were made from a roll of red nylon cloth, and he carefully adjusted the size of the neckline and the position of the pockets. "Even though the jacket looks very plain." "But the truth is not so simple," he said.
The simplicity of the jacket sums up the difficulties faced by director Nicholas Ray in making a teenage melodrama that can be discarded after watching with limited manpower.
Lawrence Flassera and Al Wiesel suggest that Nicholas Ray's motivation for making Rebel For No Cause most likely came from his tense relationship with Tony (Nicolas Ray's son in his first marriage).
When Tony was 13 years old, he had incest with Nicolas Ray's future wife, Gloria Grahame (1923-1981), and was caught in bed by Nicholas Ray, a scorpion beauty who was more virulent than the screen, and ended up marrying Nicholas Ray's son.
During the filming of A Woman's Secret (1949), director Nicholas ReyNicholas Ray and two female lead actresses Gloria Grahame (left) and Marlene O'Hara Maureen O'Hara (right) took a group photo
But scandals are no stranger to the charismatic and moody Nicholas Ray himself: in 1954, he began a relationship with a young Natalie Wood, who was 16 and 43.
Almost at the same time as she began intimately with Nicholas Ray, Natalie Wood also began to associate with Dennis Hopper (1936-2010). Nicholas Ray also selected Dennis Hope for the cast of Rebels For No Reason.
On the set of the film Rebel Without a Cause/ Adopted Son Doesn't Teach Anyone's Fault (1955), director Nicholas Rebel without a Cause (1955) speaks to Natalie Wood (left) and James Dean James Dean (center).
A few months later, when Nicholas Ray learned of Natalie Wood's infidelity, he replaced Dennis Hope with another actor as a punishment and vent his anger.
Years later, though, Dennis Hope reconciled with Nicholas Ray and helped him get a teaching job when Nicholas Ray was unemployed.
In Nicholas Ray's vision, "Rebel for No Reason" was to use a group of real-life bad teenagers, and even invited the small leader of the local violent gang "Athenians" in Hollywood at that time as a "technical guide".
Dennis Hopper (left) and Natalie Wood are coupled, and Easy Rider (1969) is a self-directed performance by Dennis Hope
The heroine Judy is a typical precocious bad girl, and the child star Natalie Wood who is looking forward to the transition is quite eager for this role, but Nicholas Ray's goal is to find a more charlatan girl.
So Natalie Wood and Dennis Hope crashed into a tree after drinking, and the first thing they did after being admitted to the hospital was to call Nicholas Ray. Soon, natalie Wood, who was less than 17 years old, became the heroine of Rebels for No Reason, and her boyfriend was replaced by Nicholas Ray, who was 27 years older than him.
During the filming of rebels without a cause/ Adopted Sons Don't Teach Anyone's Faults, Natalie Wood (right) and Sal Mineo Sal Mineo (left) took promotional photos for the magazine
The filming of "Rebel without a Cause" did not go well. Due to the requirements of the widescreen format, the black-and-white film that had been filmed for several days was forced to be remade on color film; natalie Wood and Sal Mineo, two underage actors, could not work more than 8 p.m.; Warner constantly made demands on the plot out of budget and electrical review considerations... At the end of May 1955, the filming of "Rebel without Cause" was completed, and the accompanying doom seemed to have just begun.
In the film Rebel without a Cause/ Adopted Son Doesn't Teach Anyone's Fault (1955), james Dean James Dean Natalie Wood Sal Mino The chemistry of the three of them is very real
At the time of filming, Sal Mineo also tried to seduce director Nicolas Ray and wanted to get plato's role, but director Nicolas Ray thought that Sal Mineo and James Dean felt that there was no chemistry in their images.
The result was that the director gave them a private "interview," and it turned out that director Nicholas Ray "had never seen the chemistry between two actors so strong." Perhaps it is precisely because of this strong chemical tension between the three main actors that "Rebel without Cause" is more real and believable.
The film Rebel Without a Cause /Adopted Son Doesn't Teach Whose Fault is on the set, James Dean James Dean (left) and Corey Allen (right)
Although James Dean is considered one of the greatest "methodological actors" of all time, in reality, he often distorts some of the principles of methodology.
James Dean insisted on using a real switchblade in the fight scene in Rebels For No Reason, only to be stabbed by actor Corey Allen (1934-2010).
When Nicholas Ray instinctively interrupted filming, James Dean was annoyed: "Didn't you see that this was a real moment?" If this happens again in the future, don't interrupt it! ”
Before filming a scene, James Dean sometimes curled up like a baby or hid in the fitting room to prepare, causing the other actors and crew to wait for him alone and unable to start work.
"What the hell is he doing?" One of the actors on the crew muttered, "Even Greta Garbo (1905-1990) didn't have that treatment." ”
If James Dean had lived longer, his obsessive-compulsive disorder might have ended up putting his colleagues and fans tolerable. But he left only a handful of 3 works, and these works are so great that we can only indulge his willfulness.
In "The Untimely Death," Corey Allen explains how important James Dean's redefinition of masculinity in Hollywood is: "Nowadays, it's easy to talk about vulnerability, in part because people like James Dean used to be willing to show it. ”
On set, James Dean escaped punishment for his performance, a treatment no other actor had. Similarly, James Dean's significance to the development of the film is also very important——— even Greta Garbo cannot become James Dean.
Nicholas Ray once said bluntly in an interview with the French media: James Dean did not contribute any live dialogue in "Rebel without Cause", and the film was basically improvised by him and screenwriter Stuart Stern Stern (1922-2015).
Nicholas Ray also admits that James Dean has a great talent for acting, thanks to his divergent imagination.
Nicholas Ray's real affair, though, may have taken place between him and James Dean——— though less carnal.
The film Rebel Without a Cause/ Adopted Son Doesn't Teach Anyone's Fault (1955) set, James Dean James Dean (right) and director Nicholas Reiñolas Ray (left)
The most fascinating part of The Untimely Death is the delicate relationship between Nicholas Ray and his fickle, seductive, sentimental star James Dean.
James Dean is brilliant, self-indulgent and eccentric. By the time they met Nicholas Ray, James Dean had just finished the East of Eden (1955) directed by Nicholas Ray's mentor, Ilia Kazan (1909–2003).
James Dean Shoots the film Rebel Without a Cause at the Planetarium (1955)
Nicholas Ray immediately decided that James Dean was the right person to play Jimmy Stark, and his confused and melancholy personal temperament met the criteria in Rebel Without a Cause.
But nicholas Ray's "pursuit" of James Dean was long and difficult. "We look for each other like a pair of Siamese cats." Nicholas Ray said. After James Dean signed the film contract, the tense air between him and the director did not dissipate.
Later, Nicholas Ray recalled his first meeting with James Dean and felt disappointed, because the young man was indifferent to any other topics besides racing, and ended up with nothing to say.
Intuitively, Nicholas Ray did not give up on his decision, and by the time the film began, James Dean had become a regular visitor to his house, and the two often spent the night in the living room talking long, and even wrote gossip by tabloid reporters.
James Dean thought that the living room of the Nicholas Ray family had given him so much inspiration that he asked for a complete imitation of the Jimmy Stark living room in the movie, which led to the classic passage where James Dean beat up his father later.
The reason why Nicholas Ray dared to blatantly "invite" James Dean to his home was because James Dean's indulgent private life was not a secret in Hollywood circles at that time.
Thus Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992), the "Blue Angel" from Germany, although well-known bisexual in Hollywood and very civilized in private, was very mean in his comments on James Dean, saying that he was "short and ugly, with a hunchback, a beer belly, and looped legs, and if he lived, he would have a more round belly, a wig, and eventually died of AIDS." ”
James Dean James Dean's own physical condition in addition to his face is indeed not very good, Marlene Dietrich said, although a little harsh, but also true
It can be seen that James Dean's private life at that time was indeed very out of bounds, but the specific method of crossing the line cannot be confirmed, at least with his sloppy appearance of wearing thick glasses, it is difficult to imagine.
According to another biography of James Dean, James Dean worked as a street cowboy with his roommate Nick Adams, whom he met in the commercial, when he first arrived in Hollywood, and James Dean seemed to have no taboos for money at the time, and did not refuse all kinds of eccentric and perverted customers.
James Dean (right) and Marlon Brando (second from left) met during the filming of the film East of Eden/Dream of Eden (1955), when Marlon Brando came to visit the director's class, when the relationship between the two was still strange, as can be seen from the photographs taken
Marlon Brando During the filming of Napoleon's Love History Désirée (1954), James Dean went to visit the class, and the relationship was already unusual
The bisexual Marlon Brando (1924-2004) scandal with James Dean is said to include an SM relationship, and James Dean's performance in M surprised Marlon Brando, which shows how much James Dean had fun in the circle.
Paul Newman (1925-2008) couldn't stand Marlon Brando's heart, and Marlon Brando needed to play excessively, which led Paul Newman to refuse to cooperate and meet with Marlon Brando in the years to come, and hid in the deep cabinet from then on.
Paul Newman is always so humble in front of Malone Brando, and maybe Marlon Brando's aura is too strong
It wasn't until he met Robert Redford who collaborated on "Tiger And Leopard Little Bully Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969) that he was willing to form a pair of screen CP to face the public and the media, and with the combination of investors, he collaborated on "The Sting in the Deception" (1973).
The book also gives a very detailed account of James Dean's expulsion from the U.S. military when he joined the army because he exposed his homosexual tendencies, and the propaganda at that time of course said that he used this as an excuse to evade military service, which was also in line with his bad and unconventional image. But whether that is an excuse or a fact is no longer known.
James Dean and Natalie Wood had already collaborated on a short film I'm A Fool (1954) before auditioning for the film Rebel without a Cause/ Adopted Son Doesn't Teach Anyone's Fault (1955), when James Dean had told Natalie Wood that he was going to make the film as he was preparing to take on Rebel For No Reason
The reason why "Rebel for No Reason" has a long history is not only its own topic attribute, but also its surprising legendary fate is to amaze the melon-eating masses - the three main actors in the film also died in real life later - James Dean died in a car accident in 1955, Sal Mineo died in 1976, and Natalie Wood died of drowning in 1981.
During the filming of rebels without a cause/ Adopted Sons Don't Teach Anyone's Fault (1955), Sal Mineo Sal Mineo always looked at James Dean differently on camera
The rebellious teenager ambiguous male-female love triangle in the movie is said to have traces in real life, and the baby-faced teenager Plato who is finally killed by the police in the film is played by Sal Mineo, the earliest open homosexual in Hollywood, who once said that he was in love with James Dean when he was filming "Rebel without a Cause".
This feeling of infatuation also happens to the heroine Natalie Wood, except that James Dean seems to have no interest in this pure love.
The male and female protagonists James Dean and Natalie Wood not only faked the real thing in private, but also "unspoken" the film's director, Nicholas Ray.
The United States in the 1950s was still a conservative country, but the spiritual emptiness of material affluence made a new generation of rebellious spirits eager to stir, and the film adapted to this new trend, so that after the death of James Dean, it was released without any publicity, but it caused a sensation in the United States. Time magazine once considered James Dean to be one of only two people in the U.S. cultural market share who could compete with Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), the other being Elvis Presley (1935-1977).
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