The Other
06-19-2003, 01:33 AM
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Dean/images6/wood_rebel_poster.jpg
Rating: 10/10
Wow, I didn't expect to like this film that much. I expected it would be just good, thinking that it was considered so great and amazing because of James Dean's death. Well, I couldn't have been more wrong. This is a great film. I think it's ahead of it's time, really, with many of it's themes still VERY prevalent today. Like the relationship between Jim and his parents, and the whole feeling like (or maybe even being) an outsider, etc. I know I felt that way in high school before I graduated in 2001 (and this was made almost 50 years ago!).
How about James Dean? Well, he's actually a very good actor! This is the first time I've seen him on film and he's absolutely heartbreaking ("You're tearing me apart!" -- that tore me apart! Also the scene at the end when he cries on his fathers knee, which I won't say why). I haven't watched any of his other films (only 3 http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/sad/bluecry.gif) but, he's a very good actor based on this film alone. I can't wait to see East of Eden and Giant. I also thought Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo were great. All three had great chemistry. I liked their little family unit that Plato really wish they had. All three were nominated for Oscars that year (except Dean, who received a (posthumous) nod for East of Eden (and another posthumous nod for Giant a year later) and they were well-deserved (well, Wood's and Mineo's, anyway, cause I haven't seen EOE (or Giant), but I'm sure he was).
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Dean/images6/dean_mineo_rebel_car.jpg
The film is also very well directed by Nicholas Ray and I liked the screenplay as well, which as I said above, was ahead of its time in terms of the themes it deals with.
Sucks that the three leads were so cursed. I knew about Dean (road accident) and Wood (drowning), but I didn't know about Mineo. Apparently he was murdered (by stabbing) in 1976 by a stranger, while returning home from rehearsal of a play.
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Dean/images6/wood_rebel_poster.jpg
Rating: 10/10
Wow, I didn't expect to like this film that much. I expected it would be just good, thinking that it was considered so great and amazing because of James Dean's death. Well, I couldn't have been more wrong. This is a great film. I think it's ahead of it's time, really, with many of it's themes still VERY prevalent today. Like the relationship between Jim and his parents, and the whole feeling like (or maybe even being) an outsider, etc. I know I felt that way in high school before I graduated in 2001 (and this was made almost 50 years ago!).
How about James Dean? Well, he's actually a very good actor! This is the first time I've seen him on film and he's absolutely heartbreaking ("You're tearing me apart!" -- that tore me apart! Also the scene at the end when he cries on his fathers knee, which I won't say why). I haven't watched any of his other films (only 3 http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/sad/bluecry.gif) but, he's a very good actor based on this film alone. I can't wait to see East of Eden and Giant. I also thought Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo were great. All three had great chemistry. I liked their little family unit that Plato really wish they had. All three were nominated for Oscars that year (except Dean, who received a (posthumous) nod for East of Eden (and another posthumous nod for Giant a year later) and they were well-deserved (well, Wood's and Mineo's, anyway, cause I haven't seen EOE (or Giant), but I'm sure he was).
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Dean/images6/dean_mineo_rebel_car.jpg
The film is also very well directed by Nicholas Ray and I liked the screenplay as well, which as I said above, was ahead of its time in terms of the themes it deals with.
Sucks that the three leads were so cursed. I knew about Dean (road accident) and Wood (drowning), but I didn't know about Mineo. Apparently he was murdered (by stabbing) in 1976 by a stranger, while returning home from rehearsal of a play.