Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Young [A Minor Retrospective]--Dean only made three movies, all of them differing grades of terrible. Giant is a movie that seems to run for at least six hours for no reason at all. East of Eden is an embarrassment; a heavy handed and unsophisticated piece of moviemaking. Rebel Without A Cause is almost unbelievably lame...
Cause and Effect--And yet, Rebel Without A Cause sent a shockwave through the 1950s--to the point where the movie was banned in Japan. To the point where red barracuda jackets were becoming an epidemic. To the point where a cult of Dean emerged complete with teenagers who tried to contact his spirit and were convinced that somehow he'd come back. It was one of those weird flashes of fusion, where some source, regardless of its quality, taps into some undercurrent that everyone else has ignored. Witness Kerouac. Witness Kesey. Witness Presley...
Long Shot #2--Three of the pedestrians walk by on the way to the Brattle. One in a heavy wool sweater, one in a black jacket with an upturned collar, one in a windbreaker. Two are men. The pedestrian in the windbreaker is a woman. They are talking about Rebel, though no words can be made out. The pedestrian in the heavy wool sweater looks overhead and sees the jetliner. The other two scan the crowd for familiar faces...
...papers don't promise any excitement. Ther are no big movies opening. No music worth travelling to. A night for improv. They decide to start with Rebel Without A Cause because the pedestrian in the heavy wool sweater has never seen it yet somehow feels like he ought...
...Elia Kazan tapped Dean for the role of Cal. He flew out to California, made the film and returned to New York. By the time the movie was released and Dean was becoming well-know, Dean skipped the opening party for Eden to fly back to California to make Rebel Without A Cause. He was 24, a promising though not terribly popular actor. Brando was all the rage, and had created such an aura about himself, that almost anyone else was sucked into the vaccuum...