Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American drama movie about emotionally bewildered fringe teenage teenagers. Filmed in the CinemaScope format recently introduced and directed by Nicholas Ray, it offers both social commentary and alternatives to previous films depicting villains in urban slums. The film stars James Dean, Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood.
The film is a groundbreaking attempt to describe the moral decay of American youth, parental style criticism, and exploring differences and conflicts between generations. This title was adopted from psychiatrist Robert M. Lindner's 1944 book, Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of Criminal Psychopaths . The film, however, does not make reference to Lindner's books in any way. Warner Bros. released the film on October 27, 1955.
Over the years, the film has achieved an important status for the acting cultural icon James Dean, fresh from the Oscar nominee role in East of Eden and who died before the film was released, in his most famous role. It was the only film during Dean's lifetime where he received the top bill. In 1990, Rebel Without a Cause was added to the Library of Congress's National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, and aesthetically".
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Plot
In Los Angeles, teenager Jim Stark was arrested and taken to a teenage division of a police station for "getting drunk". At the station he meets John "Plato" Crawford, who was taken to kill the puppy, and Judy, who was brought in for a curfew violation. The three separately expressed their deepest frustration to the officers; all three of them suffer from home problems:
- Jim feels betrayed and regretted by his constantly arguing parents, Frank and Carol, but even more by his milquetoast father's attitude and his failure to defend Carol. His frustration was manifested to officer Ray Fremick when Jim was released into custody. Judy was convinced that her father ignored her because she was no longer a little girl, so she wore her passionate clothes for attention, which only caused her father to call her "dirty bum".
- Plato's father left him when he was a toddler, and his mother was often away from home, leaving Plato in the care of her housekeeper.
On his first day at Dawson High, Jim returns to meet Judy and offers him a ride. Apparently unimpressed by Jim at first, he refused and was picked up by his "friends", a group of criminals led by "Buzz" Gunderson. Jim is shunned by the rest of the student body but friends with Plato, who came to idolize him as a father figure.
After a field trip to the Griffith Observatory, Buzz lures and challenges Jim to fight with a knife. Unsatisfied with Jim's unwillingness to fight, Buzz suggests stealing some cars to have a "Chickie Run" on the beach cliff. At home, Jim ambiguously sought his father's advice about defending someone's honor in a risky and dangerous situation, but Frank instead advised him to oppose any confrontation. That night, during a chickie run, Buzz falls to his death when he can not get out of his car on time. The rest of the gang run away to avoid capture.
Jim recounts his involvement in the accident to his parents and considers submitting himself. When his mother announces that they will move again, Jim protests and begs his father to defend him, but Frank refuses. Jim attacks Frank with frustration, then goes to the police station to confess, but he is rejected by the table sergeant. Jim comes home, and finds Judy waiting for him. He apologized for his previous treatment due to peer pressure, and the two began to fall in love. Agreeing that they would never return to their respective homes, Jim advised them to visit the big house that Plato told him.
Meanwhile, Plato is intercepted by a Buzz gang who believes that Jim is the one who betrayed them to the police. They stole Plato's notebook and fled; Plato takes his mother's gun and goes to warn Jim and Judy, where he finds them in the mansion. The three new friends act as a family. Plato then fell asleep, and Jim and Judy went to explore the mansion, where they shared their first kiss. Geng Buzz awakens Plato who, fear and confusion, shoots one of the members. When Jim returns, he tries to hold Plato, but he runs away, accusing Jim of leaving him behind.
Plato ran to the observatory and the barricade itself inside as more cops gathered, including Fremick who, along with Frank and Carol, searched for Jim. Jim and Judy followed Plato to the observatory, where he persuaded Plato to trade the rifle for his red jacket. Jim removes ammunition before returning it. Jim then convinces Plato to get out, but the police see that Plato still has a gun, so they shoot him in self-defense. Frank comforted his grieving son, vowing to be a stronger father. Now making peace with her parents, Jim introduced them to Judy.
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Cast
Production
Warner Brothers has bought the rights to Lindner's book, intending to use the title for a movie. Attempts to make a movie version in the late 1940s finally ended without a film or even a complete script being produced. When Marlon Brando conducted a five-minute screen test for the studio in 1947, he was given a fragment of one of the partial scripts. However, Brando did not audition for Rebel Without a Cause , and there was no offer from any part made by the studio. The film, which later appeared, was the result of a completely new script written in the 1950s that had nothing to do with Brando's tests. A screen test was included on the 2006 special edition DVD of 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire .
According to Natalie Wood's biography, she hardly gets Judy's role because Nicholas Ray thinks that he does not fit in with the role of wild teenage characters. While he was out late with his friends, he had a car accident. After hearing this, Ray rushed to the hospital. While in delirium, Wood hears a doctor mumble and calls her "teenage boy"; he immediately shouted to Ray, "Did you hear what he called me, Nick ?! He called me a teenage mischievous boy! Now I have to get that part ?!"
Dawson High School, a film school, is actually Santa Monica High School, located in Santa Monica, California.
The exterior scene in the abandoned house where the recoiled character was filmed in William O. Jenkins House, previously used in the movie Sunset Boulevard (1950). It was destroyed just two years after filming.
Irving Shulman, who adapted Nicholas Ray's early film story into the scenario, has considered changing the name of James Dean's character to Herman Deville, according to Jurgen Muller's "Film of the 50s". He also originally wrote a number of scenes taken and then cut from the final version of the film. According to an AFI interview with Stewart Stern, with whom Shulman works on the scenario, one of those scenes is considered too emotionally provocative to be included in the final print of the film. It portrays Jim Stark's drunken character to the point of a scream that screams in a car in the parking lot, "This is a jeep little jeep! A small jeep, a jeep!" The scene was considered unproductive for the development of the story by editor-in-chief William H. Ziegler and finally ended up on the floor of the cutting room. In 2006, members of the Lincoln Film Institute petitioned for prints to be printed and archived for historical preservation.
The film was produced from March 28 to May 25, 1955. When production began, Warner Bros considered it a B-movie project, and Ray used a black-and-white film. When Jack L. Warner realized that James Dean was a rising star and a hot property, the shooting was diverted to color stock, and many scenes had to be re-photographed in color. It was shot in the CinemaScope widescreen format, which had been introduced two years earlier. With its very expressive picture, the film is referred to as "a landmark... a quantum leap forward in the artistic and technical evolution of a format."
The 1949 Mercury Coupe James Dean drove in the film is part of a permanent collection at the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada.
Reception
The film received awards for the story and for James Dean's appearance and emerging young stars, including teenagers Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo and Dennis Hopper, and Nick Adams and Corey Allen.
The film has a fresh 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The film was banned in New Zealand in 1955 by Chief Censor Gordon Mirams, out of fear that it would trigger a 'juvenile delinquency', only to be released the following year with a cut scene. In the UK, the film was released with an X rating with scene cuts.
Awards and awards
Won it
- 1990 National Film Registry
Nominated
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor: Sal Mineo
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress: Natalie Wood
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Moving Image Story: Nicholas Ray
- BAFTA Award for Best Movie
- BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor: James Dean
Recognition of the American Film Institute
- 1998 AFI 100 Years... 100 Movies # 59
- 2005 AFI 100 Years... 100 Quotes Movies
- "You tear me apart!" Nominated
Empire magazine introduction
- Ranked 477 on the list of all 500 greatest movie of all time in 2008.
Costumes and props
James Dean's switchblade character used in the fight scene at Griffith Observatory is offered at auction on September 30th, 2015 by Profile in History with an estimated value of US $ 12,000 to $ 15,000, with a winning bid of US $ 12,000. Also offered at the same auction were the latest shooting photographs and script shots dated August 17, 1955 for a behind-the-scenes promotional film titled "Behind the Cameras: Rebel Without a Cause" hosted by Gig Young and who had writing interviews and recording recordings by cast and crew (the script won a bid of US $ 225.)
In popular culture
Music
The 1971 hit single "American Pie" contains the lyrics "When Jester sings for King and Queen in a coat he borrowed from James Dean", it is widely believed to be a reference to the red jacket worn by Dean's character in the film and an allusion to the jacket worn by Bob Dylan on the cover of his 1963 album "The Freewheelin 'Bob Dylan".Movies
- Tommy Wiseau borrowed the line "You tear me apart" and used it in the hit hit cult in 2003 The Room , which is widely regarded as the worst movie ever made. In the original manuscript, it was written as "You make me apart, Lisa".
See also
- List of American films of 1955
References
Note
Bibliography
- Frascella, Lawrence and Weisel, Al: Live Fast, Die Young: Wild Trips Make Rebels Without Cause . Touchstone, 2005. ISBNÃ, 0-7432-6082-1.
External links
- Rebels Without Cause in the American Movies Film Catalog
- Rebels Without Cause at IMDb
- Rebels Without Cause in the TCM Film Database
- Rebels Without Cause at AllMovie
- Rebels Without Cause at Rotten Tomatoes
- Behind the Scenes Rebels Without Cause : James Dean, Sal Mineo, Natalie Wood - Live Fast, Dying Young, in Life and Screen (Archived)
- "The Production of a Vanity Fair Uninformed Rebel of Nicholas Ray with a special focus on Rebel.
- "Rebels Without a Cause" by Raymond Weschler
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