some tidbits

Elenora 2022-03-25 09:01:08

The opening Dean's performance on the toy monkey is his own design. He covered the toy monkey with a wrapping paper.

At the end he added another act of putting a coat on Plato. Echoing end to end.

Symbolizes that he found the father figure in himself.

This film is planned to be made into a B-level film, not a prestige picture, so the preliminary preparation is based on a black and white film plan.

But it was later discovered that the contract for the cinemascope lens they were going to use stipulated that they had to shoot color films with this lens.

So a lot of preliminary preparations have to be redone. such as clothing.

The bad boy has passed the sea election.

Later, the director asked dozens of audition actors to improvise a group play in which a bad boy destroys and perform in front of the camera.

After the show, the cars used as props were all smashed by them.

Later, an actor asked the director to watch the film at that time. The director said that there was no film in the camera at that time.

Then on one occasion, someone asked Dennis Hopper where he went to college.

He thought about it and said, "Warner Bros."

Because he signed with Warner Bros. at 18 and left at 21.

During this period, he can walk around the studio and observe the work of various departments.

Dennis Hopper was eighteen at the time and was dating Natalie Wood.

As a result, one day, when Dennis was "walking the set" as usual, he caught Natalie having sex with director Nicholas Ray.

Dennis and Nicholas duel. Of course Nicholas didn't do it.

Nicholas wants to fry Dennis. But Dennis has a Warner Bros. actor contract protector.

Nicholas certainly couldn't let the film help Dennis' acting career.

In the end, Dennis lost the role of Crunch, lost a lot of lines that belonged to him, and became the corner of Goon with no lines.

The indifferent mother and the father who tried to please the mother are the writer's own experience. Including the experience of the father wearing an apron trying to prepare food for the mother.

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Rebel Without a Cause quotes

  • Judy: I love somebody. All the time I've been... I've been looking for someone to love me. And now I love somebody. And it's so easy. Why is it easy now?

    Jim Stark: I don't know; it is for me, too.

    Judy: I love you, Jim. I really mean it.

    Jim Stark: Well, I'm glad.

  • Jim Stark: I don't know what to do anymore. Except maybe die.