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I liked the movie... a lot. Found it easy to care about what was happening and didn't want it end... like I was spending time with people who's company I enjoyed.
I was especially impressed with Elizabeth Taylor... not her acting, per se (although maybe it had to be that)... but a quality she gave her character... a wise and nurturing quality that is rare for any 23 year old to have or project.
It was also the first time I've seen James Dean (I mean I watched Rebel when I was probably 10 but don't remember it). The main thing that struck me was how much other actors have tried to emulate him... the way he carries himself, his facial expressions, etc. One of the first people who came to mind in that regard was Brad Pitt (it's like he took equal parts JD expressions/mannerisms and his own sense of being a ham/clown and mixed a cocktail).
."You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
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support, too. Heck, Stephens even managed to keep Dennis Hopper reined in.
I'd say you misunderstood Jett's "pacing" reaction.
Look at it again, how he's treated and what this means.
Recall the scene on the porch when he "surprises" Rock's character.
His alcoholism also is in line with the character Dean creates.
at least I don't think I did.
I just felt like he took it a little bit too far which enabled me to see the acting and therefore lessened the impact of it.
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
was breaking out of dire poverty, demeaning servitude, and suddenly felt he might have a shot at a woman he had only been able to worship from afar.
He may have underplayed it...
Definitely check out East of Eden. My favorite of the 3. Giant is a nice movie to see once in a while. A very young Dennis Hopper. Elizabeth Taylor does a fine job in her role as does Rock Hudson. James Dean steals the show though.
9PM tonight here in the North West.
Looks interesting from the previews I've seen.
J.B.
...when it comes on BluRay.
clark
you're one of my generation. Yes, a good film! Stephens had troubles with Dean. One day he didn't even show up for shooting. Stephens was a ruff, gruff, no nonsense director. Elizabeth went searching for him and got him back on the set. Dean was set on dong it his way and Stephens was set on doing it his way. The scene in question was when Dean is paceing off his LITTLE RIETTA. It's a shame he had to die so young. It's interesting that Stephens become more and more such a perfectionist that it became very difficult for him to make a film. The same infirmity hit David Lean I believe. So much so that no producer would touch him. They just wanted to take too much time and spend too much money. Ray Hughes
"I take you as you are
And make of you what I will,
Skunk-bear, carcajou, bloodthirsty
non-survivor.
Lord, let me die but not die out." FOR THE LAST WOLVERINE by James Dickey
...grew more and more frustrated dealing with all the levels of machinery and control exerted by the studios, really the only entities that could finance the kinds of films they wanted to make, on the scale they wanted to make them.
I suspect the gap between the visions they saw in their heads, and what they were able to actually get onto the screen, just exacerbated their tendencies to perfectionism, procrastination and obsession.
...John Box deserting leaving Lean in the South Pacific. Robert Bolt deserting him and having a stroke. Lean wanted to make films in areas where things cost 4 times as much and then take two years to do it. His perfectionism just got the best of him. When you get all that talent in one place and everything necessary to make a film you can't wait for the cloud formations to be "right". But that was Lean. Or so that's what his biography leads one to believe. Ray Hughes
"I take you as you are
And make of you what I will,
Skunk-bear, carcajou, bloodthirsty
non-survivor.
Lord, let me die but not die out." FOR THE LAST WOLVERINE by James Dickey
but sometimes it's just time and day specific (meaning I could have potentially watched it another time or day and not been so drawn in/sat straight through it).That's interesting about the counting of the land scene. That was strangest scene to me and the most out of character for Jett and the movie in general... although when he climbed up the little tower and sat down that felt more natural... to me at least.
Note... it's a subtle thing about that pacing seeming strange. It's not that Jett acting a little goofy and is what's strange... I mean he's pretty excited about his windfall... I just thought Dean took it that little bit too far... again, subtle, but over the line, for me; and the place where I most noticed him "Acting"..
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
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