Posted on 05/09/2013 9:13:07 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
The 1955 American classic about teenage alienation and rebellion, Rebel Without a Cause, will be shown at Tripoli’s Art House tonight.
Starring James Dean, who died before the film was released, and directed by Nicholas Wood, the film explores teenage feelings of alienation and disillusionment with society.
Tonight’s film-screening is organised by the Arete Cinema Club. Cinemas and theatres in Libya were closed for decades and the cinema club aims to reintroduce films to the community.
Rebel Without a Cause is in English with Arabic subtitles. The screening starts at 6 pm on Thursday 9 May, with refreshments are available beforehand. The Art House is on Al-Sekka Road in Tripoli.
I think the feminization people are talking about was more in the acting style that became prevalent after the war. During the making of ‘Red River’ in 1946, John Wayne thought that Montgomery Clift was ‘weird’ and ‘fruity’. That sort of internal method acting as seen as effeminate.
My husband is a film teacher and he shows “The Heiress” to his class to demonstrate 3 styles of acting:
Ralph Richardson (British theater acting)
Olivia DeHavilland (great Hollywood acting values)
Clift (Method)
And they all come together!
The Heiress is terrific. William Wyler was pretty much a hack but his craft was enough put that one over.
I have watched the movie more than once, I know what I saw.
It is interesting that you want me to disregard the art that I personally consumed and formed a personal judgement on, and instead to “educate myself” meaning go ask the left what opinion that I should have.
Like another famous actor said, “Don’t be afraid to see what you see”.
Rebel Without a Cause makes people laugh and groan, it is more of a beer drinking bad movie that you share with buddies for laughs and wisecracking, than great art.
The 1950s produced some great films, that one isn’t one of them.
The man who lifted him up and delicately placed him in the barrel, and then went over and removed him, probably smoked also.
RWAC is regarded by film buffs as a masterpiece of American expressionism. It’s studied in film schools. It’s funny only in the sense that anything that isn’t ‘realism’ is funny to people unaware of other ‘-isms’.
The Duke was right about Montgomery Clift.
There was a black-and-white version that was being made and then they switched to color and did it over. You can see it by buying the set of films on Amazon or wherever. Check out the comments on the Amazon page about the uncut b-w version.
The point is that the final product is in color and that’s how it’s remembered.
But MY point was that it was a very risque film in its first conception, and if the Libyans were to see that version they would go apeshoot.
Incidentally, the script of RWAC was written by Stewart Stern who is still alive at 91.
It was risque in its final form as well.
Not like the original uncut version. I’ll freepmail you if you like with the details. Won’t post them on a family forum.
How risque could it have been in the late 1940s?
Didn’t know that. All I can think about is that red jacket!
See your freepmail.
Hollywood is not a place where excellence and quality dominates or is even the goal, I trust my judgement over theirs in judging their goods.
A more desolate place you won’t find.
Oh yes you will. Just cruise on over to Lost hills.
It’s generally not Hollywood figures who are the cinephiles it’s fans and film scholars.
Speaking for myself, I never claimed Dean was gay. RWAC is admittedly a solid, well-made film. It’s just that as the culture has become more and more self-absorbed, feminized, and even celebratory over this fact, issues like “teen angst” have worn really, really thin with me. Not saying the message of RWAC is endorsing this, but that it’s the topic that has become a visceral turn-off.
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