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Rebel Without A Cause

1955

Warner Bros.

Dir. by Nicholas Ray

Opening, James Dean (Jim Stark), credits

Monkey toy with cymbals, drunk on the road

-collars flipped

-juvenile hall

-anger problems, wow, desk puncher

-“I don’t ever wanna be like him”, circus

-new kid, blazer, overly polite, awkward, hummer, random noise maker, dork

-“I don’t wanna make friends”

-“10 years?! I want an answer now” (dad)

-red bomber jacket

-milk

-“in ten years” (mum)

-“shoot the breeze” = talking

Police Station, starts after something happen?

easter?

Judy (16) – reeeeeeeeeeeeeeed

- father, “he hates me”, slaps her

- not my mother?!

-part of huuuuge group of friends, playful

-girlfriend of Buzz, douche

- little brother, Bo

-red -> pink + blue / light version of Jim

“why did you do that?” “I felt like it”

John Crawford/Plato, shivering boy

-“why you killed those puppies?”

-gun

-birthday

- mirror in the locker, comb hair

-loner

-his hair is a lovely ref. for Marco

-“he’s my best friend”

-brown and grey

-address book

“cute”

-car race/ to the edge of cliff/chicken

-Buzz, caught on door, and now is dead

sunken nursery

-“no one ever talks to children”

-hiding in plants