Talk:Giant (film)

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[edit] The late looping

Hi,

I would just like to know the reasons why Nick Adams did the voice-over for James Dean in Giant.

Thanks.

According to Ferber: A Biography by Julie Goldsmith Gilbert (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978):

Dean never completed his work in Giant. His scenes on camera were in the can, but since one in particular was inaudible, he was scheduled to come back for looping — a postproduction technique that involves dubbing in clarified dialogue to match the picture. Dean was not available to do this for one of his key scenes [because he was killed before he could come back for looping]. It was the banquet speech, where Jett Rink was supposed to be just at the edge of falling down drunk; Dean took it to heart, and although visually he was splendid, he fell down verbally. George Stevens and William Hornbeck, the film editor, recruited Dean's former roommate and best friend, a young actor named Nick Adams, to complete the vocal role of Jett Rink. Adams, by stuffing his cheeks with wads of gum, assimilated a clearer version of Dean's slur. The result of the necessary trick was perfect, went completely undetected, and, in fact, the scene was cited as one of Dean's best. Eerily, Nick Adams died several years later in the same self-destructive way as his friend, Dean. That tiny portion of film is known as the late looping.

(147-148)

Hope this helps. However, if you're wondering why Nick Adams was chosen to do the voiceover after Dean was killed, I don't know. Maybe it was because Nick Adams was an ambitious young actor (and friend of Dean) who could do a good Dean impersonation. I suspect that Adams might have suggested himself to Stevens and Hornbeck to do the voiceover — but I don't know for sure.

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— Diamantina 23:25, 27 November 2005 (UTC)