Talk:Rebel Without a Cause

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Contents 1 Casting call 2 Unsourced Info 3 Fair use rationale for Image:Rebel Without a Cause screenshot.jpg 4 The fateful cast?

[edit] Casting call

I've heard the studio originally preferred Tab Hunter for the lead. Can somebody source it? Worth mentioning? Trekphiler 12:37, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unsourced Info

I've removed the following from the article, as it was unsourced, and negative info about BLP is subject to immediate removal. As well as other unsourced data, there was an apparent OR comparison between The OC and Rebel. :

• US TV series The OC makes many references to this movie and its characters in its episodes.

The main character, Ryan Atwood, is based on Jim Stark, playing an outsider of the community and a loner. His image and attire in the first season is completely like Stark's, right down to the use of cigarettes. The scene where Stark tries to talk to "the girl next door" is also referenced in The OC pilot episode, with the girl next door being Marissa Cooper. The exchange of dialogue is different, however, between the two characters. Seth Cohen, whose nerdy image makes Ryan his only friend in the community during the first season, is similar to Stark's only friend in the movie, Plato. In an episode in the first season, Ryan, Seth, and Marissa hid away in a Mansion that was under construction by Seth's mother, Kirsten's company. This was very similar to the hiding away of Jim, Judy, and Plato in the abandoned Mansion.

• Some people say that James Dean's character was based on Ted Szafranski, a childhood friend of Dean's.

• The film is one of the earliest and most infamous uses of the gay subtext. A large portion of the homoerotic content surrounds the relationship between James Dean's Jim Stark and Sal Mineo's Plato. Plato has a picture of Alan Ladd, later discovered to be homosexual himself, in his locker. According to a Vanity Fair article, both director Nicholas Ray and Dean urged Mineo to portray Plato as homosexual, insisting Mineo draw upon his own bisexuality for the inspiration. In a 2005 Entertainment Weekly story covering the 50th anniversary of the movie, Dean also insisted there be a gay kiss between Jim and Plato and Ray approved, but screenwriter Irving Shulman would not allow it, because he wished not to "alienate the audience". Nonetheless, Mineo often boasted that he portrayed "the first gay teenager on film", which may actually be a valid statement^{[citation needed]}. There were also many behind-the-scenes rumors, involving Dean and his relationships with the cast members. While Ray reportedly entered into a sexual relationship with Natalie Wood, inquiries about Dean's bisexuality began to emerge. He allegedly had trysts and/or relationships with Mineo, Nick Adams, Corey Allen, Jack Simmons (who played Cookie), and perhaps others. Mineo stated years later that Adams "bragged about an affair" they had to him^{[citation needed]}. During that time, Dean was once questioned publicly regarding his orientation, to which he replied "I'm not gonna go through life with one hand tied behind my back." It is unclear whether that remark is an admission of his open-minded perspectives on sexuality or simply a gay pun. Most speculate, however, that he and Simmons were involved with one another on a serious level before his untimely death.

If there is an WP:ATT source for it, we can add it back in. Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 07:24, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Rebel Without a Cause screenshot.jpg

Image:Rebel Without a Cause screenshot.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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[edit] The fateful cast?

Most main actors and actresses in the film have died of non-natural causes in their early life, including the protagonist Dean, Wood, and Mineo. Is there any speculation on the cast of the film being cursed by supernatural forces? Chimeric Glider (talk) 23:27, 25 April 2008 (UTC)