1955 marked the year in which Nicholas Ray’s film Rebel Without a Cause was released as the latest Hollywood success. With its revolutionary acting and modern style‚ Rebel Without a Cause proved to be an ideal example of progressive‚ contemporary cinema. Amidst these factors is the intricate screenplay regarding a rebellious adolescent and his troubled relationships with his family and new found friends. Unfortunately‚ this was a film that was produced in the mid-1950s‚ a time when the self-censorship
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Chantelle Brooks Rebel Essay Block: 3 The film “Rebel without a Cause” by Nicholas Ray should be taught to students because students will learn about how they can’t run away from their problems‚ and how teenage rebellion will affect them later on and the others around them. Students would also learn about the littleness of humankind‚ and how life is cruel and difficult. Students should be aware that they can’t run away from their problems. They have to face them; if you
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In the late hours of the night Jim Stark‚ the main character of Nicholas Ray’s‚ Rebel Without a Cause‚ can be found resting his head against a piece of crumpled wrapping paper‚ lying on the cold pavement‚ droning out all his troubles with the sound of a toy monkey’s clamour. Throughout the entirety of the film Jim constantly seems to be droning out his problems‚ whether it be with a toy monkey of with a rebellious façade‚ which subconsciously distracts him from his true issues. Jim Stark’s defiant
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care. Jim’s dad is certain that he buys Jim things but he questions whether he gives him love. Jim with in the first couple minutes displays however teen-ager feels “you are tearing me apart”. Rebel Without a Cause allows a parallel between teenage rebellion in the 50’s and teenage rebellion now. Jim rebels against not only the law but as well his parents in the first scene. His father says drinking every once in while isn’t the worst thing while his mother states that it is not acceptable to drink
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Rebel Without a Cause One of the major themes that are presented throughout the whole entire movie is the dysfunctional relationship between one of the characters and their fathers. The movie portrays father figures as problematic which then shape the actions and the characters themselves as the movie progresses. We can see all three dynamics of the father figure presented through Jim‚ Judy‚ and Plato. Through Jim‚ the father figure that he is presented with is a father who is weak allows himself
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men feared the loss of their masculinity‚ teen-centered media did not because films in popular culture were used to show that men were still more important than women‚ whether they were in the workforce in the home because at the end of the Rebel Without a Cause‚ Jim and his father realize what it takes to be a man after all‚ which showed the audience and men not to
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romantic films of all time would have to go to Rebel without a Cause because it tells how the present day teenage love life is like‚ “a romance set among teenagers seeking satisfaction outside the traditional systems‚ misunderstood by their parents‚ misunderstanding and mistrusting of their parents’ values” (Tomlinson par2). A movie that includes a variety of elements deserves being
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The film‚ “Rebel Without a Cause”‚ directed by Nicholas Ray‚ takes place in the 1950’s. The story is set in Los Angeles‚ California‚ where main character Jim Stark battles to make friends at his new school‚ yet everyone but his new friend‚ Plato‚ is rejecting him. Plato’s parents have left him in the care of the housekeeper‚ never to return again. When Jim and Plato meet in jail‚ another character was introduced‚ Judy‚ who is desperate for the male attention she does not receive from her father.
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Melodrama films could be argued to be the most complex classification of films which address the society’s attitudes towards class‚ race‚ and sex. The films Rebel Without A Cause (1955) directed by Nicholas Ray and The Last Picture Show (1971) directed by Peter Bogdanovich are key examples of a shift in the melodrama genre. Rebel Without A Cause depicts the story of a troublemaking teenager‚ Jim Stark‚ with unaffectionate parents‚ who is faced with moving to a new environment. The Last Picture Show
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era for Hollywood. Many movies around the time were about the Cold War and the spread of communism. Others‚ however‚ were more so about the teenage years of the baby boomers. One movie that highlighted this time period’s “beta” theme was Rebel Without a Cause. If I were to summarize
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