What Made James Dean Great 

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Rebel without a cause was great. If He hasn't been hit by Turnupseed He would have had the same status as Steve McQueen.

Nuances? Maybe back then what he did could be considered nuanced, but by today's standards it's pretty hammy.

@@cptpepper7731 I respectfully disagree, his acting was one of the most natural and influential, he’s up there with James Stewart, Paul Muni, etc.👏🏻

@@evanseago2301 For that time it was. It was completely new and they paved the way for future actors who took what they did to a higher level.

@@cptpepper7731 definitely true!👍🏼 Still today many consider him one of the best😎👏🏻

@@evanseago2301 He played himself three times

I fell in love with the guy as soon as I saw him punch Rock Hudsons smug face in Giant.

Still all are very different

Newman was several yrs older than Dean and was going nowhere until his pal & rival James Dean died in that horrific car crash 30 Sept. 1955 ... Newman "inherited" Dean's lucrative 7-yr contract by a desperate Warner Bros. and over time developed into a good actor .. He expressed his self-doubt to Baba Walters in 1984 as to whether he would ever had made it on his own had Jimmy lived.

Dean was better than Newman. I don't like Newman's voice in films and I can understand that he was acting. Dean was just a dream he had it all.

His films, looks, style, mannerisms, very appealing when one is under 25 years of age. When you watch his films as a 35 + person, they look like they belong to a teenage age group. Paul Newman's cat on a hot tin roof performance doesn't suffer from that. As it as a more adult feel.

James Dean only did 3. movies and is a iconic man he will never be forgotten Newman and Brando lived till old age and did lots more movies but will never be as good as James Dean he is still loved today by lots of young people ❤️🙏

Thanks for asking! During filming of Rebel Without A Cause he would poke at the father (Jim Backus) And he would get upset with James Dean but the director noticed this and continued to let James Dean Push and Poke At Jim Backus so it would help the performance of his father. Also In Giant he would spend hours a day working on his lasso tricks so he would be able to look like a real cowboy. if you watch the scene with him asking for money from the bank (I believe it was the bank its been a year or so since I saw the movie) He fiddles with his lasso and doing tricks that make it look like he's been doing it for years. Just small details like that, that show the dedication to the craft of his acting! Hope this helped!

Eh, no necessarily true......I'm 34 and THAT'S how long it took for me to catch on to his work so for me it's just a matter of understanding art and not relegating it to age race or whatever.

Every look, movement, was beautiful kinda like a 😺

素晴らしいポイント!彼の目は、彼の演技が観客としての私たちに与えた影響を大きく左右したと思います。

James dean could play those roles because that is what he was. He depressed me and I could only watch his movie for 15 minutes. Sorry. I could not see him as an actor only a poor soul.

Actually if he didn’t died young, he would be bigger than Brando. His acting was superb, natural talent.

Indeed he was my friend

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Yeah. Am amazed how someone got so legendary of such a paucity of work. His three films were really riffs of the same character. The lost little boy. Resentful of parents & authorities. Too suggest, had he lived longer, he'd have topped such powerful character actors like Olivier, Brando. And even what we've got today like in Daniel Day Lewis, is just nonsense. Paul Newman's performance in Cat on a hot tin roof, is better than any of Dean's slouched, mumbling, ( bad impressionation of Brando), perfomance's. Like Monroe. It was looks, style, charisma, over substance. Elvis also survived off very much the same thing. After his first wave of rock & roll diminished. His 1960s films/ music was a washout. And his '70s vegas era. While entertaining to watch & showcased a lot of times, that he still had it as a tremendous stage entertainer & singer. The middle of the road music didn't really go anywhere & his act was just a repeat of the same thing. Year in, year out.

you're right I should just show the whole movie. Silly me

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James Dean was his own man. He didn't care what anyone thought. He didn't cater to anyone. He could be rude, yeah. He was also a rebel. But the powers that be pursued him. He didn't have to do a thing. They came running, chasing after him, and they put up with all his shenanigans - even left his peculiar, eccentric quirkiness in some scenes in the movies. That was because they could 'SEE what so many others don't . . . his incredible potential, his sex appeal, his emotions that were so real that he could cry during a scene with no effort. He would spend hours "getting into the character" he played, concentrating fiercely. That was one of the things that made him such a great actor. At those times they left him alone because they knew he needed it to work his magic. Many envy him. He was THAT good. Underneath his casual, careless demeanor lay incredible talent. He just wasn't conventional, but very, very talented.

Neither are u

He was amazing

Made more money than yo bum ass😂

So are u

Did you mean under rated

@@leeflea2874 lol 😂

His ACTING was overrated but his body of work is TIMELESS!!!!