East of Eden

Stuart Stern, who was the scriptwriter that he then brought in, who'd seen action in the Second World War, was traumatised by his friends dying around him.

Dan James Dean, who... was this very hot property in Hollywood because they knew how good he was because they'd made East of Eden, but it hadn't come out yet.

So at this point that he meets Ray and Stern to discuss doing the Brando role, if you like, in this new project, he's the kind of actor that, yeah, he's going to be the next big thing, but he's still available to have lunch.

And they talk him into doing this movie on the basis that he can improvise as well and bring some of his own experiences and pain.

Who was more her age?

Yeah, and this apparently caused some trouble between Hopper, who was playing one of the young tearaways, and Ray, who revised his part down significantly.

When East of Eden was released, around the time they started shooting Rebel Without a Cause, and it became clear that James Dean was about to explode, the script was revised heavily to focus more intensely on the character of Jim.

And at the same time, Nicholas Ray was ordered to refilm what he had shot so far, which was in black and white.

In the movie, that's played by Julie Harris, Eleanor Lances.

And she did Member of the Wedding, East of Eden.

East of Eden.

I mean, that's a big one.

And Requiem for a Heavyweight.

yeah unfortunately quite a forgettable best picture winner here but i do take it back we did talk about kazan prior before gentleman's agreement uh must have you know uh escaped my memory but you know i've seen

his east of eden as well i think that that's a pretty cool movie especially for james dean but really interesting film super long the sky is kind of all over the place Or it feels super long, I should say.

Maybe it's not that long, but yeah, it's another interesting film of his.

Yeah, I have not seen East of Eden.

It is a film that releases the year after this, 1955, for the 1956 ceremony.

But spoiler, that movie is not going

I will tell you right now, I'll pretend I will try to watch it before next week's episode, but I already know the answer, and the answer is no.

So unless we have an actor in the next couple of years that is playing a biopic on James Dean, the actor of the film, then maybe I'll check this movie out.

What's getting you excited or

inspired? I'm still working my way through East of Eden by Zoe Kazam, which I'm loving.

My wife's now twice through it, and I've now just been savoring it.

I really don't want to binge it.

And she was still able to get a couple good things.

Obviously, right now, they're into, because they've got the Keri Russell show coming back, The Diplomat, and they just have East of Eden coming out.

So, obviously, it's like right now, they finally got, like, their prestige stuff that they prided themselves on when house of cards and orange is the new black came out and they finally got the back and they're firing her so now it's like they haven't had emmy nominations the past couple years they haven't had oscar nominations really and now they're going to next year partly because of her and she's not going to be there so um anyway what a time

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