For Blackboard Jungle the teens seemed to be part of the lower class, whereas in Rebel Without a Cause the students were portrayed to be part of the middle class. This was to emphasis that the rebellion of adolescent teens and adults was not only contained to those of lower class, but to all socioeconomic classes.
Blackboard Jungle vs Rebel Without a Cause By: Jakirah Baisden How are they similar? Blackboard Jungle The most obvious answer would be how the teens acted out. Each movie portrayed the disrespect, wild emotions, and sometimes illegal …
Jul 02, 2010 · Blackboard Jungle goes the inner city youth route whereas Rebel consciously avoids that (Ray already examined city delinquents in Knock on Any Door.) Blackboard Jungle is about inner city schools and the relationship between teachers/administration and students (something I have great sympathy for, what with the ridiculous/dangerous "blame the teachers" …
Oct 24, 2015 · Blackboard Jungle v. Rebel Without a Cause Rebel Without A Cause The 1950s A teen who struggles with the stresses of life and becomes rebellious because of it In the 1950s, the divide between teens and adults was growing. Similarities …
Rebel without A Cause is based upon the premise of violence between family/groups, whereas Blackboard Jungle focuses on racial profiling. Blackboard Jungle is told from the perspective of an adult verse Rebel without A Cause which is told directly from the viewpoint of multiple teens. Both movies have a strong focus on Rock and Roll.
Although most of these post-Rebel and post-Blackboard Jungle movies were exploitive, sensationalist, suffered from clumsy scripts, bad acting, and clumsy directing, they had two significant features. Unlike Rebel, most were set in a non middle-class background, with characters having working-class occupations (or no occupations at all). Indeed, crime was …
The novel The Blackboard Jungle caused a great deal of controversy surrounding the state of education in the United States during the 1950's. It paints a less than bright picture of inner-city education as it focuses on a young teacher teaching at a trade school filled with young, violent juvenile delinquents.Jan 21, 2007
The American drama film Blackboard Jungle (1955) is a social commentary that highlighted violence in urban schools and also helped spark the rock-and-roll revolution by featuring the hit song “Rock Around the Clock” (1954) by Bill Haley and His Comets.
While Rebel Without a Cause was a landmark film, it also carries a history of being "cursed." Each of the film's leads passed away before the age of 45, all of them were under tragic or mysterious circumstances.
At its core, the film is a sensitive plea for tolerance and understanding — from family and from society. Dean plays Jim Stark, the titular rebel whose home life is falling apart thanks to an overbearing mother and a weak-willed father. It's the 50s and apparently the answer to domestic bliss is domestic violence.Feb 27, 2014
He grew up in the Bahamas, but moved to Miami at age 15, and to New York City when he was 16. He joined the American Negro Theatre, landing his breakthrough film role as a high school student in the film Blackboard Jungle (1955)....Sidney Poitier.Sidney Poitier KBE2002–2007Ambassador to UNESCO18 more rows
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All three lead actors met untimely deaths. Dean died in a car crash at age 24; Mineo was stabbed to death at 37; and Wood drowned amid mysterious circumstances at 43. Their deaths only added to the cultish appeal surrounding the film.
Sal Mineo once said that on the day his death scene was shot, James Dean never let him out of his sight the entire day. The whole film takes place over 24 hours.
September 30, 1955James Dean / Date of death
You can sense an energy trying to break through, emotions unexamined but urgent. Like its hero, "Rebel Without a Cause" desperately wants to say something and doesn't know what it is. If it did know, it would lose its fascination. More perhaps than it realized, it is a subversive document of its time.Jun 19, 2005
RomanceTeenDramaComing-of-age storyRebel Without a Cause/GenresRebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American coming-of-age drama film about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers.
1h 41mRebel Without a Cause / Running time
Even the film's title was dated: it was taken from a 1944 article by Robert Lindner, entitled "Rebel Without a Cause: the Hypoanalaysis of a Criminal Psychopath", a Freudian analysis of a troubled teenager.
This 1958 movie featured a girls' gang creating havoc at a high school and blatantly copied "Rebel Without a Cause"' in having a sensitive teenager (female) with family problems trying to seek acceptance from peers.
Box office. $8,144,000. Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 social drama film about teachers in an interracial inner-city school, based on the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks. It is remembered for its innovative use of rock and roll in its soundtrack, ...
In the mid-1950s, Richard Dadier is a new teacher at North Manual Trades High School, an inner-city school of diverse ethnic backgrounds. Led by student Gregory Miller, most engage in anti-social behavior.
Set in suburban Los Angeles, Rebel without a Cause tells the story of an affluent family and their troubled son, Jim, who makes friends at the local high school with equally troubled teenagers, Judy and Plato. Jim is teased by a group of high school students, particularly their leader Buzz, and in order to prove his manhood agrees to race stolen cars to an abyss, a competition during with Buzz gets killed. Jim and Judy escape to an abandoned mansion, where Plato joins them. When they are found, Plato starts shooting randomly, escapes and hides in the Griffith Observatory where it comes to the final standoff.
The following year, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit was made into a film, and William Whyte’s bestselling book, The Organization Man, was published, suggesting that corporate planning affected employees’ inner lives, and ending with a chapter on suburbia – the ‘organization man at home’.