#Rebel without a cause

[rei-ismyname]

Bobby Drake - Rebel without a Cause

Before Bobby Drake was Iceman, before he was an X-Man, he was a suburban kid who had trouble with girls and bullies. In an incident involving both of those, he responded to threats of sexual assault on his date/friend as well violence towards himself by freezing a truck full of aggressive townies in blocks of ice.

Unsurprisingly, a mob formed and probably would have killed Bobby if not for the cops. They threw only him in jail (ACAB) and Cyclops proposed a breakout. Obviously the James Dean wannabe doesn't listen to the square. Guess how Professor X saved the day?

[thomashagen]

James Dean as Jim Stark REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955) dir. Nicholas Ray

[pierppasolini]

James Dean photographed by Floyd McCarty, on the set of Rebel Without a Cause

[uplandglinda]

James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955) screen test

[silentagecinema]

movies + letterboxd reviews

[cinemaspast]

REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955) dir. Nicholas Ray

[minhamemoriasuja]

James Dean, Sal Mineo & Natalie Wood In: A Screen Test for Rebel Without a Cause {1955}

[your-unfriendlyghost]

Rebel without a cause

how I think Johnny and Dally’s takeaways from the film went lol

(Genuinely Plato Crawford was such a mix of both of them- I don’t think Dally’s self aware enough to pick up on that tho lol)

[nataliawoods]

James Dean and cousin Marcus Winslow, 1955.

[socialistexan]

Man, it sure is a good thing this exact rhetoric wasn't completely recycled 65 years later by the very people who were targeted by that first moral panic.

We definitely don't have widespread panic from social conservatives about how teens are being groomed into being queer by a vast conspiracy that has resulted in action from Congress. Nope. Never happened again.

(watch Matt Baume's video "Is Rebel Without a Cause a Gay Movie?" and then the rest of his videos because they're fantastic)

[bookendsguy]

james dean and sal mineo in a screen test for rebel without a cause

[numnum-num]

James Dean and Tab Hunter on the set of "Rebel without a Cause" (1955)

[pierppasolini]

James Dean photographed by Dennis Stock on the set of Rebel Without a Cause

[jessie-lou]

If you haven't seen this yet... see it now

[silentagecinema]

oh to cry is to feel

[cinemaspast]

Natalie Wood as Judy REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955) dir. Nicholas Ray