#east of eden

[riverlarking]

EAST OF EDEN (1955) — dir. Elia Kazan

[manderley]

East of Eden (1955) Dir. Elia Kazan

[classicfilmblr]

James Dean as Caleb Trask East of Eden (1955) dir. Elia Kazan

[thomashagen]

James Dean in EAST OF EDEN (1955) dir. Elia Kazan

[thecinamonroe]

Contact sheet of Marilyn Monroe attending the "East of Eden" premiere, March 1955.

[astreetcarnamedkendall]

the sopranos 1x04 / east of eden

[literatureaesthetic]

just finished 'east of eden', and the urge to write a wholeass dissertation on it is STRONG lmao. i'm so happy i decided to purchase 'grapes of wrath' earlier this week, i can't wait to explore more of steinbeck's brilliant mind 🤍

[gnnosis]

on brothers

[ jewish literacy, rabbi joseph telushkin / the bear 2x06 + 2x10 / east of eden, john steinbeck / succession 3x09 / “brothers,” kevin atwater / the west wing 6x16 / prison break 5x04 / greywaren, maggie stiefvater / boy (2010) / “he ain’t heavy, he’s my brother,” the hollies ]

[diana-andraste]

East of Eden, New Leaf, Tadanori Yokoo, 1971

[thesofthuman]

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[dozydawn]

Jane Seymour in East of Eden (1981).

[stewy]

Paul Newman in a screen test for East of Eden (1955) with James Dean.

[classicfilmblr]

James Dean and Lois Smith screen test for East of Eden 1955 | dir. Elia Kazan

[thomashagen]

Mr. Trask, it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world. Don't ask me - even if you could - how I know that. I just know it. It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel. And that's the way Cal has always felt, Mr. Trask. All his life! Maybe you didn't mean it that way - but it's true. You never gave him your love. You never asked for his. You never asked him for one thing.

EAST OF EDEN (1955) dir. Elia Kazan

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

(Grosa & Nebulosa)

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“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly re-spawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”

–John Steinbeck, East of Eden (1952)

[manderley]

James Dean in East of Eden (1955)