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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: DECADES GRAB BAG: Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Description: CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of death, knife fights, gunfire, murder, sexual misconduct, parental trauma, parental negliect, parental abuse.
We weren’t aware there was such a thing as being a method director, but this legendary film seems to have proven that’s a thing. Because it’s one thing to make a schlocky B-movie for teenagers about juvenile delinquents. It’s another completely to try to reverse engineer that terrible movie into art for a budding movie star and enable his worst tendencies while also having an affair with his 16-year-old co-star, and his other co-star, and poss...