Rebel Without a Cause
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1955
- 111 min
- 1,224 Views
CAST OF CHARACTERS
JIM'S FAMILY
JIM'S GRANDMA:
A chic, domineering woman in her sixties whohas made her son Frank dependent upon her for every
breath he takes. She is the irritant in the
household--the silent ruler--the silent enemy of
Frank's marriage.
JIM'S FATHER:
Frank is an unfeathered man who has never beenable to have fun. He is anxious to be a real father
to Jim, but has never learned how.
JIM'S MOTHER:
Tense and immature, she has never found thehusband she married. Upset by the presence of her
mother-in-law, mated with an ineffectual and joyless
man, she takes out her disappointment on him and on
her son.
JIM:
The angry victim and the result. At seventeen he isfilled with confusion about his role in life. Because
of his "nowhere" father, he does not know how to be a
man. Because of his wounding mother, he anticipates
destruction in all women. And yet he wants to find a
girl who will be willing to receive his tenderness.
JUDY'S FAMILY
JUDY'S FATHER:
a junior partner in a law firm. Boyish,attractive and debonair. Because he is frightened by
the adolescence of his daughter, Judy, his only
recourse is to criticize her.
JUDY'S MOTHER:
Self-centered and frightened by the coming ofmiddle-age. She feels that Judy's blossoming youth
is threatening her wifely position as the desirable
object of the husband's attentions.
JUDY:
The victim and the result. At sixteen, she is in apanic of frustration regarding her father--needing his
love and suffering when it is denied. This forces her
to invite the attention of other men in order to
punish him.
BEAU:
Judy's brother. Because he is very young he is adanger to nobody and thus will grow up happily--
certain of the love of his father who feels comfortable
in giving it.
PLATO:
Son of a divided family--an absent father and atraveling mother--he feels himself the target of
desertion. At fifteen he wants to find a substitute
family for himself so that he need no longer feel
cold, and especially a friend who will supply the fatherly
protection and warmth he needs and cannot find.
BUZZ:
A sado-masochistic boy of seventeen, who acts outaggressively his idea of what a man should be in order
to hide his real sensitivities and needs. He was
probably rejected by both parents and must constantly
court danger and must constantly court danger in order
to achieve any sense of prestige or personal worth.
THE KIDS:
HELEN, CRUNCH, MOOSE, GOON, CHICK, COOKIE, MIL: All
searching for recognition in the only way available
to them; all suffering from unfulfilled hungers at
home; all creating an outside world of chaos in order
to bear the chaos they feel inside. They are
soldiers in search of an enemy.
FADE IN.
A deep night sky. Matte shot. Camera searches slowly
upward through the heavens and the silver tone of a bell is
heard sounding the strokes of midnight.
On the final note of the bell, camera is full on the Milky
Way and there it rests, just long enough for a burst of
Easter singing to arise. The hymn is sung by the crude,
unmatched voices of children. Camera pans down to include:
Spire of a church. Camera continues its downward pan as the
singing continues and we pass a window beyond which is the
source of the singing. Camera pans off window to show--
Long shot. City. Night. Suddenly revealed--crisp and
sparkling with lights. Camera pans down and over:
A lonely street full of parked cars. The singing diminishes
but a thread of it remains. A car has just parked. The
headlights snap off. A MAN emerges whistling the same
melody and pulls some gifts from the front seat. He slams
the door and starts down the street in the direction of a
house with bright windows. He must pass an empty lot full
of rusty grass and litter which lies in darkness between two
street lights.
As the MAN walks by the lot, still whistling, a GROUP OF
FIGURES rises silently from the grass, figures who have been
lying in concealment until now. They step noiselessly onto
the pavement and follow the MAN. At the sound of their
boots the whistling stops.
The MAN glances behind him and sees the figures walking
after him, filling the pavement. A street light shows them
to be boys and girls and all quite young. The MAN moves on
more swiftly and the sound of their pursuit increases. He
begins to run toward the lighted house and the following
steps run too. Suddenly he stops under the next street
light and turns to face the figures. They are upon him and
around him quickly. Nobody speaks for a moment, then one of
the boys grins. His name is BUZZ. He is big and filled
with an awareness of his own masculinity.
BUZZ:
(friendly, cool)
That was pretty what you were
whistling. Whistle some more.
The MAN whistles a nervous phrase, trying to make a joke of
the situation which he doesn't understand.
BUZZ:
(continuing; suddenly)
You got a cigarette?
MAN:
Oh, I think so--
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