James Dean - Forever Young
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Actor: James DeanBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 4.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 4.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 59726
Studio: Warner Home Video
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- A brief career. A timeless stardom. In just three major movie roles, James Dean became an icon for the ages. Now his legacy shines even brighter thanks to this fascinating film that, filled with an astonishing treasure trove of newfound or rare glimpses of Dean's TV performances, is like a road map to his meteoric success. Michael J. Sheridan directs and Martin Sheen narrates this revealing docume
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DVD Review: Does Dean a disservice
Summary: 3 Stars
At the beginning of a special screening of JAMES DEAN: FOREVER YOUNG, two of its film editors opened with introductory remarks, among which was that the production had been a "labor of love". At the end of the showing, the question fleetingly crossed my mind: With friends like this, who needs enemies?
This documentary is a sterile visual record of Dean's brief acting career, which spanned the period 1949 to his death in 1955. The film includes brief snips from roughly two-thirds of his 38 television roles, as well as slightly longer segments from his few feature films. There are also matter-of-fact asides about his brief, first marriage to a dancer, his romantic pairing with actress Pier Angeli, and his love of Porsche cars and auto racing, the last interest indirectly leading to his death on a public highway as he drove his sports car to an event in which he was to compete.
I was only six years of age at the time of Dean's death. Obviously, I wasn't old enough to have become a fan. Subsequently, I've never seen any of his big three feature films (GIANT, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, and EAST OF EDEN) even though "Jimmy Dean" is an American household staple. (Whoops, sorry! That's breakfast sausage.) What makes this documentary such a disservice to its subject is that it's neither compelling enough to prod me to watch any of those films nor read-up on the man's life and career. My 3-star award will cause worshippers of the James Dean Icon to howl with indignation. That's OK; I understand, and forgive all the negative votes this review will attract.
If I was alive fifty years from now, even I could extract segments from three feature films by, say, Johnny Depp (e.g. CHOCOLAT, THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL, and THE LIBERTINE), and string them together in a short documentary with commentary in such a manner as to make contemporary audiences beg to see the entirety of each movie and read a bio of Depp's life. The fact that the creators of JAMES DEAN: FOREVER YOUNG didn't do that, at least for me, indicates that 1) they tried too hard and lost their way, or 2) there wasn't sufficient starting material to begin with. Either way, it's a lost opportunity to achieve something greater. As it is, this 50s "rebel" comes across as surprisingly mundane.
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