A couple days ago it was Bob Marley day. Well now it’s James Dean Day.
Here’s some dialogue from Giant.
Leslie Benedict: Money isn’t all, you know?
Jett Rink: Not when you’ve got it.
And later on…
Jett Rink: My well came in, Bick.
Bick Benedict: Fine. That’s wonderful, Jett.
Jett: Everybody thought I had a duster. You all thought Spindletop and
Burkburnett was all the oil there was.
I’m here to tell you it ain’t, boy. It’s here.
There ain’t a dang thing you gonna do about it.
My well came in big, so big… And there’s more down there,
bigger wells.
I’m rich, Bick! I’m a rich one. I’m a rich boy.
I’m gonna have more money than you ever thought you could have. You and the rest of you stinking sons of Benedicts.
James Dean, b. February 8, 1931
Fifty-one years ago today, James Dean died in a car accident.
Watch Rebel Without a Cause tonight.
MOTHER: No! I don’t want you to go to the police! There were other people and why should you be the only one involved!
JIM: But I am involved! We’re all involved, Mom! A boy was killed! I don’t see how we can get out of that by pretending it didn’t happen!
FATHER: You know you did wrong. That’s the main thing, isn’t it?
JIM: No! It’s nothing! Just nothing! You always told me to tell the truth. You think you can just turn that off?
MOTHER: He’s not saying that! He’s saying don’t volunteer!
JIM: Just tell a little white lie?
FATHER: You’ll learn as you get a little older, Jim.
Rock on.
Fifty years ago today, James Dean was killed in a car accident near Cholame, California.
Californians commemorated his death by renaming the intersection of Highways 46 and 41 where he died the “James Dean Memorial Junction” and placed a memorial plaque there.
What should you do? I don’t know… maybe just go light up a cigarette and try to look cool, then go watch your favorite James Dean movie.