James Dean
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==Supposed future career== | ==Supposed future career== | ||
| − | According to a WENN article dating June 2003, Dean was planning to quit his acting career until his ill-fated car accident prevented any of his plans to be taken to action. Days before his sudden death, Dean told his close-friend and ''Rebel Without A Cause'' co-star Dennis Hopper that he wanted to become a film director, as he could not stand "being treated like a puppet." Hopper recalls, "Jimmy was going to try directing. It was going be a movie called ''The Actor'', about being a movie star. Jimmy wanted to be in charge. He was going to stop acting in films and be a director, but he died before any of this could happen. We had pretty much seen the end of James Dean on the screen, even if he had lived." Hopper continues, "He couldn't stand being interrupted every five seconds by some idiot behind the camera. He was too caught up in the role to be stopped abruptly and made to start again. He was going to do just one more acting part — as Rocky Graziano in ''Somebody Up There Likes Me'' — and then stop acting. That part ultimately went to [[Paul Newman]], after Jimmy died in the car wreck." Dean was also projected to portray the nineteenth-century New Mexico outlaw, | + | According to a WENN article dating June 2003, Dean was planning to quit his acting career until his ill-fated car accident prevented any of his plans to be taken to action. Days before his sudden death, Dean told his close-friend and ''Rebel Without A Cause'' co-star Dennis Hopper that he wanted to become a film director, as he could not stand "being treated like a puppet." Hopper recalls, "Jimmy was going to try directing. It was going be a movie called ''The Actor'', about being a movie star. Jimmy wanted to be in charge. He was going to stop acting in films and be a director, but he died before any of this could happen. We had pretty much seen the end of James Dean on the screen, even if he had lived." Hopper continues, "He couldn't stand being interrupted every five seconds by some idiot behind the camera. He was too caught up in the role to be stopped abruptly and made to start again. He was going to do just one more acting part — as Rocky Graziano in ''Somebody Up There Likes Me'' — and then stop acting. That part ultimately went to [[Paul Newman]], after Jimmy died in the car wreck." Dean was also projected to portray the nineteenth-century New Mexico outlaw, Billy the Kid in ''The Left Handed Gun''. This role also went to Newman. |
==Dean's iconic appeal== | ==Dean's iconic appeal== | ||
