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Thursday, 24 September 2015
Two young men doing each other a favor: One shot, the other can be photographed. One makes a steep but very short career in Hollywood, the other a long all over the world. This is the story of James Dean and Dennis Stock.
There are these images that burn themselves into the memory, because they capture a special moment. “James Dean haunted Times Square, NYC” from 1955 is an image. The young actor is rather cloudy through puddles, coat collar flipped up, fag in mouth, the overall mood. Why just this, and no other image? Dennis Stock, to whose story it – next to James Dean – in the movie “Life” by Anton Corbijn at least 50 percent goes well, this portrait has succeeded that would change and define his whole career. And in “Life” we learn why it all happened the way it did; even if Corbijn also star photographer, who can not really explain why exactly this photo for a generation – and subsequent – is
The story of the ambitious Hollywood photographer Stock (Robert Pattinson) and. the still unknown Dean (Dane DeHaan) begins in 1955 at a party. Stock sees the young actor who has just “East of Eden” turned off, an exceptional talent and hopes to make progress through a series of portraits for the magazine “Life” his own career. Dean, the newcomer, the Revolutionary and troublemaker but that is to be excited by studio boss Jack Warner from the PR-carts for Elia Kazan film, rather settles in the province to his family. Stock just manages but to accompany the elusive star to native ranch in Indiana. The two like each other, even if not friends, are too different their lives, their views, their origins. But it also a question of who is here probably more dependent on whom, and could benefit more from the whole thing balzen
The two main characters are great. The shy, fascinating and sometimes downright lethargic acting James Dean is from Dane DeHaan played so perfect that you want to believe in the resurrection – and in our world and our time in which everything happens loud and fast, you have to first get used to speak to his slow, almost nölige Art. Robert Pattinson on the other hand are the driven, restless photographer with a social disorder that makes him the anti-father, anti-friend, ever the anti-types, and yet he manages to embody the beliefs of the photographer on Meisterlichste. Nice that he can finally play someone who does not fit in his usual stereotypes.
Two outsiders
Anton Corbijn, the photographer who is interested in anyway less for the life of this idol as Rather, for the emergence of the myth and the part which had the pictures of the “Life” photographers at that continues to today iconisation. What makes a person because actually become an icon? Corbijin believes that there were just the three films in which we have seen James Dean, he told in an interview with n-tv.de: “East of Eden,” “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Giant”. All three of the years 1955 and 1956: “These were extraordinary films, and Dean’s roles were so unusual addition, he – and Marlon Brando – at that time so extraordinary acting like no one before you have broken so many rules, thus.. was the fifties, at least in Hollywood, a place of rebellion. ” Corbijn says then, certainly stimulated by the topic iconisation, still from working with Philip Seymour Hofman: “When you have worked with him, then you could afterwards be a better person I hope that that has with me working and I. could transport my knowledge in my new film, “he says shyly.
Corbijn succeeds Dean to portray as the sensitive, as probably no other actor of his time it was. Should you ever have felt something like pity for the man who died with only 24 years, then that’s why, but not for other reasons: James Dean came from a very great family – after his mother had died when he spent nine years old was, he was great at his aunt and uncle. They idolized him. They promoted him. Dean was funnier than I thought, even cynical. He was smart, not just cool. He, “Jim” Dean, was the hero of his younger cousins Mark Winslow, who maintains his memory to this day, and he had wit, charm and intelligence for two. Bring out all this succeeds Corbijn masterfully. Perhaps because he has already made a name as a photographer of the stars, before he started working with the director? “I do not know, it’s always a matter of chemistry between two people. As Herbert Grönemeyer has asked me once years ago to take over the director for a music video, I refused. Then I photographed him later and we understood each other at first. Since then, we have been friends. “
Beyond death
On September 30, 2015, the anniversary of the death of James Dean will mark the 60th anniversary. He was with his famous silver Porsche road when an oncoming car took him the right of way and collided with him. James Dean died at the scene, his co-pilot, the mechanic Rolf Wütherich, survived seriously injured. Deans third movie “Giant” celebrated after his death Premiere. For his performance James Dean was twice nominated for an Oscar posthumously. 1956 “East of Eden” and in 1957 for “giants”.
Read more aboutAnton Corbijn (“A Most Wanted Man,” “The American”) is his fourth feature film, and after his debut “Control” (2007), which is also an icon of popular culture pays homage to (the band Joy Division), a Another monument. Unfortunately, there will be about this film a photo book, as in his other films. “I wanted this time to focus completely on filmmaking. We had only 28 days and it was the most severe winter for years,” says Corbijn, of legends like Frank Sinatra recalls front of the camera, had the house and court photographer of U2 and now wondered how it must have been for Dennis Stock, so long to woo James Dean. “But it has indeed paid off for him,” says Corbijn, adding: “I’ve got it this time just not managed to even think about pictures.”
He thinks eh not know much about pictures after, “That’s something intuitive. And when I’m traveling, I have my iPhone as a camera, that’s all.” Anton Corbijn, one of us. But certainly never with a Selfie stick!
“Life” comes on 24 September 2015 the German cinemas.
Source: n-tv.de
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