mikeballa2001 Been studying Dean lately and this Is a great movie

Milka Väinämö James Dean, a 2001 television movie directed by Mark Rydell introduces us to James Dean's life and relationships, especially to the relationship with his father. As 9 year old boy, James Dean was sent from California to Indiana to live with his aunt and uncle after the death of her mother. The artistic young boy, who became to be one of the biggest Hollywood movie icons, spent his youth in a farm before going back to California and eventually to New York. At New York this aspiring young adult got roles and eventually a contract with a movie studio, moving back to California.Everyone knows James Dean. He was handsome, mysterious and talented. And his career and life ended way too early. Like the tag line of the movie says "Too fast to live. Too young to die." James Franco isn't just acting James Franco. He becomes James Franco in this movie. He looks like James Franco, he moves like James Franco and he talks like James Franco. I think he even thinks like James Franco. It is magnificent to see an actor so talented as James Franco playing an actor so talented as James Dean was.This movie is an interesting look into James Dean's life. The relationship James has with his father is the one that it is closely followed in this movie. It is a relationship that probably shaped James Dean most as a person; he felt like everyone else loves and wants to be with him, except the one person he really wanted to be with; his father. Michael Moriarty does great job as James's dad, a man who does not know how to show his feelings and tell his son that he is respected.After watching this and 127 hours I have seen a completely new side of James Franco. I have always known that he is talented and extremely intelligent. But seeing him getting into these two very different roles; the role of James Dean, a Hollywood actor and a role of Aron Ralson, an ordinary man who became famous due to his amazing survival. James Franco's work shows what a good actor is like; devoted and able to mold into different roles. He is charismatic, extremely handsome and oh so talented. If some actor needs more hype in Hollywood, it must be James Franco.

zozeeo I LOVE James Dean even though I was born 15 years after his death. I think he was a wonderful actor, an amazing person and someone who would have gone on to do great things. I've read his biographies, I've watched the movies he was in and I've found out from interviews what he was seemingly like in "real life". But I was so disappointed in this movie and I feel he deserved to have a better movie made about him. This movie didn't tell us anything we didn't already know and they didn't go into details ... the kind of details that we'd have wanted to know about. People in his life who were a pivotal part of his life were just omitted from this movie and it was just like this ... they took a wonderful man's life and shortened it in an hour and a half. James Dean's life was worth more than an hour and a half. And the guy who played him didn't look enough like James Dean. It made watching him very difficult because it was hard to believe. At one point, he looked like someone off of revenge of the nerds. The guy was also too tall to play James Dean. There was one scene where everyone was standing together in a bar, and he was the same height as everyone else. James Dean was short ... like 5'8 or 5'9. All those guys could not have been 5'8 or 5'9. I was just really disappointed and I wish that they could make a movie that was more 'real' to his life.

thirteenthfloorelevator James Dean led a phenomenal life. Having achieved so much in only 24 years, it is an extremely hard task to document the most significant events of his life in just 90 minutes, but this film doesn't even try. It plays like a cheap soap opera, and portrays Dean as the lonely protagonist who just wants his fathers love and respect. Some aspects of this film seem pointless, if not insulting, like the character James Dean providing the narration for this film. The three films he appeared in are only skimmed over, and this film goes to great lengths to portray what a troubled soul Dean actually was, how he was haunted by demons of his own past, rather than the good things he actually did for the world of cinema. This is not to say that the film fails completely, not by any means. The actor playing Dean is well cast and gives an exceptional performance, and the production design is faultless. If you just want a cursory insight into James Dean then this film is the way to go. If you yearn to find out the real James Dean story then look elsewhere.