This film clip is a delight to watch. James Dean and Paul Newman make a screentest for East of Eden (1955).
Someone on YouTube has been ambitious enough to write down the dialogue. Quite amusing with the homosexual references!
0:02 - Director: ?
0:03 - Dean: Did they take...
0:05 - Newman: What what what what?
0:06 - Director: Look over here, look at me, alright. (0:08) Now over here, look at right at me, will ya? (0:11) Now above me, right above the camera. Look right at it. (0:14) Now don't ?, just look at that.
0:14 - Dean: Look at right in the goddamn lens?
0:16 - 0:27: (Repeat 0:00 - 0:15)
0:28 - Director: That's it, that's it. All right, now, come over here. Look at me. (0:32) Now look at each other.
0:33 - Newman: That's surly.
0:34 - Director: Now what do you think of each other?
0:35 - Dean: (Laughs)
0:35 - Newman: (Laugh) WOW! (0:37) Well, we can't print that.
0:40 - Director: You think you can, hit the bobby socks league? Answer me. (0:42) You think you can hit them? You think you can, hit the bobby socks league?
0:43 - Newman: Nnnnno.
0:46 - Dean: Yeah, all that wanna go.
0:50 - Director: Jimmy...
0:50 - 0:55: (No audio)
0:56 - Newman: To the point of whether I go for the girl, though, you know?
0:58 - Director: Aw, you think the ? the girls will go for Jim.
1:01 - Newman: Oooh. Great.
1:01 - Director: Look at?
1:03 - Dean: Kiss me.
1:04 - Newman: Can't here.
1:07 - Director: Okay, look straight over there, look down. That's it.
1:10 - Newman: He's a surly bastard. (1:13) What?
1:13 - Director: Exchange.. he is nice. Exchange places. (1:17) Trade places. Swap.
1:18 - Newman: Swap.
1:20 - Dean: Turn my back to him ..?..
1:21 - Director: Now, nose to nose. Look right at each other, profile.
1:24 - Newman: Yeah?
When I first saw this clip about 2 years ago, I couldn't stop watching it. I thought Paul and James were hilarious in that clip. Thanks for putting it up on your blog. :)
ReplyDeleteNicole:
ReplyDeleteOf course! I love it. I aim to post more funny YouTube-stuff I find when I don't have anything better to do!
haha, that was interesting and fun to watch... right now i'm busy with school and all, so i don't have much time for my hobbies -- old movies, actors and stuff included -- and it's lovely to find something for my taste in rss reader. thanks, L!
ReplyDelete/ by the way, my nickname in lithuanian means The Great Gatsby. it doesn't matter i'm a girl ;) aaand i appreciate your last comment to mine!
Hahaha, I've seen this before. I can see why James Dean got the role though. Paul Newman's bow-tie was just NOT a good look!
ReplyDeleteThe Great Gatsby:
ReplyDeleteSchool's out. Yuk. I'm happy I can sit with my blog all day long and to nothing good for the world. Be back soon!
Millie:
No, not very bad-boy about Newman's image there...
wow, I am the last one to have seen this...I am so behind.
ReplyDeleteI can't begin to imagine the course of film history had Newman not worn the bow tie and ended up being cast in this movie.
Nik:
ReplyDeleteThat's a very interesting thought. Dean had probably never gotten the Rebel Without a Cause role either. And would he have been able to but that Porsche that killed him in the end...? Hmm.