This is a sterling example of why actors---- that is, today's actors, should never go out and sell their movies on talk show venues. I don't need to see how the sausage is made. Just let the work stand or die on it's own merit. Unless you're as articulate and thoughtful as James Dean, or for that matter Clift, Brando, Eva Marie Saint and a host of others from the 40's and 50's, please, keep your pie hole closed.
gosh ive listened to this a thousand times..its because i like his voice and how he talks...how you can tell he thinks everything through and he was such a poetic speaker and he left behind many famous and unforgettable quotes
Brando and Dean are the best, it's the complete personafication of what an actor should be like. The Depps, De Niros, Pacinos, Hoffman for the exception of Redford are numb skulls.
god i love listening to his voice. i would give anything.. ANYTHING to have been able to sit with him and just listen to him, to hear what he had to say..
@ArielBlaise Pre rock and roll era, pre 1955, when teenagers essentially were little adults. Rock and roll assisted American youth in retaining, sometimes indefinitely, adolescence. Not necessarily a good thing i.e., 40 plus 'kids' wearing baseball a cap backward, or worse yet, guys my age with ponytails.
@mongolhorde19 yYs, very articulate--even analytical---today's actor's should listen to this--the actor's 'intentions'. being specific. it just goes to show that Dean was not the 'crazy' that many fellow actors painted him out to be. there was means to his 'madness' so to speak--you don't reach the top without knowing what you are doing. Acting is hard work--the audience does not see the preparation--or rather--should NOT see it--should be natural.
I looked it up and Brando was born in Nebraska as you mention but they moved to Evanston, Illinois then for a short period the mother took the kids (Marlon and his Jocelyn and Francis to Santa Ana, CA of all places then they moved back to Illinois in some suburb of Chicago. So that's Brando's story of where he grew up.
Anyone see the documentary that came out in 1957 about the life of James Dean? Came out 2 years after his passing. Robert Altman directed or produced it. Altman had Brando in mind as the narrator but not sure what happened. I can only figure that Brando wasn't gonna play second fiddle to a dead actor who stalked him at one time. I hear Brando wouldn't even talk to Dean and was thinking of getting a restraining order to keep Dean away.
Your right about the accent being diff in the movies as in real life but also his voice sounds a lot different, not just the accent. It's like he made an effort to have his voice sound different in the movies than in real life. He grew up as a Quaker from what I understand. I guess the Quakers from North Carolina who moved to Fairmount brought their religion. I wonder even tho he was wild in real life if he went to church when he lived in LA or New York.
James had much less of a nasally voice, and more of a twang usually. Here, he almost sounds like Brando. Is that was he was trying to do?
James was definitely an intelligent man, probably because he was introspective. I have adored him for years.
I think who James Dean was in life was that kid in the schoolyard who no one likes because he's socially inept. Because no one likes him, he can be harsh and mean. He throws rocks, but then cries. That's who I think James was, behind the legend.
He doesn't sound anything like his characters in his movies. I mean his manner of speech and accent. Guess for the movies he had to cover up the Indiana accent. Remember he was a country bumpkin from the farmland of Indiana. If he didn't make it in acting he might have gone back to Fairmount and been a farmer and we'd never have heard of him.
Maybe I'm wrong but I think Brando was born in Nebraska but grew up in Indiana or Illinois. I could be wrong. From my understanding is Dean actually had an Indiana accent and I never been there but I guess that's what it sounds like. But his cousin Marky talks like a southerner, not quite but a cross between James Dean's accent and a southerner. Remember Fairmount was settled by people from North Carolina in the 1840s circa. And Indiana depending on where you are borders the south.
Yes, you may be right. All I know is that Brando was born in Nebraska, and briefly went to school in Minnesota. Given that, you're probably right that he grew up in either Indiana or Illinois. But I agree with you about Dean's accent being different in his movies. I've noticed this, too. I see this with a lot of other actors, as well. However, if he would have gone back to Fairmount, maybe we'd still have heard of him... just in another light, rather than actor. And maybe he'd still be alive...
I agree, he does sound like he has an odd accent in this sound bite. But it's interesting to hear, nonetheless, since you hardly ever hear his voice outside of movies.
he had a accent!=)
SamLuvsJamesDean 1 year ago
This is a sterling example of why actors---- that is, today's actors, should never go out and sell their movies on talk show venues. I don't need to see how the sausage is made. Just let the work stand or die on it's own merit. Unless you're as articulate and thoughtful as James Dean, or for that matter Clift, Brando, Eva Marie Saint and a host of others from the 40's and 50's, please, keep your pie hole closed.
gore53 1 year ago 3
actors today sound dumb and borin
SuperGraceland 1 year ago 5
I love this man, he was very careful and detailed with his thoughts...and his incredible acting was just an extension of that.
crisgal710 2 years ago 6
gosh ive listened to this a thousand times..its because i like his voice and how he talks...how you can tell he thinks everything through and he was such a poetic speaker and he left behind many famous and unforgettable quotes
shialover777 2 years ago
Brando and Dean are the best, it's the complete personafication of what an actor should be like. The Depps, De Niros, Pacinos, Hoffman for the exception of Redford are numb skulls.
solimiansky 2 years ago
he prbly made his voice sound softer and a tad higher when filming because you portrayed childlike characters often
goanyways 2 years ago
god i love listening to his voice. i would give anything.. ANYTHING to have been able to sit with him and just listen to him, to hear what he had to say..
shialover777 2 years ago 15
@shialover777 i know what you mean.
kmt9424 1 year ago
he was so profound at such a young age.
ArielBlaise 2 years ago 6
@ArielBlaise Pre rock and roll era, pre 1955, when teenagers essentially were little adults. Rock and roll assisted American youth in retaining, sometimes indefinitely, adolescence. Not necessarily a good thing i.e., 40 plus 'kids' wearing baseball a cap backward, or worse yet, guys my age with ponytails.
gore53 1 year ago
well, usually you are intelligent, when you're a genius.
goanyways 2 years ago 3
wow, he sounds like a real intelectual, im woundering what he was realy like as a person, he took his acting very serisously and indeed it paid off.
ghosticutwo 2 years ago 4
wow... he is very articulate and intelligent compared to the actors of today...
mongolhorde19 3 years ago 29
@mongolhorde19 yYs, very articulate--even analytical---today's actor's should listen to this--the actor's 'intentions'. being specific. it just goes to show that Dean was not the 'crazy' that many fellow actors painted him out to be. there was means to his 'madness' so to speak--you don't reach the top without knowing what you are doing. Acting is hard work--the audience does not see the preparation--or rather--should NOT see it--should be natural.
windstorm1000 7 months ago
I looked it up and Brando was born in Nebraska as you mention but they moved to Evanston, Illinois then for a short period the mother took the kids (Marlon and his Jocelyn and Francis to Santa Ana, CA of all places then they moved back to Illinois in some suburb of Chicago. So that's Brando's story of where he grew up.
gretscher 3 years ago
Anyone see the documentary that came out in 1957 about the life of James Dean? Came out 2 years after his passing. Robert Altman directed or produced it. Altman had Brando in mind as the narrator but not sure what happened. I can only figure that Brando wasn't gonna play second fiddle to a dead actor who stalked him at one time. I hear Brando wouldn't even talk to Dean and was thinking of getting a restraining order to keep Dean away.
gretscher 3 years ago
Your right about the accent being diff in the movies as in real life but also his voice sounds a lot different, not just the accent. It's like he made an effort to have his voice sound different in the movies than in real life. He grew up as a Quaker from what I understand. I guess the Quakers from North Carolina who moved to Fairmount brought their religion. I wonder even tho he was wild in real life if he went to church when he lived in LA or New York.
gretscher 3 years ago
James had much less of a nasally voice, and more of a twang usually. Here, he almost sounds like Brando. Is that was he was trying to do?
James was definitely an intelligent man, probably because he was introspective. I have adored him for years.
I think who James Dean was in life was that kid in the schoolyard who no one likes because he's socially inept. Because no one likes him, he can be harsh and mean. He throws rocks, but then cries. That's who I think James was, behind the legend.
Cookisdwewe 2 years ago
He doesn't sound anything like his characters in his movies. I mean his manner of speech and accent. Guess for the movies he had to cover up the Indiana accent. Remember he was a country bumpkin from the farmland of Indiana. If he didn't make it in acting he might have gone back to Fairmount and been a farmer and we'd never have heard of him.
gretscher 3 years ago
He sounds like Marlon Brando. I think Brando was from Indiana too wasn't he?
gretscher 3 years ago
He does sound a lot like Brando. That's what I thought, too. I think Brando was from Nebraska, though.
rainbowsandwar 3 years ago
Maybe I'm wrong but I think Brando was born in Nebraska but grew up in Indiana or Illinois. I could be wrong. From my understanding is Dean actually had an Indiana accent and I never been there but I guess that's what it sounds like. But his cousin Marky talks like a southerner, not quite but a cross between James Dean's accent and a southerner. Remember Fairmount was settled by people from North Carolina in the 1840s circa. And Indiana depending on where you are borders the south.
gretscher 3 years ago
Yes, you may be right. All I know is that Brando was born in Nebraska, and briefly went to school in Minnesota. Given that, you're probably right that he grew up in either Indiana or Illinois. But I agree with you about Dean's accent being different in his movies. I've noticed this, too. I see this with a lot of other actors, as well. However, if he would have gone back to Fairmount, maybe we'd still have heard of him... just in another light, rather than actor. And maybe he'd still be alive...
rainbowsandwar 3 years ago
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dablizardlizard 3 years ago
wow... tks for sharing!
melody1001o 3 years ago
Absolutley amazing. Inspiring words from a genius. A rare find, thanks for sharing.
KingOfDestruction 4 years ago 3
sorry for my mistakes on what I wrote but my keyboard got changed back then lol & it was so confusing :/
ArmandoProductions 4 years ago
Thanks very much Armando.
9thirtyfifty5 4 years ago
thqnks for uploqding this: it s the first ti,e I see it
ArmandoProductions 5 years ago
I agree, he does sound like he has an odd accent in this sound bite. But it's interesting to hear, nonetheless, since you hardly ever hear his voice outside of movies.
caitlinalicia 5 years ago
Where did you get this? It sounds like he's putting on some kind of accent.
fifchick03 5 years ago
it came from a 2 set cd/dvd Ea records called James Dean, one of the the producers is David Loehr. if you are a Deaner you can find it.
9thirtyfifty5 4 years ago
That is what people from Indiana sound like, sweetheart!
radkr 3 years ago