Nicholas Ray by Patrick McGilligan

Author:Patrick McGilligan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

Young people by the hundreds swarmed the casting department. Often the candidates for parts were handed a couple of script pages to study for improvisational purposes, but sometimes they were simply invited to sit around and talk informally with the director. “What do you think about what’s going on in the world today?” Ray liked to ask.

“He just wanted to talk with everybody,” recalled actor Ken Miller, who was cast in a small part among the many that would end up on the cutting-room floor. “That’s how he figured out if people would be right or wrong. He just became one of the gang.”

One of the film’s pivotal characters was Buzz, the leader of the gang harassing Jim Stark. It is Buzz who challenges Jim to the chickie run but who also befriends him before the event, as they gaze over the cliff where the run will end and one of them will die.

BUZZ (quietly): That’s the edge. The end.

JIM: Yeah. Certainly is.

BUZZ: You know something? I like you. You know that?

JIM: Why do we do this?

BUZZ (still quiet): You got to do something!

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