James Dean - Introduction

James Dean is the celebrity more people have mourned over in the History of Cinema. His attractiveness was so unrelenting that nothing could eliminate it. Even today, he is a strong role model for the juvenile ambience.

...But what did this little boy from Indiana have?

How was it that he, from his absolute shyness, could become indelibly engraved on the world’s retina?

Almost a kid, tormented and terrible, with an eternal daydreaming air in his eyes, he distilled his ethical and aesthetical proposals to future generations.

The miracle of his talent has been left to us in only three films, but his figure is still casting long shadows through Art Cinema.

His devastating intelligence, his tenacity and his authenticity with himself made him invincible. Because Jimmy had, besides an irresistible power of seduction, the temperament of a hero.

Let this website be a tribute to his genius.

Laura Pardini

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