Rebel Without A Cause

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Amy & Paul are torn apart by 1955's landmark teen drama Rebel Without A Cause! They celebrate the instantly iconic performance of James Dean, learn about the wild backstory of director Nicholas Ray, and take a close look at the seismic generational shifts of the era. Plus: reflections on the recent passing of Chadwick Boseman. This is the fourth episode of our "Back To School" miniseries; next week’s film is Cooley High! Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. Also check out our live Spool Party episodes on youtube.com/earwolf, and apply to be a guest on Screen Test at [email protected]! Photo credit: Kim Troxall

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0:00.0	The year is 1955 and Amy you want to see a monkey the film Rebel without a cause
0:25.4	Hello everybody and welcome to unspooled
0:29.6	I'm Amy Nicholson and I am Paul Sheer and this is the podcast where we are watching
0:34.6	Great films and determining if we should shoot them into space for aliens to see in the future
0:41.2	I mean that's really what we're doing here Amy
0:43.0	We're creating the the best films of all time our list right here for the aliens to see our list
0:49.2	We love this planet this planet has given us many great movies
0:52.4	I'm a little nervous about this planet. So let's take what we love from it send it into space
0:56.6	I would like to join now because we are sending it into space
0:59.6	What kind of alien do you picture watching this film? We saw online someone said I picture a xenomorph
1:06.0	Which is the the aliens from alien
1:09.6	Watching these films, but I've always kind of pictured more of a mac and me style alien, you know
1:15.9	Or maybe a Howard the duck kind of alien. He is an alien technically
1:20.4	What what about you? You know now that you mentioned it last night
1:24.7	My best friend sent me a video from 1986 of a robot pretending to be an alien
1:29.4	Introducing James Brown because he loves our planet because our planet has so much funk. Yes
1:34.2	The video from 1986. I'm pretty sure the robot is played by the the robot from Rocky 4
1:38.7	RIP where does someone's gonna cut that robot out of the movie? I'm very upset about this
1:42.8	Cool still own, but I would like to imagine this robot who appreciates funk music who sees the good and earth
1:49.6	I would like to imagine that robot as a as a cineast
1:52.4	You know by the way
1:53.6	I'm realizing I didn't even mean to make this plug
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