Whaddya Got?

The other night I finally watched the teenage leather and angst classic "The Wild One" starring Marlon Brando as the head of the Black Rebels Motorcycle Club (yeah that's where the band got their name). The film is fairly standard and filled with everything you would expect from a 1950s teen rebellion film (angsty youth, square adults trying to understand, rebellion and the death of a symbolic character)but thanks to casting it is somewhat able to rise above.

As we all know, Brando was the performer who signaled a new direction for screen acting (ie: internal rather than external) yet in this film he is surrounded by old fashioned character actors who've been around since the advent of sound or sooner. Marlon is out of place as an actor in this film and I think that helps the audience to see his character as out of place in this world. BDSM leather helps too.

The same thing applies to James Dean in the superior "In Rebel Without A Cause". God I sound like the elitist the Right tries to portray Barack Obama as when I say that. This film is by no means horrible. Even without Brando I would have found this movie fun. It has a great energy to it. And let us also not forget the man who is for me the real star of this film....

LEE MARVIN!!!!

So strap on your best pair of ass-less chaps and take "The Wild One" out for a spin because Chino says so!