MORE 'NOT QUITE RANDOM JUXTAPOSION', I RECKON.....
I, TODAY, JUST MADE THE 'CONNECTION' BETWEEN THREE FILMS, SCREENED IN 1955, THAT HAD MORE CEREBRALLY ABSTRACT MUSIC, INFLUENCED BY ARNOLD SCHOENBERG AND OTHER MODERNIST COMPOSERS WHO HAD ABANDONED THE PREVALING SYRUPY POP FOR A MORE ATONAL NEGLECT OF SIMPLE HARMONICS, BY LEONARD ROSENMAN: "EAST OF EDEN", "REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE", AND "THE COBWEB"....
TWO OF WHICH STARRED JAMES DEAN, WHO..FOR A WHILE, ROOMED WITH ROSENMAN AND WAS HIS STUDENT....MY EARLIEST 'REBEL HERO', WHOM I ASPIRED TO 'BE LIKE'..... I WAS, OF COURSE, IN THE 6TH GRADE THAT YEAR....BUT LONGED TO SKIP MY UPCOMING ADOLESCENCE'S FOIBLES AND FRUSTRATIONS AND ENTER THE 'ADULT WORLD' OF ART FILMS, ABANDONING THE FRIVILOUSLY SILLY AND STUPID, NAIVE CONSIDERATIONS AND BANAL TASTES OF YOUTHS MY AGE.....ALTHOUGH 'THE COBWEB' WAS REALLY FAR TOO 'ADULT' FOR MY COMPREHENSION AT THAT TIME......IT 'STUCK IN MY MIND'.....AND, YEARS LATER, I GRASPED THE 'REASONS WHY'.....AND HAVE LINKED TO THE FILM IN SOME OF MY OTHER 'BLOGS'......REFERENCING SAMUEL FULLER AS ONE OF MY 'INFLUENCERS......GOODBYE, YELLOW BRICK ROAD....THAT'S NOT GOING TO LEAD ANYWHERE BUT TO WHERE I'D BEEN, ALREADY.......
