Lucky Strike, James Dean/Sal Mineo

[darkhavens]

Author: darkhavens
Title: Lucky Strike
Fandom: Pairing: RPS: James Dean/Sal Mineo
Rating: PG-13
Words: 200
Concrit: Please. If you spot a typo, please feel free to tell me in comments.
Disclaimer: Not mine, never will be. No harm, no foul, no money made.
Warnings/Squicks: At the time of making the movie 'Rebel Without a Cause', Mineo was 16 and

Comments

[literati]

I want to cry. I love this so very much! The Brando line KILLED ME DEAD!

♥ ♥ ♥

[darkhavens]

Fankoo! *smooches you and passes you a hankie*

This is what my brain does on Dr Pepper.

...

I should drink it more often, maybe? :D

[literati]

YES!

[darkhavens]

There are two two liter bottles ready and waiting for consumption. I may never sleep again. *g*

[outsideth3box]

I totally do not have an icon for this.

Really, this is sad. And yet, I just want to shake my head and sigh at the same time.

[darkhavens]

I am taking that as a tick in the 'win' box of life's little poll. *g*

Thank you!

I don't have an icon for it either, hence the use of my Father Gabe icon, and my Felix Thud icon, signalling my guilt and shock and feeling of omgwheredidthiscomefrom?! :D

[sweptawaybayou]

oh, I love this. So very smooth and completely true to them. Leaves me craving more.

:)

Thank you for sharing!

[darkhavens]

Thank you!

It's been years since I read a James Dean biography, and I had to do a fast skim of Sal's IMDb and Wiki pages to refresh my memory (beyond the basics of "pretty and doomed and 'would have rolled over for Dean in a heartbeat'"), but by the time I'd loaded the pages, the scene was already writing itself in my head.

:D

[bitchygrrl]

Oh this is sad and wonderful, and just seems so real. *wants more*

[darkhavens]

Thank you!

The sadness was almost incidental. Sal was pretty and fresh and new, an irresistible combination for Dean, but Dean was also obsessed with bagging Brando and I really doubt he tried that hard to hide it.

[bitchygrrl]

I don't think Dean would have tried to hide it at all. Now I feel like watching Giant.

[azryal]

This, they could care less about, but a goddamn movie character

Yeah, that's so Hollywood...the characters are more real than the actors.

There's something thrilling in this piece, aside from the obvious visual and visceral appeal. Maybe it's the tragedy that followed these poor guys, and to see a moment of peace, if not contentment, is moving. It's good. Really good.

Mae

[darkhavens]

Thank you!

My first thoughts whenever I watch 'Rebel' are how pretty and how doomed the cast were. The main trio all died tragically before their time and this movie in particular seems to carry some of the weight of that.

Maybe that's why it made the perfect backdrop/timing for this tiny piece.