(Oddly, but not insignificantly, this particular bungalow is two storied.) It is apt that Ray was assigned Bungalow Number Two-just one of many doubles, binaries, and inversions that structure the legend of his film. It took me a moment to realize that this was not a second version of Jim’s house, but Nicholas Ray’s bungalow at the Chateau Marmont, where he lived while shooting Rebel Without a Cause. When visitors are eventually disgorged into the gallery’s parking lot, they meet a full-sized, roofless, clapboard cottage with an upside-down Hollywood sign affixed to its back. Subsequent scenes (some played by stunt doubles) move from violence to infantile affection to frenzied carnality. The first two projections, though differently edited, have the same long title- Fuck you, Pillow Talk, Staircase Argument, Stunt (Bungalow), Threesome, Red dress, Stunt (Bungalow) (2011–12)-and feature actress Elyse Poppers playing Judy / Natalie Wood, Franco as Jim / James Dean, and Paul McCarthy double doubling as both director Nicholas Ray and Jim’s father. Video projections fill the walls and, in the middle of the room, a two-story stage set, a replica of rebel Jim Stark’s home in the film, lies on its side. The main gallery is a dimly lit cacophony of yelling, coital grunting, and howls.
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A watered-down version of the project remains in MOCA’s exhibition, but at The Box it unfurls into full exhaustive glory.
An exhibition across town, organized by MOCA and James Franco, called “Rebel,” themed (incredibly) around Franco’s resemblance to James Dean, finds its evil twin in “Rebel Dabble Babble.” It began with Franco inviting Paul McCarthy to collaborate on a project based on Rebel Without a Cause (1955), and ended up with McCarthy and his son Damon creating house-sized sets in their studio, staging auditions, filming, and performing in scenes with actors (who played hybrids of cinematic characters and the actors who originally played them) and, ultimately, shooting scenes for a pornographic version of Rebel Without a Cause featuring an actor named James Deen, who, like Franco, is a dead ringer for its original tragic star.
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