I did not know James Dean died during late production of This movie, heck, I just now found out that he only starred in only three bigger movie roles in his sadly short life. And I would have looked at this movie very differently had I known all this, which luckily I avoided. We get influenced so quickly it's unbelievable. This movie was the highest grossing Warner Bros movie until "Superman" twenty years later. And I'm guessing it wasn't because the people got thrills out of all that cattle. One man made such an impact ("Titanic" anyone) and made the movie a cult one. And I am doing the same thin right now, writing about Mr Dean, but I don't have a slightest idea what he was about so I'll stop. There's Elizabeth Taylor, I particularly enjoyed the scene where she starts arguing with "the men" when they don't want to share their discussion with her because she showed such courage and determination to not just become one of the gals but was still a sophisticated and individual woman. And we have Rock Hudson, also a movie persona with a very interesting background. I spent about 20 minutes just discovering info about these actors here on IMDb and that's what it's all about for me. It's the clash of cult idols in "Giant", and I just pinned what was bothering me for the whole two hours. Who was the "Giant" anyway - it was all three of them all along.
