Editing Giant (1956 film) (section)

==Legacy==
''Giant'' is considered to be the inspiration for the hit 1980s television drama ''[[Dallas (TV series)|Dallas]]''. Both productions focus on the struggle between wealthy oilmen and cattlemen in Texas in the mid to late 20th century. In addition, both productions have an antagonist with the initials J.R.<ref>Gary M. Cramer, "'Giant': A giant book about a giant film," Philadelphia Inquirer, May 3, 2018.</ref>

In 1978, [[Martin Scorsese]] wrote about the movie as a guilty pleasure:{{blockquote|text=I've seen this film over forty times. I don't like the obvious romanticism, and it's very studied, but there's more here than people have seen. It has to do with the depiction of a life style through the passage of so many years. You see people grow. I like James Dean; I like the use of music, even though Dimitri Tiomkin did it; I like Boris Leven's image of the house, and the changes in the house; I like the wide image of Mercedes McCambridge riding the bronco, then cut to an extreme closeup of her hitting the bronc with her spur, then back to the wide image. As far as filmmaking goes, ''Giant'' is an inspiring film. I don't mean morally, but visually. It's all visual.<ref>Martin Scorsese's Guilty Pleasures
Scorsese, Martin. Film Comment; New York Vol. 14, Iss. 5, (Sep/Oct 1978): 63-66</ref>}}

The making of ''Giant'' was the background to the [[Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (play)|play]] and [[Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (film)|movie]] ''Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean''.

In 1981, in a [[Levi Strauss & Co.|Levi Strauss]] ad campaign and television commercial that launched the 501 Jeans for women, an actress says: "Travis, you're years too late", evoking a scene from the movie with James Dean.<ref>{{cite news |title=Buy the Seat of Our Pants |url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes-life-magazine/2005/0314/088.html |access-date=22 January 2023 |work=fyi |publisher=Forbes |language=en |quote=A young ad man channels James Dean, and scores the biggest number in the denim business.}}</ref><ref name="10.36019/9780813564371-005">{{cite journal |last1=Schleier |first1=Merrill |title=3. Postwar Hollywood, 1947–1967 |journal=Art Direction and Production Design |date=31 December 2019 |pages=73–96 |quote=... 1981 Levis commercial for women's 501 jeans, in which a cowgirl dressed like ... |doi=10.36019/9780813564371-005 |isbn=9780813564371 |s2cid=233514628 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.36019/9780813564371-005/pdf |access-date=22 January 2023}}</ref><ref name="978-0-8135-7280-2">{{cite book |last1=Fischer |first1=Lucy |title=Art Direction and Production Design |date=6 March 2015 |publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8135-7280-2 |page=107 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tfwwBwAAQBAJ&dq=Reata+501+travis&pg=PT107 |language=en}}</ref>

In April 2015, LGBTQ magazine ''[[The Advocate (magazine)|The Advocate]]'' stated that the film "gets some kind of an award for the most gay and bisexual actors ever in one film," noting that [[James Dean]], [[Rock Hudson]], [[Sal Mineo]], and [[Earl Holliman]] where all either bisexual or homosexual.<ref name=giantlgbrepresentation>{{Cite web|first1=Christopher|last1=Harrity|first2=Trudy|last2=Ring|title=Breaking the Gay Code in the Movies|date=April 23, 2015|work=The Advocate|url=https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/film/2015/04/23/tbt-breaking-gay-code-movies}}</ref> ''The Advocate'' also noted that Mercedes McCambridge's character Luz hinted she was a homosexual through at least her name, also noting how despite never personally coming out, McCambridge "played the most fiercely dykey roles on-screen to perfection."<ref name=giantlgbrepresentation />

The February 2020 issue of ''[[New York Magazine]]'' lists ''Giant'' as among "The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars."<ref>{{cite news|title=The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars|url=https://www.vulture.com/article/best-oscar-best-picture-losers.html|magazine=[[New York Magazine]]|access-date=March 17, 2025}}</ref>