Editing Rebel Without a Cause (section)

==In popular culture==

===Music===
* The 1980 [[Bruce Springsteen]] song "[[Cadillac Ranch (Bruce Springsteen song)|Cadillac Ranch]]" contains the lyric, "James Dean in that Mercury '49" as one of the people meeting at the Cadillac Ranch.{{sfn|Frascella|Weisel|2005|p=194}}
* The music video for the 1991 [[Paula Abdul]] single, "[[Rush Rush (Paula Abdul song)|Rush, Rush]]", was inspired by the film. Several scenes were duplicated shot-for-shot for the video, which featured Abdul portraying Judy and [[Keanu Reeves]] portraying Jim.

===Film===
* [[Tommy Wiseau]] borrowed James Dean's line "You're tearing me apart" from ''Rebel Without a Cause'', and used it in his 2003 [[cult film]] ''[[The Room]]'', widely considered to be one of the [[List of films considered the worst|worst films ever made]].<ref name="Romano2017">{{cite news|first1=Aja |last1=Romano|title=The Room: how the worst movie ever became a Hollywood legend as bizarre as its creator|url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/12/2/16720012/the-room-tommy-wiseau-backstory-explained|work=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]|date=Dec 19, 2017|quote=Since its cult success, Wiseau has tried to pass his film off as a "black comedy" rather than an inept melodrama that's unintentionally funny, but he's not fooling anyone.}}</ref> In the original script for Wiseau's movie, it was written as "You're ''taking'' me apart, Lisa", a reference to Dean's line.<ref name="Sestero2017">{{cite book |last1=Sestero |first1=Greg |last2=Bissell |first2=Tom |title=[[The Disaster Artist|The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made]] |year=2017 |publisher=Sphere |location=London |isbn=9780751571769 |page=135 |author-link1=Greg Sestero |author-link2=Tom Bissell}}</ref>
* In the 2016 film ''[[La La Land]]'', ''Rebel Without a Cause'' is referenced briefly. [[Ryan Gosling]]'s character Sebastian makes references to the film's ending where James Dean yells, "I got the bullets" when [[Emma Stone]]'s character Mia discusses a callback for her audition. Later, the two of them are seen at the [[Rialto Theatre (South Pasadena, California)|Rialto Theatre]] watching the opening of the film.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mallenbaum |first=Carly |title=Your 'La La Land' cheat sheet |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2016/12/27/your-la-la-land-cheat-sheet/95602260/ |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}</ref>

===Theater===
In 2005, an off-Broadway stage production opened at the [[American Theatre of Actors]] in New York, featuring Allie Mulholland and [[Aubrey Plaza]] in their stage debuts in the lead roles.<ref name="Mulholland2008">{{cite web |last1=Mulholland |first1=Allie |title=Rebel Without A Cause 2005 NYC |url=https://rebelwithoutacause.net/ |website=Rebel Without A Cause Theatre Production |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080810033548/http://www.rebelwithoutacause.net/ |archive-date=10 August 2008}}</ref>
===Television===
* ''[[The Sopranos]]'' episode "[[Big Girls Don't Cry (The Sopranos)|Big Girls Don't Cry]]" features [[Christopher Moltisanti]] performing the scene where Plato is killed during his "Acting for Writers" class.
* According to ''[[The O.C.]]'' executive producer [[Stephanie Savage]], the film was a "big reference" for the second episode of the drama series ("[[List of The O.C. episodes|The Model Home]]"), in which Seth and Marissa hide Ryan in a vacant mcmansion. Savage also noted that the dynamic of the three characters (Ryan, Marissa, and Seth) reminded her of the film's three leads (Jim, Judy, and Plato).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kaplan |first=Ilana |date=2023-08-14 |title=The O.C.’s Creators Are Going Right Back Where They Started From |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/08/the-oc-20th-anniversary#:~:text=Schwartz:%20Personally,%20the%20two%20most,of%20When%20Harry%20Met%20Sally |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}</ref>