In 1980, reporter Betty Eppes sent her picture along with her request. Salinger rarely explained himself, though the interview requests never ceased. His last published work was a short story that took up almost the whole New Yorker magazine in 1965 - though rumors have Salinger stashing reams of unpublished fiction in a vault. Salinger's published works include Nine Stories, a short-story collection, and Franny and Zooey, a novella about one of his favorite fictive subjects, the sensitive Glass family. And there he stayed, for the next 50-plus years, scowling at photographers who dared snap his picture. Jerome David Salinger retreated to a New Hampshire farmhouse in 1953, a few years after he published the high-school classic The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger has died at his New Hampshire home, his literary representative said in a statement. The Lotte Jacobi Collection/University of New Hampshire The 1951 portrait was featured on the original dust jacket of The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger, pictured in one of the few existing photographs of the author. Writing is a lonely job and "Rebel" has the power to remind us the glamorous side of it too, if only for a second.J.D. Most are mainstream (i.e, shallow), as is Rebel in the Rye", but this doesn't reduce its power to entertain in a cheesy way. In 2010's, there's been a new trend to create fictional movies about real people and/or situations. Or also: being famous is not for everybody. Or: true creativity emerges after working through your fears and vanity. Such as doing something doesn't mean you're all that creative or deserve much praise.
#Author of the catcher in the rye movie#
Critics are true that the movie is ultimately pretty shallow and petty, just what Salinger himself would have tried to avoid, but it's pretty and well-acted, and makes some points about being creative and/or famous that every modern person would still benefit from considering. If this was a project of much higher calibre – instead of premiering in Sundance this January and then disappearing quickly – we would talk about serious Oscar chances. Every scene Spacey's in is like a masterclass of great movie acting. Hoult appears appropriately soulful but mentally fragile, and Kevin Spacey as the only other major character (his mentor / friend) is just as solid as you'd expect from screen veteran of his standing.
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I would argue they have reached drama series quality storytelling, only in shorter form, in 106 minutes. The performances are wonderful and everything else is there to support them. The strength is this being a true actors' movie, and they truly deliver. Rebel's" main strength is not its historical accuracy, nor well- balanced story about the great man's life, nor going deep as its hero aspired to, but a fact that the writer-director Danny Strong bets on one strength and goes happily all in on it. You may also remember him from ⁊bout a Boy" (2002) but back then he was only just a boy. But yes, he's appeared in a string of blockbusters too, such as the three last X-Men" (as Hank / Beast) and Jack the Giant Slayer", or Mad Max: Fury Road". If you haven't seen Hoult's star making turn in BBC's Skins" first season – this was ten years ago, mind you –, you probably won't even recognize or care about him. Usually he's used as window dressing in trivial roles, even in serious movies. He's a fine actor, and has lots of screen charm but hasn't found his real breakthrough yet. Salinger is played by Nicholas Hoult, one of my favorite young-ish actors who can't quite reach stardom. Salinger, famously reclusive American author who gave the world ⁌atcher in the Rye" and, er, other writings. The glamored-up remix of the life of J.D.
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