A form of publication which tends to cause one to lose the esteem of the community is defamation. This is injury to reputation. A person can be held liable for the defamation of another. In order to prove defamation, the plaintiff must prove:
- that a statement was made about the plaintiff's reputation, honesty or integrity that is not true;
- publication to a third party (i.e., another person hears or reads the statement); and
- the plaintiff suffers damages as a result of the statement.
Slander is a form of defamation that consists of making false oral statements about a person which would damage that person's reputation. If one spreads a rumor that his neighbor has been in jail and this is not true, the person making such false statements could be held liable for slander.
Defamation which occurs by written statements is known as libel. Libel also may result from a picture or visual representation. Truth is an absolute defense to slander or libel.
Some statements, while libelous or slanderous, are absolutely privileged in the sense that the statements can be made without fear of a lawsuit for slander. The best example is statements made in a court of law. An untrue statement made about a person in court which damages that person's reputation will generally not cause liability to the speaker as far as slander is concerned. However, if the statement is untrue, the person making it may be liable for criminal perjury.
If a communication is made in good faith on a subject in which the party communicating it has a legitimate right or interest in communicating it, this communication may be exempt from slander liability due to a qualified privileged.
The following form letter demands that someone cease making libelous or slanderous statements, or appropriate legal action will be taken.
Rebel Without A Cause In Riverside
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"You're tearing me apart!" Taken from an early scene in "Rebel Without a Cau... I was a teenager the first time I watched Rebel. Jim Stark said it for me: “If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused and didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace.
Judy's parents are present, yet emotionally distant from her. Specifically, her Dad's choice to be less affectionate with her, because she is too old for that, causes her distress. This is exasperated by the fact that her father will in the same breath dote on her younger brother and give him the attention she desires.
The film was banned in New Zealand in 1955 by Chief Censor Gordon Mirams, out of fears that it would incite "teenage delinquency", only to be released on appeal the following year with scenes cut and an R16 rating.
Jim begins to develop from a hothead to a cool “rebel” when he notes the potential for a fight and does his best to avoid the trouble, even after Buzz calls him a chicken. Jim's friendship with Plato and Judy moves forward after Buzz's death.
But the race ends in tragedy for Buzz when a strap on the sleeve of his leather jacket becomes looped over a handle on the car door, preventing him from jumping out before the car goes over the cliff.
Factual errors Just because Buzz' cuff was caught on the door handle, it wouldn't have prevented him from opening the door. The planetarium stars bear no resemblance to the actual night sky, and the constellations superimposed on them don't match the actual constellations.
The film's real message is that the instincts of alienated teens are right, and that if they are to live lives worth living, they must break away from the adult world trying to steamroll, desensitize, and compromise them and create their own world.
Red represents different things for different characters. In Jim's case, it will come to represent rebellion; in Judy's case, anger; in Plato's case, peace.
Jim's role is not to rebel against his parents, but to shake his father up so that he assumes the role of the head of the family and deposes the mother because the women should be put back in their place (e.g., Jim's wish that his father would “knock her out cold” in an earlier scene suggests).
Rebel Without A Cause, directed by Nicholas Ray, follows the story of troubled teen Jim Stark, who moves to a new town in an attempt to make a fresh start, but finds being the new kid in town brings its own problems. The film attempts to highlight differences between generations, and the moral decay of American youth.
