History Film / Giant

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** Juana to a lesser extent, she is dark haired and assists Dr. Guerra in his work.

* {{Socialite}}: Leslie

* {{Ladette}}: Bick's sister Luz, and later his daughter Luz II.

* PlayingGertrude:
** The three main actors were made to look older as their characters age throughout the film.

* DirtyOldMan: Jett Rink grows into one of these.

* StayInTheKitchen: Leslie calls Bick out on this when he patronisingly tells her that women shouldn't talk about business or politics, saying that he knew she had a mind of her own when they married.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Luz doesn't like Leslie rising war Winds, saying she'd "fall off and break her neck", but [[spoiler: this is what happens to Luz.]]

The film is about the Benedict family, beginning when Texan {{Rancher}} Jordan "Bick" Benedict heads east to Maryland to purchase [[CoolHorse War Winds]] from Dr. Lynnton and ends up marrying his daughter, socialite Leslie. They start life at Bick's ranch, Reatta, and have three children. Leslie has a hard time dealing with the sexism and [[NobleBigot racism]] of Bick and bascially everyone around her, she leaves Bick for a time but they eventually reconcile. After Bick's sister dies, she leaves Jett Rink a small plot of land, which [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules he refuses to sell to Bick even though he's offered twice its value]]. He then [[CrowningMomentofAwesome strikes oil]], which eventually happens around the region with even Bick getting rich off oil after he swore to keep the ranch only cattle. Bick's attitudes are put to the test when his kids grow up and not only do none of them want to run the ranch after him, but his only son Jordy marries, Juana, a Mexican-American.

* [[DeadGuyJunior Dead Girl Junior]]: Luz is named after her aunt, who died before she was born.

* EverythingIsBigInTexas: Bick takes his new bride Leslie on a railroad trip to his cattle ranch in Texas. When she looks out the window at the passing scenery and wonders when they'll get to Texas, he announces that they've been ''in'' Texas for several hours already. Also, in the beginning of the movie, David asks how much big is Bick's property. He guesses 20-50 thousand acres. Bick reluctantly says that he has 595 thousand acres of land.[[note]]For our international readers, that's a square slightly over 49 km on a side. And while that is a large ranch even by Texas standards, there ''have'' been ranches in Texas bigger than that. The King ranch, for example, is about 825,000 acres.[[/note]]

* FrontierDoctor Jordy becomes a modern version of one of these.

* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Jett Rink refuses to sell the land Luz left him back to Bick for twice it's value, though it isn't explained why. Later on, this is Bick's reasoning for not allowing oil to be drilled at Reatta, but it's a BrokenAesop as they end up getting rich off oil during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* SleepingSingle: Strangely, Bick and Leslie. Which is strange as they're HappilyMarried and are sharing a bed at first.
** Luz was at first going to put Bick and Leslie in rooms on the opposite sides of the house until Bick insisted on connecting bedrooms.

* StayInTheKitchen: Leslie calls Bick out on this when he patronislingly tells her that women shouldn't talk about business or politics, saying that he knew she had a mind of her own when they married.

''Giant'' is a [[TheFifties 1956]] EpicMovie starring Creator/ElizabethTaylor, Creator/RockHudson and Creator/JamesDean. Based on the novel by Edna Ferber, the film is more famous for [[AuthorExistenceFailure being James Dean's last role]] (some of his lines had to be dubbed).

* DirtyOldMan: Jett Rink gows into one of these.

* EverythingIsBigInTexas

* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:Bick shoots War Winds after Luz's death, he says he's the one who had to do it]].
* StalkerWithACrush: Jett Rink could be considered one of these towards Leslie, he later dates her daughter Luz.

* IgnoredVitalNewsReport: Luz II is parked with Jett Rink and turns off a news report about Pearl Harbor.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Only in the case of the Maryland scenes, which were shot in Virginia. The exterior scenes at Reata were all shot in Texas.

''Giant'' is a [[TheFifties 1956]] EpicMovie starring Creator/ElizabethTaylor, RockHudson and JamesDean. Based on the novel by Edna Ferber, the film is more famous for [[AuthorExistenceFailure being James Dean's last role]] (some of his lines had to be dubbed).

* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Jett Rink refuses to sell the land Luz left him back to Bick for twice it's value, though it isn't explained why. Later on, this is Bick's reasoning for not allowing oil to be drilled at Reatta, but it's a BrokenAesop as they end up getting rich off oil during WorldWarII

* [[AuthorExistenceFailure Actor Existence Failure]]: James Dean died before the film was edited so his speech (called the Last Supper) was dubbed by another actor.

* PlayingAgainstType: This was James Dean's attempt to stop being typecast after his roles as the angsty teenager in ''EastOfEden'' and ''RebelWithoutACause''.

* DinerBrawl: As mentioned above, Bick gets into a fight with the racist diner owner when he refuses to serve a Mexican family.

* BrokenAesop: Bick's refusal to drill for oil on Reatta is this after he changes his mind when WorldWarII comes around.

The movie culminates in the opening of Jett Rink's hotel and airport, and at the [[ExpositionParty big party]] Jordy tries to fight Jett Rink when he finds out that him and his wife were only invited so that Jett's employees could deny them service. Later on the way home, they stop at a diner and [[BadassGrandpa Bick gets into a fight]] with the racist owner when he refuses to serve a Mexican family.

The film is about the Benedict family, beginning when Texan {{Rancher}} Jordan "Bick" Benedict heads east to Maryland to purchase [[CoolHorse War Winds]] from Dr. Lynnton and ends up marrying his daughter, socialite Leslie. They start life at Bick's ranch, Reatta, and have three children. Leslie has a hard time dealing with the sexism and [[NobleBigot racism]] of Bick and bascially everyone around her, she leaves Bick for a time but they eventually reconciile. After Bick's sister dies, she leaves Jett Rink a small plot of land, which [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules he refuses to sell to Bick even though he's offered twice its value]]. He then [[CrowningMomentofAwesome strikes oil]], which eventually happens around the region with even Bick getting rich off oil after he swore to keep the ranch only cattle. Bick's attitudes are put to the test when his kids grow up and not only do none of them want to run the ranch after him, but his only son Jordy marries, Juana, a Mexican-American.

''Giant'' is a [[TheFifties 1956]] EpicMovie starring ElizabethTaylor, RockHudson and JamesDean. Based on the novel by Edna Ferber, the film is more famous for [[AuthorExistenceFailure being James Dean's last role]] (some of his lines had to be dubbed).

* HeyItsThatGuy: You may easily miss a young Dennis Hopper as Jordy Benedict.

* CoolHorse: War Winds. Bick buying the horse was hoe he met Leslie and later, his sister Luz riding the horse with spurs led to her death.