[Note: Tragically, young star James Dean -- the prototype of an iconic, misunderstood, and moody rebellious adolescent -- was killed in a car accident at age 24, driving his new 550 Porsche Spyder sportscar.And the influential film led to a flurry of equally self-indulgent, anti-Establishment hemed films by inferior filmmakers, who overused some of the film""s echnical tricks and exploited the growing teen-aged market for easy profits.Afterwards, overly-friendly Butters was one of the first to tell Murtaugh how ""inspiring"" he was.Riggs played up the idea that Butters really liked Murtaugh, causing his fearful buddy to question whether it was a romantic, homosexual attraction.Jump-cuts or cross-cuts were a new, sophisticated editing technique, showing two separate lines of action or events happening continuously at identical times but in different places.